| BASICS OF LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND QUALITIES, | | | | responsibility with relatively little or no ambition and |
| BUSINESS AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP | | | | dislikes work except to the extent essential for |
| EXAMPLES | | | | survival with basic security. People have an inherent |
| Leadership qualities matter in business, in education. | | | | need in an adult way to exercise their understanding, |
| Yet the doctoral student can't find information on | | | | capacities, skills motivated by incentives also |
| leadership skills. If the discipline isn't leadership she has | | | | non-economic and culturally varying. This appreciation |
| to cry for help: What're leadership qualities?! Others | | | | is a must for effective leadership. |
| would like to know too what are the personal | | | | Leadership Values |
| qualities of leadership! Business leadership is important. | | | | Trustworthiness is one of the personal qualities of |
| Educational leadership is in demand. But, what are | | | | leadership that can never be imitated in professional |
| leadership skills, qualities? | | | | leadership for truly great achievement. But the skilful |
| Reason for Leadership | | | | appearance of trustworthiness succeeds. Usually the |
| Interest they have in business or educational | | | | only task of professional leadership is obtaining the |
| leadership. Perhaps also leadership qualities. Knowledge | | | | co-operation of colleagues and employees. |
| of what is leadership, not. If they see a worker a | | | | This is best done, by making the organisation's |
| few times resting who routinely unloads, sorts, | | | | objects or visions pursued or desired of personal |
| stacks, rests, repeats, he is lazy. That's not good | | | | significance to people. That must be based on their |
| leadership! If leadership qualities or skills are lacking it | | | | values and expectations to generate their energy |
| causes annoyance, loss of production. | | | | and enthusiasm. Good leadership on that basis can |
| Need for Leadership | | | | prepare people for the various controllable and |
| Leadership in education or business are acquirable | | | | uncontrollable changes, appreciating that leadership |
| skills. | | | | attitudes matter above all and must be 'trust' based... |
| In Britain there is confusion on what is leadership. The | | | | In the 1990s' England an industrial strike over pay |
| Department of Employment has publications on how | | | | continued after Railtrak agreed: the workers had |
| to train, e.g., supervisors. Yet even supervision are | | | | discovered that the government had secretly sought |
| known to have been deemed by the Training & | | | | to influence the negotiations. |
| Enterprise Councils to be an inherent quality, by the | | | | Leadership Strategies |
| Employment Tribunals with members from the | | | | Trust is the most useful of leadership values. Good |
| Trades Union Congress and the Confederation of | | | | leaders' people feel valued. Job satisfaction enhances |
| British Industry not an acquirable skill. In the USA the | | | | performance and productivity and job satisfaction |
| position is not dissimilar. | | | | includes feeling valued. This leadership strategy avoids |
| Leadership qualities aren’t the same as leadership | | | | dissatisfaction, increases job satisfaction. Co-operation |
| skills. | | | | is based on others feeling valued enough to be |
| There are exceptional 'born leaders', extraordinary | | | | trusted. |
| circumstances calling for inherent leadership qualities | | | | Information works at two levels: it shows trust and |
| for exceptional motivation with no apparent | | | | contributes to the leader's objective others' valid |
| incentives. But routine administration, business | | | | views. |
| leadership or educational leadership demand only | | | | The value of other's valid views which free flow of |
| professional acquirable skills. | | | | information (or the successful [but risky] appearance |
| Leadership qualities are different than leadership skills. | | | | of it) enables is not overlooked in good leadership. In, |
| Popularity in Leadership | | | | e.g., educational leadership staff's familiarity with |
| Approaches to administrative leadership differ. | | | | consumer culture, in business leadership workers' |
| Business leadership strategies vary. Educational | | | | consumer choices reduce the risk of missing the |
| leadership policies change. So do leadership skills. The | | | | wood for the trees. |
| value of leadership qualities never change. | | | | In leadership strategies learning from experience by |
| Leadership is about people. Good leadership is | | | | trial & error is unaffordable in the short term. |
| popularity based. A French emperor called his soldiers | | | | The complexities of long term results necessitate |
| his children, after a defeat again raised volunteer | | | | cultured thought. |
| armies. A popular Scottish preacher got nominated | | | | Leadership Policies |
| for the US senate. | | | | If one looks at some educational leadership policies |
| Leadership qualities are inherent. But leadership skills | | | | and business leadership examples one sees these:- |
| often suffice. Both involve popularly interesting | | | | In the 1980s' UK's teacher surplus was followed by |
| people. | | | | teacher shortage; in c. 2000 allegations of easy |
| Popularity aids leadership qualities. It helps leadership | | | | examination questions came to be replaced, with |
| skills. So in business or educational leadership. | | | | accusations of unanswerable examination questions |
| What is Leadership? | | | | being set, by allegations of school pupils being |
| Charisma alone it isn't. Nor is it love, care, | | | | deliberately failed. |
| perseverance that enables popularity in successful | | | | The British farmers union's lateness in taking into |
| leadership. It is also an interest in understanding the | | | | account the effects of the European Union |
| human nature, knowing what motivates. That is the | | | | agreements enabling workers general employment |
| basis of leadership. | | | | rights in member states as opposed to previous |
| A car plant boss praises the night shift's work, the | | | | restrictions on the types of employment, in 2007 |
| day shift competes for equal pride, production | | | | resulted in loss of profits to many farmers because |
| increases. | | | | tons of strawberies could not be picked with less |
| A congressional medal, the offer to be Education | | | | students and holiday workers from member states |
| Secretary, a biographical movie for a Chicago school | | | | available for that particular type of employment. |
| teacher who enabled exam. success for eleven pupils | | | | In the 1980s' USA, People's Express Airlines folded - |
| was because she could get from them what an | | | | cheaper seats but they couldn't see seat booking |
| education authorities' educational leadership skills | | | | preferences. In the 2000s' UK, Aria Technology |
| couldn't. | | | | Limited, its owner telling of having sold goods at |
| Personal Qualities of Leadership | | | | 500% profit, in a matter of refunding about £100 |
| Depending on approaches, business and educational | | | | for re-saleable goods estimated only the faxes it |
| leadership classifications vary. Basically all leadership | | | | received to have cost it about £500. The USA's |
| are of two kinds: leadership and exceptional | | | | regarding failure as experience for businesses meant |
| leadership. | | | | an average pre-bankruptcy life of 11 years; and by |
| The former is leaderships skills; acquired, ordinarily, | | | | the time it saw and began to adopt the European |
| routinely at work: e.g., leadership in education, | | | | thought of motivating for pride in the job, Japan and |
| business. | | | | Germany had captured 38% of the car market. |
| The latter is based on inherent leadership qualities. It | | | | In thought based leadership ~in verse by Orhan Seyfi |
| enables exceptional motivation with incentives hardly | | | | Ari -translated: |
| perceptible in extreme inappetence. It is the most | | | | To overtake and win, like horses that race |
| rare extraordinary leadership, enhanced by the most | | | | Compete ideas in a head keen, to make the best |
| exceptional leader's charisma, communication ability, | | | | choice |
| wit, trustworthiness, with much philosophical, | | | | Leadership Qualities |
| sociological, psychological insight, high logical reasoning | | | | In leadership it is generally agreed that personal |
| ability, the vision, heroic courage, love, care, | | | | leadership qualities mater. Success in leadership |
| dedication, passion of rational sensible idealism, | | | | depends also on the degree of the knowledge, |
| sacrifice in time, effort. This 'moves mountains'; be it | | | | understanding and appreciation of the needs and the |
| leadership in education, culture, religion, politics, | | | | expectations of those who are to be led, and of |
| business, it reforms: socially and historically visibly, | | | | how the group is structured -especially as to the |
| lastingly, memorably changes established culture, life | | | | relevant situation immediately confronting them in |
| styles, society. | | | | their environment. |
| Exceptional leadership, business or educational or | | | | What exactly are the personal qualities of exceptional |
| other -in one field or more, of historical | | | | leaders, in leadership of historical noteworthiness, |
| noteworthiness demands personal qualities, for it | | | | have not been able the psychologists to ascertain in |
| begins with popularity that is not coerced but is by | | | | terms of specific character or personality traits. But |
| virtue of, irrespective of wealth or position, at | | | | professional leadership also is people based and it |
| personal level earned and deserved trust and faith in | | | | often suffices to 'Do unto others as you would have |
| the genuineness, sincerity of one's intentions | | | | them do unto you.' |
| -honesty in intention. | | | | Leadership Skills |
| Professional Leadership | | | | Personal qualities of leadership enhance professional |
| What is routinely at work is skills based leadership. | | | | skills. But in no field are called for exceptional personal |
| Mostly it is leadership in education or in business, of | | | | leadership qualities or even professional skills routinely. |
| the kind that acquirable skills are adequate for. It | | | | In ordinary, e.g., business or educational leadership to |
| does not demand any exceptional leadership qualities. | | | | envision and enable, to empower and energise |
| Acquirable are interested behaviour and competence. | | | | routinely basic leadership skills suffice. These comprise |
| Proportionately to one's degree of interest, basic | | | | simply of the knowledge of, and an honest intention |
| leadership skills often suffice to function as a | | | | to also cater for, the expectations of those to be |
| professional leader, to lead in one's field. | | | | lead, any problems faced in terms of their means, |
| On professional leadership many have written. There | | | | abilities, social influences. |
| are commonly agreed basic modern leadership | | | | In ordinary routine leadership, subject to average |
| principles generally adequate in any field of average | | | | competence in one's field, nothing is basically essential |
| competence. | | | | other than this leadership appreciation and reasonable |
| Effective Leadership | | | | honesty -i.e., simply treating people as people. |
| Leaders with leadership qualities or skills know this: | | | | How 'moved mountains' a Teacher's Extraordinary |
| The average employee does like to be so directed | | | | Leadership orhanseyfiari. |
| as presumes that he generally wishes to avoid | | | | |