Organizational Leadership 23

Theme #1:  There are various types of leadership roles in an organization. They extend from the executive leadership role to the project leader. Each has different sets of responsibilities to the organization and each leadership role utilizes skill sets which require influencing people to move the business towards the vision. This week’s theme focuses on those levels which are most visible to the students either because they are seen from afar as being on the top or because they seek to become involved personally: executive, managerial, and team leaders. We will examine the role of each and the skill sets associated with them.

Executive Leader: Is the leader that many of our students see from afar. They are the people at the top.  Their role is to design the vision, mission, structure and culture of the organization. It is their ideas that provide the framework upon which the manager builds.

The job of the executive leader is to be the social architect. An executive leaders create the vision, mission, structure and culture and are change agents.

Managerial Leadership: Leaders create followers through influence while managers lead people and manage things (overlap is the skills needed to lead people to do things)

Leading Teams:   Many of our students may have this type of leadership job already. They may be team leaders with some leadership tools necessary.

Learning Activity #1

Using this diagram attached to explain why levels 1-3 are leaders? Then compare and contrast levels 4 and 5 leaders with the leadership found in levels 1-3.

Theme #2:  Leading from where you are. It doesn’t depend on where you are in an organization you can lead in any position. The job of the executive leader is to encourage this role for everyone through empowerment, the manager through motivation, and the team leader or supervisor through mentoring, listening, and encouragement.

Theme #3:  How Does the Organizational Culture Fit the Organizational Structure?

Theme #4:  How to Create, Change, and Align Culture to the Structure and Vision.