Leadership skills – samenvatting
Véronique Bockstal
Inhoudstabel:
Leadership theories
1. Introduction
2. Management & leadership
3. Management roles
4. Management & decision making
5. Management skills
Difference works
PPT1: intro
PPT2: leadership theories (1) – (les 2 – 2/10/20 + les 4 – 16/10/20)
→ Leadership is about influencing people, and everyone of us uses influence every single day
→ You have to learn how to influence people to get them what you want them to do, to support
your work, ambition, vision,… = not easy because you come across different types of people
Management en Organisatie (Rorink en Ozturk) → We will use this handbook: Chapter 4!
Difference Works (From Caroline Turner) → Second book she uses for the lessons, she will share the
relevant chapters, you don’t need to buy the book
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,Examples of leaders
- Who comes to your mind?
o Obama, Mark Zuckenberg, Bill Gates, Ghandi, Steve Jobs,…
o We automatically talked about male leaders, not female leaders like Hilde Laga,…
WEF on gender parity
→ Parity = equality between man, women and other genders
→ It will take a 100 years till we can all be equal
WEF
→ In some countries you have more percent of women in a leading position
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,Europe: only 1 manager out of 3 in the EU is a woman… … even less in senior management
positions
→ Only one manager out of 3 is a women, if you go up the ladder, it’s even less
- Most female managers in Latvia
- Most female board members in France
- Most female senior executives in Lithuania
The leaky pipeline of women in leadership
→ The higher up the corporate ladder, the fewer women
- Executives: 23%
- Senior managers: 29%
- Managers: 37%
- Professionals: 42%
- Support staff: 47%
The Paradigm for Parity® movement is a coalition of business leaders dedicated to addressing the
corporate leadership gender gap. The coalition is made up of CEOs, senior executives, founders,
board members, and business academics who are committed to achieving a new norm in the
corporate world: one in which women and men have equal power, status, and opportunity. Our
ultimate goal is to achieve full gender parity by 2030, with a near-term goal of women holding at
least 30% of senior roles.
→ There are organisations, people, that are trying to close that gap
→ This is one of them
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, Sheryl Sandberg | Lean in
→ COO of Facebook, wrote a book ‘Lean in’, turned out into an organization for women
Management & Organisation Chapter 4
Table of content
1. Introduction
2. Management & leadership
3. Management roles
4. Management & decision making
5. Management skills
Leadership, management & decision making
Learning objectives
- Company models & basic styles of leadership
o Name the differences between the Anglo-Saxon and Rhineland business models
o Describe the basic styles of leadership
- Leadership styles & management roles
o Describe the different styles of leadership
o Describe what leadership is
o Define management roles
- Decision making & competences
o Describe rational and non-rational decision-making in organizations
o Identify managerial competencies
1. Introduction
- There are different ways to carry out leadership /management tasks > different styles of
leadership
o Result-oriented vs. people-oriented approach
- Deal with the circumstances, the situation in which the organization finds itself
o For example companies being stressed out by covid19
- Different roles in different situations
- Taking decisions is often not easy
o You rarely have all the information needed when you have to make the decision
- Leading and managing is a matter of competences … which can be learned & developed!!!
2. Management & leadership
- Two very different ways of running a business:
o the Anglo-Saxon business model
o the Rhineland business model
- Influencing the way in which people manage, lead and adopt leadership styles
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