Perfect guide for excellence in leadership.

1. Guide for Excellence in
Leadership
Vinod Bidwaik
http://vinodtbidwaik.blogspot.com

2. Leadership Skill
Each one of you can be a Leader, you have to work
towards it!
Leadership is a skill that can be acquired with the
implementation of carefully thought of steps!
:Vinod Bidwaik
http://vinodtbidwaik.blogspot.com

3. Leadership Skill
In this guide:
Who Is a True Leader?: Modus Operandi
Change Management: Leader’s Initiative
Taking Initiative A Leader’s Job
Problem Solving for Leaders
Leading Your Team To Success
Handling Subordinate

4. Who Is a True Leader?
Who would be able to guide others either by doing
something himself or by directing a specific course of
action.
Who believes on performance rather than
experience.
Who is able to create a image of role model.

5. A leader is made, not born!
The Modus Operandi
Always look for a silver lining
Follow this golden rule in any situation that you find
negative.
Try & learn from experiences.
Focus on what went wrong & why.
Evaluate each & every action that you perform.

6. A leader is made, not born!
The Modus Operandi
Set realistic & achievable goals
Focus on the task in hand
Be clear what you want to achieve

7. A leader is made, not born!
The Modus Operandi
Know the value of discipline & truth
Accept the responsibility for consequence of your
action.
Never do something that goes against your
conscience.
Begin & take a task to its completion.
Commit with your goal.

8. Look inwards, know yourself as
a person & give yourself
whatever input needed to
become a better person.
Remember:
Where constant striving stretches its arms towards
perfection
:Rabindranath Togore

9. Change Management: Leader’s
Initiative
For change, leader will need to be able influence others &
bring them around to his way of thinking.

10. Incorporating change
Attitudinal Change: A Job specific Approach
Clarify that attitudinal change that you so desire is a
job specific one & nothing personal.
Demonstrate how the way that you are advocating
work.
Keep the job specific nature of the attitudinal change
in focus & to highlight it.

11. Incorporating change
Attitudinal Change: A Job specific Approach
Invite suggestions & incorporate a few.
Analyze the person & judge the right kind of
approach required & then decide on an appropriate
approach.

12. Incorporating change
Be prepared with facts
Once you have created an atmosphere of compliance,
come out with hard facts to support your stand.
Be prepared to defend your stand.

13. Incorporating change
Be open towards positive suggestions
Invite others’ opinions & be willing to listen with an
open ear and mind.
Treat them on par by valuating their suggestions &
trying them out if they sound feasible.

14. Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
There is always hesitation when it comes to being the first
one to do something.

15. Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
Self Conscience
Try to develop a mindset wherein if you are sure
about something you just go ahead & do it, not
waiting for another person to show you the way.

16. Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
Seize the right moment
Know when to take the initiative.
Develop the knack of being able to seize the right
moment & lead the way.
Assess yourself & analyze about success.
See you have adequate time.
Take a stock of resources.

17. Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
Right Mindset
Be open & perceptive towards sensing a situation
where you can take a initiative.
Always grab the opportunities.
Always attempt to look at situations from different
perspectives.

18. Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
Handle the obstacles
Arm yourself with attitude to think of ways to
surmount the blockages.
Visualize the task that you are about to perform &
then ponder on the possible hurdles.

19. Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
Keep an open mind
Keep open ears & eyes
Be receptive to ideas that you see & hear.
Be proactive
Involve your team
Encourage new ideas
Delegate task

20. Problem Solving for Leaders
The only thing that every problem has is a solution!

21. Problem Solving
Try, Try & Try Till You Succeed
The wise learn from others’ experiences and fool from
their own”

22. Problem Solving
Be Objective
Tackle the problem objectively.
Analyze the facts about it.
Pinpoint what went wrong & why.
Ask lot of questions both to self & others.
Do not let emotion colour your opinions.
Listen well.

23. Problem Solving
How important the problem is?
Give the problem the credit due to it, neither more
nor less.
Imagine a situation where it is not solved,
hypothetical consequences would answer your
question.

24. Problem Solving
Break down into tasks & delegate
Identify the tasks to be performed.
Assign the tasks specific people.
Give specific requirement & concise directions.
Show the way to arrive at the solutions.
Beware of being overconfident.

25. Problem Solving
Implement your solution
Always cross check facts & discuss ideas with other
people.
Once a solution is decided upon, go ahead &
implement it.
Always test your solution
Once they are implemented, monitor them.

26. Leading Your Team To Success
The mark of good leader is his or her ability to lead the
team to success!

27. Leading Your Team To Success
Integration of various activities
Integrate various activities
Various activities means various peoples.
Coordinate the activities
Integrate them towards desired goals.

28. Leading Your Team To Success
The snowball effect –How to prevent it?
Arrest the problem before it grows big
Stop the snowball from gaining in size.
Anticipate & prepare for problem.

29. Leading Your Team To Success
Guide your team to take decisions, don’t make it for
them.
Ensure that each individual member of the team knows
what role to play.
Group discussions
Get agreement of the team members on desired
responsibilities.

30. Leading Your Team To Success
A virtual tool
Visualize the process of performing the task.
Anticipate the possible obstacles that may be
encountered.
Modify your solution if required.

31. Handling Subordinate
Leadership is all about how well a leader allows his
subordinates to grow under his guidance.

32. Handling Subordinates
A good leader does not let his subordinates feel their
inferiority.
The subordinates should be aware of are the positive
qualities of the leader & which, in fact, had led to the
position that he is in.

33. Handling Subordinates
Some oxymoron of leadership
An oxymoron is a figure of speech in English, where
two apparently opposing words are used together to
create the effect of emphasis. (Boss or a Leader)
Treating subordinates with respect & affection is in
no way a compromise on leadership qualities.

34. Handling Subordinates
Sympathy & Empathy
Do not use sympathy as a ploy to achieve your end; it
will eventually show.
Sympathy & Empathy must be genuine.
Genuineness can achieve much more than a well
planned out strategy can.

35. Handling Subordinates
Power within power
Know that single person can not know or do
everything.
Delegate the tasks.
Get done the task.

36. Handling Subordinates
It does not hurt to give credit & power where it is due
(without) hurting your position) and you have taught
one chapter on the true colours of leader.

37. Vinod Bidwaik is a seasoned HR professional with more than 14 years of experience in HR with 10
years of leadership experience in big Indian and Multinationals industries, viz: manufacturing, media,
automobile and life science & material science companies.
Vinod is currently working with DSM India Pvt Ltd as Country Head –HR for engineering plastics
division. He is also a part of India Management Team of DSM India. DSM is the part of Royal DSM NV,
life science and material science company. He has wide experience in Indian and MNCs like M & M,
Semperit Group and Sakaal Media Group on senior level positions. He has rich experience in HR and
IR. He has an expertise working on Greenfield projects and establishing HR department.
Vinod is fully professional, pro-active, innovative & creative minded HR professional with having business acumen. He partners the
role of business HR partner and his organizations (past and current) witnessed the persistent growth through aligned talent
management practices. He is well experienced in implementing conceptual & innovative HR practices. Vinod has closely worked
with CEOs, COOs, Business Heads and Functional Heads. He handled manpower of 1000-3000 during tenure with different
companies.
He has an expertise working on Greenfield projects and establishing HR department. He implemented various HR practices; OD
interventions in his organizations. During his tenure with Semperit, the company was awarded for Best Innovative HR Practices
during 2002 by NIPM.
Balanced scorecard, Employee engagements, Implementation of Global HR practices, global compensation and benefits and
talent management are his areas of expertise.
He holds Master degree in Personnel Management, Diploma in Production Management. He is a regular writer for various
management journals like BMA Review, Human Factor and other management Journals. He writes regular columns in various
newspapers on management and development. He is also a life member of Bombay Management Association and holds various
honorary positions in different associations.
His blog http://vinodtbidwaik.blogspot is well ready by all spheres of professional.
Disclaimer: Views expressed here are his own views and do not represent his organization's
(current & past) views.