This document discusses various aspects of leadership including defining leadership as inspiring others through knowledge, skills, experience and guidance to achieve goals. It outlines that effective leadership requires knowledge in your field and knowing how to find resources, communication skills, and learning something new each day. Leaders should develop skills like listening, communication, goal setting, planning, problem solving and evaluation. Experience is gained through learning from others, mistakes, and sharing lessons learned. Guidance involves leading by example, motivating others, setting goals and plans, and providing counseling. The key to leadership is influence over others and maintaining cooperation through respect, integrity and accountability. There are different types of leadership defined by the group's focus and the leader's style.

1. Akmal Mostafa

2. What is Leadership?
The ability to inspire others to place their faith in the
knowledge, skills, experience and guidance of another
.
Helping others to coordinate their efforts toward
successful achievement of a goal.
Developing the leadership talents of others .
Being an example of the kind of leadership you wish
to develop in others.

3. Knowledge
Know what others know, plus a little more.
Know how to find and use resources for what you
don’t know.
Learn how to communicate what you know.
Learn who knows what.
Learn something new every day.
Acknowledge that you don’t know it all.

4. Skills
Listening
Communication
Goal Setting
Planning
Problem solving
Evaluation

5. Experience
Follow before you lead.
see one, do one, teach one
Seek opportunities to learn what you need to lead.
Learn from your mistakes, no regrets, no whining.
Compare and share what you learn.

6. Guidance
Example: be what you want others to be.
Motivation: recognize and grow the talents of
others
Communication: purpose, expectations,
outcomes
Goal setting: If you don’t know where you are
going, how will you know when you arrive?
Planning: steps, resources, timelines, deadlines,
Counseling: identify the problem and the
solution

7. Example
Be what you want others to be:
Reliable
Honest
Accountable
Flexible
Positive

8. Motivation
Recognize and grow the talents of others
The right person with the right job
Encouragement
Recognition
Resources
Share what you know

9. Communication
Purpose
People work better when they know why
Expectations
Identify what you want to see happen
Identify how you expect it to happen
Outcomes
Identify your response if expectations are not met
Reasonable and logical consequences

10. Barriers to Communication
Experiences differ, no common ground
Know your audience
Confused meaning; say what you mean, clearly
Be specific
Avoid abstracts
Give examples

11. Goal Setting
If you don’t know where you are going how will you
know when you arrive?
Be realistic, specific
Keep it simple stupid!
Make it measurable, recognizable
When you get there, where do you go next?
Set new goals

12. Planning
Steps
Identify the process, start to finish, to reach the goal
Identify who will be responsible for what
Resources
Who knows what
If you don’t know, who does? Where?

13. Planning
Timeline
Evaluate progress often
Identify barriers to progress
Follow up, follow through
Deadlines
Evaluate progress in advance of when things need to
happen
Make changes as necessary

14. Counseling
Progressive not punitive
Identify strengths and weaknesses
Develop a plan for progress
Identify timeframe
Evaluate potential barriers
Identify cause and effect relationships
Identify expected outcomes

15. Influence: the key to leadership
Who do I influence?
“birds of a feather flock together”
I attract people who think like me.
Determines who else I influence
How do I influence?

16. Influence: 5 levels
Position: Rights
People follow because
they must.
Permission:
Relationships
People follow because
they want to.

17. Influence: 5 levels
Production: Results
People see the organization improve
Development: Reproduction
People see themselves improve
Personhood: Respect
Larger than life

18. Maintaining Cooperation
Respect: respect for others is a reflection of your self-
respect
Integrity: do what’s right
Accountability: admit mistakes and recognize the
contributions of others
Expect success: be positive, encouraging, flexible,
momentum

19. Types of Leadership:
:1- According to the nature and focus of the group
A- Social-Emotional (keep the harmony of the group).
B- task leader (problem solving).
2- According to the style of dealing:
A- Democratic ( best performannce- group product
inspite of absence-integral).
B- Autocratic (good performance only in presence of
leader).
C- Laissez-Fair leader (No sharing or directio from
leader).