Strategic Leadership: By: Erica B. Arce

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STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

BY: ERICA B. ARCE


Strategic Leadership

isthe ability to get people to


make their own decisions with
the company in mind.
 Strategic Leadership theory does not involve using
force or threats in order to get people to follow.
When a company uses strategic leadership, it is
able to gain the support of its team members by
influencing them in a way that makes them want
to contribute to the success of the company.
 Strategic leadership requires the potential to
foresee and comprehend the work environment. It
requires objectivity and potential to look at the
broader picture.
 A few main traits / characteristics / features /
qualities of effective strategic leaders that do
lead to superior performance are as follows:
Loyalty

 Powerful and effective leaders


demonstrate their loyalty to their
vision by their words and actions.
Keeping them updated

 Efficient
and effective leaders keep
themselves updated about what is
happening within their organization.
They have various formal and informal
sources of information in the
organization.
Judicious use of power

 Strategicleaders makes a very wise


use of their power. They must play the
power game skillfully and try to
develop consent for their ideas rather
than forcing their ideas upon others.
They must push their ideas gradually.
Have wider perspective/outlook

 Strategic leaders just don’t have skills


in their narrow specialty but they have
a little knowledge about a lot of
things.
Motivation

 Strategicleaders must have a zeal for


work that goes beyond money and
power and also they should have an
inclination to achieve goals with
energy and determination.
Compassion

 Strategic
leaders must understand the
views and feelings of their
subordinates, and make decisions after
considering them.
Self-control

 Strategic leaders must have the


potential to control
distracting/disturbing moods and
desires, i.e., they must think before
acting.
Social skills

Strategic leaders must be


friendly and social.
Self-awareness

 Strategicleaders must have the


potential to understand their own
moods and emotions, as well as their
impact on others.
Readiness to delegate and
authorize
 Effective
leaders are proficient at
delegation. They are well aware of the fact
that delegation will avoid overloading of
responsibilities on the leaders. They also
recognize the fact that authorizing the
subordinates to make decisions will
motivate them a lot.
Articulacy

 Strongleaders are articulate enough to


communicate the vision(vision of
where the organization should head)
to the organizational members in
terms that boost those members.
Constancy/ Reliability

 Strategic leaders constantly convey


their vision until it becomes a
component of organizational culture.
10 Principles of Strategic
Leadership
 Distribute Responsibility
 Be honest and open about information
 Create multiple paths for raising and
testing ideas
 Make it safe to fail
 Provide access to others strategies
 Develop opportunities foe experience-
based learning.
 Hire for transformation
 Bring your whole self to work
 Find time to reflect
 Recognized leadership development as
an on going practice.
To conclude, Strategic leadership
can create vision, express vision,
passionately possess vision and
persistently drive it to
accomplishment.
THANK YOU
FOR LISTENING!

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