Leadership development models, tools and strategies to empower leaders in African Higher Education

1. LEADERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT
IN HIGHER
EDUCATION
QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER
EDUCATION CONFERENCE
PREMIER HOTEL
26 APRIL 2013

2. PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
 Introduction
 Key points
 Summary
 Questions

3. INTRODUCTORY LEARNING
ACTIVITY
Complete the activity
Elaborate on your choice of
word association

4. THE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS IN
HIGHER EDUCATION

5. LEADERSHIP FUNDAMENTALS
 Defining Leadership
 Differentiating between leadership and management
 Leadership characteristics and skills
 Leadership styles/approaches
 The leadership context/environment
 The leadership process

6. LEADERSHIP PROCESS
 Creating a Vision
 Articulating that vision in a Compelling and
Inspirational manner
 Guiding and Supporting followers in the pursuit of
achievement of the vision
 Being a Driver and Agent of Change
 Nurturing, Developing and Empowering followers
 Serving as a Role Model

7. THE LEADERSHIP
CONTEXT/ENVIRONMENT
 The Systems thinking perspective:
 Inputs
 Transformation/processing
 Outputs
 The influence of market/industry environment
forces
 The influence of external/macro environmental
forces - PESTEL

8. SYSTEMS THINKING PERSPECTIVE

9. LEARNING ACTIVITY
 Group Discussion:
 Perform an environmental scan and analysis of the
higher education landscape
 Perform a gap analysis in which your group identifies the
most critical leadership challenges in higher education
 For each of these most critical challenges identify
improvement strategies/solutions
 Provide feedback in the form of a summation of your
group discussion

10. TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
 Transformational leadership enhances the motivation, morale,
and performance of followers through a variety of mechanisms.
These include:
 Connecting the follower's sense of identity and self to the
project and the collective identity of the organization
 Being a role model for followers that inspires them and makes
them interested
 Challenging followers to take greater ownership for their work
 Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of followers, so
the leader can align followers with tasks that enhance their
performance.

11. CHARACTERISTICS OF
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS (4 I’s)
 Individualized Consideration
 Intellectual Stimulation
 Inspirational Motivation
 Idealized Influence

12. LEARNING ACTIVITY
 Group Discussion:
 By referring to the characteristics of a
Transformational Leader, describe how
you’ll apply these to optimize performance
from your followers in the field of Higher
Education

 Provide feedback in the form of a
summation of your group discussion

13. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
 Navigator
 Activator
 Mobilizer
 Coach
 Guardian

14. TEAM LEADERSHIP AND
DEVELOPMENT
 Definition of a T – E –A – M
 Characteristics of an effective team
 The instrumental role of a team leader
 Stages of team development

15. STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT

16. LEARNING ACTIVITY
 Group Discussion:
 As a leader in the field of Higher Education,
devise leadership development strategies for
your team of followers
 Describe how you’ll develop a high performing
team
 Provide feedback in the form of a summation of
your group discussion

17. CONCLUSION
 Summary
 Questions
 Contact details:
 Charles Cotter
 +27 84 562 9446
 charlescot@polka.co.za
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 Twitter: @Charles_Cotter