5 Reasons to be an Irrelevant leader in 2016. The power to be irrelevant and change your organisation.

1. 5 Reasons to be an
Irrelevant leader in 2016

2. Agenda
 Overview
 The challenge of leadership
 What does it mean to be Irrelevant?
 5 Reasons to be irrelevant?
 Five idea to make you irrelevant as a leader
 Commit to doing one thing differently to become irrelevant
 Wrap up

3. Overview
 The power of becoming irrelevant as a leader is the most
profound concept misconstrue. Becoming irrelevant does not
make you lose influence but rather provides a geometric and
multiplying impact on your influence and help in replicating
leadership.
 We will learn some profound reasons to be irrelevant as a leader
and the benefits.

4. The challenge of leadership
Effective Management:
Strategic Thinking
Prioritization
Time management
Decision making
Inspiring others:
Organization goals first
Others need next
Your need lastly
Developing others:
Coaching
Mentoring
Leading a Team:
Team-building,
Team development and team management
Inspire Team Pride
Turning a team to own the business
Guiding Change:
The challenge of managing, mobilizing,
understanding and leading change
Challenge of managing a team
Mobilizing a team
Making team adjust to change
Understanding and leading change

5. What does it mean to be Irrelevant?
 Doing the right thing when its not convenient
 Show vision and lead from behind
 Empower others and belief
 Power of prioritization and elimination of waste
 Having Self worth

6. 5 Reasons to be an Irrelevant leader in 2016
Succession plan ripple effect
Empowers the organization to duplicate leaders
Free up time to provide vision
Prolong your relevance by been Irrelevant
Show vision and lead from behind

7. 5 ideas to make you irrelevant as a leader
1. Identify 1-3 protégé and invest time in them. (It always takes time to replicate your self ,
so invest the time)
2. Include as part of leadership performance review a measurable goals to show there is
replication of self as a leader
3. Provide certain high visible task to protégé when on vacation and trust them to do it
(Give time to develop to their full potential)
4. Use the power of delegation to earn trust (Nobody as all the answers, trust and delegate
on purpose)
5. Constantly have an effective vision communication plan (Make the vision visible
throughout organization)

8. Commit to doing one thing differently to become
irrelevant
Identify one thing you can do differently on a daily basis:
Start by assigning a minor task to a protégé and see the feeling
Make effort to coach or mentor someone today
Send an article on leadership to someone today (You can begin with
sharing this coaching deck)

9. 5 Leadership quotes
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”…
John Quincy Adams
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”…
Alexander the Great
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”...Nelson Mandela
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it
ourselves.”…Lao Tzu
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”…George Washington Carver

10. Wrap up
 Write down one thing you can begin implementing today
 Write the impact the change will make in yourself, business, family
or organization
 Decide who can help achieve this goals (Work buddy, family, friends,
professional network, meetup groups)
 Decide your monitoring and accountability mechanism for your self.

11. Honored to meet you….
 Leadership trainer
 Akingbade(Akin) co-founder of largest
professional database of African
professionals “PANLinked.com”
 Partner with African Union on Capacity
Building
 Mentor to many start-ups
 Mentor and professional in Content
management strategy
 Served over 70+ “Fortune 500” as a Manager
with Big 4 “Ernst & Young”
 Co-Author many articles
 Author of Poetry book
“Lord, I have a question”
 Author of “Think it Build it” (In works)
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