Week 28 (28.10.07)

Learn

Visionary Leadership

• Every organization must have vision, mission, values that guides members of organization.
• Ground rules are to govern team members behavior.
• Each team should develops its own vision for how it will contribute and align to the corporate vision (alignment of vision).
• Alignment needed is not only efforts from each individual, systems too (such as policies, objectives, rewards and leadership behaviour) have to be aligned to the vision.
• Shared vision, shared informations and relationship (team's involvement) are linked together for effective team identity.
• Organization survival requires "ever evolving flexibility".

Leadership Style - by Ken Blanchard

• 4 leadership styles - Directing, Coaching, Supporting & Delegating
• Directing - low support, high direction
• Coaching - high support, high direction
• Supporting - high support, low direction
• Delegating - low support, low direction

Unlearn

Generally, many team's are not serious and convince of setting team's vision, mission and values because it is very time consuming and most of the time, these vision, mission and values are not being review after all.

Relearn

As leader, i have to influence them on seeing the benefits of having an align vision, mission and values for the team to be aligned to Pfizer's Vision, Mission and Values. This can be carried out in our building high performance team's session or monthly meeting where all team members can be involved. The vision, mission and values can be reviewed regularly for team's motivation and success.