Visionary Leaders for Success

• Visionary leaders are the builders of a new dawn, working with imagination, insight, and boldness..

• They work with the power of intentionality and alignment with a higher purpose. Their eyes are on the horizon, not just on the near at hand

They are social innovators &

change agents,

seeing the big picture and

thinking strategically

What is it that makes a visionary become a

visionary leader?

• A visionary may dream wonderful visions of the future and articulate them with great inspiration. A visionary is good with words. 

• But a visionary leader is good with actions as well as words, and so can bring his/her vision into being in the world, thus transforming it in some way. More than words are needed for a vision to take form in today’s world.  It requires leadership and heartfelt commitment.

What are the qualities and abilities of true visionary leaders?  

• Visionary leadership is based on a balanced expression of the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical dimensions. 

• It requires core values, clear vision, empowering relationships, and innovative action. 

When one or more of these dimensions are missing, leadership cannot manifest a vision.

RESPECTFUL, EMPOWERING RELATIONSHIPS

• Good relationships are the heart of effective visionary leaders.  They embody a deeply caring approach to people, seeing them as their greatest asset

• The most effective visionary leaders are responsive to the real needs of people and they develop participative strategies to include people in designing their own futures. .

• This approach has been very successful

for Robert Haas, the CEO of Levi Strauss.

INNOVATIVE, COURAGEOUS ACTION

• Visionary leaders are especially noted for transforming old mental maps or paradigms, and creating strategies that are “outside the box” of conventional thought

• They then create innovative strategies for actualizing their vision

Qualities Shared by Visionary Leaders

1. They execute with confidence. Successful visionary leaders know where they want to go and how to get there. They move confidently toward their goals by initiating the action and getting others to buy in on their beliefs. In short, they believe in themselves, and others believe in them, too. The result is camaraderie, shared goals, and improved morale.

Qualities Shared by Visionary Leaders

2.They're innovators.

In today's rapidly changing business environment, successful leaders need to be innovators. Staying ahead means continually inventing new ways to achieve goals, organize, and build team effort. They embrace change instead of shrinking from it, and reach through obstacles to create success

Qualities Shared by Visionary Leaders3.They're delegators.

Visionary leaders increase team efficiency by moving decision-making responsibility to the frontline. That means delegating authority to those who've earned their trust.

4.They create learning opportunities

Visionary leaders create learning opportunities for themselves and those around them. Continuous learning opportunities are highly motivating

5.They believe in actions, not words

Visionaries focus on the future and can articulate what they see in order to inspire others. Visionaries are good talkers, but they're better with actions.

6.They're well balanced. Visionary leadership requires clear vision, the ability to empower relationships, and innovative action. In other words, it requires a good balance of mental, emotional, and physical attributes, in addition to integrity and strong core values. When one or more of these dimensions is missing, leadership cannot manifest a vision. That's why visionary leaders possess all of the above.

The Business Profile This new board possesses some of the following characteristics

• Entrepreneurial spirit, understanding that their organizations operate in a fast changing marketplace seeking products and services to meet emerging customer needs.

The New Profile

• Risk takers:Visionary leaders are risk takers. They take risk

for acheving the desired goals.

The New Profile

• Good communicators, understanding the importance of effective communication at all levels and they organize the board and its committees accordingly

The New Profile

• Systems thinkers seeking to understand the root causes and forces that shape the issues and challenges they will face in the boardroom

Visionary leaders for success!

• Unique Identification Authority of India chairman

Nandan Nilekani Unique Identification Authority of India

(UIDAI) headed by Nandan Nilekani, former co-Chairman of the IT major Infosys, would aim at devising a system through which the identity of a person could be established through just a call from a mobile phone.

What an idea sirji

• “If any agency wants to confirm the identify of a person, it would have to just take the fingerprint of the person on a cell phone and send it across to a central database and receive authentication within seconds.”

Visionary leaders for success Mahatma Gandhi• Became the leader of a Nonviolent

movement to free India • Became known as Mahatma or 'The

Great Soul'. • Fought for peace between Hindus and

Muslims throughout India • Became a symbol of nonviolence for the

world at large • His tactics were later adopted and used

by Martin Luther King, Jr. to gain equality for African-Americans

Visionary leaders for success• “CHANGE” -OBAMA• Barak Obama is the 44th and

current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office.

Stable stratgies

+

Flexible Tatics = VICTORY

Visionary leaders for success

• Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic is a company owned and established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group to undertake the challenge of making private space travel available to everyone and by creating the world's first commercial spaceline.

Findings• Visionary Leadership is

unquestionably the key factor in determining if Extension will be capable of synthesizing future changes in demographics, science, technology, educational models, and human needs, and then developing a very clear and specific vision for our system.

Conclution

• Today, as we enter the Third Millennium, thousands of new visionary leaders are emerging in all fields of human endeavor around the world, leading a quiet revolution energized by power of the soul.  By appreciating and supporting those who lead from their core spiritual values, we strengthen those leadership qualities in ourselves

“A leader is a dealer in hope”

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