Leadership Session 5: Group Presentations and Culture

Leadership: Session 5

• SKEMA Business School
• Session covers group presentations, the HLBT method for public speaking, organizational culture, and global business leadership.

Group Presentations

• A method for organizing presentations
• A speaker stands behind the podium giving a presentation or speech to the audience.

HLBT Method for Communicating in Public

• Hook: Grab the audience's attention with something interesting.
• Look: Briefly outline what will be discussed at the beginning of the presentation.
• Book: The detailed, theoretical, and factual information (the "boring" part).
• Took: Convince the audience via the presentation about the information's importance and usefulness.

Session 3: Leadership and Organizational Design and Culture

• Diagnosing, and changing an organization's culture.
• The type of followers needed for different organizational cultures, along with the types of leaders needed.
• Organizational Culture Model and assessment instrument, using the Competing Values Framework Model.
• Analyzing the organizational culture: Clan Culture, Adhocracy Culture, Market Culture, Hierarchy Culture.
  • Clan Culture: Interpersonal relations, teamwork, personnel development
  • Adhocracy Culture: Innovation, future focus, continuous improvement
  • Market Culture: Energizing employees, competition, customer satisfaction
  • Hierarchy Culture: Coordination, control system, acculturation

The Global Business Leader

• Environmental factors and issues
• Importance of self-awareness, commitment to strategy, influence over others, effective task design, and strategies for managing change.
• Organizational culture plays a crucial role in global business leadership.

Fill Out The OCAI

• An assessment tool (OCAI) for evaluating organizational culture
• Score a company as if it were a perfect company based on 100 available points.
• Points are to be allocated between options A, B, C, and D.

Cameron and Quinn Framework

• A visual representation of organizational culture types, showing the different values and characteristics of each type.
• Quadrant-based, plotting various organizational culture characteristics, including innovation, coordination, efficiency, and employees' satisfaction.

Influence and Persuasion

• Influence is a broader term including persuasion.
• Persuasion involves communication and attempts to change attitudes.

Two Modes of Thinking: The Dual Process Approach

• Central Route (Systematic): 20% focused thinking. In this route, a person analyzes arguments with attention.
• Peripheral Route (Heuristic): 80% focused thinking. Using cues and shortcuts, rather than actively evaluating arguments.
• Different thinking modes have varying effect sizes in terms of magnitude, persistence, resistance, and prediction.

Heuristic Influence Cues: The CLARCCS CUES

• Cues to influence others such as comparison, liking, authority, belief, reciprocity, commitment/consistency, and scarcity to affect persuasion and influence.

Group Presentation Method: HLBT

• L – Look: What will be discussed in the presentation? (Defining it in a clear and narrow way. Include what will be covered in last 10 min)
• H – Hook: Grab the audience's attention. (Ask questions that people want answers to. Storytelling, visually appealing images/videos, a playful method, roleplay/games/involvement for the audience. cliffhanger)
• B – Book/Boring Part: Detailed information/Theory. (Details, facts, data)
• T – Took: Convince the audience of the information's value/importance. (Summarize and end with impactful and meaningful information that is useful and important)

Organization Assessment (Session 5)

• Focus on creating a shared organizational culture.
• Using the HLBT method for group presentations.
• Techniques on grabbing attention, including questions, storytelling, pictures, videos, and audience involvement.