developing personal leadership building connections: community leadership program
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Developing Personal Leadership
Building Connections:Community Leadership Program
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"...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,to choose one's own way."
– Victor Frankl
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Lesson Objectives1. To understand one’s personal
preference (strengths) for leading others
2. To identify ways to build on personal leadership strengths
3. To determine techniques and strategies for developing weak areas
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Value of Work
• Values Assessment
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The Leadership Quest
How do you define
leadership?
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There are nearly the same number of leadership definitions as there are people who have attempted to define it.
Stogdill, 1974
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Definitions from the “Pros”
• “Planning, organizing, staffing and human resource management, leading and influencing, and controlling.” (Buford, Bedeian, Lindner, 1995)
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• “the process of working with and through individuals and groups and other resources to accomplish organizational objectives.” (Hersey, Blanchard and Johnson, 2001)
• “…not only embraces the principles of fairness and kindness, but also leads to quantum leaps in personal and organizational effectiveness.” (Covey, 1991)
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• “… the focus of group processes, as a matter of personality, as a matter of inducing compliance, as the exercise of influence, as particular behaviors, as a form of persuasion, as a power of relation, as an instrument to achieve goals, as an effect of interaction, as a differentiated role, as an initiation of structure and as many combinations of these.” (Bass, 1990)
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• “The art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations.” (Kouzes and Posner, 1995)
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Defining a Leader…• Think of a leader you have
worked for or observed…
What does this person do and what qualities does this person have that make you admire him or her as a leader?
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Other Leadership Styles
• Autocratic• Bureaucratic• Democratic• Authoritarian• Coercive• Transactional• Transformational• Laissez-Faire
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Ten Commitments of Leadership
1. Challenging the process– Search out challenging
opportunities to change, grow, innovate and improve
– Experiment, take risks,and learn from the accompanying mistakes
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2. Inspiring a shared vision– Envision an uplifting and
ennobling future– Enlist others in a common
vision by appealing to their values, interests, hopes and dreams
Ten Commitments of Leadership
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3. Enabling others to act– Foster collaboration by
promoting cooperative goals and building trust
– Strengthen people by giving power away, providing choice, developing competence, assigning critical tasks and offering visible support
Ten Commitments of Leadership
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4. Modeling the way– Set the example by
behaving in ways that are consistent with shared values
– Achieve small wins that promote consistent progress and build commitment
Ten Commitments of Leadership
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5. Encouraging the heart– Recognize individual
contributions to the success of every project
– Celebrate team accomplishments regularly
Ten Commitments of Leadership
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• People who frequently demonstrate these leadership behaviors are seen as:– being more effective in meeting job-
related demands– being more successful in representing
their units to upper management– creating better performing teams
Perceptions of Exemplary Leaders
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– fostering loyalty and commitment– increasing motivational levels and
willingness to work hard– reducing absenteeism, turnover and
dropout rates– possessing high degrees of personal
credibility
Perceptions of Exemplary Leaders
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Putting it to Work
• Activity –– List two behaviors,
practices, “things” that you could do this coming year to enhance your transformational leadership style
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Who Knows the
Story?
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Review of Objectives
• What are ways that we can identify our strengths?
• What are some fundamental characteristics of leaders?
• What are a few steps we can take to build our capacity for leadership?
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For More Information• Kouzes, J. and B. Posner. 1995. The
leadership challenge. San Fransisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
• To Take the Leadership Challenge, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) go online to: www.josseybass.com and search for the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) Self Starter Package, 3rd Edition