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12 Principles of Team Building & Leadership - Di Kamp

• Be a Role Model• Be Self Aware• Be a Learner• Delight in Change• Be a Visionary• Have full awareness of current reality• Keep a high standard of ethics and values• Maintain Systemic Thinking• Communicate Well• Think Positively• Have Enthusiasm• Be Real

Be a Role Model

• People take more notice of what you do than what you tell them to do

• Practise what you preach in everyday behaviour

• How you are has the greatest influence on how others are

• Example: Richard Branson & Fun

Be Self Aware

• Work from the inside out• Manage yourself before you manage others• Be aware of your temperament• Recognize your own strengths and weaknesses• Know how to bring out the best in yourself

Be a Learner

• Recognize that you are continually learning and developing

• Don’t pretend to know it all• Be open to different ideas• “Seek out surprises, relish the unpredictable”

– Margaret Wheatley

Delight in Change

• Work with change, not resist it• Change is the only constant in the future• Look for Change• “Leadership is learning to love change” – Tom

Peters

Be a Visionary

• Having a clear vision of where you are going provides a framework for change

• Always keep an ideal picture in mind• Example: Bill Gates & Microsoft

Have full awareness of current reality

• Have a double vision• To successfully work towards an ideal, you need to be very

clear about where you are now• “Creative Tension” – The tension between current reality and

the ideal that can produce active development• Don’t Perceive the Gap as a reason to lower your goals

Keep a high standard of ethics and values

• Clarify for yourself a high standard of ethics and values

• This is the driving force for shaping your approach to leadership

• Integrity should be first in your checklist of qualities and skills for leadership

Maintain Systemic Thinking• Develop a different way of thinking• Systemic thinking means being aware of

how processes work• Separate causes from symptoms• This level of thinking takes aware the blame

game• The system makes the people• Gives a longer-term perspective

Communicate Well

• Doesn’t mean making slick presentations• It means building relationships with others • Convey your message clearly and congruently

in ways others can understand• Show genuine interest or concern• If said with feeling the message gets through,

even if you are not terribly accurate

Think Positively• Have a positive view of things• It is easy to get caught in negative thinking – it seems to make

you look better • The Leader looks at what is possible, rather than the

constraints• Believes that things can change for the better and finds ways

of making it happen• Have a sense of humour • Keep things in perspective even when they don’t go according

to plan

Have Enthusiasm• “Enthusiastic” originally meant “having God

within”• It is endearing and infectious• Have a genuine belief in what you are doing

or saying, and a genuine will to make it successful

• Enthusiasm engages others at an emotional level rather than an intellectual level

• This is what makes the difference between most leaders

Be Real• You do not need to develop this

characteristic!• You are already You!!• Recognise that none of us is perfect and

have some fun with it• You have a unique permutation of qualities

that make who you are• Don’t put up a front