YOU ARE A LEADER

Synectic - Table Groups

• Identify a recorder.• Share interesting hobbies and interests.• Recorder collects items.• Select one and use it in the following

sentence:– Leadership is like _________ because…

• Be prepared to share out in large group.

Session Objectives

• Provide an understanding of what leadership really means

• Establish the characteristic of an effective leader

• Understand how to increase your ability to influence others

• Establish and implement a foundation of trust• Produce a lasting legacy

Agenda

• Self-Assessment Survey• Reflection Questions• Vote With Your Feet• Define Leadership• Leadership Behavior• Leadership Characteristics• Characteristics of an Effective Leader• Reflection and Closing

Leadership Self-Assessment Survey

To determine your leadership characteristics and skills level.

Please take time to fill out the survey.

Reflection

• Please reflect upon the following questions:

– What are your strengths?

– What are you opportunities for growth?

– What are your weaknesses?

Leadership Qualities

Vote With Your Feet

Leaders are born not made.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to

achieve what they want to achieve.

Leaders are Charismatic.

Leadership is a rare trait.

What Is Leadership?

Let’s Define it.

The ability to guide, direct, or influence people.

What Are The Differences?

Leaders• Initiates • Leads; pick up the phone

and make the contact• Spends time planning;

anticipates problems• Invests time with people• Fills the calendar by

priority

Followers • Reacts• Listens; wait for the phone to ring• Spends time living day-to- day; reacts to problems• Spends time with people• Fills the calendar by request

Effective Leadership 101

Who Are We?

• Name

• Local Affiliate

• # Years of Leadership Experience

“The first person you lead is you.”

What Do Leaders Do?

• In table groups, discuss what leaders do.• Be prepared to share with group.

Leadership Behaviors

• Establish a clear direction (vision)• Communicate, communicate, communicate• Position the Association• Development of self• Empower Members• Mentor

LeadershipCharacteristics

ORANGE

GOLD

BLUE

GREEN

I AM A TROUBLE SHOOTER AND ACTION CENTERED

I thrive on action I live in the here and now I must have freedom to act I welcome change and I will take risks I like variety I seek fun and performance I deal quickly with concrete problems

I am a flexible, practical diplomat

I AM A STABILIZER, ORIENTED TO THE ORGANIZATION

I am conventional I hold home and family in high regard I am highly accountable, detailed, and thorough I like to belong I have a sense of social responsibility I reward dedication and loyalty

I AM A NURTURER AND PEOPLE CENTERED

I value personal relationships I have a people centered point of view I value harmony and cooperation I intuitively focus on personal strengths I am naturally democratic I enjoy activating the potential in people I am an optimistic, dramatic spokesperson

I AM A VISIONARY, STRATEGICALLY CENTERED

I am a designer and inventor I am an optimum contributor I am an excellent analyst I am principled I enjoy complex systems I value intelligence and competence I think abstractly

Valuing Different Leadership StylesTrue Colors

Benefits School Employees By:

• Helping recognize our unique leadership styles and strengths in Association leadership.

• Providing us with a language with which to better understand the way colleagues prefer to work and be treated.

• Providing us with the understanding as to why certain leadership strategies and communication styles work with some and not others.

Leadership StylesOrange

• Expects quick action• Assumes flexibility• Works in the here and now• Performance oriented• Flexible approach• Welcomes change• Institutes change quickly• Expects people to “make it fun”

In the Work and Leadership EnvironmentOranges…

Hunger for freedom and action Deals with realistic problems

Flexible, open-mindedWilling to take risksHighly negotiable

Can be perceived as indecisiveChallenged by “trouble spots” but not over the

long haulBest at verbal planning and short-range projects

Leadership StylesGold

• Expects punctuality, order, loyalty• Assumes “right” way to do things• Seldom questions tradition• Rules oriented• Detailed/thorough approach• Threatened by change• Prolonged time to initiate any change• Expects people to “play” their roles

In the Work and Leadership EnvironmentGolds…

Strives to belong and contributePrizes harmony and service

Orderly, dependable, realisticUnderstands and conserves institutional values

Expects other to be realisticSupplies stability and structure

More likely to reward institutionally than personallyCan be critical of mistakes more easily than

rewarding expected duties

Leadership StylesBlue

• Expects others to express views• Assumes “Family Spirit”• Works to develop other’s potential• Individuals oriented• Democratic, unstructured approach• Encourages change via human potential• Change time allows for sense of security• Expects people to develop to their full potential

In the Work and Leadership EnvironmentBlues…

Searches for meaning and authenticityEmpathetic

Sees possibilities of institutions and peopleCommunicates appreciation, enthusiasm,

approvalHighly responsive to interpersonal transactions

Keeps in close contact with othersHighly personalized

Gives and needs strokes freely

Leadership StylesGreen

• Expects intelligence and competence• Assumes task relevancy• Seeks ways to improve systems• Visionary• Analytical• Encourages change for improvement• Consistently “in-process” of change• Expects people to follow through

In the Work and Leadership EnvironmentGreens…

Hungers for competency and knowledgeWorks well with ideas and conceptsIntrigued and challenged by riddles

Sees life as a system to be designed and redesigned

Focuses on possibilities through non-personal analysis

Likes to start projects, but not good with follow-through

Not always aware of others’ feelingsResponsive to new ideas

Leadership Characteristics

What are the characteristics of effective leaders?

Characteristics of an Effective Leader

• Trust• Vision• Influence• Empowerment• Legacy

Characteristics of an Effective Leader

Trust“When a leader’s character is strong, people trust them, and they trust in his/her ability to release their potential.”

Trust is the foundation of leadership and this character communicates…• Consistency• Potential• Respect

Characteristics of an Effective Leader

Vision“You can only seize what you can see?”

Look before you lead• Vision starts within• Vision draws on your history• Vision meets others needs• Vision helps you gather resources

Characteristics of an Effective Leader

To improve you vision, do the following:• Measure yourself• Do a ‘gut’ check• What would you like to change in the world around

you?• Once your ideas start to become clearer, write them

down and talk to a mentor about them.

Characteristics of an Effective Leader

Influence“True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed or assigned. It comes only from influence.”

“He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.”

• The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. If the leader has no influence with them, then they won’t follow. And, if they won’t follow, you’re not a leader.

Characteristics of an Effective Leader

Empowerment“The act of empowering others changes lives.”

Empowering Qualifications:• Position• Relationship• Respect• Commitment• Having the Right Attitude

Characteristics of an Effective Leader

Empowerment (continued)How to Empower Others to their Potential

• Evaluate them• Model for them• Give them permission to succeed• Transfer authority to them• Publicly show confidence in them• Provide feedback for them• Release them to continue

Characteristics of an Effective Leader

Legacy“A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.”

Leaders who leave a legacy…• Lead the Association with a ‘long view’• Created a leadership culture• Paid the price today to assure success tomorrow• Valued team leadership above individual leadership• Walked away from the Association with integrity

Leadership Quotes

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS:

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

WARREN BENNIS:

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

WARREN BENNIS:

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

KENNETH BLANCHARD:

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

JAMES CALLAGHAN:

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

ROSALYNN CARTER:

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

STEPHEN COVEY:

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

PETER DRUCKER:

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

PETER F. DRUCKER:

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER:

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI:

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

LEE IACOCCA:

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

TOM LANDRY:

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

RUSH LIMBAUGH:

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

VINCE LOMBARDI:

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

JOHN C. MAXWELL:

Leadership is influence.

RALPH NADER:

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

ISAAC NEWTON:

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.

JIM ROHN:

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

HERBERT B. SWOPE:

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.