The document emphasizes the importance of leaders enlisting others through listening, discovering a common purpose, and inspiring a shared vision. It highlights that effective leadership involves understanding team members' motivations and aspirations, fostering a sense of belonging, and communicating visions with enthusiasm and clarity. Ultimately, transformational leadership aims to elevate human conduct and ethics, engaging constituents in a meaningful journey towards a collective goal.

1. Exercise your ability to Enlist Others! Record your shared
vision for yourself and organization!
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Use the summary noted below.
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Practice your hopes, dreams, and aspirations by addressing the
following below (share how you would apply these actions in
order to enlist others).
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Wiley, summarizes the textbook chapter to Enlist Others as
noted below:
Enlist Others
The authors relate the story of a leader who discovered how
essential it is to find out what motivates his team members. He
says that the more you know about the people you work with,
the more committed you become to each other’s success and the
more you realize that you have similar hopes and aspirations for
what you are working on. A company is like an engine: “We
cannot move forward if any of the cogs are not working.”
Develop A Shared Sense Of Destiny
A leader’s vision is not enough. Members of the organization
must understand, accept, and commit to it. Leadership is a
dialogue, not a monologue. Leaders must engage constituents
in conversations about their lives, hopes, and dreams, to
develop a shared sense of destiny, an ideal and unique image of
the future for the common good.

2. Inspire a Shared Vision is the least frequently applied of The
Five Practices—people feel the most uncomfortable with it, and
only one in ten considers herself inspiring. Yet even when they
do not consider themselves inspiring, people nearly always
become emotionally expressive when talking about their visions
of the future.
The assumption that the process of inspiring a shared vision is
somehow mystical or supernatural inhibits people, making them
feel that they have to be something special to be inspiring. But
what is necessary is believing in the vision and developing the
skills for communicating it with commitment and enthusiasm,
just as Martin Luther King did on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial on August 28, 1963.
To inspire their audience as Dr. King did, leaders need to
practice three essentials to Enlist Others: Listen deeply,
discover and appeal to a common purpose, and give life to their
vision by communicating expressively.
Listen Deeply to Others
Leaders need to strengthen their ability to sense the purpose in
others. By knowing their constituents, listening to them, and
taking their advice, they can give voice to their feelings and
show them how their own needs and interests will be served by
enlisting in a common cause. Listening is crucial because
leaders can’t do it alone—they don’t have all the ideas or all the
answers.
A key characteristic of leaders who won the prestigious
Malcolm Baldrige award is impressive listening skills. Leaders
listen carefully for quiet whisperings and subtle cues that give
them a sense of what people want, dream about, and value.
To truly hear what constituents want means spending

3. unstructured time--having coffee, breakfast, lunch, breaks--with
constituent groups to find out what’s going on with them and
what they hope to achieve from their relationship to you, your
product, your organization.
Discover and Appeal to a Common Purpose
People stay in organizations because they like their work and
find it challenging, meaningful, and purposeful. These are
common values that link people together. The best leaders are
able to bring out and make use of the deep human yearning to
make a difference by helping people understand the meaning
and significance of the organization’s work and the importance
of their own role in creating it.
Visions are not strategic plans—strategic planning is not
strategic thinking. The most successful strategies are visions,
not plans, because they uplift people’s spirits. According to
McGill University professor Harry Mintzberg, leaders “engage
people in a journey [so that] everyone on the journey helps
shape its course….Strategies take on value only as committed
people infuse them with energy.”
Leadership scholars say that leadership that focuses on
committing is called “transformational leadership” because it
raises the level of human conduct and ethical aspiration—
transforms—both leaders and constituents.
The most admired leaders know that people aspire to live up to
the highest moral standards, so to enlist others, it is essential to
find and focus on the very best that the culture of the group or
organization shares in common and what it means to its
members. This communion of purpose reminds us of what it
means to be part of a collective effort and gives us a sense of
belonging, particularly important in tumultuous times.

4. Give Life to a Vision
Leaders use powerful language, a positive communication style,
and nonverbal expressiveness make the intangible tangible,
breathing life into their visions. They use metaphors and other
figures of speech; give examples, tell stories, and relate
anecdotes; draw word pictures; and use quotations and slogans.
Constituents want leaders with a can-do attitude, who make us
feel good about ourselves and what we’re doing. The most
admired leaders are electric, vigorous, active, and full of life,
with a positive attitude and communication style. The authors
point out that people who are perceived to be charismatic are
more animated than others—they smile more, speak faster,
pronounce words more clearly, move their heads and bodies
more often, and are more likely to make physical contact with
others during greetings.
Complement your position by using your leadership textbook in
the course and other resources found on the Internet.
Complete
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in 3 pages
APA Style format.
Course Textbook:
Kouzes, James M., and Barry Z . Posner (2017). The Leadership
Challenge, 6th Ed. New Jersey: Jossey-Bass, Inc.
Lussier, Robert N., and Christopher F. Achua. (2016).
Leadership: Theory, Application And Skill Development, 6th
ed. Independence, KY: Cengage Learning.