Sara Byler, Senior Intern, Waynesburg University and Bonner Foundation Summer Intern ’19 When should we lead? When should we follow? What is the role of a healthy change agent? These are the questions we are going to be diving into during this session. Whether a leader or a team member, everyone has powerful influence to create effective change. We are going to take a deeper look into how a team can create more effective change through each individual playing a key role in the vision.

1. Lead in, Lead Out:
The Power of Influence
in Leadership
2019 Bonner Congress
Centre College

2. Sara Byler
Senior Bonner Intern,
Waynesburg University
2019 Bonner Foundation Summer
Intern

3. Featured Voices
Daniel Fidalgo Tomé
Director of Service
Learning
Stockton University
James Shields
Director of Community
Learning
Guilford College
Gretchen Mielke
Assistant Dean of
Civic Engagement
Widener
University
Kelly Finn
Student Development
Program Manager
Brown University

4. What is influence?

5. “The capacity to have an effect on
the character, development, or
behavior of someone or
something.”

6. A shared process involving
interdependence between
leaders and followers in a give-
and-take relationship
The Leadership Co-Created Process

8. Relational Based
Motivation
Influence

9. What is the importance of
Followership?

11. What makes a powerful,
healthy follower?

12. Critical Follower
Work in the best interest of the
organization
Do not blindly follow leader but assert
themselves in ways that align with the
organization’s mission.

13. Challenge leadersSupport Leaders
Communication
Become “extra
eyes” for the
team
validate and affirm
team members’
intentions

14. Learn from LeaderGet the Job Done
Work Ethic
Learn without the
actual responsibility
Central life of the
team’s mission

15. From the
Leader’s Perspective

16. Activity: + — ∆
1. Plus: what is going well? What is
working?
2. Minus: what is not going well?
What is hard?
3. Delta: What do we need to change
that will help us move forward?

17. When to lead and when to
follow?
Assessing the situation
Power Dynamics
Team SKA Inventory

18. Practice makes perfect

19. What would you do??
Scenario:
There is a {student/coworker/or staff member} that is leading
a team and is very passionate about the cause. They are
hyped up about this new leadership position and are trying
their hardest to get the team going. The team members on the
the other hand are less than thrilled. They do not like the
leader for different reasons. They are decided to ignore all
efforts by the leader to get the team together.