Sec1 chp 3 building your leadership muscles
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The document discusses building leadership skills and muscles. It outlines objectives like using critical thinking, communicating effectively, driving yourself, developing a sense of urgency, being honest and seeking truth, displaying good judgment, being dependable and consistent, creating an atmosphere of trust, encouraging learning, and finding common ground. The key is exercising these leadership traits every day through communication, decision making, and consideration of others to effectively guide a group.
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Sec1 chp 3 building your leadership muscles
- 1. Leadership: a Subject Building your leadership muscles Loeb M, Kindel S. Leadership For Dummies. For Dummies; 1999.
- 3. Building Your Leadership Muscles • Objectives – Using your head – Keeping people in the loop – Being driven – Getting it done today – Getting to the bottom of things – Making sound decisions – Doing it every day – Trusting and being trusted – Learning and helping others learn – Finding the middle ground
- 4. Building Your Leadership Muscles Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy
- 5. Building Your Leadership Muscles • Why is it that some people seem to become leaders naturally and effortlessly? – References to the natural leader – Some people have to work hard at it
- 6. Putting your brain to work – Using what you have – Responding to situations flexibly – Taking advantage of fortuitous circumstances – Making sense of ambiguous or contradictory messages – Ranking the importance of different elements – Finding similarities in apparently different situations – Drawing distinctions between seemingly similar situations – Putting concepts together in new ways – Coming up with novel ideas
- 7. Communicating Effectively • First and foremost, a leader has to keep the vision in the minds of his followers – Speaking begins with listening – Eliciting the cooperation of others
- 8. Driving yourself • Aggressiveness • Self-confidence • Communication
- 9. Developing a Sense of Urgency • Don’t wait • Form a “Kitchen cabinet”
- 10. Being Honest & Searching for the Truth • Being Honest • Searching for the Truth – Resist your own bias, especially when you think you know the answer
- 11. Displaying Good Judgment • Avoiding extremes when possible • Keeping the best interests of the group in the forefront
- 12. Being Dependable and Consistent • Dependability is itself a form of good judgment • Consistency means that you follow the rules of leadership in a regular way
- 13. Creating an Atmosphere of Trust • Trust is achieved by listening and considering the needs of others
- 14. Encouraging a learning environment • Promote group learning • When the group gets smarter the leader makes better decisions – This is done though communication and information
- 15. Looking for Common Ground “Type O” Personality • Generally likable • A poor leader will push opponents until they are forced to respond
- 16. Recap- Building Leadership Muscles • Using your head • Keeping people in the loop • Being driven • Getting it done today • Getting to the bottom of things • Making sound decisions • Doing it every day • Trusting and being trusted • Learning and helping others learn • Finding the middle ground
- 17. Leadership: a Subject Building your leadership muscles Loeb M, Kindel S. Leadership For Dummies. For Dummies; 1999.
Editor's Notes
- References to the natural leader We already discussed it, there are not born leaders. Yes some people have natural personality traits that are in line with leadership skills, but these skills can often be developed Some people have to work hard at it Think of the golf swing: Some folks work hard to perfect a swing that is good others come by it naturally… That does not mean that one’s swing is better than the other. Think Michael Jordan and the reinvention of his jump shot after his break from basket ball.
- Start with the concept of MacGyver. Use the things at hand to make what you need… some leaders are intelligent, but the best, use what they have and create what they need. Using what you have Think of the quarterback that creates something from a broken play, using only hand signals and eye contact Vision… Recognizing what is possible for the group you are leading and assessing what you can accomplish. Then seeing it and communicating it. Responding to situations flexibly Knee jerk reactions are not appropriate. When it is your job to run the promotion and marketing for the club, you focus on it and champion the effort. When you become president of the club you look at the promotion and marketing criticaly and think, how much does it cost, is it worth it, who should be doing it. You don’t push it just because it was yours Taking advantage of fortuitous circumstances Roman Playwright Virgil once said, “Fortune favors the brave” What he meant was was fortune favors the opportunistic rather than the heroic. You must take advantage of situations when they exist Making sense of ambiguous or contradictory messages Seldom is all information pointing in the same direction…. What do kids want? What’s fun? Where will we eat tonight? What will a successful fundraiser look like? Ranking the importance of different elements What happens when you have all the information you need but the problem is hugely complex? A good leader listens to everything and acts boldly only after they have all the information they need, or time dictates. Finding similarities in apparently different situations Drawing on previous problems and making the connection to the problem at hand to use what you have learned, and gain insight for a solution. This is often referred to as Common Sense…. That means many of the folks who have the most common sense are the people that have lived through the most problems,,,, or maybe can relate the problems to today’s situation Drawing distinctions between seemingly similar situations Every situation you encounter is the same yet different. Example… humans share 99.99% of the same DNA yet we are vastly different. Understanding the differences in a situation is just as important as understanding the similarities. Putting concepts together in new ways This is often the synthesis of current knowledge into vision and developing new ideas from old…. Example: Produce Judging Contest…. Photography Judging Contest… Big Time in D9 Coming up with novel ideas According to Ecclesiastes, “There is no new thing under the sun” Inspiration. But remember Leadership is situational… When all the ideas seem to have been tried, often we only need to wait for the situation to change East and West Germany were unified after 40 years of cold war ideas had failed, but in 1988, Russia faced riots due to food shortages. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, offered Mikhail Gorbachev food in return for reunification talks, and the deal was done.
- The responsibility of leadership is to communicate the vision so clearly that no room is left for doubt among those who must execute it. And then the leader needs to motivate people to execute that vision. How do you motivate to execute the vision: It starts with eliciting the cooperation of others, listening well, and placing others above yourself. Speaking begins with listening Asking questions, reading your audience, listening to the answers, and processing the information Eliciting the cooperation of others The process of offering something for something Trading a goal or vision focused on the future for struggle and hard work in the present… The goal has to be real and attainable, and it must meet the needs of the people. You have to be confident and be the champion of the effort.
- These things all need to be present and balanced.
- It’s critical for the team It’s critical for the leader Build the team while the information is still coming in Seek the information before it finds you By the time an idea gets to the formal proposal stage we should already be able to say yes, because everybody already knows everything they need to know. You need a group of informal people you can bounce Ideas off of.
- Consistency means that you follow the rules of Leadership in a regular way Your are always searching for the truth, always listening, always working on the things necessary to keep your group cooperating toward its goal.