Faculty of Graduate Studies

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Faculty of Graduate Studies

• Ethical Effective Governance
• Practices of Leadership

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
What is Leadership?

• Providing clear vision of current reality and
  future directions
• Empowering others to be their best
• Supporting good leadership in others

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
How do leaders lead?

• Leaders influence
• Through example
• Through integrity trustworthiness
• Leaders communicate
• Reasoned persuasion
• Passionate compassionate
• Leaders make hard decisions
• Ethically strategic
• Leaders say thank you
• No one does it alone

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Why Have Meetings?

• Communication
• Exchange of information
• Build Group Cohesion
• Team building
• Shared focus
• Accomplish Tasks
• Todays agenda
• A path to tomorrow

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
How to Have Meetings?

• Orderly conduct
• Roberts Rules
• Informal procedures
• On time on topic
• Respectful communication
• Civility
• Careful listening
• Turn taking

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Agendas

• Blueprint for meeting
• Sets priorities
• Keeps focus
• Essential Elements
• Approval of Agenda
• Approval of Minutes
• Business arising
• Todays business
• New Business

• Other Elements
• Attendance
• Remarks from the chair
• Correspondence
• Draft motions
• Attachments
• Responsible parties
• Time allotments
• Next meeting time

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
How to build consensus?

• Consensus is co-operation
• Agreement to act together
• Not everyones first choice
• Requires mutual respect
• Separate ideas from personalities
• Focus on merits of ideas
• Requires careful listening
• Seek common interests
• Demonstrate understanding
• Building blocks from all
• Consolidation compromise

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Four styles of communicators

• Thinkers
• Analytical, logical, rational, organized
• Prefer disciplined consistent observation proof
• Like orderly presentations procedures.
• Not into people issues

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Four styles of communicators

• Intuitors
• Aha! types
• Focus on big picture
• Prefer the abstract and theoretical
• Like to come up with their own answers
• Like participation flexibility

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Four styles of communicators

• Sensors
• Hardworking and hard driving
• Focused on the bottom line
• Organized and pragmatic
• Multi-taskers who want to act
• Like executive summaries
• Like a step-by-step plan

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Four styles of communicators

• Feelers
• Perceptive, aware of people and politics
• Patient listeners
• Good observers
• Effective at developing teamwork
• Protective of relationships

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Diffusing Difficulties

• Pay Attention!
• Listen carefully to what people say
• Listen for what is not said
• Watch eyes body language

• Make sure all opinions are heard
• Keep speakers concise
• Keep speakers on topic
• Invite participation
• Summarize consolidate

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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Maintaining Leadership

• Dont get defensive
• Its not about you
• Dont get emotionally involved
• Listen for the real message
• Repeat distill
• Be gentle, calm, and kind
• Your job is to serve
• Lead by example
• Give as much as you can
• Remember the golden rule

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Faculty of Graduate Studies

• Leadership is not easy!