Leadership 101

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Leadership 101

• Dr. John C. Maxwell

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Why Should I Grow as a Leader?

• The higher the leadership, the greater the
  effectiveness.

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To Change the Direction of the Organization,
Change the Leader
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How Can I Grow as a Leader?

• Leadership develops daily, not in a day.

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Phases of Leadership Growth

• I dont know what I dont know.
• I know what I dont know.
• I grow and I know, and it starts to show.
• I simply go because of what I know.

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Successful leaders are learners, and the learning
process is ongoing. A result of self-discipline
and perseverance.
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How Can I Become Disciplined?

• The first person you lead is you.

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No matter how gifted a leader is, his gifts will
never reach their maximum potential without the
application of self-discipline.
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A Disciplined Direction

• Challenge your excuses.
• Remove rewards until the job is done.
• Stay focused on results.

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How Should I Prioritize My Life?

• The discipline to prioritize and the ability to
  work toward a stated goal are essential to a
  leaders success.

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Increasing Organizational Productivity

• Organize or agonize.
• Choose or lose.
• Evaluate or stalemate.

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Prioritize Assignments

• High Importance High Urgency
• High Importance Low Urgency
• Low Importance High Urgency
• Low Importance Low Urgency

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Developing a Priority Process

• What is required of me?
• What gives me the greatest return?
• What is most rewarding?

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Keeping Priorities in Place

• Evaluate Review requirements, return, reward.
• Eliminate What am I doing that can be done by
  someone else?
• Estimate What are the top projects you are
  doing this month and how long will they take?

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Priority Principles

• Priorities never stay put.
• You cannot overestimate the unimportance of
  practically everything.
• The good is the enemy of the best.
• Too many priorities paralyze us.

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Priority Principles

• When little priorities demand too much of us, big
  problems arise.
• Time deadlines emergencies force us to
  prioritize.
• Too often we learn too late what is really
  important.

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Efficiency is the foundation for survival.
Effectiveness is the foundation for success.
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Deciding Between Two Good Options

• Ask overseer and coworkers for their
  preferences.
• Can one option be handled by someone else? Then,
  pass it on.
• Which option benefits the customer more?
• Decide based on the mission of the organization.

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How Do I Develop Trust?

• Trust is the foundation of leadership.

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Character Communicates

• Character communicates consistency.
• Character communicates potential.
• Character communicates respect.

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How Can I Effectively Cast Vision?

• You can seize only what you can see.

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Getting a Handle on Vision

• Vision starts within.
• Vision draws on your history.
• Vision meets others needs.
• Vision helps you gather resources.

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Focus on Listening

• The inner voice.
• The unhappy voice.
• The successful voice.
• The higher voice.

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Why is Influence Important?

• The true measure of leadership is influence
  nothing more, nothing less.

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Five Myths About Leadership

• The Management Myth
• The Entrepreneur Myth
• The Knowledge Myth
• The Pioneer Myth
• The Position Myth

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He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is
only taking a walk.
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How Does Influence Work?

• Real leadership is being the person others will
  gladly and confidently follow.

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Levels of Leadership

• Position People follow because they have to
• Permission People follow because they want to.
• Production People follow because of what you
  have done for the organization.
• People Development People follow for what you
  have done for them.
• Personhood People follow because of who you are
  and what you represent.

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Climbing the Steps of Leadership

• The higher you go, the longer it takes.
• The higher you go, the higher the level of
  commitment.
• The higher you go, the easier it is to lead.
• The higher you go, the greater the growth.
• You never leave the base level.

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Climbing the Steps of Leadership

• If you are leading a group of people, you will
  not be on the same level with everyone.
• For your leadership to remain effective, it is
  essential that you take the other influencers
  within the group with you to the higher levels.
• You must know what level you are on at this
  moment.

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How Can I Extend My Influence?

• The act of empowering others changes lives.

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Qualifications of an Empowerer

• Position
• Relationship
• Respect
• Commitment

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How to Empower Others

• Evaluate them.
• Model for them.
• Give them permission to succeed.
• Transfer authority to them.

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How to Empower Others

• Publicly show your confidence in them.
• Supply them with feedback.
• Release them to continue on their own.

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How Can I Make My Leadership Last?

• A leaders lasting value is measured by
  succession.

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Leaving a Legacy of Succession

• Lead the organization with a long view.
• Create a leadership culture.
• Pay the price today to assure success tomorrow.
• Value team leadership above individual
  leadership.
• Walk away from the organization with integrity.