What is leadership Group and Organizational

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What is leadership?(Group and Organizational)

• Organizational leadership is the ability to
  articulate a vision, to embrace the values of
  that vision, and nurture a positive environment
  where everyone can reach the organizations goals
  and their own personal needs.

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What is leadership?(Personal)

• Personal leadership is the ability to visualize a
  goal, to embrace the values of that goal, and
  maintain a positive perspective in a
  self-disciplined environment until the goal is
  attained.

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Why is leadership needed?

• Leadership is the ability to effectively combine
  individuals and resources together to accomplish
  things that would be virtually impossible to
  achieve alone.

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Vision

• This is the meaningful articulation of the
  mission of the organization in such an appealing
  and intuitive picture that it vividly conveys
  what the organization can be in the future.
  Vision instills a common purpose, self-esteem and
  a sense of membership within the organization.

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Mission Statement

• This typically describes the purpose of the
  organization and outlines the types of activities
  to be performed for constituents and customers.
  It should also mention what unique value or
  services the organization offers as a byproduct
  of its work.
• We will discuss a personal
• mission statement later

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Values

• These are the guiding principles that state
  how the employees, beginning with management,
  intend to conduct their business and their
  behavior. These values will determine what kind
  of an organization develops and they become the
  foundation of the organizations culture.

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Commitment

• This is an employee's emotional investment to
  extend great effort toward the implementation of
  a decision, outcome or goal. Successful leaders
  need to be committed individuals and to solicit
  the commitment of others to achieve established
  goals, and the mission.

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Motivation

• This is the ability to provide an incentive or
  reason to compel others into action or a
  commitment. Since all individuals are different,
  successful leaders know that diverse people
  respond to different motivators. A wise leader
  also knows that money is not the strongest
  long-term motivator and cultivating an
  environment of fear is the least effective
  long-term motivator.

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Teamwork

• This is the ability of a leader to build a
  collaborative agreement among differing
  individuals within a group. A consensus usually
  occurs when various members of a group agree that
  a particular alternative is acceptable though it
  may not be the first choice of each member.
  Consensus building can create a greater degree of
  commitment among group members than a decision
  made by a simple majority.

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• Why is leadership
• important to you?
• It is important because the development of
  positive leadership skills can have a beneficial
  and powerful impact in virtually every area of
  your life! Acquiring, understanding and
  exhibiting leadership skills can have a
  constructive influence within your workplace
  environment, within the Church, your community
  and in your personal relationships with others.

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leaders verses Leadership

• The term leader is often misused by referring
  to someone in a position of power.
• Many who are called leaders lack real
  leadership qualities.
• Most individuals who demonstrate powerful
  leadership qualities are not in formal positions
  of power.

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Leaders vs. Managers

• Managers are people who efficiently strive to do
  things right. Focus is on mastering routines and
  systems.
• Leaders are people who effectively strive to do
  the right thing. Focus is on vision and judgment.
• The ideal person is one who can both manage well
  and has leadership skills.

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Five Myths of Leaders

• 1. Leadership is a rare skill.
• 2. Leaders are born, not made.
• 3. Leaders are charismatic.
• 4. Leadership exists only at the top of an
  organization.
• The leader controls, directs, prods, manipulates.
• Warren Bennis Burt Nanus Leaders

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Coercion is not leadership, it is power!

• Loose uses of the word lead can mislead you
  about leadership.
• Examplea policeman can lead a prisoner to jail.
  In this case, he/she is not a leader but a
  captor. They do not share the same goal.
• Leaders almost never have a need to coerce or
  intimidate others to get things done.

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What is followership?

• Followership is the individual desire to serve
  others and support a team in its task to complete
  a mission. Followers seek to perform their tasks
  well, maintain cooperative working relationships,
  provide constructive disagreement, share
  leadership functions and support leadership
  development.

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Followership

• The role of followers is not to be mindless
  lackeys. Their role is to help the leaders become
  more effective while remaining true to their own
  values and essential needs. Self-management
  skills allow followers to become effective
  individual contributors even in the absence of
  good leaders.

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Followership

• Recent cultural shifts in late 20th century
• Followers now judge leaders more harshly.
• 2. Leaders now have impact only with
  credibility.
• 3. If leader is able to take the followers to a
  common goal, it is because they were all capable
  of that kind of response!