What is Leadership

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What is Leadership?

• Leadership is inspiring and helping people
• to work toward a goal.

Leadership is an Influence Relationship
How can I lead others if I havent learned how to
lead myself?
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Leadership

• What to eat for breakfast?
• What to wear today?
• What road to take to school/ work?
• What courses to take for fall semester?
• What to do if Im not doing well in class?
• What major to pursue?
• What career pattern to follow?
• What kind of life do I want to build for myself?

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Relationship based
If I like someone, how do I tell them? If I
dont like what someone is doing to me, how do I
tell them?
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In fact, our society creates many problem-solving
or leadership opportunities

• What movie to see?
• What car to buy?
• What shampoo to buy?
• What food to eat?
• What music to listen to?

We are confronted with so many options in life
that we can become confused, give up deciding
(leading ourselves) engage in behavior based on
impulses alone.
This is NOT Leadership.
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The Pretender

• Seeks attention
• Picks the brains of others pirates their ideas
• Is stubborn for emotional or self-centered
  reasons
• Flits from idea to idea making many starts but
  few completions
• Perceives disagreement as a personal affront
• Is zealous to stay in the limelight
• Prefers the attention getting
• Is often manipulative in human relations
• Gravitates to the showy and bizarre
• Is interested in grinding his/ her own ax

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The Leader

• Seeks to improve operation
• Listens to his/ her own drummer
• Has firm convictions based on evidence as he/ she
  perceives it
• Sticks with an idea or proposal until it is
  completed
• Dislikes disagreement but can cope with it
• Is zealous for his/ her ideas projects
• Prefers complexity
• Possesses adequate communication skills to
  enhance mutual understanding
• Gravitates to the solid substantial
• Is genuinely interested in improving the
  operation

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The Pie of Self
Interests Like it
Values Satisfaction

• Problem-solving opportunities

• Situational Factors

Needs Fulfillment
Skills Success
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Multiple Intelligence

• IQ EQ

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
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Interpersonal- Capacities to discern and respond
appropriately to the moods, motivations, and
desires of other people.
Intrapersonal- Access to ones own feelings and
the ability to discriminate among them and
draw upon them to guide behavior.
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Emotions
Conventional
vs.
High-Performance Meaning
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Conventional

• Sign of weakness
• No place in business
• Avoid emotions
• Confuse
• Table them
• Avoid emotional people
• Pay attention only to thoughts
• Use non-emotional words
• Interfere with good judgment
• Distract us

• Sign of vulnerability
• Obstruct, slow down reasoning
• Form a barrier to control
• Weaken fixed attitudes
• Inhibit the flow of objective data
• Complicate management planning
• Undermine authority

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High-performance

• Sign of strength
• Essential in business
• Emotions trigger learning
• Explicate (clarify)
• Integrate them
• Seek out emotional people
• Listen for the emotion in
• Use of emotional words
• Essential to good judgment
• Motivate us

• Make us real and alive
• Enhance, speed up reasoning
• Build trust and connection
• Activate ethical values
• Provide vital information and feedback
• Spark creativity and innovation
• Generate influence without authority

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Purpose and meaning are the inner compass of your
life and work They are the emotionally charged
path in your work/ life that provides
orientation/ direction. Without an inner compass
you cannot lead yourself.
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Your purpose is the internal compass to guide
your life and work.
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What is your unique purpose/ potential?

• Its a Yearning.
• Youll feel it- it pulls you or attracts you
  toward one activity
• over another like a magnet, although its not
  tied to glamour or arrogance.

• Its something that deeply satisfies you.
• Youll get a kick out of doing it. This kind
  of satisfaction is rarely present when your
  skills or strengths are not.

• The learning is easy.
• You catch on quickly and it feels exciting to
  learn.

• You sense moments of flow.
• You feel this is something natural for you and
  you catch glimpses of yourself performing well in
  this talent area.

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Self-knowledge
Self Esteem
Self Confidence
Effective Leadership