Leadership

Leadership
Is
Everyones
Business
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Leadership is getting people to look beyond their own job

description for ways to improve and challenge the process.
Maureen Fries Los Olivos Womens Medical Group

Genuine Leadership comes from the quality of your vision and

you ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
Jack Welsh

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

George Van Valkenburg

You have to be a role model for others. You cant ask others to
do anything you wouldnt be willing to do yourself.
Sylvia Yee Senior Program Officer Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr., Fund
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Why
Leadership
?
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There are people Definition of Leadership

who speak to us
and we do not
listen to them;

there are people

who hurt us and
they dont leave
a scar, The art of mobilizing others
but there are
people who to want to struggle for
simply appear in
our life and they
mark us for ever.
shared aspirations
Ceclia Meireles
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5 Practices to a Good
Leader
Challenge the Process

Inspire a Shared Vision

Enable Others to Act

Model the Way

Encourage the Heart

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10 Commitments of Leadership
Practice

Challenge the Process

Commitments

1- Search out challenging opportunities

to change, grow, and improve.
There are two
ways of
spreading light:
to be the candle 2. Experiment, take risks, and learn from
or the mirror the accompanying mistakes
that reflects it.

Edith Wharton
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10 Commitments of Leadership
Practice

Inspire a Shared Vision

Commitments

3- Envision an uplifting and ennobling

future

4- Enlist others in a common vision by

appealing to their values, interests,
hopes and dreams
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10 Commitments of Leadership
Practice

Enable Others to Act

Commitments

Leadership is 5- Foster collaboration by promoting

ultimately about
creating a way cooperative goals and building trust
for people to
contribute to
making 6- Strengthen people by giving power
something
extraordinary away, providing choice, developing
happen. competence and offering visible support
Alan Keith
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10 Commitments of Leadership
Practice

Model the Way

Commitments

7- Set the example by behaving in ways

that are consistent with shared values

8- Achieve small wins that promote

Nobody can
prevent you from
consistent progress and build
choosing to be commitment
exceptional.

Mark Sanborn
People first follow the person, then
the plan
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10 Commitments of Leadership
Practice

Encourage the Heart

Commitments

9- Recognize individual contributions to

the success of every project

10- Celebrate team accomplishments

regularly
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What people look for and admire in

their leaders

Honest
Forward-Looking
Competent
Inspiring
Integrity
Credible
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Integrity
Integrity is the foundation of Leadership:
- Your word can be trusted
- You are personally excited and enthusiastic
1st Law of Leadership:
GREAT minds If you dont believe in the messenger, you wont believe in the
discuss ideas, message
Average minds
discuss events,
What is integrity behaviorally?
Small minds
discuss people
- Practice what you preach
- Your actions are consistent with their words
Admiral Hyman
Rickover
- Follow through with your promises
- DWYSYWD
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You cannot maintain your

Integrity is
when I am who integrity 90 percent and be
I am, no matter
where I am or
who I am with.
a leader.
Its got to be 100 percent
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Myths, Traditions
and Realities
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Myth: Leaders ought to be cool, aloof and analytical;

they ought to separate emotion from work.

Reality: Leaders describe feelings of inspiration, passion,

elation, intensity, challenge, caring and
kindness-and yes, even love.

Myth: Leaders are charismatic, they possess some

special gift.

Reality: Leaders must be energetic and enthusiastic, but a

leaders dynamism doesnt come from special
powers. It comes from a strong belief in a purpose
and a willingness to express that conviction.
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Myth: It is lonely at the top

Reality: The most effective leaders are involved and in

touch with those they lead. They care deeply
about others, and they often refer to those with
whom they work as family.

Myth: Leadership is reserved for only a very few of

us. Leaders are born leaders.

Reality: Leadership is an observable, learnable set of

practices. Leadership is everyones business.
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Ernest
Shackleto
n
And the Antartic
adventure
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What can I do to become a
better Leader?
Believe you can lead (You never conquer
the mountain you conquer yourself Your
doubts and fears.)

Study Leaders Good and Bad Historical

and personal

Look for challenging opportunities

Strengthen interpersonal skills (listening,

relating, communicating, trusting,
respecting, nurturing and motivating)
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What can I do to become a
better Leader?
Devote set time to your personal
development

Take time to learn and reflect

Get ongoing feedback

Study your personal best and worst

leadership experiences

Leadership develops daily, not in a day

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Leadership
Lessons
From the
Geese
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Have you ever wondered why
migrating geese fly in a V
formation?
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As each bird flaps its wings, it
creates uplift for the bird following.

In a V formation, the whole flock

adds at least 71% more flying
range than if each bird flew alone.
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Whenever a goose falls out of
formation, it suddenly feels the drag
and resistance of trying to fly
alone

and quickly gets back into formation.

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Like geese

people who share a common direction

and sense of community can get where
they are going quicker and easier than
those who try to go it alone.
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When a lead goose gets tired,

it rotates back into the
formation and another goose
flies at the head.
Shared leadership and
interdependence give us each
a chance to lead as well as an
opportunity to rest
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Geese in the rear of the formation honk to

encourage those up front to keep up their
speed.
It is important that our honking from
behind be encouraging.
ECOURAGEMENT IS MOTIVATING.
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or wounded, two other
geese drop out of formation and follow it down
to help and provide protection.

They stay with the unhealthy member of the

flock until it is either able to fly again or dies.
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Then they launch out again with

another passing flock or try to
catch up with their own.

May we be so sacrificial, that

we may be worthy of such
friends in our time of need.
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We may all need help from time to

time.
We should stand by our colleagues
In difficult times.
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Mistakes are Lessons

Only the curious
will learn and only When you make a mistake,
the resolute
overcomes the Dont look at it long.
obstacles to
learning. The
quest quotient has Take the reason of the thing
always excited me
more than the Into your mind and then look forward.
intelligence
quotient.
Mistakes are lessons of wisdom.
Eugene S. Wilson The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power.
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Leadership is the courage to

admit mistakes, the vision to
welcome change, the enthusiasm
to motivate others, and the
confidence to stay out of step
when everyone else is marching
to the wrong tune.

E.M. Estes
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Supporting Slides
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If you ever doubt your
capabilities, consider this:

If you think you are too

small to be effective, you
obviously have never been in
the dark with a mosquito.