LEADERSHIP –THE MAN ON WHITE HORSE
The Lid
The higher you climb, the more need leadership.
Leadership is not a title. The only thing a title can bye is a little time. True measures of leadership is influence.
Five Myths about Leadership
1. The Management Myths
2. The Entrepreneur Myths
3. The Pioneer Myths
4. The Knowledge Myths
5. The Position Myths
Leadership develops daily, not in a day. It is a capacity to develop and improve there skills that distinguishes leaders form followers. There is no overnight success. Everyone has potential, but it isn’t accomplished overnight. It requires perseverance.
The Process
The Four Phases of Leadership Growth
Phase 1 ~ I Don’t Know What I Want.
As long as a person doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, he doesn’t grow.
Phase 2 ~ I Know What I Don’t Know
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge
~Benjamin Disraeli
Phase 3 ~ I Grow And Know And It Starts To Know
You can be a great leader, but it won’t happen in a day. Start paying the price now.
Phase 4 ~ I Simple go Because of What I Know
Frightening your way up
The Navigation
A leader is one who sees more than other sees, who sees faster than other see and who see before other do.
The larger the organization the more clearly the leader has to be able to see ahead.
Every past success and failure can be the source of information & wisdom –if you allow it to be. However no matter how much you learn from the past. It will never tell you all you need to know about the present. Realistic leaders are objective enough to minimize illusions. They understand that self-deception can cost them there vision. It is difficulty balancing optimize & realism, intuition & planning, faith & fact. But that’s what it takes to be effective as a navigation leader.
Charting the Course With a Navigation Strategy
P Predetermine A course of Action
L Lay Out Your Goals.
A Adjust Your Priorities
N Notify Key Personal
A Allow Time for Acceptance
H Head Into Action
E Expect Problems
A Always Point to the Successes
D Daily Review your Plan
Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future & lack of imagination.
THE REAL LEADER
The real leader holds the power, not just a position. If you see a disparity between whose leading the people, then the person running the meeting is not the real leader
People Become Leaders Because of…..
Character: Who they are
Relationships: Who they know
Knowledge: What they know
Intuition: Whey they feel
Experience: Where they’ve been
Past success: What they’ve done
Ability: What they can do
IDENTIFYING THE LEADERSHIP STYLES
The ‘Driver’ Style
Such leaders are task experts and result oriented. There motto is “Lead Follow. Or Get out of the way!
The ‘Expressive’ Style
Such leaders are task experts and enthusiastic influencers. There motto is “It’s not just weather you win or lose, its how you look when you play the game.”
The ‘Analytical’ Style
Such leaders are information experts and rely on facts, data and details. There motto is “The facts speak for themselves.”
The ‘Amiables’ Style
Such leader are team-formation expert and a good at recruiting people. There motto “Make new friends & keep the old.”
THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A LEADER
►Solid Ground
Trust is the foundation of leadership. To built trust, a leader must exemplify
You don’t build trust talking about it. You built it by achieving results, always with integrity and in a manner that shows the personal regard for the people with you work.
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one be without strategy.” ~ General H.Norman
Character makes trust possible. And trust makes Leadership possible. Character Communications Consistency, Respect and potential. Leaders earn respect by making sound decisions, admitting there mistakes and putting what’s best for there followers and the organization ahead of there personal agenda.
►Respect
People natural follow leaders stronger than themselves. The greatest test of respect comes when a leader creates major change in an origination.
►Intuition
Natural ability and learned skills create an information intuition that makes
Leadership issues jump out at leader. Leaders read themselves, other people, there situation,
the trends and there resources. Leaders who want to succeed maximize every assets and resources they have for the benefit of there origination.
►Magnetism
Who you are is who you attract. Who you get is not determined by what you want, but by who you are.
Teams cannot be anything but an extension of the leaders personality. If you think your people are negative, then you’d better check your attitude. If you think the people you attract could be
better, then it’s time for you to improve yourself.
►Sacrifice
A Leader Must ‘Give Up’ To ‘Go Up’. The laws of sacrifice maintains that one sacrifice seldom brings success. Sacrifice is an on going process, not a non-time payment. As you rise in leadership, responsibilities increases & right decrease.
“When you became a leader you lose the right to think about yourself.”
~Gerald Brooks
►Connection
Leader touch a heart before they ask for a hand.
You can’t move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The stronger relationship and connection between individuals. The more likely the follower will want to help the leader. To connect with the people in a group, relate to them as individuals.
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
►The Inner Circle
The leader finds greater ness in a group, and he or she helps the member finds it in themselves.
The leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.
►Buy-In
People buy into the leader, then the vision.
The leader finds the ‘dreams’ and then the people.
The people find the ‘leader’ and the dream.
People don’t first follow worthy causes. They follow worthy leaders who promote worthwhile causes.
When followers like the leader & the vision, they will get behind both
TEAM LEADERSHIP
The Pygmalion Effect ~ Transformative power of expectation
As we communicate the vision we have for others and the expectation we hold for them, we create an almost magnetic pull that draw them in the direction of those expectations
The Five Master Skills of Winning Leadership
Flexibility
Enabling questioning
Visualisation
Letting Go
Expressing yourself with dimension
The 5 Fundas of Effective Visualization
Visualize what you want-not what you don’t want!
See the outcome as if it is all ready complete
Fill your visualization consistently
Infuse your visualization with people you love and care about.
Team Sprit
The Power of Putting the Team First
True team sprit is the manifestation of unselfishness in its purest form:
-Genuine consideration for others.
-A complete eagerness to lose oneself in the team, for the good of the team.
Infusing a Sence of Cooperation
Team Sprit began with ‘Selection’ Developing team sprit centers around the way you acknowledge & discipline those you lead.
The Most Powerful Ingredient For Boundless Team Sprit Is Your Own Example Of Consideration For Others
The Strongest Factors In Building A Team
~Dignity ~Respect
Team Sprit Like Real Love Is Unconditional.
When you live with genuine consideration for others. You value there differences rather than fearing them. Move From ‘Ego To ‘We Go’
Victory
Leaders Find A Way For The Team To Win
Victorious leaders feel the alternative to winning is totally unacceptable, so they figure out what must be done to achieve victory, and then they go after it with everything at there disposal
When the pressure is on, great leaders are at there best.
Three Components of Victory
Unity of Vision
Diversity of Skills:
A leader Dedicated to Victory & Raising Players to There Potential
Leaders who practice the “Law of Victory” have no ‘Plane B’
The Wrong Leadership
If your team is having difficulties, the odds that leadership is the root of the problems is very high.
Myths of Team Leadership
Teams require a single individual to lead them.
Strong leadership ensures success.
How a leader is selected is not important.
Team success is all that matters.
Team structure is a secondary consideration.
A good leader and a good team can solve any task.
IDENTIFYING AND DEVELOPING LEADERS AROUND YOU
►Empowerment
Only Secure Leaders Give Power To Others
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
Barriers To Empowerment
Desire for job security
Resistance to Change
Lack of Self-worth
The ‘greatest’ things happen only when you others the credit
Strange as it may sound, great leaders gain authority by giving by giving it away. A key to empowering others is “high belief in people.”
►Reproduction
It Takes A Leader To Raise Up A Leader
People cannot give others what they themselves do not possess. Followers simply cannot develop leaders.
Why some leaders don’t develop others
They….
Don’t recognize the valve of developing others
Focus too much on there followers
Insecurity!
We ‘teach’ what we know. We ‘reproduce’ What we Are
►Explosive Growth
To Add Growth, Lead Followers. To Multiply, Lead Leaders
To go to the highest level, you must develop leaders of leaders
►Legacy
Succession is one of the key responsibilities of leadership
A Leader’s Lasting Value Is Measured By Succession.
Leaders who leave 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
Success is not measured by what you’re leaving to, but by what you’re leaving behind.
CONCLUSION
Personnel determine the potential of the organization
Relationship determine the morale of the organization
Structure determine the size of the organization
Vision determine the direction of the organization
Leadership determine the success of the organization
"EVERYTHINGS RISES AND FALLS ON LEADERSHIP."
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