Turning Students Into Leaders

2009 Annual Concept Schools Conference

Are leaders born or made?

QUESTION:

10 the top

skills Future Leaders (Your Current Students) Will

Need To Possess

10. Taking risks.

“Leadership is going first in a new direction—and being followed.”

Robert Galvin

“Why won’t my employees take any initiative?”

Common Issue

Helicopter Parents

Why are manhole covers round?

9. Failing

If you are not failing, you are probably not taking enough risks.

Individuals who take failures personally

have an exaggerated sense of their own

incompetence. They view taking initiative as futile since they expect to fail.

celebrate failure

“Say what?”

Celebrations provide people with a safe forum for them to acknowledge their failures, making the analysis of what went wrong less threatening.

“We have a culture that allows people to say, ‘It was my fault and here’s what I’ll do differently next time.’”

Michelle Peluso, CEO of Travelocity

8. Speaking multiple

languages

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Silent Generation 1925 - 1945

Baby Boomers 1946 - 1964

Generation X 1965 - 1980

Generation Y 1981 - 2000

One out of four human resource professionals report witnessing intergenerational conflicts among workers.

Source: Society for Human Resource Management

Two-thirds of Generation Yers say they have little or no weekly interaction with members of the Silent Generation at work.

Source: Randstad, 2008 World of Work Survey

7. Working in spurts

workfragmentation

11min. 4 sec. The average length of time

we work on a task before being interrupted

SOURCE: Gloria Mark, Victor M. Gonzalez, & Justin Harris “No Task Left Behind? Examining the Nature of Fragmented Work”

On average, it takes more than 25 minutes to resume what we were doing before being interrupted.

SOURCE: Gloria Mark, Victor M. Gonzalez, & Justin Harris “No Task Left Behind? Examining the Nature of Fragmented Work”

“Engaging in multiple activities appears to be

related to the scope of work; as the scope increases so

does multi-tasking.”

Mark, Gonzalez, and Harris

Managers experience 50 percent more external

interruptions than their employees do.

Mark, Gonzalez, and Harris

6. Sharing knowledge.

Wally who?

Giving away our authority is a personal challenge. It involves

sharing influence, prestige, and applause, while forcing us to deal with our personal

insecurities.

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A basic function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more

followers.

Ralph Nader

5. Pursuing mastery.

“The class of 2007 is the first in Ohio which must pass

all five Ohio Graduation Test sections to receive a diploma.” The Blade, May 22, 2007

achieve greatness in the

When we force people to strive for proficiency in everything, we miss the opportunity for them to

one area where they may, indeed, achieve just that.

strivingforimprovement, most of us do the same thing: we take our strengths for granted, and concentrate all our efforts on conquering our weaknesses

Not surprisingly,

the vast majority of organizations appear to believe that the best way for individuals to grow is to

eliminate their weaknesses.

Identifying each person’s strongest talents permits everyone the opportunity

to contribute what they do

BEST.

4. Seeing the Cathedral

The first stonemason replies:

The second stonemason replies:

Old story: Two stonemasons are working on the same project. An observer asks, “What are you doing?”

“I’m cutting stone.”

“I’m building a great cathedral.”

“The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.”

Dr. Kent M. Keith Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments

We often describe children as having wild or active imaginations. The best leaders never outgrow their imaginative gift.

3. Keeping hope alive.

Defy the verdict!

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those

who cannot read and write, but those

who cannot learn, unlearn, and

relearn.”

Alvin Toffler

TWO: Resolving conflict.

con.flict (kón flikt) a disagreement in which those involved perceive a threat to their needs, interests, or happiness.

Conflicts are natural occurrences within the workplace, so clashes and disagreements

are predictable.

Eric and Rhonda are in the kitchen. There is only one

orange left and both of them

want it.

What’s the best solution?

“Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood”

-Stephen Covey

#1 Proving credibility.

PERCENT

Less than half of all U.S.

employees trust their senior

leaders.

49

Source: Watson Wyatt’s WorkUSA 2006/2007 Survey

“In corporate America, crime pays. Handsomely. Grotesquely, even.” Arianna Huffington Pigs at the Trough

“ KOUZES & POSNER The Leadership Challenge

WHAT WE FOUND IN OUR INVESTIGATION OF ADMIRED LEADERSHIP QUALITIES IS THAT MORE THAN ANYTHING, PEOPLE WANT TO FOLLOW LEADERS WHO ARE CREDIBLE. ”

“Credibility is the foundation on which leaders and constituents will build the grand dreams of the future.”

Kouzes & Posner

DWYSYWD

“Leaders grow; they are not made.” Peter Drucker

Grow some of your own!

Turning Students Into Leaders

2009 Annual Concept Schools Conference