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Introduction

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What makes for a great leader?

Is it something to do with inward

characteristics?

Is it more about outward presence?

Is it about the ability to create a

vision and get others to commit to it?

The answer is all of the above.

By accepting the challenge to lead,

you come to realize that

The only limits are those you place on yourself.

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Introduction

The leader innovates whereas

the manager administers

The leader inspires trust

whereas the manager relies on

control

The leader asks "what" and

"why," whereas the manager

asks "how" and "when.

The Role of A Leader

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Managers Leaders

Managers have employees.

Managers react to change

Managers have good ideas.

Managers communicate.

Managers direct groups

Managers try to be heroes

Managers take credit.

Managers are focused.

Managers exercise

power over people.

Leaders win followers.

Leaders create change.

Leaders implement them.

Leaders persuade.

Leaders create teams.

Leaders make heroes of everyone

around them

Leaders take responsibility.

Leaders create shared focus.

Leaders develop power with people.

Although the two roles may be similar,

The best managers are also leaders

Leaders Versus Managers

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The Learning Organization

What is a Learning

Organization?

The heart of leadership is learning

leadership and teaching it to others

to become leaders.

Peter Senge, “The Fifth Discipline,”

a picture of an organization

where all employees

are committed to lifelong learning

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The Fifth Disciplines

1. Personal Mastery

2. Mental Model

3. Shared Vision

4. Team Learning

5. Systems Thinking

Team Disciplines

IndividualDisciplines

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1. Personal Mastery

Own development,

Own journey for learning,

Ability to work with the forces around us.

we have a vision of where we want to go,

recognize the realities of where we are right now,

making a commitment to work toward that vision.

The Fifth Disciplines

Vision Learn Master

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The Fifth Disciplines

2. Mental Models

Why two people can observe the same event

and describe it differently;

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The Fifth Disciplines

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The Fifth Disciplines

2. Mental Models

The steps of assumption

Our beliefs are the truth.

The truth is obvious.

Our beliefs are based on real data.

The data we select are the real data.

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The Fifth Disciplines

3. Shared Vision

Leaders cannot command commitment;

they can only inspire it.

Leadership is a dialogue, not a

monologue.

Shared vision is a vehicle for building a

sense of commitment in a group,

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4. Team Learning

A groups of people

can develop greater skill

than that of any one individual

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5. System Thinking

Systems thinking are a framework based on the belief that the

component parts of a system can best be understood in the

context of relationships with each other & with other systems,

rather than in isolation

The Fifth Disciplines

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