The Art of Leadership

Leadership:a Subject

Loeb M, Kindel S. Leadership For Dummies. For Dummies; 1999.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Leadership:a Subject

What are the skills of a leader?

Decision-makingDirection SettingArbitration & MediationFacilitatingCheerleading

Skills as a leader

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…..

-Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Harnessing your Strengths & Weaknesses

Keeping Your BalanceCooperatingListeningPlacing Others above Yourself

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there. Where it most promises.

-William Shakespeare

Expectations

Mapping out your expectations

• Believing in your vision• Accepting your goals as realistic and doable• Believing in you mission and collective goals• Coming to you for leadership, motivation, and encouragement• Working as a team• Cooperating to accomplish the goal• Informing your team of resources• Being accountable and not blaming each other

Understanding the team expectations

• Having intelligence• Communicating thoughts and ideas well• Having a drive to succeed• Demonstrating a sense of urgency about the mission• Being intellectually honest and rigorous• Exercising good judgment• Being dependable and consistent• Creating an atmosphere of trust• Creating a learning environment• Looking for common ground

Living up to expectations of superiors

• Establishing goals and missions quickly• Marshalling your resources to the maximum benefit• Keeping senior management from being surprised• Building an effective team that can operate without you

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the trace of genius, can deal with successfully.

-Walter Lippmann

Axioms of Leadership

What Leaders Do

• Leaders provide a check and balance on managers• Use common sense• Hang your goals on the wall• Make a contract with your team• Keep the task simple and obvious• Change your criteria for selecting managers• Focus on people, not on systems• Take the long view• Break goals down to a manageable size• Never miss an opportunity to rethink• Every enterprise stands on its own• Renovate before you innovate• Continuous Improvement isn’t just for products

How Leaders Do It

• Timing is everything• Focus on vision and goals

Managing as a Leader

Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify.

-Henry David Thoreau

Managing as a Leader

Know how to delegateKnow what to delegateSettle disputes

Set reasonable goals

Allow the team to find its own path

Leading When You Aren’t Really the Leader

Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

-The Way of Lao-tzu

• Improve even the simplest things• Use information to build team spirit• Always ask on behalf of the group, never for yourself• Get your group involved in the community• Get a logo• Don’t pick fights with your bosses

Leading as a follower

• Rally the troops• Follow the money• Pick a short-term goal• Know when events are beyond your control

Leading when the Cause is Doomed

The Art of Leadership

Buzzer words: Caterpillar, green, red

works of art

Leader the only one that can look inside the folder, can only speak to the communications team Artist re-creates

what is in the folder based on the information given by communications

Resource manager in charge of resources, can only talk to courier

Courier the only one that can talk to the resource manager, deliver resources to and from artist, can only move by hopping on 1 foot

Communication(s) relay information between leader & artist, if there are 2 they must take turns, can speak to courier, but can’t speak to resource manager

Non follower buzz the leader each time they say a Buzz word and distract the courier, and keep count of buzzes

Buzzer words: Planet, Sun, Space

Buzzer words: House, Mom, Dad, sun

Buzzer words: Frog, lily, pad, green

Buzzer words: Snow, man, cold, winter

Buzzer words: tree, flower, grass

Buzzer words: Octopus, fish, under, water

Challenges or obstaclesSkills for successesThinking outside the box

The Art of Leadership

Works of Art debrief

The Art of Leadership

Leadership:a Subject

Loeb M, Kindel S. Leadership For Dummies. For Dummies; 1999.