Do you have what it takes to be an Effective Leader?

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Do you have what it takes to be an Effective
Leader?
Science Department Deborah A. Romine Teacher
Leader Professional Development Activity
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Are You a Leader? Motivating
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vZ7O8s6NgAck
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Objectives

• Describe what it is to be a good leader
• Determine whether or not your leadership skills
  are effective for the role you play within the
  classroom, on the field or in administration.
• Outline a list of skills that could be developed
  upon or implemented that would improve your
  current leadership skills.

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Why is this important?

• It is important to how to be a good leader
  whether in the classroom, on the field or in an
  administrative position
• Leaders need to be able to identify with their
  students, players and or faculty members.
• Good leaders need to be able to motivate and
  empower.

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What will we accomplish our goal?

• Understand what it takes to be a good leader.
• Analyze and evaluate your own leadership skills.
• Determine what steps are necessary to become a
  better leader in your particular role within the
  classroom, on the field or within administration.

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What makes a good leader?

• What characteristics go in to being a good
  leader?
• Are you a good leader?
• What kind of leader are you?
• Lets find out!

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Answer the following questions, keeping in mind
what you have done, or think you would do, in the
situation. Answer each question YES or NO.

• 1. DO you enjoy the authority leadership brings?
• 2. Generally, do you think it is worth the time
  and effort for a leader to explain the reasons
  for a decision or policy before putting the
  policy into effect?
• 3. Do you tend to prefer the planning functions
  of leadership, as opposed to working directly
  with the employees?
• 4. A stranger comes into your work area, and you
  know the person is a new employee. Would you
  ask, What is your name? rather than introduce
  yourself?
• 5. Do you keep employees up to-date on a
  regular basis on developments affecting the work
  group?
• 6. Do you find that in giving out assignments,
  you tend to state the goals, leaving the methods
  up to your employees.
• 7. It comes tome to decide about a company
  event. You have heard that the majority prefer
  it on Wednesday, but you are pretty sure Thursday
  would be better for all concerned. Would you put
  the question to a vote rather than make the
  decision yourself?
• 8. If you had your way, would you make
  communication sessions employee-initiated, with
  personal consultations held only at the
  employees request?
• 9. Do you think leaders should keep aloof from
  employees, because in the lone run familiarity
  breeds lessened respect?
• 10. Do you favor the use of audits and
  performance evaluations as a way of keeping work
  standards high?

• 11. Do you feel that you should be friendly with
  employees?
• 12. After considerable time, you determine the
  answer to a tough problem. You pass along the
  solution to your employees, who poke it full of
  holes. Would you be annoyed that the problems is
  still unsolved, rather than become upset with the
  employees?
• 13. Do you agree that one of the best ways to
  avoid problems of discipline is to provide
  adequate punishment for violation of rules?
• 14. your way of handling a situation is being
  criticized by your employees. Would you try to
  sell your viewpoint, rather than make it clear
  that , as supervisor, your decisions are final?
• 15. Do you generally eave it up to your
  employees to contact you, as far as informal, day
  to day communications are concerned?
• 16. Do you feel that everyone in your group
  should have a certain amount of personal loyalty?
• 17. Do you favor the practice of using task
  force teams and committees?
• 18. Some experts say that difference of opinion
  within a work group is healthy others say it
  indicates basic flaws in the management process.
  DO you agree with the first view?

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Scoring Place a checkmark next to each question you answered yes. Add the check marks for each column to find the totals for the leadership style you prefer.
Directive Participative Free - Rein
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18.
Total Total Total
Interpretation Your highest score indicates your preferred leadership style. What does it mean?
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Directive Style Participative Style Free- Rein Style
Max Use of Authority Maximum Area of Freedom of Followers
Leader decides what is to be done Presents decisions Allows no questions No opposing views Leader attempts to convince followers of rightness of decisions Leader-Centered Decision Making Leader announces principles Sets forth decision making BUT Allows questions, ideas, discussions from followers Leader presents problems and ASKS followers ideas BUT makes final decisions based on input Leaders and Followers Share Decision Making Leader presents problem with boundaries Followers make final decisions Followers have as much freedom as leader has to define problem and make decision Follow-Centered Decision Making
Range of Behavior
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Participative Style
Free-Rein Style
Directive Style
Leader
Leader
Leader
Leader
Leader
Leader
Follower Emphasis
Work Group Emphasis
Leader Emphasis
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What does this mean?

• Are you a take charge kind of person or are you
  able to give up control and become more of a
  moderator and allow your team to take the lead?
• Is your leader / follower team compatible?
• These are important questions to find answers to
  in order for a team, department, faculty or
  community to become successful.

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Key points to remember

• Preferred Learning styles
• Developed over time
• Learned from others
• Modeled
• Formal training
• Personal Experience
• Leading style usually mirrors the following style
• If they conflict, patience needed with decision
  making, goal setting and communication
• Success has been found at all ends of the
  spectrum
• Thomas Jefferson (Participative)
• Dwight Eisenhower (Free-Rein)
• Elizabeth I (Directive)
• No one universal style of leadership
• Depends on the employees

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Old vs. New

• Leaders today need to empower, inspire and
  motivate their teams
• They need to be able to move away from orders,
  managing, implementing plans and doing things
  right
• Its more important to do the right thinga good
  leader knows the difference!

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Key to Good Leadership

• How do we get there from here?

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Helpful
Harmful
Weaknesses negative characteristics current
Leadership
Strengths positives characteristics of current
Leadership
Internal
SWOT
Opportunities List opportunities for Leadership
Threats List potential threats for / to
Leadership
External
SWOT Analysis
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What did we find out about our current leadership?
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The Basic Keys to Good Leadership

• Vision
• Awareness
• Integrity
• Influence

• Attitude
• Evolving
• Learning
• Connecting
• Empowering Others

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Vision

• Do you know where you are going to go?
• Establish realistic goals
• Is it clear to yourself and those that follow?
• Does the vision motivate / inspire your
  followers?
• There has to be buy-in from the community in
  order to be successful
• Are these the right goals?
• Know how to determine what is best for the
  community or where or who to turn to find the
  answers
• Good leaders know their limitations
• Is this the right time?
• Are we headed in the right direction?

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Vision v. Mission

• Differentiate the two
• Vision What you want or where you want to be
• Mission How you plan on getting where you want
  to be

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Awareness and Connection

• How aware are you of what is going on in your
  community?
• Your followers, students players should be
  encouraged, motivated
• They should have a sense of belonging or
  purpose
• Be aware of your own strengths and limitations
• Delegate if and when it becomes necessary
• Do you know what the needs and wants of your
  community are versus what they likes and
  dislikes?
• There is a difference between wanting something
  and needing something
• Leaders differentiate

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Awareness and Connection cont.

• Communicate sincerely with your community
• Open door
• Dictatorship?
• Is there a sense of belonging among your
  community members?
• Listen to your community
• Feedback is important
• Is feedback well received or encouraged?
• Are your followers afraid to speak openly?

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• Lets take a minuteput your head down and answer
  the following questions by a show of hands
• How many are still passionate about their jobs?
• How many feel inspired by their leaders?
• How many feel like you are encouraged for
  advancement?
• Lets take a look at the following from Ken
  Blanchardinteresting statistics in the first
  clip!

http//www.youtube.com/user/KenBlanchardCos?featur
ewatch
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vo3piSk1j668
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Integrity

• No integrityno trust
• Trust builds respect
• Respect to loyalty and loyalty to action among
  the community
• This is from the top to the bottom and the bottom
  to the top

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Ten Leadership QualitiesHow do I (You)
Rate?Score each trait on a scale of 1 10 1
low, 10 high.

• 1. vision
• 2. ability
• 3. enthusiasm
• 4. stability
• 5. concern for others

• 6. self-confidence
• 7. persistence
• 8. vitality
• 9. charisma
• 10. integrity

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Results
SCORE EVALUATION
100 - 90 Excellent exceptional
89 80 High very good
79 70 Average needs improvement
69 60 Low much work needed
59 and below Deficient poor
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Influence and Attitude

• A good leader is able to motivate followers and
  influence them to want to follow
• How is this accomplished?
• Do you know when you are negatively affecting
  your community?
• Need a positive spin
• Attitude should reflect positively on the
  situation
• Do you act or react to a situation?
• Learn to listen, wait and then speak

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Evolving / Learning

• Positive reinforcement strengthens morale
• Be able to recognize the need for change DESPITE
  the fact it goes against tradition
• Good leaders do not know everything and are able
  to recognize the constant need to empower
  themselves with knowledge
• How does your personality enable or hinder your
  leadership abilities?
• Interpersonal Style Questionnaire
• Take about 15 minutes to read and answer the
• questionnaire. Score your responses and
  determine what type of interpersonal
  communication best suits you.

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How accurate were your findings?

• Traditional (T)
• High standards
• Tradition
• Participative (P)
• Care about people
• Serve others
• Individualistic (I)
• Love freedom
• Independent

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Would it not be best to have a combination from
all three to be the most effective leader
possible?
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Empower Others

• Probably the most important
• Builds our strength
• Build confidence in team members
• Enable them to lead
• Find their strengths and capitalize on them
• Enable the them to grow

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Is there need for empowerment in your community?

• Answer the following
• Do people seem uninterested in their work?
• Are absenteeism or turnover rates too high?
• Do people lack loyalty and team spirit?
• Is there a lack of communication among
  individuals and groups?
• Is there a low level of pride?
• Are costs too high as a result of waste and
  efficiency?
• Does the quality of product or quality of service
  need improvement?

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If the answer was yes to any of the previous
questionsempowerment of your community can help!
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How do we Empower?

• Trust the people you work with and that work for
  you
• Invest in your peoplethey are the lifeline of
  the community
• Recognize accomplishments dont just point out
  when mistakes are made
• Delegate responsibility for decision making to
  those affected most by the decisions
• Model the fact that working together accomplishes
  more
• Communication is key!

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Example of a Good Leader
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Assessment

• How is Principal Dawson exemplifying good
  leadership qualities? List and Explain.
• How could she improve her leadership skills?

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Final Thoughts, Questions and Comments