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1. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change Critical to Organizational and Individual Success
2. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change I - Trust
Most Important Trait
Trust Subordinates
Trust Yourself
Trust is the highest form of human motivation
3. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change Genuine leaders engender trust
Long Term view
Motives are pure
See people as trustworthy
Understand your role
Tell the truth w/feelings
4. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough”
---Frank Crane
5. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change II - Positive Can-Do Attitude
Energetic
Not Fake
Infectious
Honest
6. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) is normally a result of confidence and self-awareness
How would you assess your PMA?
7. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change “Life is TOUGH. It’s tougher if you’re stupid”
--John Wayne
8. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change III - Be a Good Teacher
Teachership and Leadership together
Teach carefully
Share insights and experiences
Major and Joey - Tball
9. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change “Leader’s teach. Teaching and leading are distinguishable occupations, but every great leader teaches--- and every great teacher is leading.”
---John W. Gardner
On Leadership
10. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change “We cannot solve the problems we face today at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them”
--Albert Einstein
11. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change IV. Don’t Solve All The Problems
Facilitate Problem Solving - Subordinates
Praise/Provide Resources
Monitor and Teach
12. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change Empowerment
Delegation
Mentoring
Coaching
Performance Counseling
Supporting
Shepherd/Sheep Dog
13. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will inspire you with their ingenuity”
--George Patton
14. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change V. Begin Each Day With the End in Sight
The Funeral
Friend, Co-Worker, Family, Community
What do you want them to say?
15. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
---Eleanor Roosevelt
What will be your legacy?
Grandfather and death
16. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change VI. Seek First to Understand, Then be Understood, You don’t have to agree
Active Listening
Gender
Race
Generational
17. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change Beware of your own stereotypes
Education
Words/definitions 500/15,000
Feedback is critical
Multiple Intelligences - Gardner
18. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change Empowerment is the art of setting a person up for success not failure. It is the result of training, caring and mentoring.
Adult, Adolescent, Child
19. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change VII. Prioritize Actions
Time Management
First Things First
Use “Open Time”
Avoid Information Overload
20. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change Three biggest time wasters – email, telephone and meetings
Avoid subordinate supervision
Focus your organizational priorities
Beware the In-Box
21. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change VIII. Live the “Golden Rule”
Live the Example
MBWA
Take care of your people
Praise/Reward
22. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change “All human beings have their weaknesses, but not all of us recognize them.”
---Donald T. Phillips
Lincoln on Leadership
Praising is positive reinforcement for individual/team
23. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change “He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it”
-- Pierce Chapron
24. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change IX - Search out Win-Win Situations
Small wins
Clear Standards
Organizational Goals before Personal
25. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change You must be ethically correct
Ethics are the rules or standards of conduct governing the members of a profession
If you think it is wrong...
26. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change X. Develop Yourself
Spiritually
Mentally
Physically
Social/Emotional
Continually Evaluate/Renew
27. 10 Commandments of Leadership & Leading Change “You can’t teach a pig to sing. First, pigs can’t sing and you make the pigs mad”
“You will never get the creek to clear up until you get the pigs out of it”
--Grandma McGuire