Team Building & Leadership

1. Team Building & Leadership Pesewa Presentations

2. 12 Principles of Team Building & Leadership - Di Kamp • Be a Role Model • Be Self Aware • Be a Learner • Delight in Change • Be a Visionary • Have full awareness of current reality • Keep a high standard of ethics and values • Maintain Systemic Thinking • Communicate Well • Think Positively • Have Enthusiasm • Be Real

3. Be a Role Model • People take more notice of what you do than what you tell them to do • Practise what you preach in everyday behaviour • How you are has the greatest influence on how others are • Example: Richard Branson & Fun

4. Be Self Aware • Work from the inside out • Manage yourself before you manage others • Be aware of your temperament • Recognize your own strengths and weaknesses • Know how to bring out the best in yourself

5. Be a Learner • Recognize that you are continually learning and developing • Don’t pretend to know it all • Be open to different ideas • “Seek out surprises, relish the unpredictable” – Margaret Wheatley

6. Delight in Change • Work with change, not resist it • Change is the only constant in the future • Look for Change • “Leadership is learning to love change” – Tom Peters

7. Be a Visionary • Having a clear vision of where you are going provides a framework for change • Always keep an ideal picture in mind • Example: Bill Gates & Microsoft

8. Have full awareness of current reality • Have a double vision • To successfully work towards an ideal, you need to be very clear about where you are now • “Creative Tension” – The tension between current reality and the ideal that can produce active development • Don’t Perceive the Gap as a reason to lower your goals

9. Keep a high standard of ethics and values • Clarify for yourself a high standard of ethics and values • This is the driving force for shaping your approach to leadership • Integrity should be first in your checklist of qualities and skills for leadership

10. Maintain Systemic Thinking • Develop a different way of thinking • Systemic thinking means being aware of how processes work • Separate causes from symptoms • This level of thinking takes aware the blame game • The system makes the people • Gives a longer-term perspective

11. Communicate Well • Doesn’t mean making slick presentations • It means building relationships with others • Convey your message clearly and congruently in ways others can understand • Show genuine interest or concern • If said with feeling the message gets through, even if you are not terribly accurate

12. Think Positively • Have a positive view of things • It is easy to get caught in negative thinking – it seems to make you look better • The Leader looks at what is possible, rather than the constraints • Believes that things can change for the better and finds ways of making it happen • Have a sense of humour • Keep things in perspective even when they don’t go according to plan

13. Have Enthusiasm • “Enthusiastic” originally meant “having God within” • It is endearing and infectious • Have a genuine belief in what you are doing or saying, and a genuine will to make it successful • Enthusiasm engages others at an emotional level rather than an intellectual level • This is what makes the difference between most leaders

14. Be Real • You do not need to develop this characteristic! • You are already You!! • Recognise that none of us is perfect and have some fun with it • You have a unique permutation of qualities that make who you are • Don’t put up a front