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The Tools for Developing a Leadership Legacy September 25, 2009 Dot Counts-Scoggins Lisa Shporer

The Tools for Developing a Leadership Legacy September 25, 2009 Dot Counts-Scoggins Lisa Shporer. Agenda. Traits of Leaders Defining Leadership within Diversity Leadership Styles Leadership Skills and Competencies Leadership Success Listening to Improve Impactful Messages Action Plans.

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The Tools for Developing a Leadership Legacy September 25, 2009 Dot Counts-Scoggins Lisa Shporer

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  1. The Tools for Developing a Leadership Legacy September 25, 2009 Dot Counts-Scoggins Lisa Shporer

  2. Agenda • Traits of Leaders • Defining Leadership within Diversity • Leadership Styles • Leadership Skills and Competencies • Leadership Success • Listening to Improve Impactful Messages • Action Plans

  3. Traits of Leaders • What traits does a leader possess? • What traits do you possess? • What traits would you like to develop over the next year? “You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.” ~ Sidney A. Friedman

  4. Defining Leadership • What is your definition of leadership? • How does diversity impact your definition? • Take a few minutes to reflect then write your personal definition in your journal. “Six Traits of Effective Leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action” – Christian Nevell Bovee

  5. Autocratic Leadership Bureaucratic Leadership Charismatic Leadership Participative Leadership Laissez-Faire Leadership Servant Leadership Task Oriented Leadership Transactual Leadership Transformation Leadership Situational Leadership People Oriented Leadership Leadership Styles The Pareto Principle 20% of your priorities will give you 80% of your production, IF You spend your time, energy, money, and personnel on the top 20 % of your priorities.

  6. Facilitative Leadership • Models of Traditional Leadership and Facilitative Leadership. • How do the models differ in the organizational components? "Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things." -~Peter F. Drucker

  7. Listening Skills • Find a partner & decide who will go first. • The first person will speak for 4 minutes about why they want to participate in this project. The other partner may not speak at all. After time is called switch. • Debrief “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~ Winston Churchill

  8. Barriers to Effective Listening • Listening without becoming defensive • Listen without interrupting • Listen without judging • Listen without over-relating • Listen without discounting • Listen without trying to solve the problem for the other person

  9. Rules of Success by Dale Carnegie 1. Evaluate what is important in your life and what you would like to see improved. 2. Write your goals down. When you write them down, you can look at them every day and remind yourself of what you are trying to accomplish. 3. Make goals realistic. 4. Make goals timely. This will push you to do your best to reach them. 5. Stick with it! We oftentimes lose interest or motivation when working towards a goal. It is important to remember that long-term goals are not achieved overnight.

  10. Leadership Skills and Competencies Neugebaur,R. (1985) Are you an effective leader? Child Care Exchange, p 25. Developed by Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

  11. 7 Secrets of Leadership Success • Leadership is about making things happen. • Listen and understand the issue, then lead. • Answer three questions everyone within your organization wants answers to. • Master the goals that will allow you to work. anywhere in today’s dynamic business world. • Be curious. • Listen to both sides of the argument. • Prepare, prepare, prepare. Paul B. Thornton is President of Be the Leader Associates and author of seven books on management and leadership. His latest book, Leadership: Best Advice I Ever Got,

  12. Action Plan “Effective leaders motivate people, Not by the answers they give, But rather by the questions they ask.”

  13. Questions • Contact Information: • Dot Counts-Scoggins: 704.376.6697 x 117 dcounts-scoggins@childcareresourcesinc.org • Lisa Shporer: 704.376.6697 x 132 lshporer@childcareresourcesinc.org Child Care Resources Inc. 4601 Park Road Suite 500 Charlotte, NC 29208

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