Leadership 101

1. Leadership 101 Dr. John C. Maxwell

2. Why Should I Grow as a Leader? The higher the leadership, the greater the effectiveness.

3. To Change the Direction of the Organization, Change the Leader

4. How Can I Grow as a Leader? Leadership develops daily, not in a day.

5. Phases of Leadership Growth • I don’t know what I don’t know. • I know what I don’t know. • I grow and I know, and it starts to show. • I simply go because of what I know.

6. Successful leaders are learners, and the learning process is ongoing. A result of self-discipline and perseverance.

7. How Can I Become Disciplined? The first person you lead is you.

8. No matter how gifted a leader is, his gifts will never reach their maximum potential without the application of self-discipline.

9. A Disciplined Direction • Challenge your excuses. • Remove rewards until the job is done. • Stay focused on results.

10. How Should I Prioritize My Life? The discipline to prioritize and the ability to work toward a stated goal are essential to a leader’s success.

11. Increasing Organizational Productivity • Organize or agonize. • Choose or lose. • Evaluate or stalemate.

12. Prioritize Assignments • High Importance – High Urgency • High Importance – Low Urgency • Low Importance – High Urgency • Low Importance – Low Urgency

13. Developing a Priority Process • What is required of me? • What gives me the greatest return? • What is most rewarding?

14. Keeping Priorities in Place • Evaluate – Review requirements, return, reward. • Eliminate – What am I doing that can be done by someone else? • Estimate – What are the top projects you are doing this month and how long will they take?

15. Priority Principles • Priorities never “stay put.” • You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. • The good is the enemy of the best. • Too many priorities paralyze us.

16. Priority Principles • When little priorities demand too much of us, big problems arise. • Time deadlines & emergencies force us to prioritize. • Too often we learn too late what is really important.

17. Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

18. Deciding Between Two Good Options • Ask overseer and coworkers for their preferences. • Can one option be handled by someone else? Then, pass it on. • Which option benefits the customer more? • Decide based on the mission of the organization.

19. How Do I Develop Trust? Trust is the foundation of leadership.

20. Character Communicates • Character communicates consistency. • Character communicates potential. • Character communicates respect.

21. How Can I Effectively Cast Vision? You can seize only what you can see.

22. Getting a Handle on Vision • Vision starts within. • Vision draws on your history. • Vision meets others’ needs. • Vision helps you gather resources.

23. Focus on Listening • The inner voice. • The unhappy voice. • The successful voice. • The higher voice.

24. Why is Influence Important? The true measure of leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.

25. Five Myths About Leadership • The Management Myth • The Entrepreneur Myth • The Knowledge Myth • The Pioneer Myth • The Position Myth

26. He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

27. How Does Influence Work? Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

28. Levels of Leadership • Position – People follow because they have to • Permission – People follow because they want to. • Production – People follow because of what you have done for the organization. • People Development – People follow for what you have done for them. • Personhood – People follow because of who you are and what you represent.

29. Climbing the Steps of Leadership • The higher you go, the longer it takes. • The higher you go, the higher the level of commitment. • The higher you go, the easier it is to lead. • The higher you go, the greater the growth. • You never leave the base level.

30. Climbing the Steps of Leadership • If you are leading a group of people, you will not be on the same level with everyone. • For your leadership to remain effective, it is essential that you take the other influencers within the group with you to the higher levels. • You must know what level you are on at this moment.

31. How Can I Extend My Influence? The act of empowering others changes lives.

32. Qualifications of an Empowerer • Position • Relationship • Respect • Commitment

33. How to Empower Others • Evaluate them. • Model for them. • Give them permission to succeed. • Transfer authority to them.

34. How to Empower Others • Publicly show your confidence in them. • Supply them with feedback. • Release them to continue on their own.

35. How Can I Make My Leadership Last? A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.

36. Leaving a Legacy of Succession • Lead the organization with a “long view.” • Create a leadership culture. • Pay the price today to assure success tomorrow. • Value team leadership above individual leadership. • Walk away from the organization with integrity.