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Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI). The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI). 5 practices and commitments associated with LPI: Challenging the process Inspiring a shared vision Enabling others to act Modeling the way Encouraging the heart. Practice 1: Challenging the Process.
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The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) 5 practices and commitments associated with LPI: • Challenging the process • Inspiring a shared vision • Enabling others to act • Modeling the way • Encouraging the heart
Practice 1: Challenging the Process • Search for opportunities to change the status quo and improve an organization. • Experiment and take risks. • Continually learn from mistakes and failures.
Practice 2: Inspiring a Shared Vision • Believe you can make a difference. • Envision the future. • Be enthusiastic and passionate about your vision. • Create an ideal and unique image of what the organization can become. • Enlist others in your dreams.
Practice 3: Enabling Others to Act • Foster collaboration and build spirited teams. • Actively involve others. • Share power and provide choice. • Promote shared goals. • Cultivate accountability and ownership for achievements. • Strive to create an atmosphere of trust, respect, and human dignity.
Practice 4: Modeling the Way • Establish principles concerning the way people should be treated and the way goals should be pursued. • Create standards of excellence and set an example for others to follow. • Set interim goals so that people can achieve small wins as they work toward larger objectives. • Try to eliminate or reduce bureaucracy when it interferes with getting work done.
Practice 5: Encouraging the Heart • Recognize contributions that individuals make (thank-you notes, smiles, awards, public praise). • Visibly celebrate team accomplishments. • Make people feel like heroes.
The LPI The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), Self Instrument (3rd Edition) • 30-item self-test developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner • Approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors
The LPI • Score yourself using the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) Self Instrument. • Use scale of 1-10 explained on Inventory. • Transfer your scores to the Response Sheet. The scores in each column represent your responses to six statements about each of the five leadership practices. • The score for each practice can range from a high of 60 to a low of 6. • Your scores are private and will remain so unless you wish to share them.
Scoring • Column 1: Modeling the Way • Column 2: Inspiring a Vision • Column 3: Challenging the Process • Column 4: Enabling Others to Act • Column 5: Encourage the Heart
GROUP ACTIVITY • Choose a leadership practice. • Brainstorm strategies for developing the practice. • Present to the large group.
Challenging the Process • Take risks and honor others who do. • Question the way things are done and suggest new systems and procedures. • Treat each assignment as a chance to make things change for the better in an organization. • Find something broken and fix it.
Inspiring a Shared Vision • Know others- enlist their support by appealing to their values, interests, hopes and dreams. • Orient your thinking to the future. • Hold an image of the end result. • Create a succinct statement or presentation about what you are trying to accomplish.
Enabling Others to Act • Always say “we.” • Delegate to others and help them succeed. • Involve people in planning and problem solving. • Build up others. • Create a climate of trust. • Share information and power. • Focus on gains rather than losses.
Modeling the Way • Lead others where you are also willing to go. • Know your own basic set of values and talk to people about them. • Do what you say you are going to do. • Walk the halls. • Encourage ethical behavior. • Establish norms about hard work and caring. • Decrease job stress and tension.
Encouraging the Heart • Say “thank you.” • Celebrate team accomplishments. • Install a systematic process to reward performance. • Be creative about rewards. • Make recognition public. • Look for people doing something right.
Leading From Within • It takes courage to examine one’s inner life. • LPI is one way to expand self-examination and growth. • The journey is downward and inward.
"To manage yourself, use your head; to manage others, use your heart." -African Proverb