The Leadership Challenge

Clarify Values

Find Your Voice

Explore inner territory
(know your values)

Values are a moral compass
(guiding, empowering, motivating)

Personal Values Clarity
(more important in attitude about work
than is clarity about organizational values)

Say it in your own words

Affirm Shared Values

Build and affirm a community
of shared values

Shared values make a difference in
work attitudes and performance

Successful companies have
different values

Set the Example

Personify the Shared Values

Teach Others to Model the Values

Search for Opportunities

Seize the initiative

Exercise outsight

Experiment and Take Risks

Get extraordinary thingsdone through people

Leaders unite and ignite us

Meeting the leadership challenge requires the WILL and WAY to lead

We have to liberate the leader inevery one, not a few

Leaders make the difference andleave a legacy

Envision the Future

Imagine the Possibilities

Find a Common Purpose

Enlist Others

Animate the Vision

Use symbolic language(metaphors, examples, stories, quotations)

Make images of the future(create word pictures in the mins)

Practice positive communication(positive, confident, can-do approach)

Express your emotions(makes things more memorable)

Speak from the heart(genuineness)

Appeal to Common Ideals

Connect to what's meaningful to others

Take pride in being unique

Align your dream with the people's dream

Take Action

Record your shared vision(write your ideal and unique imageof the future for yourself and foryour organization)

Breathe life into your vision(use as many forms of expression totransform the vision's intangibles intotangibles)

Expand your communication and expressiveness skills(let your emotions show - smile, gestures, eye contact)

Attributes

Honest

Forward looking

Inspiring

Competent

Kouzes-Posner Law of Leadership

1st Law
"if you don't believe in the messenger,
you won't believe the message"

2nd Law
"Do what you say you will do"