Categories: All - vision - legacy - leadership - values

by Cheok Kau Khoo 12 years ago

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Central topic

Effective leadership demands a blend of vision, communication, and shared values. Leaders are expected to set an example by embodying the values they wish to see in their teams, which involves not only teaching these values but also living them out.

Central topic

The Leadership Challenge

Credibility

Kouzes-Posner Law of Leadership
2nd Law "Do what you say you will do"
1st Law "if you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message"
Attributes
Competent
Inspiring
Forward looking
Honest

Enable Others to Act

Inspire a Shared Vision

Take Action
Expand your communication and expressiveness skills(let your emotions show - smile, gestures, eye contact)
Breathe life into your vision(use as many forms of expression totransform the vision's intangibles intotangibles)
Record your shared vision(write your ideal and unique imageof the future for yourself and foryour organization)
Enlist Others
Appeal to Common Ideals

Align your dream with the people's dream

Take pride in being unique

Connect to what's meaningful to others

Animate the Vision

Speak from the heart(genuineness)

Express your emotions(makes things more memorable)

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

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

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

Envision the Future
Find a Common Purpose
Imagine the Possibilities

Leadership

Leaders make the difference andleave a legacy
We have to liberate the leader inevery one, not a few
Meeting the leadership challenge requires the WILL and WAY to lead
Leaders unite and ignite us
Get extraordinary thingsdone through people

Encourage the Heart

Challenge the Process

Experiment and Take Risks
Search for Opportunities
Exercise outsight
Seize the initiative

Model The Way

Set the Example
Teach Others to Model the Values
Personify the Shared Values
Clarify Values
Affirm Shared Values

Successful companies have different values

Shared values make a difference in work attitudes and performance

Build and affirm a community of shared values

Find Your Voice

Say it in your own words

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

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

Explore inner territory (know your values)