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)
