Leading Today, Transforming Tomorrow: Cultivating the Leader Within

1. Leading Today, Transforming Tomorrow: Cultivating the Leader Within Nikki Russell Volunteer Initiatives Manager United Way of King County

2. Explorations of Leadership • Exploring our identity in the 21st Century • Understanding leadership • Appreciating leadership role • Cultivating the leader within

3. What’s In a Name Volunteer Coordinator? Volunteer Manager? Volunteer Resource Manager?

4. Defining the Role of the VRM What is our role in the nonprofit/ public sector?

5. An Image of Ourselves

6. Today Yesterday Greater variety Greater sophistication Increased liability More people volunteering High Expectations partner Fewer Opportunities Simple Tasks Liability not a concern People volunteering more time Low Expectations subordinate Volunteering Today

7. Collective Volunteering Collective action through membership in nonprofits, clubs, churches, etc. Reflexive Volunteering Reflexive (self-referential) action, based on individual interests, motivations and needs. Hustinx and Lammertyn, 2003 From Collective to Reflexive Volunteering…

8. Then Now Management Recruitment Placement Supervision Performance Review Recognition Engagement Cultivation Negotiation Support Performance Measurement Acknowledgement What Are the Implications?

9. Shifting Our Paradigm

10. Redefining Your Role Small Group Exercise: Shifting Our Paradigm Come up with a 21st Century title and description of the “volunteer program manager”

11. Leaders of Volunteer Engagement we lead the way to effective 21st Century volunteer involvement

12. Leadership Vs Management What is the different between our role as managers and our role as leaders? Is there a difference?

13. Our Role as Managers • Managing tasks and people assigned to those tasks • Processing and Monitoring Information • Monitoring Internal and External Environments • Allocating resources according to the goals of the organization

14. Our Role as Leaders Organizational Leadership: The ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members

15. Leadership Vs. Management Complementary but different

16. The Ability to Influence Suggests Power What Kind of Power?

17. Exploring Leadership Leadership: a form of social power The ability to influencepeople in favorable ways to engage in behaviors they would not probably do on their own (in the absence of a leader)

18. Types of Power • Positional Power Derives from hierarchical position or professional designation. • Personal Power Associated with the characteristics of individuals rather than the characteristics of the position occupied

19. Sources of Power Positional: • Legitimate (decision-making power tied to position) • Reward (ability to define salary and benefits) • Coercive (ability to penalize) • Informative (controlling the diffusion of information) Personal: • Expert Power (perception of knowledge) • Referent power (affection or admiration)

20. Power and Leadership Positional power is about compliance Management predominately employs positional power Personal power engenders commitment through influence Leadership = the ability to influence people in favorable ways.

21. Leadership Implies Trust and Relationship Leaders require followers who trust and accept the full influence of leaders This is different from subordinate: Someone who occupies a specific hierarchical position in the organization who may or may not be under the influence of a leader

22. Our Role As Leaders… To help staff and volunteers understand… • the central goals of the organization, • how the actions of volunteers contribute to such objectives, and • what individual and collective benefits result from volunteer engagement

23. As Leaders of Volunteer Engagement We Build Organizational: • Commitment • Capacity • Competency Betty Stallings’ Thoughts on the Position of the Leader of Volunteer Engagement

24. Effective Leaders Build trust and commitment by… • fostering self-efficacy and providing the means for successful attainment of performance • clarifying the linkage between performance and individual and collective reward

25. A New Image of Ourselves Group Sketch The 21st Century Leader of Volunteer Engagement

26. Born to Lead?? People are not born leaders. People must cultivate/ hone leadership skills and traits Being a leader is a journey

27. Leadership Skills

28. Key Leadership Characteristics Honesty - Display sincerity, integrity, and candor in all your actions. Competent - Your actions should be based on reason and moral principles. Visionary- Set goals and have a vision of the future. The vision must be owned throughout the organization. Effective leaders envision what they want and how to get it. They habitually pick priorities stemming from their basic values. Inspiring - Display confidence in all that you do. Take charge when necessary. Intelligent - Read, study, and seek challenging assignments. Fair-minded - Display empathy by being sensitive to the feelings, values, interests, and well-being of others. Broad-minded - Seek out diversity. Courageous - Have the perseverance to accomplish a goal, regardless of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Straightforward - Use sound judgment to make good decisions at the right time. Imaginative - Show creativity by thinking of new and better goals, ideas, and solutions to problems. Be innovative!

29. Cultivating the Leader in You Embark on the Leadership Journey • Read about leadership • Learn from people of influence Recognize and tap your personal power • Expert Power – be knowledgeable and informed • Build relationships of trust

30. Cultivating the Leader in You What steps can you take to cultivate the leader in you?

31. Leading the Way Leadership is not about position. We all have the capacity and the responsibility to lead Cultivate leadership and become truly effective in your volunteer engagement role.

32. Leading Volunteer Engagement The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality The last is to say “Thank You” In between, The leader is servant