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This insightful leadership guide explores the principles behind effective leadership that focuses on empowering individuals to reach their full potential. Learn how great leaders make others feel valued, capitalize on uniqueness, and align organizations for success. Discover essential strategies to lead with humility, engage employees, and cultivate a culture of excellence. Dive into practical exercises and real-life examples to enhance your leadership skills and inspire those around you. Transform your approach and strengthen your impact as a leader who prioritizes the growth and well-being of others.
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As a Leader, it’s not all about you! David Wormald DoriKazimer Viva Nsair January 27th, 2010
Outline Who are you leading? How does a great leader make others feel good about themselves? What are the guiding principles for leadership?
What is a LEADER? • For the benefit of their people, the LEADER will • 1. Ask the proper questions • 2. Encourage and reinforce behavioural change • 3. Be an example of excellence for others to follow • Knows errors will occur • Will take necessary action • Accepts blame for team errors A LEADER has to be employee-centered
How does a great leader make others feel good about themselves?
The Level 5 Leader • Humility + professional will • Fanatically driven • Successors are set for even greater success • Compelling modesty • Takes responsibility for errors • Workmanlike diligence • Gives success to others and luck
Capitalize on the Uniqueness of Each Person • Analyzing • Doing • Watching • Learning Styles • Strengths • Triggers
The Benefits of Capitalizing on the Uniqueness of Each Person • Each person is more accountable • Healthy degree of disruption • Inter- • dependency • Saves time
The 360 Degree Leader You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. • Winston Churchill Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power • Walter Lippman
What Can You Do? 8 Guiding Principles to Success • Development is a long-term process • Indentify individual dreams/desires/true strengths • Lead each person differently • Give them the right job • Help them know themselves • Celebrate the right wins • Prepare them for leadership • Be ready to have hard conversations
Class Exercise • Why are the results different of the two video clips? • What were the traits and behaviours of the friend that enabled a successful dive? • What learning style(s) do you think the son had? • Was the father/friend teaching using the strengths and the learning style of the son to teach diving? How or how not? • Do you think the father/friend would ever change their teaching style?
Summary • you must be employee-centered As a leader A Great leader focuses on individual strengths, triggers and learning styles Organization, Leader and Employee need to be aligned
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