Transcript Document

Leadership Training

for

Area Agency on Aging of North Florida, Inc.

D. M. Gabrielle, Ph.D.

“Gabrielle”

17 January 2008

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Ground Rules

1. Listen actively.

2. Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

3. Participate to the fullest of your ability.

4. Practice timely attendance including returning from breaks.

5. Turn any cell phones or pagers to the off or vibrate position.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, participants should be able to:  Describe the difference between management and leadership.  Identify characteristics of a leader.

 Describe the traits of a servant leader.

 Develop a plan to instill a culture based on trust.

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Leadership

 Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Icebreaker

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Management vs. Leadership

 Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter F. Drucker

 You manage things; you lead people.

- Grace Murray Hopper

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Leaders Who Develop Others

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Leadership

 What are some characteristics of a good leader?

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Leadership

 If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

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Servant Leadership

 What is servant leadership?

 What do the critics say about it?

 What kinds of jobs do servant leaders hold?

 What kind of authority do they have?

 What does it take to be a servant leader?

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Robert Greenleaf Definition, 1970

 Wanting to serve others  Non-materialistic  Not focused on power and control  Focused on growing people  Desire to give the underprivileged a voice and help them succeed January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Larry Spears Definition, 1995

 Non-hierarchical  Non-autocratic  Focused on growing people  Focused quality and caring  Teamwork-oriented  Community-oriented  Ethical behavior January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Mission Statement

 The mission of the Area Agency on Aging for North Florida, Inc. is to plan, coordinate, and advocate for programs and services which promote the independence, dignity, health, and well being of seniors and caregivers.

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Gabrielle Definition

Servant leaders:  believe they have a higher calling  devote themselves to serving the needs of others  focus on meeting the needs of those they lead  inspire personal growth in themselves and others  listen and build a sense of community  treat others as they would like to be treated.

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Gabrielle Definition

 Servant leadership encourages collaboration, trust, foresight, listening, ethics, and influence.

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What Worked?

 The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, "Wrong jungle!” 

Stephen Covey

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Are you a Servant Leader?

 Turn to page 2 your handout January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Listening

 Listening to self  Listening to others January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Improving Listening Habits

 Listen for ideas, emotions, and feelings  Listen for what is not being said  Control your emotional reactions  Overcome personal prejudgments and distractions  Keep an open mind  Listen more than you talk  Hear the other person out (don’t interrupt)  Use open-ended questions for active listening January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Empathy

 Servant leaders put themselves in other people’s shoes.

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Intuition

 "There is something subtle communicated to one who is being served and led if, implicit in the compact between the servant-leader and led is the understanding that the search for wholeness is something that they have."  Greenleaf, 1970 January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Awareness

 "Awareness is not a giver of solace it's just the opposite. It disturbed. They are not seekers of solace. They have their own inner security.”  Greenleaf, 1970 January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Persuasion

 Positional authority is not needed.

 Consensus building is a major part of persuasion.

 “Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” -

Margaret Thatcher

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Persuasion

 Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight Eisenhower

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Conceptualization

 Servant leaders see the big picture.

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Importance of Planning

P

redetermine a Course of Action. 

L

ay Out Your Goals.

A

djust Your Priorities. 

N

otify Key Personnel.

A

llow Time for Acceptance.

H

ead Into Action.

E

xpect Problems.

A

lways Point to the Successes.

D

aily Review Your Plan.

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Influence

 ”Job titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed or assigned. It comes only from influence and that can't be mandated.” -

John C. Maxwell, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, 1998

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Stewardship

 Seeing greater good of society  Using and developing talents of members of an organization.

 Passing on the plenty  Terry Redding, October 2006 January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Contemplation

 Reflection and contemplation to learn from the experience and better see the road ahead. January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Reflection

 How do you use reflection? January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Collaboration

 Work together with people inside and outside an organization  Not focused on power but instead on greater good by bringing diverse people together January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Trust

 Value-focused, encouraging openness and trust January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Community

 Build community with and outside of an organization January 2008 Area Agency on Aging TCC Corporate Solutions- Gabrielle

Empowerment

 You can buy someone’s time, you can buy someone’s physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm; you cannot buy initiative, you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.

Clarence Francis

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Teamwork

 We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.

F.W. Woolworth

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Success

 Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, and working together is success.

Henry Ford

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Questions?

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Contact Information

 Dr. D. M. Gabrielle [email protected]

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