Transcript The Four Factors of Effective Leadership

The Four Factors of
Effective Leadership
Introduction
Questions
What is Leadership?
“The only definition of a leader is someone who
has followers.”
- Peter Drucker
Inside-Out
Me-First
Who will people follow?
Honest
Forward-Looking
Competent
Inspiring
- Kouzes & Posner
88%
71%
66%
65%
Inside-Out
Me-First
Everyone can be a leader
“Effective leadership
starts on the inside and moves out.”
- Blanchard & Tracy
Leadership begins with you
Three Circles
change the world
influence
others
control
self
The Four Factors
Model
Factor 1:
Influence
Factor 2:
Integrity
Influence
Trust
Self
Credibility
Discipline
Personal
Growth
Developing
Others
Factor 4:
Improvement
Personal
Mission
Shared
Vision
Factor 3:
Inspiration
Factor 1
Influence
“Sure I'm sore.
Sure it hurts.
But how can I complain
about having sore knees
when Ron Santo
doesn't even have any legs?”
- “Wild” Bill Holden
Factor 1
Influence
• Internal: Self-Discipline
People “who do not manage themselves for
effectiveness cannot possibly expect to
manage their associates and subordinates.”
- Peter Drucker
• Interpersonal: Influence
Factor 1
Influence
Factor Fiction: Power
“Everything can be taken from a man
but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms -to choose one's attitude
in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.”
- Victor Frankl
Factor 2
Integrity
• Internal: Credibility
“If people anywhere are to
willingly follow someone . . .
They want to assure themselves that
the person is worthy of their trust.”
- Kouzes & Posner
Factor 2
Integrity
• Interpersonal: Trust
“Trust is the emotional glue that binds
followers and leaders together. . .
It cannot be mandated or purchased.
It must be earned.”
- Bennis & Nanus
Leadership is a relationship
Factor 2
Integrity
Factor Fiction: Personality
“The secret to life is honesty
and fair play.
If you can fake that,
you’ve got it made.”
- Groucho Marx
Factor 3
Inspiration
• Internal: Personal Mission
• Interpersonal: Shared Vision
“Influence works by attracting and energizing
people to an exciting vision of the future.”
- Bennis & Nanus
Factor 3
Inspiration
Factor Fiction: Position
“Leadership is not about the
prestige of your title
but the quality of your character.
Real leadership is not about position,
it’s about action.”
- Robin Sharma
Factor 4
Improvement
Internal: Self-Development
“Live as if you were to
die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to
live forever.”
- Gandhi
Factor 4
Improvement
“Continual learning is the key to effective
leadership . . . We have to think of ways to
learn and grow every day because when you
stop growing you start to decay.”
- Mike Krzyzewski
Factor 4
Improvement
• Interpersonal: Developing Others
“The function of leadership is to produce more
leaders, not more followers.”
- Ralph Nader
Factor 4
Improvement
Factor Fiction: Popularity
“Celebrity is inversely correlated with
leadership success.”
- Jim Collins
Impact
Positive Change
Leadership produces positive change
• Within yourself
• In the lives of others
• In the world
Impact
Positive Change
“Keep away from people
who belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the truly great make you feel
that you too can become great.”
- Mark Twain
Impact
Positive Change
“Creating positive change
is the ultimate test of leadership.”
- John Maxwell
Impact
Positive Change
“This is the true joy in life,
The being used up for a purpose recognized by
yourself as a mighty one, the being a force of nature
instead of a feverish, selfish, little clod of ailments. . .
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole
community, and as long as I live,
it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”
- George Bernard Shaw
Impact
Positive Change
Great ambition and conquest,
without contribution,
are without significance.
What will your contribution be?
How will history remember you?
- The Emperor’s Club
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