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Daily Notes - September
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
1. Work on your project with your group
1. We will have “ice-breaker” day on Friday (we may have to spill over to
Monday)
2. After your game prepare some information about what sort of leadership
skills, community building skills, or teamwork skills your activity promotes
3. Type this up, as well as a description of your activity
4. Tomorrow you will be given about 30 minutes or so for final preparations
2. Mafia/more icebreakers
3. Homework: watch the Ted Talks video on “Everyday Leadership”
posted on the website under lecture notes (it’s only six minutes!)– be
prepared to discuss this video tomorrow in class
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
1. Discussion – TedTalks – “Everyday Leadership” (15 min)
2. Work with your group to finalize your icebreaker
activity (30 min) – we will go tomorrow!! We will draw
for dates.
3. Mafia (the remainder of the class)
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION – EVERYDAY
LEADERSHIP
1. Drew Dudley states at the beginning of the talk that “we have made leadership
into something bigger than us. We've made into something beyond us. We've
made it about changing the world.” In terms of Dudley’s standpoint, what is the
problem with this view on leadership?
2. How many of you guys have had a lollipop moment, a moment where someone
said something or did something that you feel fundamentally made your life
better? Explain.
3. How can you be that person to make someone’s life better? Explain.
4. Is this type of “everyday leadership” attainable in the workplace? Explain.
5. What does Dudley offer as a new definition of leadership? Do you agree with
Dudley’s closing remarks? Explain.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
1. Discussion – Why good leaders make you feel safe
2. *Hand in your questions from the TedTalk
3. Discussion and note: Leadership Characteristics
4. Community Project – what is it?
“The only variable are the conditions inside the organization, and that's where leadership matters,
because it's the leader that sets the tone. When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and
lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible
results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things
happen.”
“Great leaders want exactly the same thing. They want to provide their people opportunity,
education, discipline when necessary, build their self-confidence, give them the opportunity to try
and fail, all so that they could achieve more than we could ever imagine for ourselves.”
“Charlie implemented a policy of lifetime employment. If you get a job at Next Jump, you cannot
get fired for performance issues. In fact, if you have issues, they will coach you and they will give
you support, just like we would with one of our children who happens to come home with a C from
school.”
“Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank. I know many people at the senior most levels
of organizations who are absolutely not leaders. They are authorities, and we do
what they say because they have authority over us, but we would not follow them.
And I know many people who are at the bottoms of organizations who have no
authority and they are absolutely leaders, and this is because they have chosen to
look after the person to the left of them, and they have chosen to look after the
person to the right of them. This is what a leader is. “
1. What does Sinek say matters most inside an organization? Do
you agree or disagree? Explain. (4 marks)
2. What revolutionary policy did the CEO of Next Jump institute in
his organization? (1 marks)
3. Do you consider yourself a great leader? What advice can you
give to others hoping to be great leaders? (4 marks)
4. Have you ever had poor leaders in your life? Where do you
think they could most improve? (4 marks)
5. Peter Drucker famously stated that "management is doing things
right; leadership is doing the right things." Comment on Drucker's
quote and make connections to your own life. (4 marks)
THREE CASE STUDIES
1. Marines
2. Barry-Wehmiller
3. Next Jump
In each of these cases, what specific leadership characteristics are embodied by the
organization’s leaders?
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
1. Mini presentations – Leadership Characteristics
2. *Hand in your questions from the TedTalk if you have not
done so
3. Discussion and note: Leaders vs. Managers
4. Community Project
5. Completion Celebration (October 5th)
LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS:
What do these characteristics look like in the
workplace?
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Proactive Vs. Reactive
Flexible/Adaptable
A Good Communicator
Respectful
Quiet confidence
Enthusiastic
Open-Minded
Resourceful
9. Rewarding
10. Knowledgeable
11. Open to Change
12. Interested in Feedback
13. Evaluative
14. Organized
15. Consistent
16. Delegator
17. Initiative
Leadership
Characteristic
Our Definition
What does this look
like?
IDEAS FOR OTHER PROJECTS
Guest speaker
Book (leadership book)
Ted talk assignment
Stress management seminar
HOW DO PEOPLE BECOME LEADERS?
BEING A LEADER IS TOUGH…
TASK CONCERNS VS. PEOPLE CONCERNS
TASK CONCERNS
PEOPLE CONCERNS
LEADERS VS. MANAGERS – WHAT’S THE
DIFFERENCE?
Managers:
Leaders:
Focus on things
Focus on people
Do things right
Do the right things
Plan
Inspire
Organize
Influence
Direct
Motivate
Control
Build
Follows the rules
Shape entities
COMMON ACTIVITIES – MANAGERS & LEADERS THE 4 FUNCTIONS
Planning
Organizing
Directing
Controlling
PLANNING
Manager
Leader
Planning
Devises strategy
Budgeting
Sets direction
Sets targets
Creates vision
Establishes detailed steps
Allocates resources
ORGANIZING
Manager
Leader
Creates structure
Gets people on board for strategy
Job descriptions
Communication
Staffing
Networks
Hierarchy
Delegates
Training
DIRECTING
Manager
Leader
Solves problems
Empowers people
Negotiates
Cheerleader
Brings to consensus
CONTROLLING
Manager
Leader
Implements control systems
Motivate
Performance measures
Inspire
Identifies variances
Gives sense of accomplishment
Fixes variances
TED TALK – “HOW GREAT LEADERS INSPIRE
ACTION”
Make some notes!
-Apple
-The Wright Brothers
-TiVo
-Martin Luther King Jr.
-How do great leaders inspire action?
CLOSING REMARKS…
“Leaders hold a position of power or authority, but those who lead inspire us.
Whether they're individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead, not because
we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead, not for them, but for
ourselves. And it's those who start with "why" that have the ability to inspire those
around them or find others who inspire them.”
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Finish note on 4 functions of managers and leaders
Discussion – Competing Values framework and Leadership Roles, Leadership Role
Self Assessment
Work on proposal (30 minutes)