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Leadership as Empowerment
The Leadership Role The Ingredients of a Successful Leader What is Successful Leadership The Lombardi Leadership Model (2001)
Leadership is about:
Motivating Inspiring Taking people to greater heights
Working with participants on the how and helping them figure out the what and why
Encouraging them to push themselves to achieve the highest possible performance
Action
Enabling, not telling Talking the talk and walking the walk...walking alongside
Leadership that pulls together people with diverse talents, backgrounds, experiences and interests, encourages them to step up to responsibility and continued achievement, and treats them as full scale partners and contributors. Leadership is not about memorising techniques or devising the perfect game plan. It is about really paying attention to people really believing them, really caring about them, really involving them.
(Peters & Austin, 1985)
Experience
Personality
(Bennis, 2003)
Qualities of Leadership
Leadership qualities are demonstrated in a leaders behaviour, not their position.
Leadership is not just one quality but rather a blend of qualities.
(Lombardi, 2001)
Leadership Qualities
Enable direction and structure by the group A clear vision Charisma Enable motivation and enthusiasm Make a difference People-oriented skills Skilful communicator Build character Empathy
(McConnell, 2000)
Vision and passion Strong communicating skills Role model Have integrity and honesty Be organised
(Trenberth and Collins, 1994)
Leadership as Empowerment
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in their leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
(Anonymous)
Leadership as Empowerment
Current ideas on leadership involve empowering followers to self-lead. This is important in a coach-leadership role as empowering athletes enables them to make their own decisions and self-lead during performance.
The best leaders - people do not even notice their existence. The next best - people honour and praise. The next the people fear. The next the people hate. When the best leaders work is done the people say we did it ourselves.
(Lao-Tzu in Morris, Willcocks and Knasel, 2000)
Habit Sacrifice
Hard work
Mental Toughness
Willpower Discipline
Finally...
Leadership is a combination of character and competence; of who you are and what you can do.
(Covey, 2004)
References
Bennis, W. (2003). On becoming a leader. New York, NY: Perseus Publishing. Covey, S.R. (2004). The 7 Habits of highly effective people. New York, NY: Free Press Hinkson, J. (2001). The art of team coaching. Canada: Warwick Publishing Inc. Lee, R. J. & King, S.N. (2001). Discovering the leader in you: A guide to realising your personal leadership potential. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Lombardi, V. Jr. (2001). What it takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on leadership. New York: McGraw-Hill.
McConnell, R. (2000). The successful coach: A practical guide for beginners and experts. Auckland: Harper Collins Publishers. Morris, S., Willcocks, G., & Knasel, E. (2000) How to lead a winning team. Harlow, UK: Prentice Hall Peters, A.L. & Austin, S.J. (1985) A Passion for Excellence- the Leadership Difference Trenberth, L. & Collins, C. (1999). Sport business management in New Zealand. Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press Limited.