Caroline Salisbury | POLI 215

Caroline Salisbury
POLI: 215 - Intro To Leadership Studies
Inspore a Shared Vision - Encourage the Heart:
Sum it up in one word: inspiration, compassion, recognition, reward, drive
- Key concept: expectation or recognition
Expectations
- Set clear and reasonable expectation for everyone
- Allows people to properly frame reality and help respond more positively when
things go wrong
- Clear expectations provide goals and targets for individuals to achieve
- Challenge people to do their best
“A master can tell you what he expects; a teacher awakens your own expectations”
Patricia Neal
*inspire your own expectations*

How to set expectations

- Communicate a clean message
- “Practice what you preach” - set the example
- Hold people accountable for actions
- Negative accountability - discuss ideas for improvement
- Positive accountability - highlight success
- Recognize and reward individuals to uphold values
Recognition:
- Acknowledges good results
- Allows people to understand their contributions are values and appreciated
- Provides emotional fuel to help people continue workinf toward the goal
- Need to make sure the recognition is genuine and personal - not routine and
false

- How to recognize individuals:

- Offer a comment when someone does the right thing
- Say “thank you” often
- Send a hand written note of appreciation
- Demonstrate that you are having fun
- If youre not having fun youre not going to do it well - and you team
will notice
- Public congratulatory/celebratory ceremony

Conclusion of Kouzes and Posner

Key concept: leadership is everyones business
Belongs to everyone
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- Not about a position or title

- Leadership is about relationships
- The effect you have on someone else
- Anyone can develop these skills and abilities - leadership ia not genetic
You are the most important leader
- You are the center of your circle
- What you do and say makes a difference

How to get started:

- Leadership development is about delf development
- Begin by developing a better understanding of yourself
Questions to ask
- How certain am I of my values?
- How will I handle mistakes?
- Where can I improve?
- What keeps me from giving up?
- How comfortable am i being in the spotlight?
Leadership and Morality
- Leadership practices are completely amoral
- Morality comes from the people who lead
- But, the power and influence of leadership can be corrupt
Maintaining the Proper Balance
Key concept: Hubris and Humility
- Hubris: Egotism, arrogance, excessive pride
- Humility: gratitude, selfless spirit, integrity

Model the way —---------------------> Crave attention

Inspire a Shared Vision —-----------> Dictate Ideas
Challenge the Process —-------------> Paranoia or Confusion
Enable others to Act —------------- > Avoid Making Decisions
Encourage the Heart —-------------- > Obsess over feelings

Final Secrets to Leadership Success

- Encourage hope among everyone
- The sky is the limit
- Maintain optimism and imagination
- Constant positive reinforcement
- Secret to success is to stay in love. Staying in love gives you the fire to ignite other
people…”
- John Stanford, Major General U.S. Army
- Leadership is not an affair of the head, its an affair of the heart
Caroline Salisbury | POLI 215

Ten Tips for effective leadership:

General Colin Powell
1. Lead by the Golden Rule
a. Do unto other as you would have them do unto you
b. Treat all people with respect
2. Avoid the tendency of partiality
a. Do not play favorites
b. Include people with different styles or backgrounds
3. Follow your own rules
a. Do not make rules you will not keep
b. Admit when you make mistakes
4. Lead by Example
a. Become a good role model
5. Keep everybody informed
a. Ignorant groups are inherently suspicious
b. Provide everyone with information and feedback
6. You are the leader; now act like it
a. Remember your commitment and behave accordingly
7. Ask others for help
8. Keep criticism constructive
a. Feedback is not about placing blame
9. Always tell the truth, and keep your word
a. Honesty and trust are essential
10. Prepare someone else to take your place
a. You cannot lead that position forever
b. Start preparing for the future by developing others