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Values and LeadershipJonathan Fleck - ACS, CL

A set of beliefs and ideas affecting the way people make decisions and conduct themselves.

Values and Leadership

What are Values?

Values and Leadership

What are values specific to Toastmasters?• Integrity• Dedication to excellence• Service to the member• Respect for the individual

What are some values from outside TM?

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Why are values important for leaders and organizations?

Ethics and morals are rules of conduct based on the rightness or wrongness of actions.

Values and Leadership

Values are NOT Ethics and Morals

Actions

Talking

Explaining

Recognition and rewards

Values and Leadership

Effective Leaders Demonstrate Their Values by…

Example of values and leadership?

Or how you honor a specific value?

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It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

– Roy Disney

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The Visionary Leader

A vision is a mental picture of what an organization aspires to become.

Toastmasters International empowers people to achieve their full potential and realize their dreams. Through our member clubs, people throughout the world can improve their communication and leadership skills, and find the courage to change.

What Is a Vision?

Provides a general direction

Provides context for decision making

Affects an organization’s structure

Affects working relationships

Purpose of a Vision Statement

A vision statement:

Clear

Challenging

General

Characteristics of a Vision Statement

People-oriented

Inspiring

Easily communicated

Vision statements are:

What does the organization do well? What is the most important thing the

organization wants to do? What makes the organization unique

or special? What does the team expect from

the organization? What makes the team feel good about

the organization?

Crafting a Vision Statement

Willingness to achieve the vision

Control their own futures

Fosters cooperation and

collaboration

Crafting a Vision StatementInvolve Team Members

Talk about the vision all the time

Explain how it will benefit them

Be enthusiastic

Show that you mean it

Communicating a Vision

How can leaders help their team to embrace the vision?

Example of visionary leadership?

Or a related benefit or risk?

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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood

and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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