Band Leadership Course KEY

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SRHS Marching Band Leadership Roles/Responsibilities

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Icebreaker

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Why are you here? What is a leader? Levels of Leadership:

1. Position People follow because they have to 2. Permission People follow because they want to, have relationship 3. Production Leaders who create good results 4. People Development Create better people/leaders 5. Personhood Remembered as a leader/prodigy

What level are you at?

You need to understand:

You have 3 months, be efficient.

Who contributes to the show? The Players

You have the opportunity to inspire and create better musicians/people

Maximize your potential by focusing 100% on your roles and responsibilities in your position. Dont worry about doing someone elses job for them.

Know your job and dont cross over. You were selected to be a certain position because of your strengths shown in the program.

Write down what you think your responsibilities are in your role:

SRHS Falcon Corp & Color Guard

LEADERSHIP PRESENTATION

Name: Position:

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Communicating within the program

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Sharing Ideas is another way of saying communication an important leadership skill.

Write down all the ways that our band communicates:

What works/doesnt work?

The Basic Parts of ANY communication:

Sender MESSAGE Receiver (s) (Aristotles Model)

TENNIS BALL ANALOGY Eye contact

You throw the message correctly

Dont throw too many messages at once

You need both the Sender and Receiver for a Message to be communicated effectively

Prepare yourself before delivering the message

Know when to stop talking

Ways to package the message (for feedback, see feedback section):

5WH When Who What Where Why How

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Everyone is different!

General personality types and ways to effectively lead them

** These are NOT bad, they are just different personalities!**

Know strengths/weaknesses.

Focus on weaknesses.

Play with strengths.

Be versatile and lead with kindness, letting the peers you are leading shine to their potential.

Personality Description How to lead

SHARK Ambitious Ready to learn and better

themselves

Feisty Go getters Sharp

Raise dominance Give respect Give more than they ask

DOLPHIN

In for fun Happy-go-lucky Harder to get to execute

Remind them of rules Lead by example Be friendly out of section

WHALE Helpers/moms of the band Inspire them to execute and achieve for themselves

and not just for others

Let them shine

SEA URCHIN Useless, (just suck in water)

Always asking questions but not doing

Question them Be simplistic Make them see the bigger

picture

Make sure to identify those who are willing and work with them.

Personality Types and Leadership Techniques

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Giving constructive feedback

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As a leader, you give feedback all the time!

When giving constructive feedback keep in mind:

Is this an issue that you need to deal with? Can they fix this on their own?

What motivates this person? Everyone is different How can you as a leader inspire the person to execute?

How will they understand?

Are they not getting it, not understanding it or not trying?

Think about personality types

Ways to give constructive feedback:

Say what they are doing well

What they need to improve on

Who they can ask for help/what they can do to improve, give them options

Packaging the message via: 1. Explain 2. Demonstrate 3. Guide 4. Enable

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Every team will go through the Stages of Team Development at some point. Due to

circumstances, they may fall back a stage, or go up a stage quickly. There are leadership

techniques that can be applied as a leader during each stage of team development.

The Stages of Team Development Leadership Technique

1. Forming Explain High Enthusiasm Low Skill

Starting Out

2. Norming Demonstrate Low Enthusiasm Low Skill

Becoming Discouraged

3. Storming Guide Rising Enthusiasm Rising Skill

Making Progress

4. Performing Enable High Enthusiasm High Skill

Finding Success

Stages of Team Development and Leadership Techniques

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The Servant Leader

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You are here because you have the passion for our group and music and want to inspire and

serve your peers.

80% of leadership is showing up.

Make yourself approachable but set the tone.

Servant Leaders:

Need to listen and know when the time for discussion is over.

Listen more than you speak

Achieve consensus and know when to preserve things that are good

Set/Maintain Standards and know when to reject what does not maintain those standards or

the team vision.

Serve their customers and know how to make a difference with the team.

As a leader you are representing your team, understand this responsibility

A leader enables the success of the team

Understands the needs and communications of the team

Value people

10 Principles

Listening

Empathy

Healing

Awareness

Persuasion

Conceptualization

Foresight

Stewardship

Growth

Community

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Edification and Working as a Leadership Team

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BE, KNOW, DO

BE who you are

KNOW understanding your strengths and weaknesses

How you make decisions with other people

How you make decisions by yourself

DO using personal strengths to improve your ability to lead

To lead yourself, ask the three questions:

Where am I now?

Where do I want to be? (vision)

How do I close the gap?

You are:

The person you lead most

The person over whom you have the greatest influence over

The self-leadership stages we all personally go through the 4 stages.

Define EDIFICATION

Your actions are self-promoting. Edification is power.

As a leadership team, regardless of our personal relationships, we must edify each other.

A leadership team works if everyone is:

1. Doing their job 2. Edifying each other

If you have to speak with each other on the team, do so in a professional way.

Leading Yourself

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As a leader you are representing people.

Regardless of your personal relationship with your customers, you must respect them so

they will respect you.

Try to see the strengths in people and help them overcome their weaknesses.

The Golden Rule Treat others how you want to be treated.

What were some things you took away from this presentation?

What are your goals as a leader for this upcoming season?

Valuing People

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Reflection

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