Exploring Your Leadership Dimension

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Exploring Your Leadership Dimension Barbara Radke University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality Leadership & Civic Engagement

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Exploring Your Leadership Dimension. Barbara Radke University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality Leadership & Civic Engagement. “Leadership is a reciprocal relationship between those who choose to lead and those who decide to follow.”.  Kouzes & Posner - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Exploring Your Leadership Dimension

Barbara Radke

University of Minnesota Extension

Center for Community Vitality

Leadership & Civic Engagement

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“Leadership is a reciprocal relationship between those

who choose to lead and those who decide to follow.”

Kouzes & Posner Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, 1993

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Key Points of Understanding Leadership

Leadership is a dynamic relationship between leaders and followers.

Effective leaders focus on different things in response to changing needs.

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Goals

Identify four areas that capture a leader’s attention

Discover 12 key ways that leadership may be demonstrated (dimensions)

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Focus of Attention

What gets your attention?

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Leaders Respond to What Gets Their Attention

Character: Leaders respond to their conscience.

Analysis: Leaders respond to ideas.

Accomplishment:Leaders respond to problems.

Interaction: Leaders respond to people.

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Character

Responds to own conscience Has internal concerns Reflects values of followers Focuses on mission Finds sources of hope and enthusiasm Is open to learning

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Analysis

Responds to ideas Has intellectual concerns Looks toward the future Sees implications, not just facts Evaluates risks and opportunities Follows intuitive leads

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Accomplishment

Responds to problems Has external concerns Gets things done Overcomes obstacles Gets people working together Takes control

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Interaction Responds to people Has social concerns Understands wants and needs of

others Knows what motivates Monitors feelings Encourages followers Communicates caring

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Dimensions of Leadership Wheel

We have explored what gets your attention

Now we will explore leadership response patterns using the Dimensions of Leadership Wheel – turn to pages 10 and 11 in your Dimensions booklet.

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Scores at or above 20 are

High Emphasis (bottom page 11)

Scores at or below 10 are

Low Emphasis (top of page 11)

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High and Low Emphasis Areas

Once you have determined your high and low emphasis areas, take a few minutes to read about the implications.

The 12 Dimensions are explained in detail on pages 12-19.

Read about your high emphasis areas

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Implication of High Emphasis Scores

Why people follow Who will follow When to lead What to watch out for/problems you

may encounter

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Character

Enthusiasm: Pursues objectives with passion and optimism and attracts others to the cause.

Integrity: Leads through honesty and acceptance of personal responsibility.

Self-Renewal: Strives to learn and grow; easily adapts to changing circumstances.

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AnalysisFortitude: Acts with courage and

confidence in the face of a challenge.

Perceiving: Sees the big picture and alternative possibilities; uses intuition and creativity.

Judgment: Knows what needs to be done and anticipates consequences.

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Accomplishment

Performance: Gets results by overcoming barriers to effectiveness.

Boldness: Takes an uncompromising approach that involves facing problems head-on.

Team-Building: Accomplishes results through others by getting them to work together.

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InteractionCollaborating: Shares rewards and

responsibilities with others in the group.

Inspiring: Energizes, motivates, and encourages others to act.

Serving Others: Takes cues from followers; provides what others can’t get on their own.

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Key Concepts

Leadership is a relationship in which someone chooses to lead and others decide to follow.

Leaders respond to four constantly changing Focuses of Attention in their environment: Character Analysis Accomplishment Interaction

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Closing

Leadership Lessons Learned from Geese