Leading Today, Transforming Tomorrow: Cultivating the Leader Within
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Leading Today, Transforming Tomorrow:
Cultivating the Leader Within
Nikki Russell
Volunteer Initiatives Manager
United Way of King County
Explorations of Leadership
Exploring our identity in the 21st Century
Understanding leadershipAppreciating leadership roleCultivating the leader within
What’s In a Name
Volunteer Coordinator?
Volunteer Manager?
Volunteer Resource Manager?
Defining the Role of the VRM
What is our role in the nonprofit/ public sector?
An Image of Ourselves
Volunteering Today
Today Yesterday
• Greater variety• Greater
sophistication• Increased liability• More people
volunteering • High Expectations• partner
• Fewer Opportunities• Simple Tasks• Liability not a
concern• People volunteering
more time• Low Expectations• subordinate
From Collective to Reflexive Volunteering…
Collective VolunteeringCollective action throughmembership in nonprofits,clubs, churches, etc.
Reflexive VolunteeringReflexive (self-referential)action, based on individualinterests, motivations andneeds. Hustinx and Lammertyn, 2003
What Are the Implications?
Then Now
Management
Recruitment
Placement
Supervision
Performance Review
Recognition
Engagement
Cultivation
Negotiation
Support
Performance Measurement
Acknowledgement
Shifting Our Paradigm
Position-centered
Person-centered
Metaphor
The Machine The Team
Redefining Your Role
Small Group Exercise: Shifting Our Paradigm
Come up with a 21st Century title and description of the “volunteer program manager”
Leaders of Volunteer Engagement
we lead the way to effective 21st Century volunteer involvement
Leadership Vs Management
What is the different between our role as managers and our role as leaders?
Is there a difference?
Our Role as Managers
• Managing tasks and people assigned to those tasks
• Processing and Monitoring Information• Monitoring Internal and External
Environments• Allocating resources according to the
goals of the organization
Our Role as Leaders
Organizational Leadership:
The ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members
Leadership Vs. Management
Complementary but different
Manager LeaderTasksGetting things doneCompliancePositional power
People centeredbuilding commitment and motivationInfluencePersonal power
The Ability to Influence
Suggests Power
What Kind of Power?
Exploring Leadership
Leadership: a form of social power
The ability to influence people in favorable ways to engage in behaviors they would not probably do on their own (in the absence of a leader)
Types of Power
Positional Power Derives from hierarchical position or professional designation.
Personal Power Associated with the characteristics of individuals rather than the characteristics of the position occupied
Sources of Power
Positional:• Legitimate (decision-making power tied to position)• Reward (ability to define salary and benefits)• Coercive (ability to penalize)• Informative (controlling the diffusion of information)
Personal:• Expert Power (perception of knowledge)• Referent power (affection or admiration)
Power and LeadershipPositional power is about compliance
Management predominately employs positional power
Personal power engenders commitment through influence
Leadership = the ability to influence people in favorable ways.
Leadership Implies Trust and Relationship
Leaders require followers who trust and accept the full influence of leaders
This is different from subordinate: Someone who occupies a specific hierarchical position in the organization who may or may not be under the influence of a leader
Our Role As Leaders…
To help staff and volunteers understand…
the central goals of the organization,
how the actions of volunteers contribute to such objectives, and
what individual and collective benefits result from volunteer engagement
As Leaders of Volunteer Engagement
We Build Organizational:CommitmentCapacityCompetency
Betty Stallings’ Thoughts on the Position of the Leader of Volunteer Engagement
Effective Leaders
Build trust and commitment by…fostering self-efficacy and providing
the means for successful attainment of performance
clarifying the linkage between performance and individual and collective reward
A New Image of Ourselves
Group Sketch The 21st Century
Leader of Volunteer Engagement
Born to Lead??
People are not born leaders.
People must cultivate/ hone leadership skills and traits
Being a leader is a journey
Leadership Skills
Key Leadership CharacteristicsHonesty - Display sincerity, integrity, and candor in all your actions. Competent - Your actions should be based on reason and moral principles. Visionary- Set goals and have a vision of the future. The vision must be owned
throughout the organization. Effective leaders envision what they want and how to get it. They habitually pick priorities stemming from their basic values.
Inspiring - Display confidence in all that you do. Take charge when necessary. Intelligent - Read, study, and seek challenging assignments. Fair-minded - Display empathy by being sensitive to the feelings, values,
interests, and well-being of others. Broad-minded - Seek out diversity. Courageous - Have the perseverance to accomplish a goal, regardless of the
seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Straightforward - Use sound judgment to make good decisions at the right time. Imaginative - Show creativity by thinking of new and better goals, ideas, and
solutions to problems. Be innovative!
Cultivating the Leader in You
Embark on the Leadership Journey• Read about leadership• Learn from people of influence
Recognize and tap your personal power• Expert Power – be knowledgeable and
informed• Build relationships of trust
Cultivating the Leader in You
What steps can you take to cultivate the leader in you?
Leading the Way
Leadership is not about position. We all have the capacity and the responsibility to
lead
Cultivate leadership and become truly effective in your volunteer engagement
role.
Leading Volunteer Engagement
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality
The last is to say “Thank You”
In between,
The leader is servant