1. Leading With Influence
Creating Your Personal Leadership Style

2. Our job as leaders is not to create followers, but to inspire others to lead where we leave off.

3. What is Leadership?
Good leadership is difficult to define, but you know it when you see it.
Take a moment and think about someone you would say is a good/great leader. What traits or characteristics does s/he have.

4. Well Said!
“Being in leadership is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, then you aren’t.”
-Margaret Thatcher

5. Definitions of Leadership
“The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.”
~Peter Drucker
“Leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.”
~John C Maxwell
“Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.”
~Alan Keith
“Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.”
~Warren Bennis
These quotes are the progression of thoughts about leadership. What are some traits of good leaders?

6. Characteristics of Good Leaders
Honesty/integrity
Supportive
Trustworthy
Make things happen
Fair & equitable
Values & ethics
Positive attitude
Motivate others
Strong vision
Created opportunities
Inspiring
Safe space
Organized
Listen
“Walk their talk”
Respectful
About the person’s way of being—describe character—personal attributes

7. Characteristics of Good Leaders
Attributes or personal qualities
Are as much about the person’s way of being as they are about what s/he accomplished
Demonstrate a belief in something greater
Invite others to also contribute to something greater

8. All Leadership Is Personal Leadership
Unique to you
Comes from within yourself
It is your way of “being”
It is the way you “bring yourself” to the situation
Begins where behavior and values align
Personal leadership has 6 significant parts

9. Volunteers vs. Paid Employees
Is there a difference in required technique?
Our organization is no stronger than its leaders.
Committed leaders increase value to members.
Value increases participation from the members.
Participation strengthens the organization from the inside out.
For this to happen, there must be leaders who lead.
Remember: You can not lead your team any further than you have traveled yourself.

10. Personal Leadership in 6 Parts
Leading where you are (with what you have)
Vision
Presence
Embodying Values/Modeling the way
Enabling others
Making contribution

11. What can you do right now in this moment with what you have?
Lead Where You Are
What can you do right now in this moment with what you have?
What would make a difference right now?
What is the small thing that matters?

12. Vision can be defined as: a vivid mental image;
the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses;
a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
Vision has to do with sight

13. The “more” or “greater than” you want to contribute to
Vision
Your world view
The “more” or “greater than” you want to contribute to
The thing you want to make “present to the senses”
What you want to create

14. Your Leadership “Presence”?
“What you are speaks
louder than anything you have to say”.
-David Beck
Your presence is how people feel when they are around you. This includes how safe they feel, what you bring out of them, how you listen, how and what you share of yourself.

15. Alignment between beliefs and behaviors “Walking the talk”
Embodying Values
Alignment between beliefs and behaviors
“Walking the talk”
Modeling the way—demonstrating values through actions not telling (do as I do)
“Becoming the change you want to see in the world.” Gandhi

16. Enabling Others
“The greatest gift you can give to others is not to show them your greatness, but to reveal to them their own.” -unknown

17. How can you use your personal leadership/way of being to help others?
Making Contribution
How can you combine the small things to make a difference in a bigger way?
How can you use your personal leadership/way of being to help others?

18. 30 Day Invitation
Pick one leadership trait you want to develop and consciously explore it for the next 30 days.
Take 15 minutes at the end of each day, record what you observed and experienced

19. The Power of Reflection
What did you observe about where you embody and where you espouse your values?
What actions did you take to bring your values and actions more into alignment?
What went well? / What did not go well?
What was the impact?
What will you do differently next time?
Celebrate what you did well

20. True Leaders Must Overcome
FIVE FEARS

21. 1
The Unknown
Turning the unknown into adventure will give you permission to succeed.

22. 2
Abandonment
Humans are pack animals – it is natural to be afraid of being alone.

23. 3
Failure
Is it Failure or Defeat?  Defeat is when life crumbles around you, and you stay in it but do nothing to climb out.
Get knocked down one hundred times – get back up one hundred and one!

24. 4
Rejection
What if they say no? What is the worst that could happen?

25. 5
Success
Some people are never actually taught the definition of Success – and how to handle it when it comes our way.

26. True Leaders Must Overcome
FIVE TRUTHS

27. 1
Respect
The result of people trusting you, and wanting you to share their journey with them. Nothing better than sharing the same crusade.

28. 2
Reputation
Is not created during a relationship. It is created after. It is the feeling that we leave people with after they are directly involved with us. Community service builds perception and awareness.

29. 3
Integrity
The result of respect and reputation coming together to create the belief that I can trust who you are and can count on you to do what you say you will do.

30. 4
Accountability
A person who has accepted the responsibility to lead, must do it with a passion to improve the organization and not a fear of being disliked. A leader fully accepts accountability.

31. 5
Change
Respect the tradition of yesterday, but do not be held hostage by those traditions. You must move forward in the spirit of improvement.  

32. Get involved. Lead.