1. Hint: You Don't Have to be a Supervisor to be a Leader
Kimberly Venema
Senior Admissions Counselor
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University- Worldwide
February 13, 2018

2. Who Am I?

3. LEAD-ER Program

4. LEAD-ER Program

5. Leadership: A Definition
Someone who guides other people
A person, group, or organization that is the best or most successful in some activity
A powerful person who controls or influences what other people do: a person who leads a group, organization, country, etc.

6. Leadership: Quotes
“Leadership is not about having all the answers. It is about knowing how to extract the answers.” – Katie K. Snapp, Leadership Coach and Business Consultant
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
“Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan
“Leadership is a choice, not a position.” – Dr. Stephen Covey

7. John Terhune
“Leadership is not about position or rank. Leadership is a life philosophy. It is a choice to engage in life and in business with the full level of your integrity, grit, determination, patience, urgency, passion, inspiration and commitment. As a result, other people are compelled to follow you and to raise the level of their contributions beyond what they would do without you as a leader. Leadership is contagious, and we all have the ability to lead.”
–John Terhune

8. Management: A Definition
The organization and coordination of the activities of a business in order to achieve defined objectives
The directors and managers who have the power and responsibility to make decisions and oversee an enterprise
Studies show:
Managers work at unrelenting pace
Activities characterized by brevity, variety, fragmentation and interruption
Strongly oriented to action
Management?: it's not what you think! by Mintzberg, Henry; Ahlstrand, Bruce W; Lampel, Joseph, 2010

9. administration in complex organizations, mcgraw-hill, 1964, p.6.
Management: Quotes
“The manager is like a symphony conductor, endeavoring to maintain a melodious performance in which the contributions of the various instruments are coordinated and sequences, patterned and paces, while the orchestra members are having various personal difficulties, stage hands are moving music stands, alternating excessive heat and cold are creating audience and instrumental problems, and the sponsor of the concert is insisting on irrational changes in the program.” –Leonard Sayles
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” -John D. Rockefeller
“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” -Lee Iacocca
administration in complex organizations, mcgraw-hill, 1964, p.6.

10. Management vs. Leadership
The allocation of resources, the setting of priorities, the design of work and the achievement of results
It’s about governing (maintaining systems, policies, procedures and protocols)
To bring about, to accomplish, to have change of or responsibility for, to conduct
Leadership
Focuses on the creation of a common vision
Motivating people to contribute to the vision and encouraging them to align their self-interest with that of the organization
Persuading, not commanding
Influencing, guiding in direction, course, action, opinion
Generate genuine enthusiasm
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things" - Peter F. Drucker
Leadership vs. Management by George B Weathersby; Management Review; March 1999
Leadership and Management by Joseph C Rost; Leading Organizations: Perspectives for a New Era;1998

11. Management vs. Leadership
Management and Leadership – A Guide for Clinical Professionals by Patole, Sanjay, 2015

12. How Am I A Leader? Director of Admissions Senior Admissions Counselor
Admissions Counselors (4)
Admissions Counselors (5)
Associate Director of Admissions
Associate Director of Operations
CRM/Admissions Counselor

13. How Am I A Leader? Extension of management Rocky start Field questions
Don’t buy into negativity
Our managers are being good leaders by allowing us to shine as leaders; encourage us to perform to the best of our abilities

14. How Can I Be A Leader? Capture and receive feedback Lead by example
Come in on time
Actively work
Avoid distractions
Praise often/Cultivate a positive workplace culture
Acknowledge others
Thank others for assistance
Team- work mentality
Capture and receive feedback
Take criticism
Learn from it

15. How Can I Be A Leader? Problem solve/avoid procrastination
Be a great teacher
Make “learning experience”
Take action, even if you don’t have an answer
Don’t let age hold you back
Set goals
Completing a certain amount of docs/new app reviews per day
Genuinely enjoy responsibilities
Come to work with a positive attitude
Find the best in everything

16. How Can I Be A Leader? Responsible Supportive Honest
Creative
Intuitive
Ability to Delegate
Confident
Empathetic
Committed
Supportive
Ability to Inspire
Genuine
Collaborative
Ability to Care
Influential
Approachable
Team Player

17. Everyday Leadership - Drew Dudley
TEDxToronto 2010

18. “You cannot climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.”
Where Am I at Now?
The Leadership Compass Self-Assessment
“You cannot climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.”
– Dr. Alan Zimmerman

19. The Leadership Compass Self-Assessment