1. Jenna Mondoro Reyna Vrbensky
Leadership Training
Jenna Mondoro
Reyna Vrbensky

2. How Would You Define Leadership?
Discussion

3. Let’s Define Leadership
Definition:
“Leadership is a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal.
Key Points:
Social influence, not authority or power.
Those you lead work with you, not for you.
Common goal
Personality traits, attributes, and title are irrelevant.
Many different approaches are successful.

4. Leadership Quotes Activity

5. Quote #1
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” —Jack Welch

6. Quote #2 “You don’t need a title to be a leader.”
–Multiple Attributions

7. Quote #3
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
—Warren Bennis

8. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Quote #4
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
—Aristotle

9. “A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
Quote #5
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
—Ovid

10. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Quote #6
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
—Warren Bennis

11. Conflict Resolution

12. Conflict Resolution: 5 Steps
Identify the source of the conflict
Ask a series of relevant questions
Every perspective.
Listen and asks questions only.
Encourage them to continue to open up to you.

13. Conflict Resolution: 5 Steps
Look beyond the incident
Often the situation isn’t the actual cause of the conflict
Was this something minor that has festered and is now an issue?
Is this conflict due to an underlying issue?

14. Conflict Resolution: 5 Steps
Request solutions
Ask the people involved in the conflict for resolution ideas.
Be aware of tone, verbal cues, and body language.
Be willing to guide them through forming a solution and make them aware of the boundaries and constraints.

15. Conflict Resolution: 5 Steps
Identify solutions everyone can support
This is where you working with all of those involved to compromise and produce a reasonable solution
Do not make the agreement for them. Guide them towards a fair solution.

16. Conflict Resolution: 5 Steps
Agreement
Have all involved agree to one solution and shake hands

17. Conflict Resolution Activity

18. Conflict #1
Ethyl is part of a design brainstorming session. When trying to convey her ideas, several mentors sit off in a corner and ignore her ideas, while designing their own robot. Ethyl brings this problem to your attention. What should you do as a leader?

19. Conflict #2
Two best friends aren’t talking because one friend told the other friend’s secret to the entire robotics team. The friends are the primary members of the drive team and competition is coming up in two days. As a leader on the team, how do you resolve the issue?

20. Conflict #3
One team member neglects their work and decides to socialize with other subteams and distract his teammates. The team has very important deadlines to meet across the board. What would you do as a team leader?

21. Conflict #4
The fabrication captain fails to communicate to the design captain about new changes to the robot. This prevents the design team from updating their CAD files correctly. How would you handle this miscommunication?

22. Commitment and Personal Accountability
What makes a leader respectable?
Following your own rules
Providing support instead of criticism
Never talking down- always be humble.
How do you define “taking initiative”?
Punctuality
Always doing what’s right, even if it’s harder
Volunteering to do the jobs no one else wants to do
Be curious: If you don’t know the answer to a question, find it.

23. What promise are you making to the team as a leader?
Food for Thought
Think:
What promise are you making to the team as a leader?

24. Connecting Different Personalities
As a leader, your job is to bring diverse personalities together to achieve a common goal.
Well how do we connect with people that we can’t easily relate to?
Smile
Use some ice breakers.
Find something relatable. But NEVER relate over something negative.

25. Polly Positive
In most cases the attitude of the team’s leaders sets the mood for the entire team.

26. Polly Positive: Tips Easy ways to maintain a positive team environment
Greet your members
Be understanding of mistakes
Reinforce what you were looking for in a nice way
Be approachable to everyone
Have a sense of humor, role with the punches
Give compliments where they are deserved (or needed)
SMILE!!! :)
Wrap up the meeting or task in a positive manner

27. What are Goals?
Goals: The object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.
Long Term Goals:
In terms of many months or years
Short Term Goals:
In terms of weeks or a few months
Immediate Goals:
In terms of days

28. #GOALS and ROBOTICS
If you are to be an effective leader, you must set goals to lead your team towards
Set goals that lead not only you but your team as well
Your goals should vary from long-term to short-term and encompass a wide variety of topic
If you don’t reach your goals take time to review with your team why you didn’t reach your goals and what you can improve upon for the future
Goals aren’t set in stone. Be flexible with your goals and work around obstacles.

29. Delegation and Time Management
As a leader you have limited time and can’t complete everything that needs to be done by yourself
You need to know your role and complete what is expected of you
Delegate whatever else there is to do to others
Trust your teammates to do their job
Once you finish the work that you are expected to do, you may help your teammates with their work