Leadership Challenge

Question 1

Definition of Leadership

Answer 1

In The Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner define leadership as the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations. This definition emphasizes several key elements:

Mobilizing Others: Leadership isn’t about authority or power but about the ability to inspire and engage people. Leaders bring others along with them on a journey toward a common goal.

Want to Struggle: Leadership is about creating the conditions where people are motivated to pursue difficult or challenging goals. It recognizes that leadership involves not just directing, but encouraging others to willingly take on challenges and persist through difficulties.

Shared Aspirations: True leadership is rooted in a shared vision or purpose. It’s not just about the leader’s personal goals but about aligning with the values and aspirations of the group or team.

Another way of putting it is:

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

Question 2

5 practices of exemplary leadership

Answer 2

1.Model the Way
2.Inspire a Shared Vision
3.Challenge the Process
4.Enable Others to Act
5.Encourage the Heart

Question 3

2 commitments for modeling the way

Answer 3

1. Clarify values by finding your voice
   and affirming shared ideals.
2. Set the example by aligning actions
   with shared values.

Question 4

2 commitments for challenging the process

Answer 4

1. Search for opportunities by seizing
   the initiative and by looking outward
   for innovative ways to improve.
2. Experiment and take risks by
   constantly generating small wins and
   learning from experience.

Question 5

2 commitments for inspiring a shared vision

Answer 5

1. Envision the future by imagining
   exciting and ennobling possibilities.
2. Enlist others in a common vision by
   appealing to shared aspirations.

Question 6

2 commitments for enabling others

Answer 6

1. Foster collaboration by building trust
   and facilitating relationships.
2. Strengthen others by increasing
   self-determination and developing
   competence

Question 7

2 commitments for encouraging the heart

Answer 7

1. Recognize contributions by showing
   appreciation for individual excellence.
2. Celebrate the values and victories by
   creating a spirit of community.

Question 8

What is the foundation of leadership?

Answer 8

credibility

DWYSYWD: Do What You Say You Will Do