leadership exam Flashcards
Practice 1: Model the Way
Clarify your values and affirm the shared values
Set the example by aligning actions with values
Practice 2: Inspire a Shared Vision
Envision the future by imaging exciting and ennobling possibilities
Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations
Practice 3: Challenge the Process
Search for opportunities
Experiment and take risks - small wins and learning from the experience
Practice 4: Enable Others to Act
Practice 3: Challenge the Process
Search for opportunities
Experiment and take risks - small wins and learning from the experience
Practice 4: Enable Others to Act
Foster collaboration by building trust and relationships
Strengthen others
Practice 5: Encourage the Heart
Recognize others contributions by showing appreciations
Celebrate the values and victories
5 Practices Outcomes
Create higher-performing teams
Generate increased sales and customer satisfaction levels
Promote high degrees of involvement in schools
More successfully represent their units to upper management
Commitment 1 - Clarify Value
By finding your voice and affirming shared values
- Find your voice
- Affirm shared values
Finding Your Voice
- Have to explore your inner self
- Have to discover what you care about, what defines you, and what makes you who you are
Affirm Shared Values
- Stress common values and build on agreement
- Communication accuracy increases when people feel like they are involved
- Cannot force people to unite or to hold things in common
Commitment 2 - Set the Example
By aligning actions and values
- Live the shared Values (leading by example
- Teach others to model the values (extrapolating those values to the team)
Commitment 3 - Envision the Future
Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations
- Imagine the possibilities
- Find a common purpose
Envision the Future - Attend to the Present
You have to see the pieces in order to figure out how they fit together to see whats ahead
Listen deeply and attend to what is meaningful
Commitment 4 - Enlist Others
Common vision by appealing to shared aspirations
Appeal to common ideals
Animate the vision
Enlist Others - Animate the Vision
To see and feel how their interests and aspirations are aligned with the vision
Commitment 5 - Search for Opportunities
By seizing initiative and looking outward for innovative ways to improve
- Seize the initiative
- Exercise outsight
Pros of Challenges
Brings out the best in people
Requires doing things differently
Letting go of the status quo
Commitment 6 - Experiment and Take Risks
By constantly generating small wins and learing from experience
Experiment and Take Risks - Generate Small Wins
- Break the long journey into milestones
- You move people forward step-by-step
- Create a sense of moment
High Psychological Hardiness People
More likely to bounce back form failure
Low Psychological Hardiness People
Less likely to bounce back from failure
Psychological Hardiness Factors
Commitment
Control
Challenge
Psychological Hardiness - Commitment
Committing yourself to what is happening
Being involved, engaged and curious
Cannot sit back and wait for something to happen