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Claudio LewisMay 22, 2015

LEADERSHIPTHE

CHALLENGEBY

KOUZES & POSNER

What does the Leadership

Challenge Mean?

“The leadership challenge is about how leaders mobilize other to want to get extraordinary things done in an organization. It’s about the practices leader use to transform values into actions, visions and realities, obstacles in innovations, separateness into solidarity, and risk into rewards. Its about leadership that creates the climate in which people turn challenging opportunities into remarkable success”- Kouzes, Posner

A. Introducing 5 Practices of exemplary Leadership

B. Expectations of leadersC. Share values between followers and leadersD. Creating a destiny (vision)E. Importance of collaborationF. Effective communicationG. Recognize contributionH. Leaders today

TABLE OF CONTENTS

5 Practices of exemplary Leadership

Inspired Share vision

Challenge Others

Enable others to act Encourage others

Model the way

Model the Way-

Inspired a shared vision-Challenge the process- leaders willing to step out into the “unkown”. T

Model the Way-Essential about earning the right and respect to lead through direct individual involvement and action.

Inspired a shared vision- Include everyone in a vision of the organization. People must believe that leaders understand their needs and have interests at heart.

Challenge the process- Leaders and followers, willingly to take risks into the “unknown”. Search for opportunities to innovate, grow, and improve.

Enable others to Act- Foster collaboration and build trust. Today’s organizations rely on peers, manager, customers, all who have a stake in the vision, rather than dictate in the prior leadership era.

Encourage the Heart- Leaders, help their followers through encouragement. Genuine acts of caring uplifting and spirits draw people forward.

What People Look For And

Admire In Their Leaders

Honesty The most important ingredients in the leader-constituent

relationship Forward-Looking The ability to look into the future of an organization and have

direction, so you can lead other through the journey. Competent Leader is proactive accomplishing goals. Leaders will be able

to guide the entire organization, large or small, in the direction in which it needs to go.

Inspiring Leaders speak to our needs and have meaning and purpose in

our lives. This is essential to moving people up and forward.

Build and Affirm Shared Values

• Shared values are the foundations for building productive and genuine working relationships. • Overall people must have a common core of understanding. If

disagreements are over fundamental values continue, the result is intense conflict, false expectations, and diminish capacity. This could be no agreement on the specifications of quality, customer service, or any guiding principle.• Power of shared values, provide people with common language. It

stimulates tremendous energy that is generated when individual, group, and organizational values are in synch. It is important to have Commitment, enthusiasm, and drive are intensified: This give People reasoning to care about they are doing. They are more effective and satisfied. They experience less stress and tension. Shared values are the internal compasses that enable people act both independently and interpedently.• Organizations benefit from shared values, because there employees feel

more valued and are true to their work as well. Also the quality and accuracy of communication and the integrity of the decision-making process increase when people feel part of the team. Leaders must!

Develop A Share Sense of DestinyAnd

Vision

• Members of an organization understand, accept, and commit to the vision once understood. When they do, the organization ability to change and reach its potential soars. (loyalty, listening, caring, understanding)• The outcome is to teach yourself as well as others, both leaders and followers.• Leadership is about imposing the leaders solo dream; its about developing a shared sense of destiny. It’s about enrolling others so that they can see how their interests and aspirations are aligned with the vision and can thereby become mobilized and commit their individual energies to its realization. • A vision is inclusive of constituents aspiration; its an ideal and unique image of the future for the common good.

Collaboration Improves performance

• Create a climate of trust

• Facilitate Positive independence

• Support face-to-face interactions

Without trust you cannot lead. Unable to trust leaders fail to become leaders.

“We are all in this together, that the success of one depends on the success of the work, than its virtually impossible to create the conditions for positive teamwork. To get extraordinary things done, we have to rely on each other (Kouzes, Posner)

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Effective Communications

When leaders effectively communicate a vision-whether it is to one person or a small or large or large within the organization- that a vision has very potent effect. According to the “Leadership Challenges” studies found that when leaders Clearly articulate their vision for the organization, constituents report higher levels of a variety of positive action such as these (Kouzes, Posner)

• Job satisfaction

• Motivation

• Commitment

• Clarity about the organization values.

• Pride in the organization

• Organizational productivity.

Recognize ContributionsExamples

Focus on Clear standards-

Values and principals serve as the basis for goals. They define the arena in which goals and metrics must be

set.

Feed back keeps us Engaged

People need to know if they are making progress toward the goal or simply marking time. When leaders provide a clear sense of directions, they encourage people to reach inside and do their

best.Use A variety of RewardsInstead of promotion and

money, verbal or on the spot recognition are powerful ways of responding. It also provide

positive influence.

Leader And

Follower

Leaders Today

The challenge of leadership is maintain a vision, keep motivation within the organization, build trust and relationships, the uncertainty of the future- Kouzes, Posner

Kouzes M. James, and Barry Posner

Leadership The Challenge. 3rd ed.

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002, Print.

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