Profiles in Leadership

1. Profiles in Leadership Dianne McAdams-Jones Ed. D (c ), RN, GNE

2. ObjectivesUpon completion of this session, the participant will be able to: • Define leadership • List 3 leadership styles • Understand what type of leader lives “with-in” self • Begin to “self formulate” a custom leadership style

3. What is Leadership? • Capacity or ability to lead: showed strong leadership during her first term in office. • Guidance; direction: The business prospered under the leadership of the new president.

4. Can you think of a “good” leader? Winston Churchill Mahatma Gandhi John F. Kennedy Abraham Lincoln Others?

5. Best known for leading India in its nonviolent campaign of resistance to British rule and to the independence of modern India, and for promoting the principles of ahimsa, or nonviolence, and satyagraha, or nonviolent resistance to oppression. 

6. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, an historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the first person to be recognised as an Honorary Citizen of the United States. During his army career, Churchill saw military action in India, the Sudan and the Second Boer War. He gained fame and notoriety as a war correspondent and through contemporary books he wrote describing the campaigns. He also served briefly in the British Army on the Western Front in World War I, commanding the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ytff1-sunm&p=winston%20churchill&ei=UTF-8&type= World War II, or the Second World War[1] (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945 which involved most of the world's nations, including all great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised. In a state of "total war," the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by significant action against civilians, including The Holocaust and the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it was the deadliest conflict in human history,[2] with over seventy million casualties. The start of the war is generally held to be September 1, 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. Many countries were already at war by this date, such as Ethiopia and Italy in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and China and Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.[3] Many that were not initially involved joined the war later in response to events such as the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the Japanese attacks on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and on British overseas colonies, which triggered declarations of war on Japan by the United States, the British Commonwealth,[4] and the Netherlands.[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_/War_Ii

7. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinoisstate legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States,[1][2] Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. His tenure in office was occupied primarily with the defeat of the secessionistConfederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Six days after the large-scale surrender of Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee, Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated. Lincoln had closely supervised the victorious war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. Historians have concluded that he handled the factions of the Republican Party well, bringing leaders of each faction into his cabinet and forcing them to cooperate. Lincoln successfully defused the Trent affair, a war scare with Britain late in 1861. Under his leadership, the Union took control of the border slave states at the start of the war. Additionally, he managed his own reelection in the 1864 presidential election. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ytff1-sunm&p=abraham%20lincoln&ei=UTF-8&type=

8. Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. He pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him. “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.” George Washington “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” George Washington http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ytff1-

9. Fought for Civil Rights Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy

10. What do all of these leaders have in common?

11. Did they oppose popular folkways and mores……popular culture? Were they Founding Fathers of our country…….pioneers………going where no men had gone before?

12. Three Popular Leadership Styles • One dimension has to do with control and one's perception of how much control one should give to people. The laissez faire style implies low control, the autocratic style high control and the participative lies somewhere in between. • The Laissez Faire Leadership Style • The style is largely a "hands off" view that tends to minimize the amount of direction and face time required. Works well if you have highly trained and highly motivated direct reports. • The Autocratic Leadership Style • The autocratic style has its advocates, but it is falling out of favor in many countries. Some people have argued that the style is popular with today's CEO's, who have much in common with feudal lords in Medieval Europe. • The Participative Leadership Style • It's hard to order and demand someone to be creative, perform as a team, solve complex problems, improve quality, and provide outstanding customer service. The style presents a happy medium between over controlling (micromanaging) and not being engaged and tends to be seen in organizations that must innovate to prosper. • http://www.legacee.com/Info/Leadership/LeaderResourcesTop.html

13. Another popular leadership style • The Transformational Leadership Style • Transformational leadership is about implementing new ideas; these individuals continually change themselves; they stay flexible and adaptable; and continually improve those around them. Transformational leaders has been written about for thousands of years--being both praised (Christ and Buddha) and cursed (Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan). • http://www.legacee.com/Info/Leadership/LeaderResourcesTop.html

14. And…………. • Most theories of leadership development stress how to be effective within the status quo—what's called transactional leadership. A leader using this style can be very influential, but they change very little. To use a popular expression, these people are good at “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic", but they can’t keep the ship from sinking. • Unfortunately, many organizations run lean on transformational leaders, the vast majority of the leaders inside organizations being transactional. Thus we see organizations decline as there is an increasingly disconnect between “the way things should be done” and “the way we do things here.” • http://www.legacee.com/Info/Leadership/LeaderResourcesTop.html

15. How do I develop an effective leadership style? • Know your people a. Who are they? Who is really in charge? b. What are their strengths? c. What are their weaknesses?

16. Strengths or Weaknesses? • They stick together • They advocate change • They entertain diverse ideas • They argue • They fight………………for the common good • They accept things they cannot change • They are complacent

17. Who is the most influential person? • Is it the person with the most rank? • Is it the person with the most authority? • Is the person with the most rank or authority the most knowledgeable? • In the military, the person with the most rank is not always the person in charge. A major is completely at the mercy of the Sgt Assignment Clerk. A Master Sergeant with 15 years experience will often believe whatever the Finance Senior Airman tells him, as long as it relates to finance. But, how many times have you asked a so-called expert how to do something, only to be told that it can't be done? Then, how often did you later find out that not only could it be done easily, but dozens of others had done it?

18. Develop your own leadership style • Decide what it is you wish to accomplish with your group; what is the mission? What is your mission? a. do I want to teach what I know? b. do I want to lead where I go? • How do I accomplish this?

19. Think back : • My favorite leader a. style of leadership b. why I enjoyed this leader c. what did I take from that experience? d. examples

20. What do you find appealing about this picture? What is in an image? Does it speak to quality? The look, sound and feel of an effective leader

21. What I have learned over the past 30 years • Have a good command of the subject matter a. don’t shy away from learning b. keep a level attitude • Listen • Research topics (learn all you can) • Knowledge is power • Once you have knowledge, no one can take it away from you • Strive to meet people on common grounds when leading

22. Conclusion • What is leadership? • What kind of leader are you? • What kind of leader do you want to be? • What leadership style most “speaks” to you?