What, Me Lead?

1. What, Me Lead? Leadership in the 21st Century

2. What, Me Lead? Leadership in the 21st Century Rev. Renée Ruchotzke Regional Leadership Development Consultant Central East Regional Group

3. Agenda • Introductions, Hopes & Concerns • Myths of Leadership • Managing vs. Leading • Leadership as a Process • The Shadow Side of Leadership • Leadership Competencies

4. Introductions, Hopes & Concerns

5. MYTHS OF LEADERSHIP Adapted from Warren Bennis, Learning to Lead

6. MYTHS OF LEADERSHIP • Leadership Is a Rare Skill.

7. MYTHS OF LEADERSHIP • Leaders are Born, Not Developed

8. MYTHS OF LEADERSHIP • Leaders are Charismatic

9. MYTHS OF LEADERSHIP • Leadership Exists Only At The Top Of An Organization

10. MYTHS OF LEADERSHIP • Leaders Control, Direct, Prod, and Manipulate Others.

11. Managing vs. Leading • Good Management is the same as Leadership

12. Oil the Machine Keep on Track Foster learning & growth Create viable future Managing Leading Managing vs. Leading

13. Managing vs. Leading Managing Leading • Accepts Context • Seeks Technical Fixes • Masters Context • Creative, Adaptive Responses

14. Managing Leading Managing vs. Leading • Copy from past • Accept Status Quo • Adapt & Create • Question the way things are done

15. Managing vs. Leading Managing Leading • Efficient • Effective

16. Managing vs. Leading Managing Leading • Structure & Control • Policies & Procedures • Direction from Values • Trust & Empower others to innovate & initiate

17. Managing vs. Leading Managing Leading • Master Routines • Eye on Bottom Line • Provide Vision • See the big picture

18. Managing vs. Leading Managing Leading • Does things right • Does the right thing

19. Leadership requires courage and skill.

20. Leaders Managers Managing vs. Leading Using a sheet of paper, think of examples of those who are in leadership positions in your congregation then list them under one of the columns:

21. Leadership as a Process Adapted from Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

22. Leadership as a Process Passive Aggressive Anxious Integrity of the Leader Recalcitrant Motivated Visionary Energetic Imaginative

23. Leadership as a Process Consultants Offer “Solutions” Promise of the Quick Fix Integrity of the Leader Adaptive Leadership Value-Based Decisions Learning Community Individuation

24. Leadership as a Process Data Collection Integrity of the Leader Tricks and Techniques Stakeholders Ownership Resistance to Change Emotional Processes

25. Leadership as a Process Consensus Destructive Patterns Integrity of the Leader Toxic Forces Clarity of Values & Purpose Clear Boundaries Clear Limits

26. Ambition Integrity Three Legs of Good Leadership (Bennis) Competence

27. Ambition Three Legs of Good Leadership (Bennis) Self-serving (ignores good of the whole) Personal power > ethics Competence

28. Ambition Integrity Three Legs of Good Leadership (Bennis) Unable to deliver Take follows to “a righteous dead end”

29. Integrity Three Legs of Good Leadership (Bennis) Leader avoids challenging the status quo Competence

30. Ambition Integrity Three Legs of Good Leadership (Bennis) Competence

31. Exercise Using a sheet of paper, think of famous examples of toxic leaders and those with integrity: Toxic Leaders Leaders with Integrity

32. The Shadow Side of Leadership Adapted from Parker Palmer

33. The Shadow Side of Leadership • Deep insecurity about his/her own identity and worth.

34. The Shadow Side of Leadership • The perception that the universe is essentially hostile to human interests.

35. The Shadow Side of Leadership • "Functional super-heroism." The belief that ultimate responsibility for everything rests with me.

36. The Shadow Side of Leadership • Fear of the natural chaos of life.

37. The Shadow Side of Leadership • The denial of death.

38. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) • Mastering the Context • Knowing Yourself • Creating a Vision • Communicating with Meaning • Maintaining Trust through Integrity • Realizing Intention through Action

39. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Mastering the Context - External forces • Demographic changes • Modern Technologies • Social/Economic/Political • Public mistrust • Change in relationship expectations

40. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Mastering the Context – Internal Responses • Our own values and beliefs • Our immediate social networks • Our congregation’s culture • Understanding that the congregation needs my leadership and I need their contribution

41. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. -Albert Einstein

42. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Knowing Yourself • Be clear in your own values • See failures as learning experiences • Reflect on Crucible Experiences

43. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Creating a Vision • Passionately committing to it • Expanding it to the World • Vision for your Congregation • Vision for your Life • Living your Vision

44. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Communicating with Meaning • Name some great communicators

45. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Communicating with Meaning • Bring others with you (Story) • Speaker, Message, Medium, Listener, Feedback • Media is the Medium

46. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Communicating with Meaning • Aligning with others • Unify (what we share) • Empathize (to know and be known) • Partner (mutuality) • Inspire with Metaphor • Encourage Transparency & Candor

47. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Communicating with Meaning • Resolve Conflicts • Communicate Your Vision

48. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Maintaining Trust through Integrity • Optimism increases Trust • Trust increases Organizational Effectiveness Consistency Empathy Transparency

49. Six Leadership Competencies (Bennis) Realizing Intention through Action • Make Good Judgments • Translate Commitments into Goals (Policy Governance “Ends Statements”) • Translate Commitments into Actions • Think Strategically • Understanding of Power

50. Kinds of Power • Coercive Power • Power by Identification • Power from Expertise • Power of the Group • Power by Access • Power from Persuasion • Power from Inspiration • Power through Empowerment