Leadership at Work

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Leadership at Work
Tom Rebstock Sr. Corporate Trainer tom.rebstock_at_tg
slc.org
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What is Leadership?

• Job Title

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What is Leadership?

• The only definition of a leader.
• is someone who has followers.
• Peter Drucker

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What is Leadership?

• Great leaders
• of the world
• Build your own Mt. Rushmore

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1. Build Trust

• What makes you trust someone?
• What makes you trustworthy?

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2. Share Your Vision

• Do you know where
• youre going?
• If you dont know where youre going, you will
  probably end up somewhere else.
• Laurence J. Peter
• Leadership looks at the horizon, not just the
  bottom line.
• Warren Bennis

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TGs Vision

• Our vision is to be the premier source of
  information, funding, and assistance to help all
  families and students realize their educational
  and career dreams.

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2. Share Your Vision

• JFK(61) By end of decade
• MLK(63) I have a dream
• Apollo 13

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3. Praise Positive Behavior

• Criticism not a long-term motivator
• Psych Reinforce desired behavior
• Recognize accomplishment
• Be sincere

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4. Accept Responsibility

• Blame

• Responsibility

Focus on people
Focus on problem
Frustrates people
Encourages teamwork
Covers up problems
Helps find solutions
Builds trust
Builds resentment
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5. Think Creatively

• Left Brain
• The Judge

• Right Brain
• The Idea Generator

Logical Organized
Words
Cautious Status quo
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6. Embrace Change

• Accept that change happens
• The only constant is change.
• Change is happening FASTER than ever
• Avg. life of consumer electronic product
• Number of jobs held in lifetime
• Avoid the Ostrich Syndrome

Heraclitus 500 B.C.
6 mo.
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6. Embrace Change

• Be proactive
• Taking initiative Covey
• Eat change for breakfast, like a nutrient!
  Leapfrogging the Competition, 1998
• Change leads to IMPROVEMENT!
• Be flexible
• Blessed are the flexible, for
• they shall not be bent out of shape.

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7. Learn Constantly

• Experience is the best teacher.
• Publius
• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each
  other.
• John F. Kennedy
• Thomas Edison invented the incandescent
  lightbulb on try.

950th
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7. Learn Constantly

• Get out of your comfort zone!
• 
  Covey
• READ LISTEN TEACH
• What have YOU learned lately?

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8. Help Others Succeed

• First, teach them to believe in themselves.
  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Share knowledge
• What are your strengths?
• Mentor a new employee

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8. Help Others Succeed

• A mentor is simply someone who helps someone
  else learn something the learner would otherwise
  have learned less well, more slowly, or not at
  all. Chip Bell
• Managers as Mentors

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8. Help Others Succeed

• The 1 enemy of empowerment is the desire for
  job security. A weak leader worries that if he
  helps subordinates, he will become dispensable.
• John Maxwell
• 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

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9) Overcome Adversity


Henry Ossian Flipper
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9) Overcome Adversity
Abe Lincoln
Oprah Winfrey
Avery Johnson
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10. Stick to Your Values

• Leader

• Principle

Truth/Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi
Winston Churchill
Freedom/Sacrifice
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Equality/Nonviolence
Mother Teresa
Compassion
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Top 10 Ways to be a LeaderFINAL EXAM
change
trust

• 1. Build _______
• 2. Share your _______
• 3. ______ positive behavior
• 4. Accept _____________
• 5. Think __________

• 6. Embrace _________
• 7. ______ constantly
• 8. _____ others succeed
• 9. _________ adversity
• 10. Stick to your ________

Learn
vision
Help
Praise
Overcome
responsibility
values
creatively
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How Can You Become a Better Leader at Work?

• Pick one of the 10 leadership behaviors you want
  to address.
• Write down a specific, personal commitment to
  improving your leadership style related to this
  behavior.

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Tom Rebstock Sr. Corporate Trainer tom.rebstock_at_tg
slc.org