The Four Factors of Effective Leadership

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The Four Factors of Effective Leadership
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IntroductionQuestions

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

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Inside-OutMe-First

• Who will people follow?
• Honest 88
• Forward-Looking 71
• Competent 66
• Inspiring 65
• - Kouzes Posner

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Inside-OutMe-First

• Everyone can be a leader
• Effective leadership
• starts on the inside and moves out.
• - Blanchard Tracy
• Leadership begins with you

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Three Circles
change the world
influence others
control self
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The Four Factors Model
Factor 1 Influence
Factor 2 Integrity
Influence
Trust
Self Discipline
Credibility
Personal Growth
Personal Mission
Shared Vision
Developing Others
Factor 4 Improvement
Factor 3 Inspiration
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Factor 1Influence

• Sure I'm sore.
• Sure it hurts.
• But how can I complain
• about having sore knees
• when Ron Santo
• doesn't even have any legs?
• - Wild Bill Holden

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Factor 1Influence

• Internal Self-Discipline
• People who do not manage themselves for
  effectiveness cannot possibly expect to manage
  their associates and subordinates.
• Peter Drucker
• Interpersonal Influence

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Factor 1Influence

• Factor Fiction Power
• Everything can be taken from a man
• but one thing
• the last of the human freedoms --
• to choose one's attitude
• in any given set of circumstances,
• to choose one's own way.
• - Victor Frankl

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Factor 2Integrity

• Internal Credibility
• If people anywhere are to
• willingly follow someone . . .
• They want to assure themselves that
• the person is worthy of their trust.
• Kouzes Posner

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Factor 2Integrity

• Interpersonal Trust
• Trust is the emotional glue that binds
• followers and leaders together. . .
• It cannot be mandated or purchased.
• It must be earned.
• Bennis Nanus
• Leadership is a relationship

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Factor 2Integrity

• Factor Fiction Personality
• The secret to life is honesty
• and fair play.
• If you can fake that,
• youve got it made.
• - Groucho Marx

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Factor 3Inspiration

• Internal Personal Mission
• Interpersonal Shared Vision
• Influence works by attracting and energizing
  people to an exciting vision of the future.
• Bennis Nanus

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Factor 3Inspiration

• Factor Fiction Position
• Leadership is not about the
• prestige of your title
  
• but the quality of your character.
• Real leadership is not about position,
• its about action.
• - Robin Sharma

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Factor 4Improvement

• Internal Self-Development
• Live as if you were to
• die tomorrow.
• Learn as if you were to
• live forever.
• Gandhi

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Factor 4Improvement

• Continual learning is the key to effective
  leadership . . . We have to think of ways to
  learn and grow every day because when you stop
  growing you start to decay.
• - Mike Krzyzewski

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Factor 4Improvement

• Interpersonal Developing Others
• The function of leadership is to produce more
  leaders, not more followers.
• Ralph Nader

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Factor 4Improvement

• Factor Fiction Popularity
• Celebrity is inversely correlated with
  leadership success.
• - Jim Collins

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ImpactPositive Change

• Leadership produces positive change
• Within yourself
• In the lives of others
• In the world

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ImpactPositive Change

• Keep away from people
• who belittle your ambitions.
• Small people always do that,
• but the truly great make you feel
• that you too can become great.
• - Mark Twain

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ImpactPositive Change

• Creating positive change
• is the ultimate test of leadership.
• - John Maxwell

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ImpactPositive Change

• This is the true joy in life,
• The being used up for a purpose recognized by
• yourself as a mighty one, the being a force of
  nature
• instead of a feverish, selfish, little clod of
  ailments. . .
• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the
  whole
• community, and as long as I live,
• it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
• - George Bernard Shaw

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ImpactPositive Change

• Great ambition and conquest,
• without contribution,
• are without significance.
• What will your contribution be?
• How will history remember you?
• - The Emperors Club

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