Legendary Leadership

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Legendary Leadership

• GFOAT
• Fall Conference
• Charles C. Cummings, Jr., CPA, CFE
• chuck_at_cummingshouston.com
• 713/224-8890

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Have characterdont Be a character
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The Need for Leadership

• Accomplishes the team purpose
• Provides vision to the team
• Provides direction to the team
• Provides a role model to the team
• Builds and encourages others

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Definition of a Leader
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Definition of a Leader
Influencing
Accomplish
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Lord It Over Style
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Servant Style
Leslie June
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Level 5 Leader

• Good to Great
• By Jim Collins

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Benefit of Servant Style

• C haracter
• A ttitudes
• S kills
• H abits

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Character

• Integrity
• Factors negatively impacting integrity
• Required for trust
• Areas to guard

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Character Continued

• Consistent role model!

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Character Continued

• Sacrificial

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Character

• Self-Controlled

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Character

• Confident

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Attitudes

• Willingness to persevere
• Creativity utilized
• Problem-solving ability enhanced
• Confidence based on experience
• Reputation as a finisher
• Self-satisfaction

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Attitudes Continued

• Positive
• About negative circumstances
• About life and their role in it
• Understands the benefits of adversity

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Attitudes Continued

• Teachable
• Willing to learn and accepts new ideas
• Seeks outside counsel
• Values criticism

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Attitudes Continued

• Will not tolerate mediocrity!

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Attitudes Continued

• Concerned for people
• Recognizes the value of others
• Knows the needs of others
• Focuses on the needs of others

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Skills

• Develops good communication skills
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening
• Criticizing
• Dressing

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Skills Continued

• Develops the ability to solve problems
• Recognition that life without problems is boring.
• Recognition that we will have problems.
• Recognition that problems are beneficial.

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Skills Continued

• Knows themselves and others
• Understands long-term motivation
• Understands dissatisfiers
• Knows their own strengths and depends on them for
  their job
• Knows the strengths and weaknesses of others and
  depends on them to help them.

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DISSATISFIERS
Money
Work Hours
Vacation
401 (K)
Perceived Needs (Conscious)
Time-Off
Fringe Benefits
Office Location
A Window
Real Needs (Subconscious)
THE BRAIN
Unique
Universal

• 1. Physical
• 2. Social
• 3. Self-development
• Self-worth
• 5. Spiritual

1. Achievement 2. Influence 3. Affiliation 4.
Security/Protection
The key to motivation is understanding needs.
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Needs Based On Motivation

• Motivation is that which is within a person that
  leads him or her to action. Leadership Dynamics
• If you know the needs then you know the strengths
  of a person in the work environment.
• Knowing the needs allows you to put them in a
  situation to be successful by motivating them to
  action.

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JOB DESIGN MODEL
Situation
Strengths
Skills
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Habits

• Spends time alone thinking
• Reads valuable literature
• Develops a prioritized life
• Delegates to others
• Demands excellence
• Rewards and credits others

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REWARDS

• Responsibility
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  Better Projects
• Recognition
• Compensation
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  Time-Off
• Promotions
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  Independence
• Gifts or Trips
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  Praise
• Handwritten thank-you notes