Leaders As Coaches

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Leaders As Coaches
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Definition of Coaching

• Bring out the best in people
• Particular kind of English carriage
• Convey a valued person from where he/she is to
  where he/she wants to be.

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• Lou Holtz on Leadership
• Ability is what you're capable of doing.
  Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
  determines how well you do it.

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• You will make it in life if
•     1.  You have something to do.
•     2.  You have someone to love.
•     3.  You have something to hope for.
•     4.  You have something to believe in.

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• Relationships with people are the most important
  thing - you can either lift people up or pull
  people down.
•     1.  Do what is right and avoid what is wrong
•     2.  Do everything to the best of your
  ability.
•     3.  Show people you care.
• Questions everyone asks when forming
  relationships
•     1.  Can I trust you?
•     2.  Are you committed to excellence?
•     3.  Do you care about me?

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are
made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve
that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
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What It Takes To Be 1

• Be Authentic.
• Earn Trust through investment.
• Define the goal. Pursue the goal.
• Create a shared vision.
• Align your values.
• Know your stuff.
• Generate confidence.
• Chase perfection.
• Strike the balance.

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Winning Habits

• Own your habits.
• Use your courage.
• Embrace your passion.
• Be prepared to sacrifice.
• Demand total commitment.
• Weed out the uncommitted.
• Work at it.
• Be disciplined on and off the field.
• Be mentally tough.

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A Winning Combination

• Vision with a Strong Game Plan
• Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is
  deciding how you will go about achieving it and
  staying with that plan. -Tom Landry
• Vision
• Evolving
• Provides Direction
• Game Plan
• Making it Happen

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Passion

• People can be taught how to work, but we cant
  teach passion, so we seek people who already have
  it.
• Exhibited Differently
• Demonstrative/ Undemonstrative
• Where does passion for an organization/ team
  start?
• At the Top

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The Trust Factor

• What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear
  what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Mike Sherman Quote
• Without Trust, You Cannot Lead.

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Communication

• Know Your Audience
• Reading People
• The Art of Listening
• Management By Walking Around
• Storytellers
• Develop Proficiency as a Public Speaker

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Teamwork

• Individual commitment to a group effort-that is
  what make a team work, a company work, a society
  work, a civilization work. -Vince Lombardi

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Team Building

• Leadership style that promotes team building is
  positively associated with
• Productivity
• Profitability
• Synergy is another positive outcome of teamwork
• The interaction of two or more parts to produce
  greater results than the sum of the parts taken
  individually

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Stages of Self-Directed Work Teams Handout
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7 Keys to Building Great Work Teams

• Commitment
• Contribution
• Communication
• Cooperation
• Conflict Management
• Change Management
• Connections

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Facing Adversity

• Persistence
• Lee Iacocca Dont get mad, get even.
• Winston Churchill Commencement Speech

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• Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
• Publilius Syrus

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The Leadership Grid

• The Leadership Grid is based on two leadership
  style dimensions
• Concern for people
• Concern for productivity

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The Leadership Grid
Consideration/employee-oriented
Initiating/production-oriented
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The Leadership Grid

• Impoverished management
• Might be classified as inactive managers
• Display little concern for people or production
• Give little of themselves

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The Leadership Grid

• Country club management
• Shows low concern for production
• Shows high concern for people
• Steps are taken to prevent unhappiness and
  dissension

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The Leadership Grid

• Authority compliance
• Task oriented, placing much attention on getting
  the job done
• Shows concern for production, not people,
  regardless of the cost

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The Leadership Grid

• Middle-of-the-road management
• Displays a moderate concern for both people and
  production
• Sees a limited amount of participative management
  as practical

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The Leadership Grid

• Team management
• A proactive style
• Displays high concern for people and production
• One best style