Leadership%20Interview:%20Jay%20Holbrook

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Leadership InterviewJay Holbrook

• Elizabeth Fischer
• Thursday December 4, 2003

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Who is he?

• Course Director

• Trainer

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Why did I pick him?

• He is a teacher

• He is a volunteer

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His Leadership Style

• Direct/Assertive

• Fact Finder

• Emotionally Controlled

• Adventure

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Strengths vs. WeaknessesWhat so important?

• ? Necessary for leaders to know those of their
  group as well as their own! ?

WHY?
Different Personalities impact group function.

• Strength
• Helping team realize their strengths and
  weaknesses.

• Weakness
• Empathy

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Values are important!

• Scouts are value-based, so his leadership
  workshops are value-based.

• 12 Point Boy Scout Law

• Trust and Respect are the most important.

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And what about change?

• ?Important in any leadership task!?

WHY?
Methods of instilling values will change from
generation to generation.
THEN
NOW

• Camping/Digging Trenches

• Corrective measures on the environment

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The vision is most important and difficult task
It defines great leadership because all great
leaders are determined in their vision.

• ? But, powerful emotional reactions are involved.

? Teams can be destroyed and people left behind.
? The future is uncertain.
? But that is the emotional price you pay as a
leader to get to where you want to be.