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Character Formation With Leadership
Character Formation With Leadership
Character Formation With Leadership
AND ADMINISTRATION
SELF-LEADERSHIP
Leadership is a self governance – an individual must lead himself first before
he can lead others.
LEADERSHIP vs FOLLOWERSHIP
❖ Leadership is the capacity to influence a Group or Individual towards the
realization of a goal.
❖ Followership is the behavior of followers that result from the leader follower
mutual influencing relationship.
❖ Leader is someone who develop visions and motivate the members or
followers of the organization to achieve common goals.
❖ Follower is someone who is under the direct influence and authority of a
leader.
FIVE TYPES OF FOLLOWERS
1. Passive Follower – low in critical thinking & involvement
2. Conformist Follower – high involvement, low critical thinking (lack of
initiative)
3. Effective Follower – high in critical thinking & involvement (more initiative)
4. Alienated Follower – low involvement, high in critical thinking (low initiative
but skilled)
5. Pragmatic Follower – exhibit little style from the 4 styles depending on what
style is fit to the situation.
FIVE KEY ELEMENTS OF LEADERSHIP
1. Leader-Follower – leadership is shared to follower
2. Influence – the use of power, politics, and negotiation
3. Organization Objectives – shared purpose and goals
4. Change – change in status quo, systems, strategies and innovations
5. People – leading people through relationships.
IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP
1. It initiates Action
2. Motivation
3. Providing Guidance
4. Creating Confidence
5. Building Morale
6. Building work Environment
7. Coordination
QUALITIES OF A LEADER
1. Physical Appearance
2. Vision and Foresight
3. Intelligence
4. Communication Skill
5. Objective
6. Knowledge of Work
7. Sense of Responsibility
8. Self-Confidence and Will-power
9. Humanist
10. Empathy
SIGNIFICANCE OF SELF-LEADERSHIP
Self-leadership is the first stage, or leadership level. Self-leadership is of great
importance to the staff, whether managers or ordinary subordinates.
1. Self-leadership allows leaders or senior officers, who undergo very little or no
supervision, to prepare and set targets on their own, as well as to control their own
self to execute such plans.
2. For lower level employees or subordinates, who cannot always be sure of the kind of
governance or leaders they may face in their careers, self management enables
them to become effective and efficient workers under any leadership they may
encounter, be it laissez faire, free-rule, democratic or autocratic.
3. Self-leadership helps make individual decision makers proactive, focused, and
autonomous.
DEVELOPMENT OF SELF LEADERSHIP
Everybody is a future leader. Leadership is therefore not in inborn trait, but it is
developed to become a leader through learning and training people with a
sincere interest.
WAYS OF DEVELOPING SELF-LEADERSHIP:
1. Clarity of Purpose – this means that each entity must have a vision.
2. Aim at Success and take Reasonable Risk – a necessary part of life.
3. Spend Time to Reflect on Your Life – objective evaluation of you.
4. Don’t Tolerate Just Anything – learn to be intolerant / not toleration negative
factors.
SIMPLE WAYS TO LEAD YOURSELF
1. Know your Values and Stick to Them
2. Move Towards Purpose (you have a clear intention to help through the dark
times)
3. Keep Improving Yourself (working hard to improve)
4. Make Mistakes But Never Make The Same Mistake Twice
5. Lead by Example
CONCEPT OF LEADERSHIP
Leadership is the practice of driving people to achieve goals. This plays an
important role in success and efficiency of subordinates. Leaders do this by
providing many means of shaping the actions of subordinates. It’s a process
whereby an individual influences others and guides the organization in a manner
that makes it more cohesive and coherent.
While leadership is learned, a learder's skills and knowledge cam be influenced
by his or her attributes or traits such as beliefs, values, ethics and character.
Knowledge and skills contributes give the leader certain characteristic that make
him or her unique. A leader might have learned the skills in counseling others,
but her traits will often play a great role in determining how he counsels.
FOUR PRMARY FACTORS OF LEADERSHIP
1. Leader (need to inspire subordinates)
2. Follower (need more supervision and motivate subordinates / understanding
of human nature)
3. Communication (to lead bidirectional communication)
4. Situation (to use discretion to determine the best course of action)
THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP
1. Trait Theory – Some personality traits may lead people naturally into
leadership roles.
2. Great Events Theory – A crisis or important event can cause a person to rise
to the occasion, putting forth extraordinary qualities of leadership in an
ordinary person.
3. Transformational or Process Leadership Theory - Today, it is the widely
accepted theory. People can opt for leadership. People can learn the ability to
take leadership.
BOSS vs LEADER?
MOST IMPORTANT KEYS TO EFFECTIVE
LEADERSHIP
1. Trust and Confidence
2. Effective Communication