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Leadership

Leadership ReflectionsLeadership Development 4-2 b

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For Thought• What is Leadership?

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Leadership Experience• Open your Knob Journals to paragraph 1-2 on page 4.

Read what it says about a “frame of reference.” You are going to learn much about leadership at The Citadel, but you all have some leadership frame of reference already.

• Think about the experience you already have had with leaders and leadership.– What do leaders do?– What are characteristics of good leadership practices?– How about bad leadership practices?– Who has been a past good leader in your life and why?

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Leadership Experience• Record your thoughts

about your leadership frame of reference on page 5.

• Don’t worry about your definition of leadership. We’ll come back to that later.

• Be ready to discuss your observations with the class.

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Leadership Experience• Both your positive and negative leadership

experiences are the foundation which your leadership development will at The Citadel will be built upon.

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Leadership Definitions• There are many different definitions of

leadership.

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Leadership Definition / Quotes• Great leaders come from all walks of life with a diversity of backgrounds.

• The following are a sampling of quotes that will be applicable to your foundational experience as a Fourthclass Cadet.

• These quotes are the result of different definitions of leadership based on different viewpoints and life experiences.

• What do they mean to you today?

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Leadership Quotes

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Leadership Quotes

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Leadership Quotes

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Leadership Quotes

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Leadership Quotes• A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this:

"Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain."

- Max DePree

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Leadership Quotes“Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.”—Joanne CiullaProfessor and Director The Institute for Ethical LeadershipRutgers, University

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Leadership Quotes• I start with the premise that the function of

leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers

- Ralph Nader

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Leadership Quotes

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Leadership QuotesLead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.

- Ross Perot

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Leadership Quotes

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Leadership Quotes

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Leadership QuotesThe very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does--and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.

- Colonel Dandridge M. Malone

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Leadership Quotes• No man will make a great leader who wants

to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

- Andrew Carnegie

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Leadership Quotes• The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art

of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

- S. L. A. Marshall Men Against Fire

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Leadership Quotes

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Leadership – A Definition• Definitions are important

to communicate a common understanding.

• Creating a definition for “Leadership” will help you take ownership of this concept

• Leadership is best described as a processthat involves relationship and influence

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Leadership– Your Definition

• Go back to page 5 of your Journal. Think about the quotations and other parts of our discussion and write your definition of leadership.

• Be ready to share this with the rest of the class

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Leadership is influencing people – by providing purpose, direction and motivation – while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.

Leadership is the process of followers and the leader engaging in reciprocal influence to achieve a shared purpose.

Leadership is all about getting people to work together to make things happen that might not otherwise occur or prevent things from happening that ordinarily would take place.

Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made just like anything else. . . through hard work. That's the price we have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal. - Vince Lombardi

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Different Definitions of Leadership

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Qualities of a Leader• From your experience you can probably pick

out who is a “good leader” – Coach, teacher, mentor, pastor, civic leader

• What is it about that individual – their personal qualities that make them stand out?• What did you learn from their example of leadership?

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Group Work

• Refer to what you recorded in your Journal about the characteristics of a good leader and good leadership practices. Work as a small group to develop 3 to 5 key qualities you will want to see from your leaders

• Be ready to share these with the rest of the class

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The Citadel’s Characteristics of a Principled Leader

• Lead with humility• Embrace a true, authentic self• Act and speak with courage• Develop and value people and resources• Empower and hold others accountable• Respect others by building trust and learning

from mistakes• Serve others before self

From the Leader Development Program

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Good Leaders• Good Leaders do the following:

1) Set Expectations2) Build Basic Skills3) Give Feedback4) Follow through with Consequences5) Work for Growth in Others

These five characteristics are The Citadel Training Model.

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What you can expect from your cadet leaders

• Positive and Professional Leadership

• Demonstrate a sense of accountability for those in their care; (i.e. you)

• Treat each other with dignity and respect;

• Operate within the rules and regulations, particularly Chapter Three of the Blue Book;

• Never put you in a position where you must compromise Citadel Core Values or disregard prescribed rules, regulations, or standards.

SOURCE: The Citadel Training Manual, p6

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The Citadel’s Leadership Development Model

1st Year Prepare2nd Year Engage 3rd Year Serve4th Year Lead

• Each year represents a different stage of development

• The freshman year is about preparing to lead. Starting today, you will begin developing your own leadership style by observing others.

• You will spend this year learning to be accountable to yourself. This is the foundation for leadership.

Before a person can truly lead, they must learn how to follow.

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Questions?