preparing for leadership

Preparing for LeadershipPresented by: Mr. Randy M. GrimesInstructorTrident Technical College

Preparing for Leadership

“A leader has the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

Arnold Glasow


“Excuses are tools of incompetence; used to build monuments of nothing. Those who dwell in them seldom amount to anything”


“It’s not about what you’re capable of…..It’s about what you’re willing to do”

“We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do.”


“I needed New Orleans just as much as it needed me. It was the one place that cared about me.”

Drew Brees New Orleans Saints

Quarterback

Preparing for Leadership“My goal was to prove to my

family I wasn’t a dummy. I learned in high school thatI was going to have to outworkpeople. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him.”

“If I work harder than him, I’ll beat him. And to this day I over-prepare.”

Roger GoodellNFL Commissioner


1. Education

2. Skill Set

3. Networking


“In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”

Eric Hoffer


“The height by great men was not attained by sudden flight……. But they, while their companions slept kept toiling upward in the night.”

Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow


“It’s not what you know, not even who you

know, it’s who knows you.”


“The first step in becoming a leader, then, is to recognize the context for what it is – a breaker, not a maker, a trap, not a launching pad, and end, not a beginning – and declare your independence.”

Warren Bennis


“Knowing thyself, then, means separating who you are and who you want to be from what the world thinks you are and wants you to be. People become leaders at that moment when…They decide for themselves how to be.”


Four lessons of self-knowledge

1. You are your own best teacher.2. Accept responsibility. Blame no one.3. You can learn anything you want to

learn.4. True understanding comes from

reflecting on your experience.


Guiding Vision:The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.


Passion: The leader loves what he does and

loves doing it. The leader who communicates passion gives hopeand inspiration to other people.

Preparing for Leadership Integrity: The leader never lies to himself, especially

about himself, knows his flaws as well with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of andwhat you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.”


Knowing the world:Anticipation: being active and imaginative rather than passive and habitual learning by listening toothers (Finding the right mentors)

Participation: shaping events rather than being shaped by them


Making mistakes

“If you haven’t failed, then you haven’t tried very hard.”


Making mistakes

•Learn from your mistakes

•Don’t make the same mistake twice

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