Visionary Leadership

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Visionary Leadership

• Conceptualization
• Foresight
• Vision
• Goal Setting

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Conceptualization

• Seeing the Big Picture and Dreaming Great Dreams
• Examining Others Perspectives
• Reflecting on the Organization Beyond Day-to-Day
  Issues
• Beware of Tunnel Vision

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Foresight

• Learning lessons from the past
• Facing the realities of the present
• Predicting consequences of decisions for the
  future

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The Law of Intuition

• Leaders are readers of.
• Their situation
• Trends
• Resources
• People
• Themselves

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Intuition allows leaders to.

• See differentlyand provide correction
• See globallyand provide direction
• See clearlyand provide structure
• See relationallyand provide support
• See expectantlyand provide confidence
• Maxwell The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a
  Leaders Day

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Vision

• When plotting the course, give attention to three
  areas
• Where they need to go
• What they need to know
• How they need to grow

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• Alice came to a fork in the road and couldnt
  decide which way to go. She asked the Cheshire
  Cat for advice. He asked her where she was going,
  and she said she didnt know. The Cheshire Cat
  responded, Then it doesnt matter which way you
  go.
• Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

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The Law of Navigation

• Navigators
• see the trip ahead
• draw upon past experience
• listen to what others have to say
• examine the conditions before making commitments
• make sure their conclusions represent both faith
  and fact

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• A leader sees
• farther than others see
• more than others see
• before others see

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• First, I must create and articulate a personal
  vision.
• Then, I can collaboratively create and articulate
  a shared vision.
• If you want to know the temperature of an
  organization,
• put a thermometer in the leaders mouth.
• Rick Warren

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Personal Vision

• What is my passion?
• What is my great dream for children?
• Is my dream going to make a difference in the
  world in which I live?

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Providing Vision and Direction for Goal Setting
and Planning

• Articulate High Expectations
• Students
• Adults
• Collaboratively Examine Data and Set Goals
• Multiple sources of data
• Getting to the root cause of a situation
• Create and Implement a Plan of Action
• Evaluate Progress