Order of the Arrow Lodge Leadership Development www.oabsa.org

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Dynamics of Leadership
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Specific Goals and Objectives

• Understand your own leadership style
• Understand the interpersonal skills and how to
  use them effectively
• Understand how to set the example and how your
  example effects others

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Leadership

• Leadership is the process of influencing the
  activities of an individual or group in efforts
  towards goal achievement in a given situation.

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We must remember

• A leader must influence the individual or group.
• Influence flows from both the leader and the
  group.
• The leader represents the influence and needs of
  the group.
• The leaders task is moving the individual closer
  to the goal.

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Discovery Activity

• Think of the last few times you needed someone
  else to get something done for you.
• Think of the last time you and someone else did
  not agree.

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Leadership Styles

• Autocratic (Dictatorship)
• Democratic
• Delegation

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Autocratic (Dictatorship)

• Leader defines goals for the team, telling or
  selling them to team members.
• Leader determines methods of goal achievement,
  expecting these will be the methods by which
  these goals are achieved.

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Democratic

• Leader collaborates with team members in defining
  goals, acting as consultant or source of advice
  and counsel.
• Leader expects goals to be achieved, but allows
  team members to determine their own methods to
  reach the goals.

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Delegation

• Leader exerts little or no influence over the
  goals that the team members make, giving this
  responsibility to the team.
• Leader expects that the team determined goals
  will be achieved and allows team members to
  determine the methods to achieve these goals.

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Opening exercise

• The three leadership styles can be found
• within the answers
• Autocratic Style Answer A
• Democratic Style Answers B and C
• Delegation Style Answer D
• Remember Different styles work in different
• situations. Effective leaders recognize the
• circumstances and change style accordingly.

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Interpersonal skills

• Instruction
• Organization
• Facilitation
• Communication

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Instruction

• Giving others the skills and techniques they need
  to achieve goals
• Example Merit Badge Counselor at Summer Camp

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Organization

• Managing people and resources to maximize the
  possibility that a goal will be achieved.
• Example Program Director at a Summer Camp
  oversees Merit Badge Counselors.

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Facilitation

• Conducting an experience so that at team member
  learns a new skill or makes progress towards a
  goal.
• This is an advance form of instruction.

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Communication

• Getting information from your mind to the mind of
  a team member
• This skill is the most important of the four.
• It is necessary to effectively use the other
  three skills.

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Role Play using Interpersonal Skills

• Lodge Chief and OA Unit Representative Chairman
  meet.
• The OA Rep Chairmans report for the Lodge Chief
  to present to the Council Executive Board was not
  turned in.
• The OA Rep Chairman was just appointed and this
  is the first time he is responsible for the
  report.
• The goal of this exercise is to include the OA
  Rep Chairmans report in the next report to the
  Council Executive Board.

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WHAT HAPPENED?
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SETTING THE EXAMPLE
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Setting the Example

• Think back to when you were a younger scout, when
  you first joined the troop.
• Was there someone you admired?
• What were some of the qualities of that person?

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Setting the Example

• Why were you selected to the Order of the Arrow?
• Each Arrowman should and does provide an example,
  and in this way, the Arrowman leads the younger
  scout by example.

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Leadership

• Leadership is the process of influencing the
  activities of an individual or group in efforts
  towards goal achievement in a given situation.

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Setting the Example

• The example that an Arrowman sets, good or bad,
  will influence the younger scouts and the members
  of his team.
• A bad example is a negative influence and will
  hurt efforts towards goal achievement.
• A good example is a positive influence and will
  help efforts towards goal achievement.

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Setting the Example

• What is a good example?
• What are the principles that should guide an
  Arrowman as he leads by example?
• Scout Oath and Scout Law
• Brotherhood, Cheerfulness, and Service Found on
  the Obligation of the Order.

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In Review

• Leadership is the process of influencing the
  activities of an individual or group in efforts
  towards goal achievement in a given situation.
• There are three leadership styles
• Autocratic
• Democratic
• Delegation
• There are four interpersonal skills
• Instruction
• Organization
• Facilitation
• Communication
• Each Arrowman sets an example. Good or bad.
  What will your example be?