Leadership 1st Year

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Leadership 1st Year

• Foundation Leadership- Part IV
• Confidence

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Review

• What is leadership?
• Leadership is influence
• What is the foundation for all leadership
• Character
• Define Character
• Character is what you do when no one is looking
• Define Commitment
• A promise
• Define Discipline
• Doing things the right way, not the easy way.
• Define Courage
• Courage is not the absence of fear, it is going
  anyway despite the presence of fear

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Review

• Have you taken the commitment and self discipline
  challenge
• Have you made your list of 20 things you want to
  do before you die?
• Dont die wonderin

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Confidence

• What is confidence?
• Confidence
• Belief in yourself

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ConfidenceBelief in yourself

• Confidence is one of the most important character
  qualities in terms of making it in this world.
  Scott Pack wrote Life is Difficult in a Road
  Less Traveled, and he is right.

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ConfidenceBelief in yourself

• Why not have total confidence?
• Why do you really care what other people think?
• Who is the most confident person you know besides
  your parents?
• What do you think makes them so confident?

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ConfidenceBelief in yourself

• What makes people so confident?
• Does a player who benches 222 x 20 times feel
  pretty confident working out back at his high
  school in the summer?
• Does a player who benches 185 x 2 times go back
  to his high school and work out in his old high
  school weight room?

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ConfidenceBelief in yourself

• What makes people so confident?
• Does the absolute best looking girl usually walk
  into a room with a lot of confidence?
• Does a professional body builder go to the beach
  and feel confident about taking off his shirt?
• Does a person who scored on his ACT 29 have
  trouble answering the question How did you do on
  your ACT?
• What if someone received a 14?

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ConfidenceBelief in yourself

• Most people base their confidence level on what
  OTHER people thing not Belief in Yourself.

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ConfidenceBelief in yourself

• If a person truly did not care about what other
  people thought would it bother him going back to
  his high school and benching 185 x2 in the
  summer?
• If a person truly did not care about what other
  people thought would it bother him saying I got
  a 14 on my ACT? It is what it is

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ConfidenceBelief in yourself

• Everybody has different degrees of confidence in
  different areas of life.
• Example
• A beautiful girl
• Image confident usually? YES
  or NO?
• 2.1 GPA in college
• Academically confident? YES or NO?
• Not athletic
• Comfortable in playing pickup sports YES or
  NO?
• Comes from a great family strong values
• Socially confident YES or NO?

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Confidence-Know your strengthsBelief in yourself

• Know your strengths!
• Another way to help with self-confidence to know
  your gifts/talents and the strengths of your
  personality. Everyone has gifts. Understanding
  these gifts and personality strengths should
  allow you to be confident of who you are.

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Confidence-Know your strengthsBelief in yourself

• Was jumping out of an airplane a strength for
  Sobel?
• The drill sergeant said, Any refusals and your
  out as he addressed the group before the jump.
  Why is this a wise military policy for
  paratroopers?

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Confidence-Know your strengthsBelief in yourself

• Was Sobel naturally gifted to lead the field?
• Management vs Leadership?
• What did the Army eventually do to Sobel because
  of his lack in this area?
• Was Winters gifted in the field?

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Confidence-Key to Confidence Preparation

• KEY !!!
• Confidence through preparation
• To be self-confident you have to believe in who
  you are. This confidence will permeate into
  everything you do. However, you also need to be
  confident in specific tasks or situations. This
  confidence comes from preparation.

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Confidence- Key to Confidence Preparation

• When you are prepared for a situation, when you
  have done everything possible to put yourself in
  the best position possible for success you will
  be confident. Lack of preparation leads to
  uncertainty and doubt.

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Confidence- Key to Confidence Preparation

• What do the soldiers say on there first jump
  before they head out of the plane?
• What do the soldiers say on there jump into
  Normandy with enemy fire all around them?

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Confidence- Key to Confidence Preparation

• How did Winters know so much about where to go
  when they landed?
• How did he remain confident and lead effectively
  with only a knife and a disastrous landing?
• Confidence is when Winters says Were not lost
  private, were in Normandy

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Confidence- Key to Confidence Preparation

• Having confidence enables you to perform up to
  your capabilities. It gives you the freedom to
  perform without the fear of failure and without
  holding back. Confidence is not totally mental or
  physical, but a combination of the two. The
  skills gained from hours of practice enables you
  to have mental confidence in yourself. The mental
  confidence enables your body to excel. Together,
  mental and physical confidence will give you an
  edge . . .

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Confidence- Key to Confidence Preparation

• A coach cannot tell a player to have confidence.
  Many do, while others criticize their players for
  lacking confidence. What they should really be
  pointing out is that the player lacks preparation
  he hasnt worked hard enough. Even if the coach
  doesnt know the real reason for the players
  lack of confidence, the player will know.

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Confidence- Key to Confidence Preparation

• The greatest pep talk in the history of
  locker-room coaching wont help the player who
  has cheated on his preparation. An athlete is
  either ready or not. If he is not ready it is
  because of a lack of preparation not because of
  a lack of confidence.
• Get yourself ready, pay the price, earn the
  right to have confidence. The Edge

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Confidence- Key to Confidence Preparation

• Self-Confidence The Key to Leadership
• People will follow you if they know that you
  believe in yourself and if they know you are
  headed somewhere.
• People buy into the leader and then they buy into
  the vision. This order is very important to
  realize.

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Confidence- Key to Confidence Preparation

• Self-Confidence The Key to Leadership
• The key to having followers is being
  self-confident. When you are in front of others
  in a leadership role, the people are listening to
  what you say but they are really looking inside
  you to see if you truly believe in yourself and
  what it is that you are saying.
• Know your strengths and prepare!

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Review

• What is leadership?
• Leadership is influence
• What is the foundation for all leadership
• Character
• Define Character
• Character is what you do when no one is looking
• Define Commitment
• A promise
• Define Discipline
• Doing the right, the right way, all the time
• Define Courage
• Courage is not the absence of fear, it is going
  anyway despite the presence of fear
• Define Confidence
• Belief to Yourself
• Key to Confidence
• PREPARATION