LEADERSHIP PSYCHOLOGY

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LEADERSHIP PSYCHOLOGY

• Building Leadership Skills
• Developing Influence
• Maintaining Cooperation

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What is Leadership?

• The ability to inspire others to place their
  faith in the knowledge, skills, experience and
  guidance of another .
• Helping others to coordinate their efforts toward
  successful achievement of a goal.
• Developing the leadership talents of others .
• Being an example of the kind of leadership you
  wish to develop in others.

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Knowledge

• Know what others know, plus a little more.
• Know how to find and use resources for what you
  dont know.
• Learn how to communicate what you know.
• Learn who knows what.
• Learn something new every day.
• Acknowledge that you dont know it all.

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Skills

• Listening
• Communication
• Goal Setting
• Planning
• Problem solving
• Evaluation

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Experience

• Follow before you lead.
• see one, do one, teach one
• Seek opportunities to learn what you need to
  lead.
• Learn from your mistakes, no regrets, no whining.
• Compare and share what you learn.

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Guidance

• Example be what you want others to be.
• Motivation recognize and grow the talents of
  others
• Communication purpose, expectations, outcomes
• Goal setting If you dont know where you are
  going, how will you know when you arrive?
• Planning steps, resources, timelines,
  deadlines,
• Counseling identify the problem and the solution

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Example

• Be what you want others to be
• Reliable
• Honest
• Accountable
• Flexible
• Positive

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Motivation

• Recognize and grow the talents of others
• The right person with the right job
• Encouragement
• Recognition
• Resources
• Share what you know

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Communication

• Purpose
• People work better when they know why
• Expectations
• Identify what you want to see happen
• Identify how you expect it to happen
• Outcomes
• Identify your response if expectations are not
  met
• Reasonable and logical consequences

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Barriers to Communication

• Experiences differ, no common ground
• Know your audience
• Confused meaning say what you mean, clearly
• Be specific
• Avoid abstracts
• Give examples

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Goal Setting

• If you dont know where you are going how will
  you know when you arrive?
• Be realistic, specific
• Keep it simple stupid!
• Make it measurable, recognizable
• When you get there, where do you go next?
• Set new goals

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Planning

• Steps
• Identify the process, start to finish, to reach
  the goal
• Identify who will be responsible for what
• Resources
• Who knows what
• If you dont know, who does? Where?

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Planning

• Timeline
• Evaluate progress often
• Identify barriers to progress
• Follow up, follow through
• Deadlines
• Evaluate progress in advance of when things need
  to happen
• Make changes as necessary

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Counseling

• Progressive not punitive
• Identify strengths and weaknesses
• Develop a plan for progress
• Identify timeframe
• Evaluate potential barriers
• Identify cause and effect relationships
• Identify expected outcomes

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Influence the key to leadership

• Who do I influence?
• birds of a feather flock together
• I attract people who think like me.
• Determines who else I influence
• How do I influence?

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Influence 5 levels

• Position Rights
• People follow because they must.
• Permission Relationships
• People follow because they want to.

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Influence 5 levels

• Production Results
• People see the organization improve
• Development Reproduction
• People see themselves improve
• Personhood Respect
• Larger than life

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Maintaining Cooperation

• Respect respect for others is a reflection of
  your self-respect
• Integrity do whats right
• Accountability admit mistakes and recognize the
  contributions of others
• Expect success be positive, encouraging,
  flexible, momentum