1. COURSE INTRODUCTION “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch Learning Objectives: Importance of developing leadership skills Course supports Venturing Leadership skills vs: leadership attributes

2. WHAT MAKES A LEADER?

3. INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR CREWS (ILSC) Leading Self Leading Others Leading Crews

4. LEADING SELF Creating A Vision Learning Objectives: Explain the role vision plays Characteristics of good vision statement Relate vision/leadership to Oath/Law Contribute to crew vision statement

5. LEADING SELF Creating A Vision Vision Statement One clear sentence Excitement/motivation for future Clear Statement Habitat For Humanity Special Olympics Google BSA Starbucks Toys R Us

6. LEADING SELF Creating A Vision Vision Focuses Vision Inspires

7. LEADING SELF Creating A Vision BSA VISION: “To prepare every eligible youth in America to become a responsible, participating citizen and leader who is guided by the Scout Oath and Law”

8. LEADING SELF Creating A Vision Summary

9. LEADING SELF Goal Setting “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible”. Tony Robbins, motivational speaker “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” Yogi Berra, MLB player and manager Learning Objectives Vision vs: goal setting Importance of setting goals Write SMART goals

10. LEADING SELF Goal Setting

11. Guidelines for writing goals SMART goals

12. LEADING SELF Goal Setting Activity Summary

13. LEADING OTHERS Communications “The single biggest problem in communications is the allusion that is has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw, Playwright Learning Objectives Importance of communication in leadership Practice group problem solving skills Great appreciation for nonverbal communication

14. LEADING OTHERS Communications Activity

15. LEADING OTHERS Group Decision Making “On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision, now matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And if one waits too long, one has a different problem and has to star all over. This is a terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.” Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership LEARNING OBJECTIVES 7 decision making steps Effective decision making essential to leadership Use decision-making process

16. LEADING OTHERS Group Decision Making Decision Making Process Steps Identify the problem Brainstorm solutions Evaluate the solutions Make a decision Make a plan Implement the plan Get feedback & be flexible

17. LEADING OTHERS Group Decision Making Step 1: Identify The Problem Is there a problem? What exactly is the problem? Why should it be solved? Who is affected? Is there a time deadline?

18. LEADING OTHERS Group Decision Making Step 2: Brainstorm Solutions Group Brainstorming Ideas One person scribes Post it notes

19. LEADING OTHERS Group Decision Making Step 3: Evaluate the solutions

20. LEADING OTHERS Group Decision Making Step 4: Make a decision

21. LEADING OTHERS Group Decision Making Review 1. Identify the problem 2. Brainstorm solutions 3. Evaluate the solutions 4. Make a decision 5. Make a plan 6. Implement the plan 7. Get feedback & be flexible

22. LEADING OTHERS Planning “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” Benjamin Franklin Learning Objectives 7 step process Why essential to leadership? Appreciate planned activity Plan an activity

23. LEADING OTHERS Planning Identify the problem Brainstorm solutions Evaluate the solutions Make a decision Make a plan Implement the plan Get feedback and be flexible

24. LEADING CREWS Activity

25. LEADING CREWS Delegating “The best executive is the one who has the sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it”. Theodore Roosevelt

26. LEADING CREWS Delegating Learning Objectives: Explain the need for delegation Identify why leaders don’t delegate Describe effective delegation

27. LEADING CREWS Delegating Why Should We Delegate?

28. LEADING CREWS Delegating Why Don’t We Delegate?

29. LEADING CREWS How To Delegate Delegated Tasks Must Be Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time-based

30. LEADING CREWS Team Development “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Henry Ford Learning Objectives: Stages of team development Leadership style for team development Describe regression in team development

31. LEADING CREWS Team Development Activity

32. LEADING CREWS Team Development Forming Storming Norming Performing

33. LEADING CREWS Team Development Forming Goal

34. LEADING CREWS Team Development Storming Goal

35. LEADING CREWS Team Development Norming Goal

36. LEADING CREWS Team Development Performing Goal

37. LEADING CREWS Team Development The Leading Edge

38. LEADING CREWS Team Development TEAM STAGE DEVELOPMENT PHASES LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR Forming High enthusiasm, low skills Explaining Storming Low enthusiasm, low skills Demonstrating Norming Rising enthusiasm, growing skills Guiding PerformingHigh enthusiasm, high skills Enabling

39. LEADING CREWS Team Development Regression Summary

40. CLOSING Learning Objectives Purpose of learning leadership skills Apply skills to improve crew