1. Leadership Principles

2. Overview What are the key principles of leadership?
What is the importance of knowing yourself and your role?
What is the importance of setting the example?
What is the importance of caring for your people?
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3. Overview How can you communicate, educate, equip, and motivate?
What is the importance of accepting your responsibility?
What is the importance of developing teamwork?
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4. How did the person’s actions reflect his or her leadership qualities?
Quick Write
Read an American Biography or Americans in Action article from an earlier lesson in the textbook.
Then write a list of words that indicate that person’s leadership qualities.
How did the person’s actions reflect his or her leadership qualities?
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5. Key Principles of Leadership
Ideas about leadership have changed
Many businesses used to have a “top-down” management structure
But by the mid-1980s, boundaries between the top and the bottom had become less distinct
Leadership became a shared responsibility
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6. Key Principles of Leadership
Part of your job as a future leader is to understand leadership theories and styles
By demonstrating strong values, building trust, focusing on results, and motivating, you will influence your team members
In so doing, you will help them adapt to the challenge of service in an ever-changing world
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7. Key Principles of Leadership
To help its men and women understand the behaviors expected of its leaders, the Air Force has adopted a set of leadership principles
A leadership principle is a rule or guide that has been tested and proven over the years by successful leaders
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8. Leadership Principles
Know yourself and your role
Set the example
Care for your people
Communicate, educate, equip, and motivate
Accept your responsibility
Develop teamwork
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9. Knowing Yourself and Your Role
To be a successful leader, you must recognize your strengths or abilities, as well as your limitations
You must then build on your strengths and try to overcome your weaknesses
As a leader, you must understand your own role
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10. Knowing Yourself and Your Role
You must also understand how your team contributes to the overall mission of the organization
Finally, you must make sure that each team member understands how his or her role relates to the mission
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11. Setting the Example
Setting an example means giving people a strong model to imitate
As a leader, you must set the standard for your team by your actions as well as your words
If you are arrogant or domineering, you will command little respect
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12. Setting the Example
Self-control is also essential—a leader who cannot control himself or herself cannot control others
Lack of self-discipline in a leader destroys the team’s unity and its ability to perform
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13. Caring for Your People
Caring for people means putting others’ needs before your own
To take care of people, you must know them well and be sensitive to their needs
If people are worried about their personal lives or other issues, they cannot focus fully on the task
Then the mission suffers
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14. Caring for Your People
If your people believe you care for them, you will earn their confidence, respect, and loyalty
Caring for your people involves establishing clear lines of communication between you and them
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15. Caring for Your People
The bottom line about caring for your people is this:
People who feel cared for are people who become self-motivated
Self-motivated people can accomplish the impossible
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16. Communicate
Communication and information should flow continuously throughout the organization
Successful leaders listen to their people
Providing feedback is also essential
As a leader, it’s your job to keep all communication channels open
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17. Educate People need training to do their jobs well
Professional military education, technical training, and on-the-job training are the formal means by which Air Force personnel receive training
Informal training, practice, and personal experience at the unit level reinforce formal training
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18. Equip
Part of your responsibility as a leader is to make sure your team has the equipment it needs to do its job
The leader’s responsibilities include identifying needs, securing funds, and obtaining the necessary supplies, tools, and equipment to accomplish the mission
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19. Motivate
A leader’s greatest challenge is to motivate team members to achieve the high standards set for them
The ability to generate enthusiasm about the mission may be the single most important factor in leadership
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20. Motivate
To motivate people, a leader must understand their needs and align these needs with the unit’s requirements
Recognition is one of the most powerful motivational forces
One of your goals as a leader should be to provide an environment that fosters and rewards self-motivation
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21. Accepting Your Responsibility
Gen Curtis LeMay once said “If I had to come up with one word to define leadership, I would say ‘responsibility.’”
As a leader, you are responsible for ensuring that your team accomplishes its mission
If you fail, you are accountable for the consequences
Gen Curtis LeMay :
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22. Accepting Your Responsibility
If you are not willing to accept responsibility for failure, you will lose your credibility and respect
Accountability requires discipline
Just as a leader should reward a job well done, he or she must discipline those who fail to meet their responsibilities or standards
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23. Developing Teamwork
The leader’s job is to mold a collection of individuals into a cohesive team
Cohesion is the ability of a team to stick together when it works toward its objective
As the leader, you should know how the various roles of individual team members fit together
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24. Developing Teamwork
You should create and maintain an atmosphere of teamwork and cooperation to meet mission demands
Cooperation is the ability of team members to work together to accomplish the team goal
Teamwork comes when people are willing to put the team’s mission before all else
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25. Review
A leadership principle is a rule or guide that has been tested and proven over the years by successful leaders
Leadership Principles:
Know yourself and your role
Set the example
Care for your people
Communicate, educate, equip, and motivate
Accept your responsibility
Develop teamwork
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26. Review As a leader, you must understand your own role
Setting an example means giving people a strong model to imitate
Caring for people means putting others’ needs before your own
Successful leaders listen to their people
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27. Review People need training to do their jobs well
Part of your responsibility as a leader is to make sure your team has the equipment it needs to do its job
A leader’s greatest challenge is to motivate team members to achieve the high standards set for them
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28. Review
As a leader, you are responsible for ensuring that your team accomplishes its mission
If you fail, you are accountable for the consequences
The leader’s job is to mold a collection of individuals into a cohesive team
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29. Summary What are the key principles of leadership?
What is the importance of knowing yourself and your role?
What is the importance of setting the example?
What is the importance of caring for your people?
Chapter 7, Lesson 3

30. Summary How can you communicate, educate, equip, and motivate?
What is the importance of accepting your responsibility?
What is the importance of developing teamwork?
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31. Next Done—leadership principles
Next—leadership style and mission demands
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