1. Developing Your Leadership Philosophy
Student Organization Leadership Development Workshop ~ September 29, 2009
Presented by: Karin Klinger

2. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
What are five (5) qualities or traits that every great leader must have?
What are two (2) circumstances or situations that lead to great leadership?
What are three (3) outcomes or results you must see in order to acknowledge great leadership?

3. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
What is “bad” leadership?
What are five (5) qualities or traits that every bad leader has?
What are two (2) circumstances or situations that lead to bad leadership?
What are three (3) outcomes or results must you see in order to acknowledge bad leadership?

4. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
Mother Teresa
Was she a great leader?
What made her a great leader?
Bill Gates
Is Bill Gates a great leader?
What makes him a great leader?

5. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
Mother Teresa vs. Bill Gates
How can they both be great leaders?

6. God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Developing Your Leadership philosophy
Traits vs. Situational Leadership
Qualities
Can anyone be a leader?
Circumstances
What needs to happen in order for you to become a leader?
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa

7. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
Transformational vs. Transactional Leadership
Leadership that believes in you
Leadership that believes in results or outcomes only
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
- Bill Gates

8. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
Level 5 Leadership
Level 1 = Highly capable Individual
Level 2 = Contributing Team Member
Level 3 = Competent Manager
Level 4 = Effective Leader
Level 5 = Level 5 Executive
Humble, driven, clear sense of purpose, optimistic/Realistic, determined, values others
You can accomplish anything in life, provided you don’t mind who gets the credit.
- Harry S. Truman

9. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
Martin Luther King
Was he a great leader?
What made him a great leader?
Adolf Hitler

10. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
Servant Leadership
1. Calling Conceptualization
2. Listening Foresight
3. Empathy Stewardship
4. Healing Growth
5. Awareness Building Community
6. Persuasion
Responsible people build; they do not destroy. They are moved by the heart. The prime test of rightness of an act is, how will it affect people; are lives moved toward nobility?
- Robert K. Greenleaf

11. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
What role does personality play?
What strengths do you think they have/had?
What personality types do you think they have/had?
Do you share any qualities with them?
It is not so much what people do in this world as their reasons for doing it which really makes a difference. Sacrifices are not so important as the reasons for which you sacrifice, and no sacrifice is any good which remains ever present as such.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

12. Developing Your Leadership philosophy
What is Your Philosophy?
Are leaders born or made?
Do leaders develop people or products?
What level leader are you?
Are you a servant leader?
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
- Elaine Agather