1. Moral Leadership REPORTED BY : MAEGRACE B. CAPURAS

2. Moral Leadership  -is a very kind of leadership rather than aspiring to being followed, moral leader aim to serve. Instead of showingcasing their own skills, moral leaders tend to develop the capacities of others.  - puts a great emphasis on the role of ethics in key decision making.  -Involves leading people and organizations to accomplish a higher order of moral purposes.  - leadership behavior which is consistent with personal and organizational values which are in turn derived from a coherent ethical system.

3. Moral leader  - is someone who leads to serve. He or she could be someone who leads through persuasion, motivation, self- awareness, and the most important of all: serving people  - take action by choosing the moral and the most ethical decision to solve an issue  -have higher level of integrity  - these leaders prioritize other people’s need  - can’t afford to make the false decision

4. The Practical Challenges of Moral Leadership  1. time  2. ambivalence  3. the sense of self

5. Four Pillars of Moral Leadership WRITTEN BY: DOV SEIDMAN

6. 1. Moral Leader are Driven By Purpose  - When leader pursue their purpose in ways that the bigger than themselves, it creates the space for other to share in the mission. Moral leaders see path ahead as a journey and frame it explicitly for those whom they lead.

7. 2. Moral Leaders Inspire and Elevate others  - Those with moral authority understand what they can demand of others and what they must inspire in them. Moral leader ask people to be loyal not to them, but rather to the overall purpose and mission of the organization. Therefore, every decision is made with consideration of others’ full humanity. And because they see that humanity in others, they’re more inclusive and better able to and learn from those whom they lead.

8. 3. Moral Leaders Are Animated By Both Courage And Patience  - It takes courage to, for instance, speak out for a principle or larger truth, especially when such an action has the potential to put that leader in an uncomfortable or vulnerable territory.  Think patience as a way of extending trust to others by allowing them the time to be more thorough, rigorous and creative and to consider the broader, long term outcomes of any action.

9. 4. Moral Leader Keep Building Muscle  - Authentic leaders don’t stop learning and growing just because they’ve accumulated formal authority. They continue to build moral muscle by wrestling with questions of rights and wrong, fairness and justice, what serves others and what doesn’t.

10. Five Key Characteristics of Moral Leaders

11. 1. Commit to something bigger than themselves.  - making a commitment to something bigger than oneself enables a life of seeking and, ultimately, of living oneself into what it means to lead on behalf of others in ways that harness human capabilities.

12. 2. Cultivate Moral Imagination  - It starts with the art of listening – the ability to put yourself into another’s shoes and build solutions from their perspective. Listening itself can be an act of generosity. You learn to communicate across the lines of difference and in the process, you develop a sense of your own identity as well as that of those around you.

13. 3. Develop Grit and Persistence

14. 4. Practice Moral Courage 

15. 5. Believe  - Moral leaders live with faith that life can improve and are willing to work to make it so. They remind themselves and those around them that the sun will rise after even the darkest night.

16. Strategies in Development of Moral Leadership BY: JOHN WEST - BURNHAM

17. 1. Engagement with the meta- narratives  - Example reading the ethical classic which will include the texts of the great religions, many works of literature as well as technical works on ethics, education and leadership.  - The purpose of such reading is to deepen awareness and understanding, to extend ones personal vocabulary and mental models and to stimulate reflection.

18. 2. Reflection in Action  - a crucial learning process in which individual’s conceptual map is used to analyze actual practice so that map and the practice are interrogated and revised so as to inform future actions

19. 3. Coaching  - powerful facilitating and mediating process to support the first two strategies.  - might be provided by a more experienced leader, a person who is skilled facilitator or by peer who is experiencing the same situation

20. 4. Networking  - formal or informal, is further powerful strategy that facilitates exemplification, clarification, problem analysis, solution generation, advice and reassurance

21. Nelson Mandela  -example of a great moral leader  -most respected leader around the world  -capable of reaching to the mind of the people  - persuade people inside and outside the country  - he was able to save South Africa from civil war  -he was awarded Nobel Peace prize in 1993  -wipe out the racial discrimination in South Africa  -he struggled and became a symbol for racial equality

22. The Effects of Moral leadership  - it is important to have a Moral leader in the government because moral leaders have the power to change the heart of the people.