1. Leadership Reflections Leadership Development 4-2 b

2. For Thought
What is Leadership?

3. Leadership Experience
Open your Knob Journals to paragraph 1-2 on page 4. Read what it says about a “frame of reference.” You are going to learn much about leadership at The Citadel, but you all have some leadership frame of reference already.
Think about the experience you already have had with leaders and leadership.
What do leaders do?
What are characteristics of good leadership practices?
How about bad leadership practices?
Who has been a past good leader in your life and why?

4. Leadership Experience
Record your thoughts about your leadership frame of reference on page 5.
Don’t worry about your definition of leadership. We’ll come back to that later.
Be ready to discuss your observations with the class.

5. Leadership Experience
Both your positive and negative leadership experiences are the foundation which your leadership development will at The Citadel will be built upon.

6. Leadership Definitions
There are many different definitions of leadership.

7. Leadership Definition / Quotes
Great leaders come from all walks of life with a diversity of backgrounds.
The following are a sampling of quotes that will be applicable to your foundational experience as a Fourthclass Cadet.
These quotes are the result of different definitions of leadership based on different viewpoints and life experiences.
What do they mean to you today?

8. Leadership Quotes

9. Leadership Quotes

11. Leadership Quotes

12. Leadership Quotes

13. Leadership Quotes
A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: "Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain." - Max DePree

14. Leadership Quotes
“Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.”
—Joanne Ciulla Professor and Director
The Institute for Ethical Leadership Rutgers, University

15. Leadership Quotes
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers - Ralph Nader

16. Leadership Quotes

17. Leadership Quotes
Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. - Ross Perot

18. Leadership Quotes

19. Leadership Quotes

20. Leadership Quotes
The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does--and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works. - Colonel Dandridge M. Malone

21. Leadership Quotes
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie

22. Leadership Quotes
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems. - S. L. A. Marshall Men Against Fire

23. Leadership Quotes

24. Leadership – A Definition
Definitions are important to communicate a common understanding.
Creating a definition for “Leadership” will help you take ownership of this concept
Leadership is best described as a process that involves relationship and influence
Leader
Situation
Subordinate
Leadership

25. Leadership– Your Definition
Go back to page 5 of your Journal. Think about the quotations and other parts of our discussion and write your definition of leadership.
Be ready to share this with the rest of the class

26. Different Definitions of Leadership
Leadership is influencing people – by providing purpose, direction and motivation – while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.
Leadership is the process of followers and the leader engaging in reciprocal influence to achieve a shared purpose.
Leadership is all about getting people to work together to make things happen that might not otherwise occur or prevent things from happening that ordinarily would take place.
Leadership:  The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.        - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leaders are not born.  They are made.  They are made just like anything else. . . through hard work.  That's the price we  have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal Vince Lombardi

27. Qualities of a Leader
From your experience you can probably pick out who is a “good leader”
Coach, teacher, mentor, pastor, civic leader
What is it about that
individual – their personal qualities that make them stand out?
What did you learn from their example of leadership?

28. Group Work
Refer to what you recorded in your Journal about the characteristics of a good leader and good leadership practices. Work as a small group to develop 3 to 5 key qualities you will want to see from your leaders
Be ready to share these with the rest of the class

29. The Citadel’s Characteristics of a Principled Leader
Lead with humility
Embrace a true, authentic self
Act and speak with courage
Develop and value people and resources
Empower and hold others accountable
Respect others by building trust and learning from mistakes
Serve others before self
From the Leader Development Program

30. Good Leaders
Good Leaders do the following: 1) Set Expectations 2) Build Basic Skills 3) Give Feedback 4) Follow through with Consequences 5) Work for Growth in Others These five characteristics are The Citadel Training Model.

31. What you can expect from your cadet leaders
Positive and Professional Leadership
Demonstrate a sense of accountability for those in their care; (i.e. you)
Treat each other with dignity and respect;
Operate within the rules and regulations, particularly Chapter Three of the Blue Book;
Never put you in a position where you must compromise Citadel Core Values or disregard prescribed rules, regulations, or standards.
SOURCE: The Citadel Training Manual, p6

32. The Citadel’s Leadership Development Model
Each year represents a different stage of development
The freshman year is about preparing to lead. Starting today, you will begin developing your own leadership style by observing others.
You will spend this year learning to be accountable to yourself. This is the foundation for leadership.
Before a person can truly lead, they must learn how to follow.
1st Year Prepare
2nd Year Engage
3rd Year Serve
4th Year Lead

33. Questions?