Wow, I know. 

Thanks for hangin' tough, though! 

My intention is that as we build these conceptual frameworks for leadership, you will have a 'bucket' to put future topics/activities and a solid rationale for what we are studying. For instance, when we start doing some online assessments, you can think to yourself, "Ah, I am using introspection and this will help me gain accurate self-assessment. I'm doing this because SELF-LEADERSHIP is critical to overall leadership. No one can leads others if they aren't leading themselves."

Or, when we study leadership styles, you will see that one of them is Visionary Leadership. By then, you will know that Visionary Leadership is an element of Social Skill. You can tell yourself, "Learning to use the visionary leadership approach is important because it is going to help me in my INTERPERSONAL LEADERSHIP abilities."

Buckets. We're creating buckets.

As Amy mentioned, I will share the quotes about leadership I shared yesterday so that you can reflect on these and see if you want to integrate them into your philosophy of leadership.

"Ultimately, leadership development has to integrate the depth of the inner self-awareness work with the breadth and complexity of the external marketplace and cultural dynamics."

"Some influence through ideas, some through systems, yet others through people, but the essence is the same."

"Leadership development is about our ongoing journey to discover and develop our purposeful inner capabilities in order to make a more positive contribution in our jobs, families and communities."

"It can be said that anyone who authentically expresses him/herself in a way that creates value in an organization is leading." (Kevin Cashman)

"If your actions cause others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams

Hopefully some of those ideas will help further refine your philosophy of leadership statements.

LIA Challenge #1: Cross-reference the 6 Core Competencies and the Learning Framework.  For each of the 21 skills/characteristics listed in the learning framework, there is an underlying competency that helps facilitate that skill/characteristic.  (A couple of the competencies such as INITIATIVE and INFLUENCE are simply stated as they are.)

LIA Challenge #2: Complete the leadership skills inventory in order to get a baseline for where YOU think you fall on the scale of these 10 leadership characteristics. No one will read this. It is for your reference. If you're feeling super ambitious, in a different color, complete it again from the perspective of how you think your spouse, parent, manager and closest friend might complete it for you.

I had a blast with ya'll yesterday. Thanks for showing up AND being present!


P.S. Some adjustments:

- While management and leadership call on different skill sets, they are both essential to running an organization. Sometimes the 'management' role gets a bad rap. I encourage you to read back over the functions of management and ask yourself: What would happen to our organization if no one performed these responsibilities?

- Please remember our ground rules for the group that we are employing the highest level of respect for one another and anyone else who is not with us. We are all members of one team. Thanks for keeping it classy.