Accountability Boot Camp

First Things First…We must take a personal inventory

• What qualities do you think are most important for managing this group?
• Match your skills against the job. What areas are you strong and what areas are you weak?

Three Main Leadership Skills

• The ability to place others above yourself
• The ability to listen
• The ability to elicit cooperation

10 Mistakes That Every Leader Makes

1. Repeating the same mistakes
2. Being flexible
3. Trying to be what you’re not
4. Being a commander rather than a leader
5. Failing to listen
6. Getting caught up in your own glory
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8. Hoarding skills or information
9. Taking yourself too seriously
10. Missing the gray areas

Three Key Leadership abilities

• Elicit the cooperation of others. You must be able to get others to buy into your vision of the future and the right way to get there.
• Listen well. You have to be able to gather many kinds of information from others in order to lead; doing so requires that you hone your listening skills
• Place the needs of others above your own needs. Leadership requires that you be willing to sacrifice for the greater goal.

The Responsibilities of a Leader

• Developing a vision
• Coming up with a plan
• Working toward goals
• Building a strong team
• Figuring out what your team needs − and giving it to them
• Getting people to follow through with their responsibilities

What about Expectations?

• Having your own expectations
• Figuring out the expectations of the people on your team
• Meeting the expectations of your boss

Creating A Winning Team

• Being careful in how you select your team
• Making your team a priority
• Letting team members share their expertise
• Helping your team develop new leaders

Equipping Your Team for Success

It takes people time to adopt new ideas and adapt to new situations; therefore as leaders we must understand the four-stage process of adaption so we know how to present our vision.

1. Visually: Most people are visual. Allowing them to see something new helps them to understand it.
2. Emotionally: The next response after seeing something new is emotional. Give them time to process and sort through these emotions before you move on to the next phase.
3. Experietially: Now that they understand something and have accepted it emotionally they are ready to give it a try. Now they are ready to move into the final phase.
4. Convictionally: After people see something, accept it emotionally, and experience it positively, it becomes truly a part of their thinking.

As leaders we must

• Dare to dream: Have the desire to do something bigger than yourself.
• Prepare the dream: Do your homework; be ready when the opportunity comes.
• Wear the dream: Do it.
• Share the dream: Make others a part of the dream, and it will become even greater than you had hoped.