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    Community Leadership
    Community Leadership
    Community Leadership
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    Community Leadership

    By William McNeal

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    Community Leadership is a guide that provides and offers advice to individuals
    on how to become a part of the solution within the workplace, the home, as part of our
    education system, and as citizens. The guide is designed in small sections that allow
    the reader to read them quickly during breaks, lunch, seminars or training sessions, etc.
    The Topics are also great for facilitating discussions which allow group intervention and
    solution based developments.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateFeb 3, 2014
    ISBN9781304875105
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      Community Leadership - William McNeal

      Community Leadership

      Community Leadership

      William McNeal

      Leadership TEC, LLC

      Community Leadership

      Copyright © 2014 William McNeal

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-304-87510-5

      http://www.lulu.com

      Community Leadership is a guide that provides and offers advice to individuals on how to become a part of the solution within the workplace, the home, as part of our education system, and as citizens. The guide is designed in small sections that allow the reader to read them quickly during breaks, lunch, seminars or training sessions, etc. The Topics are also great for facilitating discussions which allow group intervention and solution based developments.

      Throughout the guide there are several deliberately placed quotes used to support that topic, to help reinforce the intended point, and inspire. Likewise, there may be keywords listed at the beginning of a topic that should be read prior to reading the topic. These keywords can be found in the glossary. There are several references to personality and behavioral assessments/profiles. While completion of these assessments/profiles will help enhance the readers understanding, they are not necessarily required to understand this guide.

      As previously noted this guide addresses the workplace, home, education, and society. It makes recommendations of how to approach and participate from a leadership point of view. For example, let there be no doubt, parents are the first leaders that a child comes in contact with, but being a parent takes more than leadership while the guide addresses issues in the home and with children, it does so only from a leadership perspective, not a parent.

      A final note, being emotional has its advantages and disadvantages. When dealing with situations from a leadership perspective, this guide categorizes emotion as another factor and not necessarily the deciding factor. By taking this approach, emotions are less likely to cloud the decision making process and allow the individual to make a more informed decision or obtain a better understanding. Having said this, now you can decide how much emotion will play in your decision, but not in gathering the facts. Stay calm, think, and decide.

      Chapter 1- Leadership: It’s all about influence!

      Chapter 1

      Leadership: It’s all about influence!

      Do not confuse discipline with leadership. In this context discipline is a form of conditioning and use of power. Leadership is more of influence that focuses on the willing compliance of a person. Considering that this process is successful, the influence will be the most effective as it does not require constant supervision in order to achieve the desired behavior. If disciplinary procedures are constantly required, it supports the premise that ineffective leadership and conditioning methods were used and more supervision is required to obtain the desired behavior.

      The short articles in this section address the many different scenarios in which leadership and discipline may be required in order to be successful. A unique perspective of Parental Leadership will also be addressed. The parent is the first form, and the most widely known position of leadership a person is introduced. This document does not attempt to address how to be a parent in the sense of how to raise your child, but it does address those leadership principles that are applicable to parents. Ironically, those principles are also interchangeable with leadership strategies in the workplace.

      It’s all about influence!

      Leadership is often misused in conversations and accusations. The one that comes to mind is when a politician accuses another of not exerting leadership… huh? Leadership has a few components that make an individual successful, which in turn makes an organization successful. I note three components of leadership such as influence, knowledge, and skills.

      If you research the many variations of leadership definitions you can see, what most have in common are they allude to if not outright note that influencing behavior is an important aspect of leadership. This single component is important as it deals with people. As a side note, leading by example is a form of influence. A leader is paid more to do more and get more from workers. They are not paid more to do less. Unfortunately, the latter has seemed to be the trend and as a result, fewer efforts have been placed on developing those influential components…yes I am referring to people skills! Emotional Intelligence is an old idea that seems to be making a big comeback. Simply put, it is someone’s ability to both recognize the emotion of someone and apply the correct response. Sounds simple but versatility in the leader’s ability to recognize the many different cultures and the appropriate response without accidentally insulting them comes into play.

      Operationally defining knowledge for the sake of this article, we will simply note that one must exhibit a certain amount of information about a particular subject or subjects and enough corresponding ability to reason and comprehend. This will contribute to the decision making process of the leader. The broader the knowledge base the more versatile the decision making process.

      Depending on your definition of skills, it could be anything that does not have anything to do with behavior. If we say that anything that deals with behavior is an influence component it helps in dividing other requirements into skill sets thought required for a particular job or organization. Although manager versus leader are two different aspects and not the same, it will not be fully discussed here. However, an important note is that a person must have the skills to manage a variety of resources such as time, money, etc., and yes even people. Keep in mind that you cannot lead time or money, only people. Managing becomes a skill that is also important to the leader. In order for a leader to be considered an asset to an organization, they must also understand the business of the organization. In this case, some basic skills may be your ability to perform certain aspects or actions that support the operation of the organization.

      As a leader, the hardest component would have to be mastering Emotional Intelligence or recognizing the behavioral outcome of an individual’s personality. If this can be mastered the leader will also know the best way to communicate to others in a way that is optimal and contributes to their intrinsic motivation.

      Turnover

      I would say in most cases an employee is promoted through the ranks because of their exceptional technical ability or individual contribution. But once some have reached a supervisory position they may notice that their perspective about their former equals has changed. Often the attitude may be comply or be fired. Care should be exercised in taking a hard stance because the cost of turnover on average is close to 1.5 times the employee’s salary (Aamodt, 2007).  Another cause of concern would be the loss in efficiency and productivity is passed to the customer. Costs include but are not limited to separations, recruiting and attracting, selection, hiring, and lost productivity (Hinkin & Tracey, 2000).

      Most people are trained to be a technical expert or they received on the job training and gained experience over a span of years. Some organizations provide training for supervisors and managers in the way of the basic mechanics such as, accounting, evaluation, etc., but fall short of teaching people skills.

      My thought is that a manager

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