SELF:
SETTING THE EXAMPLE
© 2013 Mike Hawkins
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The SCOPE of Leadership Book Series
A Guide to Coaching Leaders to Lead as Coaches
Self: Setting the Example
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ABOUT THIS SERIES
Welcome to the SCOPE of Leadership book series. The six books in this series are designed to build your knowledge of the thirty-eight competencies of great leaders who lead as coaches. These books provide the insights and principles great leaders as coaches use to practice great leadership—the ability to achieve a desired result through the influence of people who follow and perform by choice.
By reading the SCOPE of Leadership book series, you will learn how to set the example you expect others to follow. You will learn how to coach and develop others, build trust and high-performance teams, and foster collaboration and innovation. You will understand what it takes to motivate and inspire others and discover how to impart ownership and stimulate engagement. You will learn how to develop engaging presentations and speak with confidence. You will understand how to craft win-win partnerships and manage conflict. Most importantly, you will learn how to shape organizational culture, operate with excellence, and deliver exceptional results.
The SCOPE of Leadership is for anyone who aspires to be a great leader. It is for business professionals who want to advance in their career as well as community leaders who want to make a positive impact on society. It is for parents and grandparents who want to be better examples to their children and raise them to be great leaders. It is for athletic coaches who want to help athletes become their best. It is for teachers, principals, church leaders, and others in positions of influence who aspire to influence people positively in order to reach a desired result.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Competency 1: Believing with Passion
Competency 2: Pursuing Goals within a Vision
Competency 3: Learning Continuously
Competency 4: Knowing Self
Competency 5: Demonstrating Honorable Character
Competency 6: Maintaining Mental Fitness
Competency 7: Operating Intentionally
Competency 8: Thinking Strategically
Competency 9: Working Productively
Competency 10: Possessing Courage
Competency 11: Exuding Confidence
Appendix:
The SCOPE of Leadership Scorecard for Book 2
About the Author
Books by Mike Hawkins
FIGURES
Figure 2.1: Johari’s Window
Figure 2.2: Action-Planning Priority Matrix
Figure 2.3: Vision to Execution
Figure 2.4: The Big Picture
Figure 2.5: Workflow Approach
TABLES
Table 2.1: Questions a Vision Should Answer
Table 2.2: How to Retain What You Learn
Table 2.3: Tips on Giving Constructive Feedback
Table 2.4: Tips on Receiving Feedback
Table 2.5: Post-360 Assessment Follow-Up
Table 2.6: Nutrition Checklist
Table 2.7: Action-Planning Prioritization Criteria
Table 2.8: Action-Planning Elements
Table 2.9: Elements of Big-Picture Thinking
Table 2.10: Issues Caused by a Lack of Sense of Urgency
Table 2.11: Fears That Hold Managers Back
Table 2.12: Root Causes of Fear
Table 2.13: Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
Table 2.14: Presence and Appearance Checklist
Table 2.15: The SCOPE of Leadership Scorecard for Book 2
INTRODUCTION
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
—Socrates
Setting the Example: Demonstrating self-discipline, self-control, self-confidence, and intrapersonal skills that underpin competence, trustworthiness, and followership.
Leadership starts from within. Ultimately, leadership is advancing a team, not yourself, but becoming an effective leader starts within you. You must first effectively lead yourself, setting the example that others will follow. Almost any result you seek starts with people, and your great leadership is no exception. It starts with one person—you.
The foundation of leadership is the ability to lead yourself. You can’t do for others what you can’t do for yourself. Great leaders don’t expect to be successful without developing themselves first. Trying to lead others without an ability to lead yourself is like trying to build a house without a strong foundation. Bad foundations result in unstable houses. Small issues in the foundation become amplified as the house is built on top of it.
Leadership is manifested by what you do externally, but it starts with how you think and feel internally. A leader’s external results are the reflection of his or her internal character, thinking, and capability. The first people great leaders provide leadership for is themselves. Leadership starts with who you are inside, not what you do outside.
If you can’t lead yourself well, you can’t lead other people well. Developing your intrapersonal skills provides the underpinning for being effective at higher-level interpersonal skills such as speaking, coaching, encouraging, enabling, motivating, inspiring, and assimilating people into high-performing teams.
There are eleven competencies that great leaders possess at this foundation level of leadership. Great leaders who lead themselves and set the example for others to follow
These are the most fundamental of the fundamentals. These are the basics. These are the core qualities on which most everything else a leader does is based.
When you talk to veteran athletic coaches about their teams’ abilities, they tell you it all starts with the basics. When you have well-developed basic skills, your higher-level skills come more easily. The higher-level competencies you will develop in the remaining books of the SCOPE of Leadership book series become easier and more sustainable because they are built on well-founded basics.
Great leaders look in the mirror. They have the courage to examine themselves and make adjustments to themselves. They hold themselves to as high a standard as they hold others. They don’t expect others to possess characteristics they don’t possess themselves. They follow the philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the twentieth-century Indian nationalist movement, who said, “Be the change you want to see.”
SELF: SETTING THE EXAMPLE
Competency 1: Believing with Passion
Competency 2: Pursuing Goals within a Vision
Competency 3: Learning Continuously
Competency 4: Knowing Self
Competency 5: Demonstrating Honorable Character
Competency 6: Maintaining Mental Fitness
Competency 7: Operating Intentionally
Competency 8: Thinking Strategically
Competency 9: Working Productively
Competency 10: Possessing Courage
Competency 11: Exuding Confidence