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Leadership Principles. Outline the role of a commissioned officer in the Air Force Describe the principles of leadership Describe the relationship between leadership, management and command Describe the OTS leadership model. Reference. Army Manual of Land Warfare Vol 1–10
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Outline the role of a commissioned officer in the Air Force • Describe the principles of leadership • Describe the relationship between leadership, management and command • Describe the OTS leadership model
Reference • Army Manual of Land Warfare Vol 1–10 • ‘The art of Eliciting Extraordinary Performance from Ordinary People’ - LTCOL M.C. Parsons • ‘Effective Leadership’ – John Adair
References • ‘Training for Leaders’, John Adair • ‘Leadership and the One Minute Manager – Blanchard • ‘Leadership that gets results’, Goleman, D. (2000), Harvard Business Review, Mar – Apr • ‘Working with Emotional Intelligence’, Goleman, D. (1999), Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
‘A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and enjoy it’ Harry. S. Truman, quoted in The People’s Almanac (1975)
“Leadership is the lifting of a man’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a man’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a man’s personality beyond normal limitations. Wishing won’t make it so; doing will” Peter. F. Drucker, The Practise of Management (1955)
‘I have to follow them, I am their leader’French lawyer, politician and revolutionary leader Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1984)
‘The art of leadership..consists of consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking that nothing will split up that attention’Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925-26)
LEADERSHIP • The art of consistently influencing and directing subordinates in ways as to obtain their willing obedience, confidence, respect and loyal cooperation in the manner desired by the leader.
MANAGEMENT • The process of planning, organising, coordinating, controlling and evaluating the use of people, money, materials and facilities to accomplish missions and tasks.
COMMAND • The lawful authority which an individual in the Services exerts over subordinates by the virtue of his/her rank and posting. Command is supported by a code of military law.
LEADERSHIP People Motivation Effectiveness Resources Application Efficiency Authority Responsibility Ethics COMMAND MANAGEMENT MISSION
Early Leadership Theories • Cave paintings as Training Aids • Chinese writings of Confucius, Mo-tzu, Lao-tzu, Sun-tzu • Early Eurpopean writers such as Homer,Plutarch, Caesar, Machiavelli, Clausewitz
A leader is bestWhen people barely know he exists,Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,Worse when they despise him.But of a good leader, who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say:We did it ourselvesLao-Tzu, 6th century Chinese philosopher
Modern Thought on Leadership • The end of WW1 brought the demise of hereditary leadership • First theories on personal qualities or traits • After WW2, shift to observable behaviours • 1960’s - Situational leadership • Recently - transactional to transformational leadership
Planning Initiate Evaluate Control Inform Support The PICSIE Crystal
Hershey-Blanchard Situational Leadership Model
Personal Social Self Awareness Social Awareness Awareness ei Management Social Management Social Skills The Emotional Competency Model
Covey’s 7 Habits • Habit One – Be proactive • Habit Two - Begin with the End in Mind • Habit Three - Put First Things First • Habit Four - Think Win-Win • Habit Five - Seek First to Under- stand, Then to be Understood • Habit Six - Synergise • Habit Seven - Sharpen the Saw
In short, given the right context, every leadership theory or model is the correct one.
Task Individual Team The John Adair Leadership Model
LEADERSHIP QUALITIES ACTIONS SKILLS SELECTION PRACTISE TRAINING
QUALITIES • Personal style and professional qualities of a leader.
QUALITIES • Personal style and professional qualities of a leader. SKILLS • Professional Skills • Self-Improvement Skills • Interpersonal Skills • Communication Skills • Ethics
QUALITIES • Personal style and professional qualities of a leader. SKILLS • Professional Skills • Self-Improvement Skills • Interpersonal Skills • Communication Skills • Ethics • ACTIONS • Providing Vision • Managing the Task • Building the Team • Supporting Individuals • Adapting leadership style
Manage the task VISION Support the People Build the Team STYLE
INTRODUCTION Leadership Principles Leadership Development ACTIONS Vision Manage the Task Build the Team Support the Individual Leadership Style LEADERSHIP TRAINING AT OTS SKILLS Professional Skills - other lessons at OTS (ie CBRN) - goal setting Self Improvement - (WEIP, MBTI) - Stress Management Interpersonal Skills -Counselling Communication Skills Ethics • QUALITIES • Recruitment and selection • QUAL 6 (Principles and Standards) • Chaplain Lessons • LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT • PICSIE, Adair’s model, Hershey-Blanchard, Emotional Intelligence (Goleman), Covey’s Seven habits • LEADERSHIP CONSOLIDATION
Outline the role of a commissioned officer in the Air Force • Describe the principles of leadership • Describe the relationship between leadership, management and command • Describe the OTS leadership model
Manage the task VISION Support the People Build the Team STYLE