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NASJE-AJA
Effective Leadership – An OverviewWhat, Why, and How
Seattle, October 4 – 7, 2015
Dr. Yvonne StedhamUniversity of Nevada, Reno
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Why are we here … at this conference, in this session?
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Speaker is here …
Because I think about and know something about organizational effectiveness and efficiency, management, leadership, and quality of work life … in the Judiciary.
Because I am an educator, and think, I know something about teaching and learning.
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Audience is here …
Because ……
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NASJE
The National Association of State Judicial Educators (NASJE) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1975, that strives to improve the justice system through judicial branch education.
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AJA The objective and purpose of the
American Judges Association (AJA) is: to promote and improve the effective administration of justice; to maintain the status and independence of the judiciary; to provide a forum for the continuing education of its members and the general public; and for the exchange of new ideas among all judges.
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Professional Development
On NASJE Website – Featured News (9/16/15):
Judicial educators create opportunities for transformative education that strengthens the administration of justice.
One of the most important and valuable transformations we can facilitate is that from new hire to supervisor, manager, executive and beyond.
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Transformative Education Transformational Learning (TL) is a learning
experience that induces more far-reaching change in the learner than traditional content-based education and especially those learning experiences which reshape the learner, provide a paradigm shift, and affect the learner’s subsequent experiences.
In TL, the learner’s existing mental models are challenged, shifted, and, thereby, expose experiences to new interpretations which in turn leads to changed behaviors
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Transformative Education TL requires the experience of a deep, structural
shift in the learner’s basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and irreversibly alters our way of being in the world
A core aspect of TL is “to become aware of one’s
own tacit assumptions and expectations and those of others and assessing their relevance for making an interpretation” Mezirow
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Leadership Development and Transformational Learning
Transformational Leadership (Today – In this Session)
Developing Leadership Skills through Mindfulness• Mindful Leadership
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Purpose, Topics, and Learning Objectives
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Purpose
To provide participants with an understanding of the need for leadership in the judiciary and to motivate and assist participants in developing their own leadership potential.
And, a few words about “teaching” leadership!
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Learning Objectives
1. Understand the need for leadership in organizations in general and in the judiciary in particular.
2. Know about different ideas of effective leadership.
3. Learn about transformational leadership and the associated leadership practices.
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Topics
1. Leadership – WHY• Relevance• The Need for Leadership in the
Judiciary
2. Leadership – WHAT• Describe, explain, demonstrate• Who would you “follow”?
3. Leadership – HOW• From Transaction to Transformation• The Leadership Practices
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Leadership – WHY
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Which of the following pictures ….
…. appropriately represents the leader ???
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Leadership
Why are we talking about leadership ….
Leadership
Leaders shape “how we live”
Leadership and Change• Leaders identify the need for change, initiate
and implement change
Leadership in Organizations and
the Judiciary Why do organizations exist?
(private, public; for-profit, not-for-profit)
Success of an organization?
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Leadership in Organizations and the Judiciary
Success of an organization
• Efficiency
• Effectiveness
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Leadership in Organizations and the Judiciary
How does an organization maintain its effectiveness over the long term?
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The Organization
Environment
Organization
Organization’s External Environment
Political
Economic
Social
Strategic Management
SWOT
Organization’s Internal Environment
People Structure
External Environment
PESTEL Factors Political Economic Social Technological Environment-Physical Legal
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Processes Structure
People
Culture
Internal Environment
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Leadership in Organizations
WHY?
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Leadership – WHY?
Organizations need to change over
time to provide the products or
services that society wants or needs
efficiently and effectively
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Need for Leadership in the Judiciary
Examples
Need for Change?
Efficiency and Effectiveness• Tension• Ethical Dilemmas
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Resistance to Change
Why is it so difficult to create change?
Why resistance to change?
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Resistance to Change
Uncertainty ….. Fear …..
• Can I perform in the changed environment?
• Can I deliver the newly defined outcome?
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Leadership – WHAT
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Group Exercise What makes a person an effective leader??
Gather in groups of 4-5 – 5 minutes
Based on your actual experience ……
1. Describe an effective leader? Traits? Skills? Behaviors?
2. Based on your answer to Q #1, how do you “teach” someone to be an effective leader?
3. Pick a spokesperson
Typical AnswersBehaviors Provides direction - vision Asks for input and participation - empowerment Treats people with respect and trust Walks the talk
Traits and Skills Is honest and has integrity Is knowledgeable and has experience Good listener – communications skills
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Influence and Power
Five Bases of Power (French and Raven)
1. Legitimate Power
2. Coercive Power
3. Reward Power
4. Expert Power
5. Referent Power (Charisma)
Position-based vs. Person-based Power
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What People Value in Leaders
88% Honest 71% Forward-
looking 66% Competent 65% Inspiring 47% Intelligent 42% Fair-minded 40% Broad-
minded 35% Supportive 34%
Straightforward 33% Dependable
28% Cooperative
24% Determined
23% Imaginative
21% Ambitious 20%
Courageous 20% Caring 17% Mature 14% Loyal 8% Self-
controlled 6% Independent
Source: The Leadership Challenge
TRUSTthe willingness to be vulnerable
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TRUST depends on
• Perceiving someone as having ability (competent …)
• Perceiving someone as having integrity (honesty …)
• Perceiving someone as having benevolence (fair minded …)
Creating Trust - Ability You will be more likely to follow someone
who you perceive as competent, as someone who knows what they are talking about.
How do you know whether someone is competent?• Observations - past behavior• Experience• Training• Conversations - relationship
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Creating Trust - Integrity You will be more likely to follow someone
who you perceive as having integrity.
How do you know whether someone has
integrity?• Tells the truth• Consistency in behaviors
Words and actions Across different people
• Observations - past behavior• Conversations - relationship
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Creating Trust - Benevolence You will be more likely to follow someone
who you perceive as being benevolent towards you – has your best interest in mind.
How do you know whether someone is benevolent?• Cares about you • Knows what is important to you• Respects you
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Leadership…
…is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to
achieve a common goal.
Trust ……is the foundation for effective
leadership.
Leadership – HOW
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Leadership Effectiveness?
1. Leader Traits – Leaders are Born
2. Leader Behaviors and Styles
3. Situational Leadership
4. Transformational - Leader Practices
Relate to a person’s ability to identify, initiate, and implement change through
influencing others.
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Leadership Effectiveness?
1. Leader Traits • Traits• Personality• Emotional
Intelligence
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Leadership Failure Leaders failed because they were
viewed as having the following traits
• intimidating, insensitive, abrasive• cold, aloof, arrogant• not trustworthy• self-centered, overly ambitious
Relate to TRUST
Leadership Effectiveness?
2. Leader Behavior and Styles• Job centered and
employee centered styles
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Leadership Effectiveness?
3. Situational Leadership• Define the “situation”
– Commitment and ability of followers
• Leader must be able to use different styles –Supportive and Directive
• Match Situation and Style
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Leadership Effectiveness?
4. Leader Practices • Transformational
Leadership• The Leadership
Challenge• Leadership Practices
Inventory
Name the Following …
First Question
The two wealthiest people in the world
Academy Awards – last two best movies, actors or actresses
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First Question The 2 wealthiest people in the world
Academy Awards – Last two best movies, actors, or actresses
Name the following …
The 2 wealthiest people in the world:
Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, (Warren Buffet).
Academy Awards – last best best pictures: 2014 Birdman; 2013 12 Years a Slave;
(2012 Argo)
Name the Following …
Academy Award Best Actors:
2014 Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything; 2013 Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club; (2012 Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln)
Name the Following …
Academy Award Best Actress: 2014 Julianne Moore –
Still Alice 2013 Cate Blanchett –
Blue Jasmine (2012 Jennifer
Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook)
Name the Following …
Second Question
A teacher or coach who helped you through school
Two friends who helped you through difficult times
Name the following …
Name the following ….
Which one of the two questions was easier to answer?
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Name the following … The people who make a difference in
our lives are not the ones who have the most credentials, the most money, most awards.
They are the ones who care about us.
It’s all about relationships62
Therefore ….. Leadership is not about position or fame or fortune.
Leadership is a relationship between those that aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.
If we want to make a difference in the lives of others, those people have to see us as someone who can develop them.
But to develop others, we have to develop ourselves
The leader’s primary instrument is the self.63
Transformational Leadership Linking roles of leadership and followership
• Leaders are people who tap into the motives of followers in order to better reach the goals of leaders and followers
• Different from power – inseparable from the followers’ needs
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Leadership Theory Development
Leader Traits
Leader Behaviors and Styles
Situational
Leader Practice
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Transactional Transformational
Leader Traits
Leader Behaviors and Styles
Situational
Leader Practice
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Transactional Transformational Focus on Leader Focus on Follower
Leader Traits
Leader Behaviors and Styles
Situational
Leader Practice
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The Leadership Challenge
James Kouzes and Barry Posner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cpLFFZsbWY&list=PLsRNoUx8w3rMHXNPgEJukmc9UZmLjRgkD
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Developing Leadership Skills
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Leadership Practices
1. Model the way
2. Inspire a shared vision
3. Challenge the Process
4. Enable others to act
5. Encourage the heart
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Relevance
The more frequently people engage in these practices, the more likely it is that they are effective as a leader
Leadership Practices Judicial context
• Challenging the process?• Enable others to act?
General• Most difficult – Inspiring a shared
vision and Encouraging the heart• Not difficult – Model the way
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Kouzes and Posner
To lead, create a shared vision
The best way to lead people in the future is to connect with them deeply in the present. The only visions that take hold are shared visions
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Transactional Transformational Focus on Leader Focus on Follower
Leader Traits
Leader Behaviors and Styles
Situational
Leader Practice
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Final Example
Franklin Roosevelt
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Session Summary
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1. Leadership – WHYNeed for change – Leaders identify the need for change, initiate, and implement change
2. Leadership – WHATInfluence others’ actions by creating relationships based on trust (perceived ability, integrity, and benevolence).
3. Leadership – HOWUsing transformational leadership practices to create relationships based on trust - Modeling the way, Inspiring a shared vision, Challenging the process, Enabling others to act, Encouraging the heart. 77
Readings James Kouzes and Barry Posner (2012). “Leadership
Challenge” James Kouzes and Barry Posner (2009). “To lead, create a
shared vision.” Harvard Business Review, January: 20-21
Northouse (2007). “Leadership: Theory and practice” Robert Sutton (2007). “The No Asshole Rule” Mezirow (2000). “Learning as Transformation: Critical
Perspectives on a Theory in Progress.”. Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, Flowers (2005). “Presence:
The Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society.”
Go to the people,Learn from them,Live with them,
Start with what they know,Build with what they have,
The best leaders,When the job is done,
When the task is accomplished,
The people will say,We have done it ourselves
Lao Tzu (600 B.C., China)