Leadership Development: Outline

Why Build an Institute/Academy for Leadership Development?

Questions:

1. Are our leadership funnels being diminished as our culture increases its focus to managing things rather than serving people?
2. Are our educational systems teaching ethical leadership concepts and rewarding ethical leadership behaviors?
3. Are our institutions/organizations confused about the definition of leadership?
4. Is our educational system doing an effective job of building and rewarding character development?
5. Is ethical/servant leadership a calling or a choice?

Answers:
Leadership Development is a tool that:

1. Requires individuals to step-up and choose to lead.
2. Teaches us how to better manage ourselves, manage our environments and serve others.
3. Forces character definition and gives meaning to who I am and want to become, what I do, where I’m striving to go, and who I want to go with me.
4. Helps define a personal moral and ethical compass for
reasoning and decision making.
5. Promotes critical thinking, creativity and measurement.
6. Demands continuous improvement and growth.
7. Encourages us to let go of those things that were responsible for
past successes that may cause us to fail in the future.
8. Teaches us the importance of divesting and investing.

Step I: Deciding on the name of the institute/academy:

Possible Names:

1. The Institute for Leadership Under Construction
2. The Academy for Pathway Leadership
3. The Institute for Leadership Pathways
4. Institute for Leadership Advancement
5. The Academy for Servant Leadership
6. The Servant Leadership Institute
7. Institute for Ethical Leadership
8. The Servant/Steward Leadership Academy
9. The Academy for Leadership Contraction
10. The Institute for Thought Leadership
11. I Lead Institute

StepII: Developing a Purpose Statement/Mission Statement:

Purpose:
1. Cultivating leaders for life.
2. Cultivating leaders for life as a result of learning to model the thought and actions of model leaders
3. Developing servant/steward leaders.
4. Creating a culture that constructs leaders for life.
5. Creating environments that cultivate leaders for life.

Mission:
1. Develop and improve the leadership competencies and skills by transforming the way they think.
2. Prepare future leaders with the skills and strength to add value to their families, communities, and businesses.
3. Develop ethical moral character
4. Create value by teaching participants to think, perform and value others.

Step III: Define Programs:

The LUC Certificate program will be considered a pilot program and will be closely monitored and evaluated by the staff, LUC students/participants, and mentor/coaches that participate in the program. Based on acceptance, evaluations, and what we collectively learn as a result of our experiences, the program will be modified, improved, and or reinvented for 2006/2007. Delivery methodologies and programs may be replaced or enhanced based on value to our students. Leadership development is a tool by which we are able to construct personal pathways that link thought to purpose, purpose to performance and performance to relationships in order that we may see unnatural behaviors become natural.

Leadership development in the 21st century will continues to become more complex because it is requiring us to better balance our thinking between strategy and tactics, continuous improvement and the creation of new value, as well as developing and cultivating quality sustainable relationships long term. For these reasons we believe the more you know about the concepts of leadership, the faster you will grow as a leader and the farther you will be able to go as a leader.

Step IV: Determining and defining the values of the Institute/Academy:

The Institute/Academy has defined a list of core values which reflect the standards of conduct that guide the decisions and actions of the Institute/ Academy.

Institute Core Values

Authentic/Ethical Genuine and does what is right Character

Forward thinking/Stewardship Eye on the future, while managing the present Shared Vision

Competent/Wise Perpetual learner with moral standards for Personal Growth

Honor/Inspiring Serves people and is excited about it Service

Acceptance/Trustworthy Value diversity with confidence Relationship

Responsibility/Accountability Get the job done on commitment Performance

Step V: Developing a vision can take many forms and directions. The one constant however, is that it expresses a future that in some way is better than what presently exist:

Below are examples of the envisioned future for the institute/ academy as well as our strategic goals that support that future:

Example I:

Vision:
Our vision for leadership development for the institute/academy requires a commitment to self-development and is achieved through life-long learning, thinking, and consistent ethical living. This commitment can be best described as a construction project that’s mission is to build a dream home. This home will require many resources; however, the primary resources include architects, contractors, and subcontractors in order to complete this project. A review of the architects rendering describes where we are going with the construction of our home and what we want our home to become:

Example II:

· Institute/Academy will be the catalyst for transforming the way we think (and ultimately act).
· Institute/Academy extends into other areas of the Youth and Adult Education programs.
· Institute/Academy will be considered a Center for leadership within the community.
· Institute/Academy will host area leadership conferences and retreats.
· Institute/Academy will serve as a model for other institutions.

Purpose is the foundation of vision, yet vision gives meaning to purpose. Additionally, purpose will also give meaning to mission and mission will give direction to goals; goals will be verified by measurement, and measurement will give recognition to development and growth. Our strategy for insuring the connections and interconnections of the above will be to:

Build Trust
Develop Relationships
Establish Rules of conduct
Promote Freedom to live

Step VI: Institute/Academy Strategic Goals:

Goal#1- Enlist the participation and commitment of staff and membership for the institute/academy

Goal#2- Develop strong internal and external partnerships to deliver institute/academy programs.

Goal#3- Continually improve and expand the institute/academy programs.

Goal#4- Create a strong service, volunteerism, and outreach
program by providing internal and external opportunities for leadership growth.

Goal#5- Continually improve and expand the institute/academy curriculum and course work, delivery methodologies and program/personal assessments.

Goal#6- Create organizational structure for institute/academy and celebrate achievements.