Transcript Building a Positive Attitude

Leadership Factors Objectives
(p240-250)
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Identify the 2 elements of leadership
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List & Demonstrate AF Core Values
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Summarize reasons for the Air Force
Core Values
Air Power Pioneers
Hap Arnold
Tooey Spaatz
Pg 245
Billy Mitchell
Jimmy Doolittle
Quick Write
Think of a leader you admire—in the news, at
school, at work, or in your community
Write a list of the five things you admire most
about that person.
How many of those aspects of the leader seem
like personality traits? learned behaviors?
Air Force Leadership Concept
MISSION
PEOPLE
We should speak to them [enlisted soldiers] as if they were our equals, but
never as if we were theirs.
-- J.F.C. Fuller (How to Train an Army, 34)
Elements of Effective Leader
Leadership =art of influencing & directing people to
accomplish the mission (common goal)
Need to know:
How people interact in groups?
Types of leadership respond / turn off?
How work w/ people?
The Air Force Leadership Concept
• Mission—task of organization
• Leader’s primary responsibility: lead team to carry
out mission while never forgetting importance of
the people
Leadership Concept
• People
—perform the mission
of organization
-w/o support- fail
• A leader’s responsibilities: care & support
Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power.
Walter Lippmann
Air Force Core Values
Integrity first
Service before self
Excellence in all we do
• Integrity is a character trait
• do what is right even when
no one is looking
• “moral compass” or inner
voice
Integrity First
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Courage
Honesty
Responsibility
Accountability
Justice
Openness
Self-respect
Humility
Service Before Self
• duties take precedence over personal desires
• includes the following behaviors:
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Follow rules
Respect for others
Discipline & self-control
Faith in system
• passion for improvement & innovation to help you
& organization to accomplish and perform:
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product/service excellence
personal excellence
community excellence
resources excellence
operations excellence
Reasons for Supporting
Core Values
1. personal integrity
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accountability and practice justice
2. profession of arms
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universal and unchanging
road signs inviting us to consider key features of the professional service
3. ethical climate of the organization
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Big-ticket scandals grow out of a climate of ethical corrosion
have you strayed
4. professional conduct
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beacons bringing us back
transform a climate of corrosion into a climate of ethical commitment
Summary
Identify the 2 elements of leadership
Mission
People
List & Demonstrate AF Core Values
Integrity, Service Before Self, Excellence in All We Do
Summarize reasons for the Air Force
Core Values
personal integrity / profession of arms /
ethical climate / professional conduct