Your job as the leader is to create more leaders.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
1. The Learning Leader: If the leaders thinks he knows it all he is not a leader “There is nothing new in the world for me” attitude...

·         Episodic Learning VS Continuous Learning

·         What did you do today VS What did you learn today?

2. Sustainable Leadership: Recruiting leaders from within;

·         Identify and recruit NCO’S that share a concern or have a passion about leadership. People who want to deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting with one another on an ongoing basis;

·         Leadership must be grown, cultivated and explored at all levels (not restricted to NCO’s);

3. Leadership Space: Leaders create space, they don’t occupy the space (goldfish grow bigger in a larger pond);

·         The old way of thinking: “How few people can we involve in the planning”? Your Rangers are left in the dark until the plan is mobilized....

·         The new way of thinking: “How do we empower our Rangers to make recommendations about a proposed plan”? Ideas are captured and considered in advance of mobilizing...

4. Relationship Leader:

·         We take it for granted that we have a good relationship. Many people need to know you before they will do business with you or trust you.

Action without relationship has no commitment

Action without possibility has no imagination

Action without reflection is doomed to make the same mistakes



·         Hard Skills VS Soft Skill Leadership

o   Hard Skills: Developing a set of orders, assigning tasks, completing an equipment inventory, etc...

o   Soft Skills: People Skills – People feel appreciated for their efforts, people are recognized for going over and above, some members are going from high performing to low performing Rangers – why?

5. Leading Change

·         We often take a good idea and kill it by turning it into a program or a flavour of the month;

·         Good change happens from the foundation up not from the management down;

·         Leadership places just as much emphasis on the soft skills as the hard skills;

·         Team building is not an event – it is an everyday practice;

·         People will resist change if they perceive that you are trying to change them;

·         People generally do not resist change if the focus is spent on the system within which we work;

Leading Effective Meeting Management

·         The problem with meetings is that they often have too much information or too much talking by one or two people. Here is how to shrink the ballance:

·         L.I.D. template (put some thought and preparation into your meeting and combine all of the top five leadership aspects).

o   1/3^rd Learning

o   1/3^rd Information

o   1/3^rd Dialogue

Reference: B. Chartier