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The HEART of a Leader

Are leaders born

• r created?

What is character?

Leaders are DIFFERENT!

Leadership Character

Influence Impact

Leadership Skills Leadership Character

When a leader fails to thrive, the culprit is often their leadership character, NOT their lack of skills.

Facets of Leadership Character

Facet 1 Think Others First

• Servant leadership-Contrary to conventional

leadership where the leader is focused on himself and what he can accomplish and achieve, the focus is on those being served.

• Servant leaders possess and others first
• mindset. They constantly work to help
• thers win.

Facets of Leadership Character Why Think Others First Works

• Servant leadership honors people. A servant

leader acknowledges the different roles, responsibilities and strengths of people.

• Servant leadership builds trust. We trust

leaders whose motives are others centered.

• Servant leadership raises engagement.

It energizes us as followers.

The Heart is a Muscle

Serving leaders don’t think less off themselves, they just think of themselves less.

Facets of Leadership Character Facet 2 Expect the Best

• Leaders are more
• ptimistic than non-leaders

Facets of Leadership Character

Facet 3 Respond with Courage

• Leaders don’t wait- they initiate.

– Leaders get what they create and what they allow.

• Articulate the vision for the future
• Build relationships with challenging people
• Challenge people to grow and change
• Mend broken relationships
• Confront difficult problems
• Make hard or unpopular decisions

How to develop the ability to Respond with Courage

Practice taking action

Facets of Leadership Character Facet 4 Hunger for Wisdom

• Wisdom informs our decisions, and

ultimately, leaders succeed or fail based

• n their decisions.
• All decisions are critical.

– People decisions – Strategy decisions – Financial decisions – How you invest your time

Facets of Leadership Character How to Cultivate Your Hunger for Wisdom

• Be open to input, new ideas and views
• Be open to truth that we don’t know

everything The pursuit of wisdom requires an open mind, and an open mind can be fueled by learning.

Facets of Leadership Character

Facet 5 Leaders Accept Responsibility (Ownership)

• Willing to assume responsibility for the vision and

progress toward it

• Willing to accept ultimate responsibility when the

team fails.

• Very slow to blame others

When you experience an outcome that doesn’t meet your expectations, look in the mirror and ask yourself how you contributed to the failure.

BUT……………………………..

You don’t want to accept all the responsibility

When things do go well you don’t need to accept responsibility, you want to give praise!

Leadership Character 


is a Matter of the…………………

Hunger for Wisdom Expect the Best Accept Responsibility Respond with Courage Think Others First

Are we a serving leader

• r a self-serving leader?

Big Takeaways

• 1. Without leadership character, no one

cares about your skills.

• 2. There are 5 core traits that together

constitute leadership character. They represent the HEART of leadership

• 3. Leadership character can be formed and

transformed

The Heart of Leadership

Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow

By: Mark Miller

“The HEART is the source of all things”

• the ancients

Thank You

Chaun Vaughn vaughnc@dairymax.org #DairyAmazing www.DairyMax.org