Julie Womble-Part I

Foundation Principles of Leadership:
1. Leadership is a concern for all of us.
2. Leadership is viewed and valued differently by various disiplines and cultures.
3. Conventional views of leadership have changed.
4. Leadership can be exhibited in many ways. These ways of leading can be analyed and adapted to varying situations. Different settings might call for different types of leadership.
5. Leadership qualities and skills can be learned and developed. Today's leaders are made, not born.
6. Leadership committed to ethical action is needed to encourage change and social responsibility.

The basic principles of leadership include: knowing, being, and doing. You must know yourself, you must be ethical, open, caring, inclusive, and you must act. In order to be a good leader, you must be a great follower. A leader can have 2 different definitions: positional leadership- where you automatically are a leader because of the position that you hold, or informal leader- where any person who is actively engaged with others to accomplish change.

Truths about Leadership:
1. Leaders are made, not born.
2. In today's fluid organizations, leadership occurs at all levels.
3. Having a charasmatic personality is not a prerequisite to be a leader.
4. There is not one identifiable right way to lead an organization or group.
5. Some leaders and scholars believe it is important to make a distinction between the processes of management and leadership.

The Relational Leadership Model:
does not seek to descibe the way leadership is currently practiced in all groups or organizations, but is an aspirational model that we propose in developing and supporting a healthy, ethical, effective group.
It involved being purposeful, inclusive, empowering, ethical, and process-oriented.