Leadership is Influence (by words and actions)

 Quotes from  "I finally figured out what leadership is all about!" Tip of the Week by Robert Rohm Ph. D. 

Should be posted on http://www.personality-insights.com/blog/#  soon

"John Maxwell ...has said that leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else. While I agree with that wholeheartedly, I need something a little more substantial"
 
"...watch what I say and watch what I do. That is what real leadership is all about."

"...quit moaning and groaning every time something goes wrong. The world does not revolve around you...or me."

"Instead, lead in the right direction with your words and actions. In other words, it is the words that come out of your mouth and the behaviors from your life that show what leadership is all about. Many times each day, a thought will go through my mind that is negative and non-productive, but I have trained myself to simply not feed it. I do not have to water it; I do not have to fertilize it; and I do not have to let it grow. What I do say is something that is positive both to myself and to others. I use words and actions and attitudes to let people know that I am looking for the good, the pure, and the positive in everything that takes place."

 

Governance and Government

Websters definition of Governance and Government

So Government is the people who practice Governance.

How Governance structures applies to students
- Through the school act students are required to go to school from age 7 - 16 years old
- The School Act also defines other ways in which students are involved in Education

Spruce Grove Composite High Schools, mission, vision and values goals and responsibilities

The schools method for accessing values is found in their educational plan.

Roles and Responsibilities in Meetings

Chairperson
Committee Leaders

Invited Speaker/ Guest: the role is to present outside information to the meeting that maybe important to the members of the organization. Their responsibility is to present a proposal for discussion on a particular topic or idea.

Members of an organization have an interest in the organization. Their role is to attend and give input when asked sometimes they bring added data to the meeting if relevant. Their responsibility is to attend, bring forth motions, and vote .


Visitors are special guests from outside the organization that you invite in to give advise and opinions on what is being discussed or to be observers of the meeting. Their role is to provide outside input. Their responsibility is to be well prepared on their topic of discussion.

Meetings

• The purpose of formal meetings is to conduct the business of the organization, to set policy's and to inform the members of the organization as to the various issues arising from previous meetings or activities conducted by the organization.

• The purpose of Committee Meetings is to discuss and research an issue assigned to them from the formal meeting and to bring back the results to the formal meeting.

• Informal Meetings are for information gathering in an informal setting. It purpose is to research and gather information on a project or issue that refer back to the committee or formal meeting.

Meeting agenda and purpose
How to make meetings more efficent

Team Building

Team building is important so that people can work together at a task more effectively. For example one team member maybe good at administration and another team member may be good at relational building and you need them both to get the job done. It is important to find out the strengths and weaknesses of all team members before beginning the project.


Possible behaviors in meetings:

There are a variety of behaviors in meetings such as: a passive person who says nothing, the overly talkative person (who does not stop talking), argumentative person who does not listen to others but argues on every issue,and controlling person who controls the meeting not allowing input from other members.

Describe and demonstrate how the Chairperson
may:
increase task-directed behavior

• State the task to the group
• Ask for group input related to the task
• Work with group to develop a plan to achieve the task
  

 decrease disruptive behavior

• Bring the group back to the task
  
• Directly address people who are disruptive
  

 minimize stalling behavior

• Encourage group to move on
  
• Offer to talk to stalling individual later
  

 encourage individual participation

• Ask if anyone else has any input
  
• If you know someone has something to contribute ask them directly
  

 establish a positive and effective team
approach to student governance

• Clearly set out a positive mandate for the whole team
• Encourage everyone to participate as a team
• Reward team accomplishment
  

Synergy

Synergy

Positive and negative effects of synergy are

"Positive synergy is sometimes called the 2 + 2 = 5 effect. Operating independently, each subsystem can produce two units of output. However, by combining their efforts and working together effectively, the two subsystems can produce five units of output.
Negative synergy can be called the 2 + 2 = 3 effect. Again, individuals operating alone can each produce two units of output. However, with negative synergy, the combination of their efforts results in less output than what they would have achieved if they had each worked alone. Negative synergy can result from inefficient committees, business units that lack strategic fit, and from other poorly functioning joint efforts." (see above link)

Describe the relationship among synergy and:
 problem solving

• Two people or a team are often better than one if they work together and feed off each other in solving the problem
  

 decision making

• Bringing more than one perspective on an issue together leads to a better decision
  

 consensus building

• It is very difficult to build a consensus without positive synergy
  

Parlementary Procedure

The purpose of Parliamentary procedure is to help people make group decisions after a full, fair, and free discussion.

Parliamentary vocabulary

Agenda (or Order of Business) - The regular program of procedure of an organization.

Amend - To alter a motion by addition, deletion, or in any other way.

Chair - The Chairman or presiding officer. "Addressing the Chair" means speaking to the presiding officer. Being "Recognized by the Chair" means being given permission to speak further.

Power of Chair - The Chairman has the following authority:
a. to decide in what order speakers shall be recognized
b. to refuse to recognize members offering dilatory, absurd, or frivolous motions
c. to restrain speakers within the limits of the rules
d. to enforce good decorum
e. to appoint committees
f. to decide points of order
g. to vote in cases where the vote would make or break a tie
h. The chair should avoid influencing a vote by his own comment on a motion.

Actions of the chair are subject to appeal.

Commit - To refer to a committee

Committee of the Whole - The meeting, on a motion duly made, may "resolve itself into a committee of the whole." This means that the meeting is officially discontinued while everyone remains and becomes a member of a large special committee, which includes everyone present. A special chairman is appointed to preside over the committee.

Division - When all those voting stand in separate "for" and "against" groups.

Division of Question - To separate a motion into different parts that are considered individually.

Floor - The privilege of speaking before the assembly.

Indefinite Postponement - The object is not merely to "postpone" but in effect to reject the motion.

Informal Consideration - When a member moves for "informal consideration," and the motion is adopted, the meeting lays aside formal rules, and allows each committee member to speak on the subject under consideration.

Motion - A formal proposal to a meeting that it take certain action.

Order - An expression of the will of the assembly, in the form of a command.

Order of the Day - A motion to drop the present discussion, and that the chairman announce the next matter to be taken up in accordance with the organization’s customary business routine.

Parliamentary Inquiry - An investigation to determine the proper course of procedure.

Privilege - The privileges and rights of the meeting in connection with matters of physical comfort or ineligibility or misconduct of a member in the meeting.

Question - The question is a proposition or motion that has been placed before the meeting for action by the chairman. To "move the question" is to demand that the chairman take a vote on the current motion.

Resolution - An act of the assembly that declares facts, expresses opinion, but does not command.

Suspension of Rules - To allow something to be done that would otherwise violate the meeting rules, but is not in conflict with the constitution or by-laws, or with the fundamental principles of parliamentary law.

Table - To delay action on a motion.

Motions and rules of Parliament

Roberts rules

Privileged motions

Incidental Motions

Subsidiary Motions

Some Main and Unclassified Motions

Role of speaker in the house of commons