What does Leadership Look like?

Being a Leader vs. Being Bossy

Who is a great leader you know? Perhaps a teacher, or a coach, a teammate, or a classmate?

What makes them a great leader?

The way they make people feel makes people want to be around them, it makes people want to listen to them.

The way we try to lead matters. Being bossy is not leading. Leading is building trust in others that they will be treated fairly, led in the right direction and experience growth and fun while with you.

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did you use your strengths today

Studies show that when we use our personal character strengths we experience more joy and success throughout our days. Having regular conversations about how and when we used our strengths allows us to keep strength utilization on our radar.

Familiarizing yourself with a list of character strengths such as the VIA Character Strengths before having this conversation is important so you can listen for clues as to what strengths are being identified.

https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths

Question:

“What was the best part of your day inside your classroom?”

“What was the best part of your day outside?”

“What was something you really enjoyed doing today?”

Listen:

Listen for clues that speak to what strengths they used today and draw attention to the strength they used.

Discuss:

Promote conversations about the strengths that you catch being used:

“Oh it sounds like when you were asked to solve that mathematics problem-solving question you had to use creativity. Did you use your creativity power in any other way?”

“When you were playing soccer at recesses, did you have to use your teamwork power?”

The more we discuss the use of strengths the more awareness we bring to strengths and areas of difficulty. Having this awareness encourages seeking out opportunities to utilize strengths as well as self-compassion for having to get through tasks that do not fall within our strength set.