Lori Hoffner, Creating CommUnity

1. Helping Teens
Understand the Value of
Leadership
presented by
Lori A. Hoffner
Supporting CommUnity, Inc.
Littleton, CO
Phone720-353-2863
www.SupportingCommUnity.com
Lori@SupportingCommUnity.com

3. Teen Leadership
What is leadership?
Leadership is equivalent to action
Management versus Leadership
Adapted from “The Wall Street Journal Guide to
Management” by Alan Murray, published by Harper
Business.
“The manager’s job is to plan, organize and
coordinate. The leader’s job is to inspire
and motivate. “

4. Teen Leadership
What leadership is needed?
What are your needs for teen
leadership?
Advisory board
Council
Peer leadership
Employment

5. GOALS
NEEDS
INTENTEXPECTATIONS

6. What is the intention…
PURPOSE
of teen leadership?

7. GOALS
NEEDS
INTENTEXPECTATIONS

8. Teen Leadership
What is leadership?
A leader has:
Vision
Drive
Skills
A leader is driven by goals
Believes in goals and shares them with
his team

9. GOALS
NEEDS
INTENTEXPECTATIONS

10.  Talented people are hard to find. True
leaders magnetizes them.
 Leadership Traits:
◦ Listens
◦ Trust
◦ Opportunities
◦ Direction
◦ Challenges
◦ Accountability

11. Support
 How do you start?
◦ What kind of training do you provide?
◦ Orientation?
◦Why is this an important step
for teen leadership?

12. Support
 How do you start?
Safe but Uncomfortable Setting
 WAG
(word association games)
◦Why is this an important step
for teen leadership?

13. Support
Capacity
ca·pac·i·ty
kəˈpasədē/
noun
noun: capacity
1. the maximum amount that
something can contain.
2. the ability or power to do,
experience, or understand
something.

14. Concept
Design
Develop
Evaluate
Conceive
Plan
Develop
Implement

15. Support
Capacity
Can you provide the
necessary support needed for
the task at hand?

17. Support
Your capacity
Give examples of what you
have in place or what you
have done in the past to
support teen leaders.

18. Support
 Adults
◦ Do they reflect the youth of the
organization?
 Ethnicity/Race, Gender, or Life Experiences
 Buy-in through Y-AP
(Youth-Adult Partnerships)

19. Understand that great followers are
led by great leaders. Work on their
success and they will help you
become more successful as well.
William Wyatt

20. Modeled Behavior
What leadership qualities do the teens
see from you?
Trustworthy
Genuine
Motivate
Positive
Creative

21. GOALS
NEEDS
INTENTEXPECTATIONS

22. Modeled Behavior
 Assertiveness versus Arrogance
◦ Confident versus bullying…
Arrogance makes you discriminatory and
shifts you away from others. Where
assertiveness keeps you a down to earth
kind of a person; Assertiveness places
you on cloud nine.

24. Modeled Behavior
 Selfish
 Bossy
 Pompous
 Fearful
 Verbose
 Manipulative
 Pessimist
 Dishonest
 Self-protective
 Inconsistent
Arrogant

25. Modeled Behavior
Selfish
Bossy
Pompous
Fearful
Verbose
Manipulative
Pessimist
Dishonest
Self-protective
Inconsistent
 Service
 Guts
 Openness
 Attention
 Identification
 Experience
 Space and Support
 Fairness
 Consistency
 Bringing Out the Best
Assertive

26. Modeled Behavior
Personal Insight

27. Personal Insight
S.W.O.T.
◦Strengths
◦Weaknesses
◦Opportunities
◦Threats

28. The Brain’s CEO
Pre Frontal Cortex
 Planning and decision making
 Impulse control
 Emotional cues
 Risk taking

29. Modeled Behavior
Get out of the way
If you want teens to learn
leadership, you MUST let them
lead.
Ask permission to offer advice

30. What are your “best practices” of how
you get out of the way?

31. Evaluation

32. Concept
Design
Develop
Evaluate
Conceive
Plan
Develop
Implement
Use the goals

33. Evaluation
Good versus effective
leadership
Leadership is a skill set
◦ Evaluate the required skills
Leadership is a choice
◦ Evaluate the choices

34. …the single most
effective leadership
technique is actually
in setting a good
example.
Dan Appleman

36. Lori A. Hoffner
Supporting CommUnity, Inc.
Lori@SupportingCommUnity.com
www.SupportingCommUnity.com