10 Steps to becoming a Great Leader

10 Steps to becoming a Great Leader
RHA Lunch & Learn
February 3, 2015
Melissa C. Moore
Director of Communications
and
Public Relations
Campus Services
melissa.moore@gatech.edu
www.ImportantStuff.gatech.edu
www.Facebook/GTCampusServices
Today
• The 10 Steps
• My Story
• Tips
• What types of things were
you able to do to develop
your leadership and
professional skills early
on in your career (even in
college)?
• What leadership advice
do you have for us?
• What is your job?
The 10 Steps
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Intelligent
Honest
Creative
Confident
Driven
6. Courageous
7. CNB Seen
8. Volunteer
9. Interests
10.Professional
Step 1 – Intelligent
• Analyze your skills
• What skills do you
have that make
you a good leader?
– Good Listener?
– Positive Attitude?
– Desire?
• Invest in a good
leadership book
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People by Stephen R. Covey
• Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan
Heath
• 12 leadership books to watch for in
2015
Tip: Buy the book you will enjoy
reading (The Tipping Point – Gladwell)
Step 2 – Honest
• Always know that
honesty is the best
policy
- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
• Be honest about
your skills
• Tip: If you decide your skills are not as
strong as they could be, do you give
up? Never
• Famous Introverts
o JK Rowling, Bill Gates, Kim Harrington
Step 3 – Creative
• Inspire others by
your creativity
• “I’m 90 percent
hard work and 10
percent talent”
– Quotes For Movie
Title: Something's
Gotta Give - 2003
• Campus Services Communications
Marketing Team
• Tip: Create a Team of like-minded
people
Step 4 – Confident
• Strengthen your
Self Confidence
• Always Relate to
your Group
• National, Regional, State, Local
presentations
• Tip: Grow a thick skin; you likely
will not always receive a good
evaluation from your leadership
group. Don’t give up. When
possible, adjust your style.
Step 5 – Driven
• If you want to be a
leader, do it.
• Director of Communications for Camus
Services’ job is to tell the Campus
Services’ story.
1. Bookstore
2. Business Services
3. BuzzCard
4. Center for Health & Wellbeing
(CRC-Campus Recreation CenterHealth Promotion and Stamps
Health Services)
5. Dining
6. Housing
7. Human Resources
8. Parking & Transportation Services
9. Student Center
Tip: Keep on keeping on
Step 6 – Courageous
• The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective
People
– By Stephen R. Covey
– “Many people think
either/or. If you’re nice,
you’re not tough. It’s
important to be nice
and courageous.”
Tip: “High courage and consideration are both essential…It is the
balance that is the mark of real maturity…” – Covey
Remember to treat others like you would like to be treated not like
you’ve been treated.
Step 7 – CNB Seen
• Put yourself
where leaders
are.
– SGA Rep
(Student
Government
Assn.)
– RHA Committee
Chair (Residence
Hall Assn.)
Tip: Join groups that you like.
Ask what is needed and fill that
position, i.e., committee
member = committee chair =
board member = officer
Step 8 – Volunteer
• If you don’t have a
job, a group,
volunteer, i.e.,
volunteer for
groups like the
Earth Day
committee
Tip: You can volunteer for both oncampus and off-campus, in your
major and out of your major.
Remember what interests you. I’ve
volunteered at Earth Day.
Step 9 – Interests
• What do you like to
do?
• What is your
major?
Tip: Being part of a committee/group,
gives you the opportunity to share
talents you might not otherwise use
in your everyday job or major.
Usually, this group will appreciate you
sometimes more than you everyday
job or major.
Step 10 – Professional
• Research
professional
organizations.
• And, whenever
you can, join a
professional
association.
Tip: Being part of a professional
organization will jump-start your
leadership skills.
Resources
• Quotes For Movie Title: Something's Gotta Give
– 2003
• http://www.moviequotes.com/movie/Something%27sGotta-Give-2003.aspx?pg=3&tt=303718
• Huffington Post: 16 Outrageously Successful
Introverts
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/famousintroverts_n_3733400.html
Melissa C. Moore
Director of Communications
and
Public Relations
Campus Services
melissa.moore@gatech.edu
www.ImportantStuff.gatech.edu
www.Facebook/GTCampusServices