*STUDENT HANDOUT*

**INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP IN CAP**

*Squadron Leadership School*

*"Foundation for Leadership" Block*

*seminar 4.1*

SEMINAR OVERVIEW

SCOPE

*What is "leadership"? This seminar provides students with a basic
introduction to the study of leadership. Students will define leadership
as a concept and identify qualities essential to being a leader. This
seminar uses clips from Hollywood movies to serve as case studies
illustrating leaders in action for the students to analyze. Finally, the
seminar concludes with a discussion about the special skills needed when
leading in a volunteer environment like CAP.*

OBJECTIVES

1.  *Describe three academic definitions of leadership and define
    leadership in your own words.*

2.  *Identify at least five qualities of leaders and defend your
    choices.*

3.  *Defend the principle that one need not be a commander to be a
    leader.*

4.  *Explain why leadership in a volunteer environment requires leaders
    to lead persuasively.*

DURATION

*80 minutes*

SEMINAR OUTLINE & MAIN POINTS

I. Introduction

Is Coach Brooks a leader?

Lesson Overview

II\. Leadership can be defined in many ways.

History shows us leaders' personalities and positions can be diverse.

What does leadership mean to you?

Some definitions of leadership (see below)

III\. Leaders have special qualities.

Do you see any leadership traits in Matthew Broderick's character?

List 7 traits all leaders should possess; defend your list.

IV\. Everyone can serve as a leader

*The Right Stuff*

*Rudy*

V. Leaders of volunteers must be persuasive, not authoritarian

The Gettysburg Address

Leading in a volunteer environment

VI\. Summary & Conclusions

DEFINITIONS OF LEADERSHIP

**U.S. Air Force,** *Air Force Doctrine Document 1-1.*

"Leadership: The art and science of influencing and directing people to
accomplish the assigned mission."

**Paul Hershey & Kenneth Blanchard**, *Management of Organizational
Behavior.*

"Leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an
individual or a group in efforts toward goal achievement."

**James MacGregor Burns**, *Leadership.*

"The transforming leader recognizes and exploits an existing need or
demand of a potential follower. But, beyond that, the transformational
leader looks for potential motives in followers, seeks to satisfy higher
needs, and engages the fuller person of the follower.\"

**Peter F. Drucker** (attributed)\
"Leadership is not magnetic personality---that can just as well be a
glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'---that is
flattery. Leadership is lifting a person\'s vision to higher sights, the
raising of a person\'s performance to a higher standard, the building of
a personality beyond its normal limitations."

**Dwight D. Eisenhower** (attributed)\
"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want
done because he wants to do it."

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**SPECIAL READING

*The Gettysburg Address*

*Abraham Lincoln, 19 November 1863*

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of
that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final
resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in
a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here
have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The
world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can
never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have
thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to
the great task remaining before us\--that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion\--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth
of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the
people shall not perish from the earth.\"