Leadership
Principles
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Outline the role of a commissioned
officer in the Air Force
– Describe the principles of
leadership
– Describe the relationship between
leadership, management and
command
– Describe the OTS leadership model
Reference
Army Manual of Land Warfare Vol 1–10
 ‘The art of Eliciting Extraordinary
Performance from Ordinary People’ LTCOL M.C. Parsons
 ‘Effective Leadership’ – John Adair
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References
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‘Training for Leaders’, John Adair
‘Leadership and the One Minute Manager –
Blanchard
‘Leadership that gets results’, Goleman, D. (2000),
Harvard Business Review, Mar – Apr
‘Working with Emotional Intelligence’, Goleman,
D. (1999), Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
‘A leader is the man who has the ability
to get other people to do what they don’t
want to do and enjoy it’
Harry. S. Truman,
quoted in The People’s Almanac (1975)
“Leadership is the lifting of a man’s
vision to higher sights, the raising of a
man’s performance to a higher standard,
the building of a man’s personality
beyond normal limitations. Wishing
won’t make it so; doing will”
Peter. F. Drucker,
The Practise of Management (1955)
‘I have to follow them, I am their leader’
French lawyer, politician and
revolutionary leader
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1984)
‘The art of leadership..consists of
consolidating the attention of the people
against a single adversary and taking that
nothing will split up that attention’
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925-26)
LEADERSHIP
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The art of consistently influencing and
directing subordinates in ways as to obtain
their willing obedience, confidence, respect
and loyal cooperation in the manner desired
by the leader.
MANAGEMENT
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The process of planning, organising,
coordinating, controlling and evaluating the
use of people, money, materials and
facilities to accomplish missions and tasks.
COMMAND
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The lawful authority which an individual in
the Services exerts over subordinates by the
virtue of his/her rank and posting.
Command is supported by a code of
military law.
LEADERSHIP
People
Motivation
Effectiveness
Resources
Application
Efficiency
Authority
Responsibility
Ethics
COMMAND
MANAGEMENT
MISSION
Early Leadership Theories
Cave paintings as Training Aids
 Chinese writings of Confucius, Motzu, Lao-tzu, Sun-tzu
 Early Eurpopean writers such as
Homer,Plutarch, Caesar,
Machiavelli, Clausewitz
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A leader is best
When people barely know he exists,
Not so good when people obey and acclaim
him,
Worse when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say:
We did it ourselves
Lao-Tzu, 6th century Chinese philosopher
Modern Thought on Leadership
The end of WW1 brought the demise of
hereditary leadership
 First theories on personal qualities or
traits
 After WW2, shift to observable
behaviours
 1960’s - Situational leadership
 Recently - transactional to
transformational leadership
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Planning
Evaluate
Initiate
Inform
Control
Support
The PICSIE Crystal
OR
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SUP
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EG
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DE
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S1
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S3
S4
High Directive
and
High Supportive
Behaviour
ING
(Low)
High Supportive
and
Low Directive
Behaviour
H
AC
CO
SUPPORTIVE BEHAVIOUR
(High)
N
Low Supportive
and
Low Directive
Behaviour
High Directive
and
Low Supportive
Behaviour
DIRECTIVE BEHAVIOUR
G
(High)
Hershey-Blanchard Situational
Leadership Model
Personal
Awareness
Social
Self
Awareness
Social
Awareness
Social
Management
Social
Skills
Management
The Emotional Competency Model
Covey’s 7 Habits
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Habit One – Be proactive
Habit Two - Begin with the End in Mind
Habit Three - Put First Things First
Habit Four - Think Win-Win
Habit Five - Seek First to Under- stand,
Then to be Understood
Habit Six - Synergise
Habit Seven - Sharpen the Saw
The mastery of a model is not a
substitute for leadership.
In short, given the right context,
every leadership theory or model
is the correct one.
Task
Individual
Team
The John Adair Leadership Model
LEADERSHIP
Q
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S
SELECTION
A
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S
S
K
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PRACTISE
TRAINING
QUALITIES
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Personal style and professional
qualities of a leader.
QUALITIES
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Personal style and professional
qualities of a leader.
SKILLS
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Professional Skills
Self-Improvement Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Communication Skills
Ethics
QUALITIES
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Personal style and professional
qualities of a leader.
SKILLS
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Professional Skills
Self-Improvement Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Communication Skills
Ethics
ACTIONS
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Providing Vision
Managing the Task
Building the Team
Supporting Individuals
Adapting leadership style
Manage
the
task
Build
the
Team
VISIO
N
STYLE
Support
the
People
LEADERSHIP TRAINING AT OTS
INTRODUCTION
 Leadership Principles
 Leadership Development
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QUALITIES
Recruitment and
selection
QUAL 6
(Principles and
Standards)
Chaplain Lessons
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ACTIONS
Vision
Manage the Task
Build the Team
Support the
Individual
Leadership Style
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
PICSIE, Adair’s model, HersheyBlanchard, Emotional Intelligence
(Goleman), Covey’s Seven habits
LEADERSHIP CONSOLIDATION
SKILLS
Professional Skills
- other lessons at OTS (ie CBRN)
- goal setting
Self Improvement
- (WEIP, MBTI)
- Stress Management
Interpersonal Skills
-Counselling
Communication Skills
Ethics

Outline the role of a commissioned
officer in the Air Force
– Describe the principles of
leadership
– Describe the relationship between
leadership, management and
command
– Describe the OTS leadership model
Manage
the
task
Build
the
Team
VISIO
N
STYLE
Support
the
People