GUTS Youth Leadership Corps
Leadership
Know Yourself

Are Mentors Leaders?
• A leader is not a Boss but a Guide - a person who guides others toward a common goal.
• A leader is a person that is committed to carrying out the mission of the group.

Who Can Be A Leader
Do you have to be born a leader?
Do you have to have a certain personality?

Qualities of a Leader
Good Listener
Knowledgeable
Confident
Self Belief
Decisive

Leaders have the 3 R’s
• Responsibility
• Respect themselves
• Right decisions

Leadership
Understand Yourself
• Why do you need to understand yourself to be a good leader?
– So you can be Confident
Self Belief
Decisive
– So you can have the 3 R’s
Responsibility
Respect themselves
Right decisions

Three Steps to Understand
Yourself
Step 1: Understand Your Values
Step 2: Understand Your Personality Type
Step 3: Understand Your Reactions

Step 1: Understand Your Values
• Why do you need to understand what you value?
– Should govern your actions, responses, speech, motivation for doing things and decisions
– Makes you feel good about these things
– Understand why you feel good about some things and not about other things
– Helps you decide what is important in your life
• Clarity
• Focus

Where do you get values?
Nurture
• Family
• Friends
• Experiences
• Where you live
• Things you have seen or read
Nature
• Some you may be born with

Find out what you value
• Identify your values
– Use the Values list and online resources to identify a list of your values
– Narrow it down to a maximum of 10
– What do they mean to you?
• Make it Graphic
– Mandala Activity
– Graphic Words
– Other Format – You choose

Why are Values Good
• Help you feel good about the things you do
• Help you know what you should do
• Help you know when you are doing a good job\

Step 2: Understand Your Personality Type
• Why?
– Can tell you things about yourself
• Why you like certain things
• Why you dislike certain things
• Why you do certain things
• What motivates you
– Can tell you about how you interact
• With people
• With certain environments

Personality Tests
• There are many different types.
• All have some value
• All have some problems – personality

Activity – Take the test
Take the DOPE Test
Which Bird are You?
D – Dove (Amiable)
O – Owl (Analytical)
P – Peacock (Expressive)
E – Eagle (Assertive)

Maureen’s DOPE Test

Primary Personality Styles

Primary/Secondary
Personality Styles

Half of being smart is …… knowing what your are not smart at

Doves (Amiable)
Possible Strengths
• Compassionate and peaceful
• Supportive
• Patient
• Diplomatic
• People-orientated
• Loyal
• Friendly
• Hard working
Possible Weaknesses
• Avoid change
• Avoid confrontation
• Avoid risk-taking

Owls (Analytical)
Possible Strengths
• Wise
• Thorough
• Thinking
• Logical
• Mathematically minded
• Methodical
• Disciplined
• Love details
Possible Weaknesses
• Perfectionist
• Can be slower to make decisions – avoid risk and feelings
• Can be inflexible, rigid

Peacocks (Expressive)
Possible Strengths
• Enthusiastic
• Good communicator
• Being the centre of attention
• Imaginative
• Happy/ optimistic
Possible Weaknesses
• Can talk too much/comes on strong
• Can be a dreamer/unrealistic
• Not good with time management/details

Eagles (Drivers)
Possible Strengths
• Bold
• Dominant
• Like being challenged
• Decisive
• Direct
Possible Weaknesses
• Can be blunt
• Can be stubborn
• Can lose sight of the big-picture
• Can be insensitive to other people’s needs.

Step 3: Understand Your
Reactions
• You react the way you do because of
• What you value
• What type of person you are
• Can you control the way you react? YES
• Understand why
• Understand what to do

Doves (Amiables) at Work
• Competent and steady
• Strong administrative abilities
• Mediates problems
• Resents being pushed
• Avoids conflict
• Wants to save relationships
• Would rather day dream than take action

What can Doves (Amiables) do to spread their wings?
• Share your opinion – talk more and listen less
• Be assertive
• Take a stand on issues - Take some risks
• Be on time
• Speed up
• Don’t be so blasé about things
• Don’t be passive aggressive

Motivate/Demotivate Doves
(Amiables)
Motivate Demotivate
• Approval
• Attention
• Job Security
• Cooperation
• Insensitivity
• Impatience
• Lack of Support

Owls (Analytics) at Work
• Neat and tidy
• Schedule-oriented
• Detail conscious
• Not people-oriented
• Spends lots of time planning
• Standards often high
• Wants to save money
• Major stress over imperfections

What can Owls (Analytics) do to spread their wings?
• Once you have the facts, make a decision
• Speak more
• Be sociable - Get more involved with people – Show personal interest – Share information
• Be Positive - Lighten up – Smile more
• Don’t look for ways to “penny pinch everything!”

Motivate/Demotivate Doves
(Analytics)
Motivate Demotivate
• Respect
• Activity
• Working Alone
• Surprises
• Unpredictability
• Premature decisionmaking

Peacocks (Expressives) at Work
• Inspires / charms others to join in
• Volunteers for jobs
• Thinks up new activities
• Wastes time talking
• Forgets obligations
• Wants to save energy
• Makes their job fun

What can Peacocks (Expressives) do to spread their wings?
• Reserve your opinion more
• Don’t interrupt – listen more
• Slow Down
• Lower your voice
• Listen to other people
• Follow through on things
• Think BEFORE you act

Motivate/Demotivate Peacocks
(Expressives)
Motivate Demotivate
• Recognition
• Variety
• Creativity
• Routine
• Boredom
• Inflexible
• Schedules

Eagles (Drivers) at Work
• Stimulates activity
• Sees the whole picture
• Little tolerance for mistakes
• May make rash decisions
• “Cracks the whip!”
• Work may become “God”
• Doesn’t care what others think "Wants to save time

What can (Eagles) Drivers do to spread their wings?
• Don’t correct and debate everyone
• Don’t be so abrupt and brash
• Be patience
• Slow down
• Curb your sarcasm
• LISTEN to people
• Be sensitive to the feelings of others

Motivate/Demotivate Peacocks
(Drivers)
Motivate Demotivate
• Power
• Challenging Goals
• Control
• Indecisiveness
• Inefficiency
• Lack of Resources