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We look at what the exemplary leadership style is and how it can be used in your organization.
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Exemplary
When leaders are aware of the different leadership styles, they can choose the style that suits them best or integrate the styles together to reach a desired outcome. Different leadership styles can create the same results, but will have a different effect on team members. Someone with an “Exemplary” leadership style leads by example. They act in a role similar to a mentor role.
When to use
Anyone who has gone first and has done the roles of their followers can be an exemplary leader.
Instructions
Exemplary leaders dead by example. They go first and advise their followers on how to avoid pitfalls they may have experienced. They teach their followers to capitalize on the opportunities that they may have experienced.
Examples of exemplary leaders:
- Stephen Covey – He wrote a book called the 7 habits of highly successful people. He went through how you can organize yourself and others to be successful.
- Brian Tracy – He has written number of books. He has been super successful and he teaches others to be successful.
- Tony Robbins – He leads the way to happiness, health, success.
Positives
- These leaders have a distinct vision.
- They put duplicatable action plans into place. Something others can put into place and be successful.
- These leaders have a very high degree of success.
Negatives
- The action plans are based one person’s perspective
- These leaders are usually closed off to team input which leads to missed opportunities to grow and innovate.
- These leaders can be slow to change.
- 00:04 In this video, we look at what the exemplary leadership style is and
- 00:09 how it can be used in your organization.
- 00:12 So the exemplary style leadership is really to lead by example, to go first.
- 00:18 To make those distinctions along the way and advise your followers
- 00:22 how to avoid those pitfalls that you may have made earlier on, okay?
- 00:27 And to capitalize on the opportunities that you've experienced.
- 00:31 So what are some examples of exemplary leaders?
- 00:34 So the first one that comes to mind is Stephen Covey.
- 00:37 He wrote a book called The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People.
- 00:42 And he went first, he went through this whole way that you can organize
- 00:47 yourself and organize others to achieve your goals, right?
- 00:52 It was really great.
- 00:53 And Brian Tracy, he's written a number of books and
- 00:57 does seminars and live trainings as well.
- 00:59 And he's been super successful, and
- 01:02 he teaches others how to be successful in those things that he's already done.
- 01:05 Does it make sense?
- 01:07 So one of my mentors is a great guy.
- 01:10 His name is Tony Robbins, and he has done so much.
- 01:14 I had the privilege of being a business success coach for Tony.
- 01:17 And he leads the way to happiness.
- 01:20 He leads the way to health.
- 01:21 He leads the way to business, to wealth, to success.
- 01:25 And the positives are those types of leaders have a distinct vision, right?
- 01:32 And they put duplicatable action plans into place.
- 01:36 Something that other people can duplicate to get similar results or
- 01:39 the same results, right?
- 01:41 And they have a very high degree of success.
- 01:43 They're very successful.
- 01:45 Now, some of the negatives are the plans,
- 01:48 they're based on one person's perspective, okay?
- 01:52 And if somebody gets too big, you can get big egos involved.
- 01:55 A lot of times, they're closed off the team input, and
- 01:59 that equals missed opportunities to grow and innovate, right?
- 02:02 And a lot of times, those leaders are slow to change telling, hey, we've done this,
- 02:07 it works, this is what we're gonna do.
- 02:10 But as times change, sometimes it's tougher than to change along with it.
- 02:15 So I love the story of Tony Robbins.
- 02:18 Have you heard it?
- 02:19 He was struggling.
- 02:21 He didn't have any money.
- 02:22 He came from Azusa, California, grew up poor.
- 02:25 And when he was living on his own,
- 02:27 he was living in a tiny little apartment in Venice.
- 02:31 It was so small, he had to do his dishes in his bathtub.
- 02:35 By the time he was done, a friend came over and shook him up and said,
- 02:39 hey, you've got to move on, you gotta move forward.
- 02:42 And now, he's a multimillionaire,
- 02:44 and he helps millions of people from around the world find success.
- 02:48 That's leading by example.
- 02:49 He can look at you and say, hey, I started from nothing and look where I am today.
- 02:54 I can help you get there.
- 02:56 The exemplary leaders.
- 02:59 Make sense?
- 03:00 You with me?
- 03:01 Good.
- 03:02 So to review some of the positives.
- 03:04 Well, those leaders have a distinct vision, okay?
- 03:07 And they have action plans that you can duplicate, right?
- 03:10 That their followers can duplicate to get the same degree of results, right?
- 03:15 And they have a very high degree of success.
- 03:18 They typically started here, they ended up here, and they said,
- 03:21 this is the path of how we did it.
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