LEVELS OF LEADING© Dr. Gary Sweeten

Relationship Coach & Organizational Consultant

SweetenLife VIP Family Care

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Selecting and Training Workers• While Consulting and Coaching leaders both faith based

and secular, I am asked some serious questions about who to train and what to train them to do.

• When I coached Basketball, I needed to assess the basic skills of each player and the whole team so I could devise ways they could play together to reach their greatest potential. It was up to me to help them succeed.

• Teaching an individual is coaching even when done in a group. Developing structures and plays for the team is consulting.

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Basketball Players Need?• Consider the basic skills, gifts, talents and personality

needed by a player. You list the basics:

• 1.• 2.• 3.• 4.• 5.

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Basketball Players Need?• Consider the basic skills, gifts, talents and personality

needed by a player. My list. • 1. Great Physical Condition

• A. Agile• B. Quick

• 2. Positive Attitude• 3.Teachable• 4. Hard Worker• 5. Ability to Learn

• The rest is training, coaching and encouragement

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Leaders of Organizations Must• Realize that Intellect, Talent, Gifts, Work Ethic, Physical

Energy, etc cannot be changed easily. Do not try.

• First: Understand the attitude, knowledge and skills needed for each level of job functioning

• Second: Assess the level of competency and compare it to what is needed in each job

• Third: Make sure the organization reinforces basics.

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Skill Levels from a low of one to a high of ten

• Level 1 Give and Receive Instructions Understands verbal/written information.

• Level 2 Serves Responds to implicit requests for action.

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Levels of Leading

• Level 3 Amuses Diverts attention with humor.

• Level 4 Persuades Can influence others in favor of a product, service, or point of view

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Level 5

• Two-way communication Can separate self from others. Can separate own thoughts, feelings, and actions from others. Accurately assesses issues and responds to them

• Carries on exchanges of information both verbally and non-verbally.

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Level 6• Negotiates exchange of ideas, information, and insight

with others to develop policies, programs, contracts, or understanding.

• Includes conflict management, dealing with contradictory input and volatile emotions.

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Level 7.• Coach, consult, counsel •

• A. Coaching: Befriends, encourages, or advises.•

• B. Consulting: Coaches with the addition of technical/organizational input.

• C. Counseling: Coaches and consults with healing, relational, emotional input.

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Level 7.

• D.     Instructs: Teach and train others through lecture, demonstration, practice, and accountability. Requires expertise in specific content. May also include coaching, consulting and counseling.

• E.     Sells: Convince others to buy a product or idea

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Level 7.

• F.   Mentor/Spiritual Guide Gives input into whole life @ home, family, work, church, community. Can balance mental, emotional, spiritual, relational, and career to advise, consult, counsel, coach, instruct, supervise, etc.

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Level 8.

• Supervise Develops work responsibilities for others; evaluates performance; inspires motivation and harmony; moves group toward mission in congruence with organizational values.

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Level 9.• Leads Move a group forward to a different place despite

its lack of motivation. Integrates information and sees what changes are necessary to improve the organization.

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Level 10.• Therapy Special, knowledge and high skills of therapeutic

interventions in treatment of the ill (mentally, emotionally, spiritually).

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Choosing Leaders• What are the key factors you group looks for when

choosing:

• Church and Pastors?

• Sales Persons?

• Top Managers?

• Line Managers?

(C) Gary Sweeten 1604/10/23