Kouzes Chapter 8

I. The Legacy That I Will Leave

 

The things that I hope to hear

1. Do the job right

2. Make the right decision.

3. Inspire them.

4. Had engage with the team well

5. Great leader.

 

Inputs that will need to pay attention

1. More precisely in planning

2. Execute on time.

3. Delegate and empowering.

4. Pick the right team

5. People needs

 

II. Interview about my leadership

1.      I like when I was in charge when I have the opportunity to make and shape my team. I did not like because sometimes everyone was counting to the leader so much.

2.      Succeed the task together.

3.      Contributing and encouraging the team to contributing too.

4.      Synergize the team and made them work together.

5.      By building an understanding between them and make the team to fill in on each other flaw

6.      When the challenge and the risk is high

7.      I usually hear from the both side and try to make them settle each other.

8.      Manage shortage of workers by subsidize from subcontractor.

9.      Reconcile two conflict villages when land acquisition for the last project.

10.  Stop a near miss horizontal conflict between those two villages.

11.  When time is scarce and the target has not appeared to be finished.

12.  Courage, Determine, Honest, Sincere.

 

 

  III. My Leadership Editorial

 

Be a Unique Leader.

Everyone was born as a leader. Everyone is unique and have different views. When leading everyone have a different characteristic. Try to be a unique leader when your leading. Be yourself.

Kouzes Chapter 7

I. My Most Meaningful Recognition Experience

When I finished the gold mine plant project and witnessed the inauguration of the gold plant. It is quite a relief and overwhelmed. It is a very challenging project and many of problems must be solve in a very short time. It is even one of the on time projects that been delivered in the company history. One of the challenges is the contempt by other division and their question on if we could finish it on time, on quality and on budget.  

 

II. Tell a Great Story

1.      Worker and Director

2.      It happens in the project construction time. The Director was site visit to look the progress of the project.

3.      The action is that the worker is focus on his work, repairing a machine panel by drawing his own manual. He needs to redraw the manual, because the original manual is nowhere to found. When the Director arrives, he saw what the worker did.

4.      The director was very overwhelmed of the worker passion and determine.

5.      The worker did not know that the one who is asking him was the director.

 

III. Build Social Supports and Celebrate Team Accomplishments

Project Milestone                                            Idea for celebrating this accomplishment as a team

Monthly                                                          Fishing and fish barbeque at the beach

Tri semester                                                     Site seeing to other town, near the project site

Kouzes Chapter 6

I. Generate Power

I remember when after graduating high school and start to selecting colleges and my uncle give me a words of wisdom, “Don’t be a Buddha statue! Your life in the future is depending how you socialize in your college. You will meet them again in the future, giving assistance and even getting assistance from them. Be active and engage to others.”

 

I felt powerless, week and insignificant when my own superior said that I could not finish the project on time and on budget. Someone that I respect and hope give very negative words to me in the middle of the project.

 

The team was clicked when working in the challenging atmosphere and limited time. Differences are set a side and we are backing up on each other all the time and all the way.

 

I can contribute to the teamwork with bring some great creative ideas and to implemented in such effectives ways.

 

II. Learn to Delegate

They do not delegates because they don’t believe that others can deliver the work as good and fast as they do it by themselves.

 

I should delegate if the job is needed too, and if there are many of resources and time to do it.

 

Enabling others to be successful

1.      Coaching and counseling

2.      Engage with the team

3.      Trust and respect them

 

III. Ask Questions, Listen and Take Advice

1. What is your passion about the new assignment?

2. What is your idea about the new assignment?

3. What is your experience of it?

4. How we should do it as a team?

5. Do you trust your own team?

 

To build an understanding among team members.  

Kouzes Chapter 5

I. Check for Limiting Assumptions

1. I cannot do this because there are no supports from my family and friends. (+)

2. I cannot do this without a perfect timing or time become scarce. (+)

3. I cannot do this without a great teamwork. (+)

4. I cannot do it well without determination.  (V)

5. I cannot do it without well without a good planning and strategy. (-)

6. I cannot do it well without passion. (V)

7. I cannot do it well without presenting myself well. (V)

 

II. Look Outside

1.      Make a trip the whole province of my country.

2.      Join social causes group.

3.      Get a master degree.

 

III. Get Started in Small Ways

1.      I am going to start to do small project in my house like garden, cars or even remodeling the houses or room.

2.      I am going to re-organize my belongings and give it away if I do not need it anymore.

3.      I am going to start tightening my lifestyle so I can spent it for other cause, especially for social causes.

Kouzes Chapter 4

I. My Past as Prologue to My Future

1. When experiencing that many of my friends are starting to pass away.

2. When experiencing near miss of death in several occasion.

3. When interacting with the needs people in several community activity

4. When experiencing various difficulties in youth lives

 

The pattern between the experiences was difficulties or misery.

 

It creates meaning that I want to do more, achieves more, and become more meaningful to my life and others.

 

 

II. Imagine the Possibilities

Overseas Development Project is Antam’s Project for middle managers to gain enrichment in overseas campus and mining company.

 

Personal Goals is to succeed and get as many as experiences from the project and to encourage others to compete and chosen by the company to join the next batch of Overseas Development Project.

 

The Project for this batch will ends on August next year. I want that other will say that the project result is excellent and it should extend. It is align with the vision that I want to do more, achieves more and the result of the project is align with become more meaningful to my life and others.

 

III. Give Live to Your Vision

What are people doing?

They are doing what they could do and what they passion too

 

What are people saying?

They are saying that they are excellent and better

 

How are people feeling?

They are feeling overwhelm with the result of the project

 

My Project is like become the President Director

 

Metaphor                                                         How It’s Like This Project

Numbero Uno                                                 It’s a determining project and needs lots of dedication

Striving for the Best

Need a multitalented teamwork to support               

Kouzes Exercise Chapter 3

I. Discovering My Values

Team experiences

1. Meeting with other new people

2. Have more knowledge and experience from new people

3. Get to know how to work in a team

4. Get to know that everyone is different and how to compile and synergy them into a team.

5. Have more ideas after discussing with others in team
 

Characterized the experience

1. Respect

2. Involvement

3. Empathy

4. Cooperation

5. Discipline

6. Trust

7. Strength
 

Values and actions that are important

1. Respect each other in the team.

2. Try to involve and have empathy to each other.

3. Trust to others in the team

4. Discipline in team time not to waste other private time.

5. Cooperation could strengthen the team and the individual.

II. What Values Matter To Me?

1. Cooperation

2. Courage

3. Determination

4. Discipline

5. Empathy

6. Fairness

7. Family

8. Respect
 

Five that are important and why?

Value                                       This is important to me because;

1. Courage                               Without courage, we cant do anything, because we don't have the courage.

2. Respect                                To do anything that we will be meet others, we must have respect.

3. Empathy                               We need to empathy to people when we are leading them 

4. Discipline                              People need discipline to lead each other

5. Determination                       We need to be determine in our causes and goals.

III. Putting My Values Into Practice

I have founded a national student organization chapter with my friends on my campus. I have make a system that make the organization became large and multiplied in the future. After graduate and left campus and organization, few years later it is become the biggest organization in the campus. One of the main idea is put the solid foundation and let the others continue build and enrich the organization.

 

Kouzes Exercise Chapter 2

I. MY PERSONAL - BEST EXPERIENCE OF LEADERSHIP

1. I have several times appointed by my superior and organization colleagues as a leaderof several office activities comittee or as te president of the organization itself, such as student body and  student activities comittee. The very best is when I had to lead my office colleagues to set up a national scale ceremony in our remote mining area site. The ceremony was ground breaking ceremony which symbolize the start of our new Ferronickel Plant Construction. It was on
 November 30th, 2011 in Buli, East Halmahera Regency, North Moluccas Province, Indonesia. We invite Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Province Governor, Regional ruling Sultans, and many guests from the Capital and came from outside from the location. We had plenty of challanges for transportation and accomodation issues, the date that always change by the Minister office, the remote area and the preparation time that given for us that was too short, starting in the middle of September.

2. a. Trust my committe member by giving task that they could do.

b. Always encourage the team.

c. Plan it well with all of the team member.

d. Check the work time by time.

e. Always prepare it before, mitigate the risk and have a back up plan.

3. a. Always trust in your self and your team.

b. Always prepare that everything could happen, in good way or bad way.

c. Don't just point finger, as a leader we should pull the string together with our team.

II. A LEADER I HAVE FOLLOW

1. My First Superior in Office.

2. a. Encourage

b. Confidence

c. Dicipline

d. Appreciate time, target and team work

3. a. Manage conflicts

b. Respect others

c. Affection

d. Exemplify

e. Never complained but only gave coaching & counselling.

III. OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHOM I ADMIRE AS LEADERS, AND WHY

1. a. My High School Principal, because he teaches us to become adult and to take risk as adult by showing respect and examples.

b. My Organization Senior, Ex President, because he was very humble, hear and compromise to others.

c. My Ex CEO, because he was dicipline, very humble and willing to take the risk.

2. a. Respect

b. Exemplify

c. Dicipline

d. Humble & Hear his members/peoples

e. Willing to take the risk