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Chapter Leadership Forum2014 Department of California ConventionLeadership SeminarLEADERSHIP

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. General Colin Powell

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Leadership Attributes

PROVIDE INSPIRATION:If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams

TEACH AND LEARN:Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

BE BOLD:I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula forFailure, which is: Try to please everybody.

BE HUMBLE:No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to getAll the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie

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LISTEN TO YOUR PEOPLE:The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt

STRIKE A BALANCE:Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you mustbe without one, be without the strategy. Norman Schwarzkopf

TACKLE CHALLENGES:Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather thanthe difficulty in every opportunity. Reed Markham

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WILLINGNESS TO TAKE RISKS EAGER LISTENERS PASSION FOR THE CAUSE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE ABLE TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND CREDITExamples of putting Leadership skills to work

Using Meetings to Motivate Members Community Involvement Outreach The Mission Legislative Goals The Resolutions Process

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DAV Leaders can Prevent

Meetings from being tiresome, cumbersome and time-killing

Things only transpire that way if you as leaders in DAV, allow it Yet meetings are necessary to get things done

Keep your members motivated and active Dont let your meetings stagnate with just one person doing all the talking. This quickly turns of your active listening members62014 Department of California ConventionLeadership SeminarUsing Meetings to Motivate LeadershipRecognizing Members

Recognize members for their individual accomplishments, either personal or professional, and let them know their efforts are not unnoticed.

Include elements that enthuse and motivate them to accomplish even more then they had imagined Establish goals with accompanying rewards that can add an element of fun and competition to chapter activities Devote part of each meeting to reviewing and applauding team accomplishments

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Volunteer Recruitment RalliesWhy would any volunteer accomplish anything for an organization when they do not feel like they belong? One of the first and most crucial things that any leader must do is to make volunteers realize that they are part of the team.

Making the volunteers part of the work and a vital part of the team leads to increasedsuccess When volunteers understand that they are part of something that matters and is biggerthan themselves, they are often more motivated Our mission provides focus and strength for our members, it can also promote focus withthe volunteers

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Building Collaborative Partnerships

The importance for collaborative leadership is being recognized more fully in our involvement with: News media (Radio, Television and Newspaper) Public/Private Partnerships Institutions of higher learning Civic collaboration Political collaboration to tackle veterans issues at the Local, State and Federal levelsCollaboration requires leaders to achieve success through people and resourcesoutside their control

92014 Department of California ConventionLeadership SeminarCommunity Involvement Outreach The MissionDAV Mission Statement

We are dedicated to a single purpose. Empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. We accomplish this by:

Ensuring veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them Fighting for the interests of Americas injured on Capitol HillEducating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back tocivilian lifeWe at the department and chapter level are the vanguard extending the DAVs mission of hope into the communities where these veterans and their families live.

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2014 Department of California ConventionLeadership SeminarDAV Resolutions: What good are they?Purpose of ResolutionsDirectly affect veterans benefits and services:Influence legislation: Crafting, amending, testimony, grassrootsEffect: Statute and regulation writing/re-write

Resolutions:Set the ships missionProvide coordinates for the ship Members:Fuel the shipDuration of resolutions: Until enacted, or must be readopted by DAV

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2014 Department of California ConventionLeadership SeminarDAV Resolutions: What good are they?How Resolutions Directly Effect DAV Resolutions Keep DAV relevant and effective!Gives organization focus/mission:Engaged in mattersOrganization stays attuned to needs, issues, gapsWe need to know whats happening

Representing the interests of disabled veterans, their families, their widowed spouses and their orphans before Congress, the White House and the Judicial Branch, as well as state and local government. Where is the following DAV statement located?Within DAVs official mission statement!

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2014 Department of California ConventionLeadership Seminar DAV Resolutions: What good are they?Legislative Process and you Document; https://www.dav.org/wp-content/uploads/LegislativeProcessandYou.pdf

Your ResourcesCurrent DAV Constitution and Bylaws; http://www.davmembersportal.org/sc/Department%20Newsletters/2013-2014%20National%20DAV%20Constitution%20Bylaws.pdfDAVs National Resolutions Publication; https://www.dav.org/wp-content/uploads/ResolutionBook.pdf Department Legislative OfficersLegislative Officer Duties Publication; https://www.dav.org/wp-content/uploads/LegislativeOfficerDutiesMidWinter.pdfChapter Legislative OfficersNational Legislative StaffCommitted Advocates at the Chapter and State LevelCritical; current resolutions must be readopted!

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Recap1. Are our Resolutions important? Absolutely! 2. Will all resolutions be adopted by DAV? NoMay be a local issue(s)May be outside of DAVs mission3. Are grassroots efforts really that important? Absolutely!4. Where can you find resources to help you in crafting DAV centric resolutions? Within this PowerPoint5. A resolution adopted by DAV stays in effect until?Enacted into lawOr must be readopted by DAVSection 3.2: Duration of Mandates Mandates and resolutions adopted at each National Convention shall be effective only until the next National Convention.

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