Chapter Leadership Forum - PowerPoint Presentation

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LEADERSHIPLeadership 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 PowellSlide3

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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 KennedyBE 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 get

All the credit for doing it.” – Andrew

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Leadership AttributesLISTEN 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 SchwarzkopfTACKLE CHALLENGES:“Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than

the difficulty in every opportunity.” – Reed Markham Slide5

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WILLINGNESS TO TAKE RISKS

EAGER LISTENERS

PASSION FOR THE CAUSE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE

ABLE TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND CREDIT Examples of putting Leadership skills to work

Using Meetings to Motivate Members

Community Involvement – Outreach – The Mission

Legislative Goals

The Resolutions ProcessSlide6

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Using Meetings to Motivate Leadership

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

Don’t let your meetings stagnate with just one person doing all the talking. This quickly turns of your active listening membersSlide7

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Using Meetings to Motivate LeadershipRecognizing MembersRecognize 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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Community Involvement – Outreach - The Mission

Volunteer Recruitment Rallies

Why 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 increased

success

When volunteers understand that they are part of something that matters and is bigger

than themselves, they are often more motivated

Our mission provides focus and strength for our members, it can also promote focus with

the volunteers

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Community Involvement – Outreach – The Mission

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 levels

Collaboration requires leaders to achieve success through people and resources

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utside their control

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Community Involvement – Outreach – The Mission

DAV 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 America’s injured on Capitol Hill

Educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to

civilian life

We at the department and chapter level are the vanguard extending the DAV’s mission of hope into the communities where these veterans and their families live.

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DAV Resolutions: What good are they?

Purpose of Resolutions

Directly affect veterans benefits and services:

Influence legislation: Crafting

, amending, testimony, grassroots

Effect:

Statute and regulation

writing/re-write

Resolutions:

Set the ship’s mission

Provide coordinates for the ship

Members

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Fuel the ship

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DAV Resolutions: What good are they?

How Resolutions Directly Effect DAV

Resolutions Keep DAV relevant and effective!

Gives

organization focus/mission:

Engaged in matters

Organization stays attuned to needs, issues, gaps…

We need to know what’s 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

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Where is the following DAV statement located?

Within DAV’s official mission statement!Slide13

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DAV

Resolutions: What good are

they?

Legislative Process and you

Document; https://

www.dav.org/wp-content/uploads/LegislativeProcessandYou.pdf

Your Resources

Current DAV Constitution and Bylaws;

http://www.davmembersportal.org/sc/Department%20Newsletters/2013-2014%20National%20DAV%20Constitution%20Bylaws.pdf

DAV’s

National

Resolutions Publication

;

https://www.dav.org/wp-content/uploads/ResolutionBook.

pdf

Department Legislative Of

ficers

Legislative Officer Duties Publication;

https

://

www.dav.org/wp-content/uploads/LegislativeOfficerDutiesMidWinter.pdf

Chapter Legislative Officer

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National Legislative Staff

Committed Advocates at

the

Chapter and State Level

Critical; current resolutions must be readopted!Slide14

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DAV Resolutions: What good are

they?

Recap

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Are our Resolutions important?

Absolutely!

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Will all resolutions be adopted by DAV?

No

May be a local issue(s)

May be outside of DAV’s mission

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. Are grassroots efforts really that important?

Absolutely!

4. Where can you find resources to help you in crafting DAV centric resolutions?

Within this PowerPoint

5. A resolution adopted by DAV stays in effect until?

Enacted into law

Or must be readopted by DAV

Section 3.2: Duration of Mandates

Mandates

and resolutions adopted at each

National Convention shall be effective only until

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Feedback and Contact

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seminars,

email us at

www.davcal.org/contact-us

Thank you for your continued interest and support!

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