FRIEND LEADERSHIP
A VISUAL INSPIRATION BOOK

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Visuality has a strong presence everywhere today. It is an integral part of communication and its importance is reinforced in social media, where images and videos play a central role. This is why taking visuality as a part of leadership is very timely and important. Visuality makes leadership interesting, experiential, and above all, effective. As a result, every Friend Leader, should add visual tools to their tool box.

The Friend Leadership principles were created at Tiimiakatemia (Team Academy) by Johannes Partanen and NJL (From Young Manager to True Leader) in 2008:

  1. Be sensitive to people's emotions and act accordingly. As a Friend Leader, you must remember your own humanity.
  2. As a leader, always be attentive and available, a genuine listener.
  3. Only actions count in Friend Leadership.
  4. The basic task of Friend Leadership is the leading of a learning organisation, and the needed basic skill is the ability to inspire others towards the common goal.
  5. You can't lead others if you can't lead yourself.
  6. In Friend Leadership, it is vital to set up playing positions for all in the team company, and to concentrate on their individual strengths. Team building skills are the absolute prerequisite for successful team leadership.
  7. Everything rises and falls on leadership, and leadership falls on lack of communication.
  8. Friend Leadership is never an award - it must be earned every day.
  9. The Friend Leader's task is to create community positive thinking in the team company, together with its coach.
  10. Friend Leadership is always setting an example. What you give your attention to, others will also.

Johannes Partanen developed Hit Mr- philosophy based on Kouzes and Posner’s model about Leadership Challenge. Memory rule development with Leadership Challenge’s HIT MR philosophy principle has become blurred, because the order of the steps is not right. The rule came from Finnish langue. The correct order is in other words MICEE1:
  1. Model the way.
  2. Inspire a shared vision.
  3. Challenge the process.
  4. Enable others to act.
  5. Encourage the heart.

1 Get to know The Leadership Challenge concept. Apple's APS store is the excellent The Leadership Challange-APS, try it! link