**Annette Dubrouillet**

The Frankenstein Model

• Are leaders born or are they created?

• Can anyone truly develop leadership skills or do those skills have to be in inherent in their make-up?

• How can your group find the leader of their dreams?

• And what the heck does Frankenstein have to do with leadership, anyway?

What are the benefits
to your group?

What type of
leader are you?

Join Annette and her friend from the famous doctor’s castle as they tackle the old question of the origins of leadership. Travel to far off lands, venture into dark, foggy nights, fend against fierce, intimidating gargoyles and explore “leadership creation” from a really different perspective.

Together you help the good doctor dissect leadership and put it back together into a user-friendly creature that every participant will recognize and relate to.

This is a fun-loaded look at the qualities and characteristics
your group needs and wants in a great leader.
They may even find some of those qualities within themselves!

What are the benefits to your group?

• They’ll recognize their own leadership abilities.

• They’ll understand that there are leaders at every level of an organization.

• They’ll identify the characteristics of leadership that are needed for their environment.

• They’ll see how to facilitate leadership development for themselves and others.

• They’ll capitalize on the leadership abilities they already have!

What type of leader are you?

As these two pictures demonstrate, there are many different types of leaders. The challenge is deciding which leadership style and what leadership characteristics are best for you and your team. Try this activity to help you begin to understand all the possibilities. Make a list of answers to these two questions:

1. How were Mother Theresa and Adolph Hitler alike?
2. How were they different?

Many people are surprised to find how many ways Hitler and Mother Theresa were alike, how many characteristics they had in common.

• They both were passionate about their causes.

• They both were effective leaders.

• They both were able to communicate.

• They both accomplished a lot.

• They both were intense, focused people.

• They both were very strong.

• They both impacted the world in which they lived.

• They both understood the power of public relations to garner support.

• They both were “one-man-shows” and probably failed to develop real leadership among their supporters. (Just think about what happened to their causes and their organizations after they died.)

• One person even noticed that they are both wearing uniforms in these photos so that people will readily identify them and their causes.

The differences are more philosophical.

• One believed in the power of a divine entity, the other believed in his own power.

• One believed in sharing with everyone on earth, the other believed there was a certain group who had all the entitlements.

• One believed in accomplishing by using the philosophy of love and caring, the other believed in using the philosophy of fear and hatred.

• One had a “generous heart”, the other had a “cold heart.”

• One accomplished good, the other brought death and destruction.

• People like one and not the other.

What really is the difference between the two? No one can deny that they were both leaders. But how about their ultimate effectiveness or their final legacy?

What leadership characteristics are your strong points?

Do you see how some of those characteristics can still cause you to be an ineffective leader?

What else do you have to do and know about yourself to ensure you leave a positive legacy?