Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

Presented byManaal Siddiqui

Urooj Fatima

- by Stewart D. Friedman

Introduction• Research - people unsatisfied; inability

to bear leadership in all life domains (work, home, community & self)

• Achieve 4 way wins, not trade of one for the other but mutual value among them – Total Leadership

• Total – about the whole person

• Leadership- creates sustainable change to benefit you & the most important people around you

• Have a clear view of each domain; design and implement experiments; analyze the effect

WORK!

HOME!

ME!

Gaining From Total Leadership• Workshop participants assess

themselves during program, report improvements regularly

• Kenneth Chen, manager, wanted to be CEO, but other conflicting goals

• Joined community board to benefit leadership skills; wanted to cope up with community,fiancée and work

• 3 yrs later – on community board with fiancée, on track of becoming CEO, enhanced performance, guiding others.

PerformanceSatisfaction

Work Life

Home Life

Community Life

Self

20%

28%

31%

39%

Work Life

Home Life

Community Life

Self

9%

15%

12%

25%

Personal Assessment Workshop Program

• Based on a study of 300 business professionals over a 4 month time period

Total Leadership Process 1. Be Real 2. Be Whole 3. Be Innovative • Think, write & talk with peer coaches – clarify what’s

important

• An outside perspective challenges you, helps create innovation & holds you accountable to your commitments

• Identify key stakeholders & expected performance from them; talk to them

• Result – new ways of making life better, for us & for the people around us

Designing Experiments• Best Experiments - changes that stakeholders wish from you;

Consider their interests & opinions

• Work Goal - taking advantage of new opportunities for increasing productivity, reducing hidden costs, etc.

• Home & Community Goal - improving relationships; contributing more to society

• Self Goal - improving health, finding greater meaning in life.

• Some experiments benefit only single domain directly but benefit others indirectly

• Main Goal – achieve 4-way win - makes changes sustainable; everyone benefits

Identify Possibilities• Think of several potential experiments, describe what to do in

each

• Satisfying all domains initially difficult, approach the challenge systematically

• Work does interfere with personal & family life – Make more permeable, not thicker, boundaries between domains

• Identify possibilities that work well in your unique situation

• Question traditional assumptions about how things get done

Potential Experiment Designs

• Tracking and Reflecting• Planning and Organizing• Rejuvenating and Restoring• Appreciating and Caring• Focusing and Concentrating• Revealing and Engaging• Time Shifting and “Re-Placing”• Delegating and Developing• Exploring and Venturing

• Try only 3 experiments at once - Small wins & knowledge about leadership learned

• Narrow down to the ones which: Give best overall ROI Most costly in regret Allows to practice desired leadership skills Fun and moves you towards your vision

• Don’t get too engrossed into the details of any one experiment

• Well-designed experiments always pay off.

Getting Started

Measuring Progress• Failed experiments helps create better ones in future.

• Set up a scorecard, each experiment on separate sheet with brief description on top of page

1st column - goals of each domain Middle column – describe result metrics 3rd column – describe action metrics; refine scorecard from time to time

• Metrics maybe objective, subjective, qualitative, quantitative, reported by you or others, frequently or intermittently observed

Small Wins For Big Change• Experiments shouldn’t be massive

• Highly ambitious designs usually fail – too much to handle

• Best experiments help us try something new, minimizing the risks of change

• Opens doors that would otherwise be closed

• Frame experiments as trials – reduces people’s resistance

• Steps in experiments should be small and initially achievable, but goals should be big

• People go for Total Leadership because: Dissatisfaction due to lack of love for the work Feeling ingenuine by not acting according to their values Disconnection from people who matter to them Crave for creativity

• Look to achieve 4 way wins that satisfy all life domains

• Form a blueprint of experiments – helps perform better and create harmony among all domains

Conclusions

• Formulate ways to measure progress.

• Compare results

• Learn from failures; The only way to fail with an experiment is to fail to learn from it.

• You can be a better leader & have a richer life, if you are ready and willing to rise to the challenge

Conclusions…