Defining Your Leadership Style

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Defining your Leadership Style


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What We Are Up to Today

lA Few Words About Change and

Leadership

lLeadership Styles

lA Word or Two About Trust

lChange Stories

lThe Challenge

lHow Are We Going to Show Up

Differently as Leaders in the Future


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Change..

lIf the rate of change inside an organization

is less than the rate of change outside the

organization, the end is in sight. Jack Welch

lIm sorry, but the future has been

cancelled. Barry Oshry

lGiraffes didnt get those necks overnight!

Louis Leakey


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Leadership..

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The art of tapping the wellspringsof human motivation in order to

mobilize them toward a shared

aspiration.With apologies to Kouzes and Posner


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Lets Start by Defining Other

Terms!lLeaderq The one who goes first.

q Someone credible

focused on the future.q Establishes True

North

q Something we become

over time.q The one who articulates

the direction for others

to go.

lLeadershipq Service

q The relationship

between the leader andher constituents

q A practice, a struggle,

and a feud.

q Caringq Self-development

In the end, does the definition really matter?


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How Do Leaders Show up?

Leaders Managers


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The Qualities of an Effective

Leader

lHonesty

lForward-Looking

lInspiring

lCompetent


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The Practices of an Effective

Leader

lThey Challenge Everything

lThey Inspire Shared Vision and Action

lThey Enable Others to Act

lThey Model the Way

lThey Encourage and Speak from theHeart


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Change Process Model

Urgency

Coalition

Vision

Communication

Empowerment

Wins

Reinforcement

Change


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The Competencies of an

Effective LeaderlIdentifying the Pain of Current Vs Ideal

lPursuit of Excellence

lAccountability/Focus

lBusiness Acumen

lProblem Solving/Conceptual Thinking

lInterpersonal Skills/Emotional Intelligence

lSupporting Teamwork

lCommitment

lDevelops Others

lDevelops Self


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Leadership Styles

lFour Stylesq A. Command and Control

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B. Bureaucratic/Participativeq C. Expert/Democratic

q D. Self-Managing/Team

lThree Ps (Cross Check Scales)q Pitfalls (P1 Scale)

q Practices (P2 Scale)

q Principles (P3 Scale)


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Leadership Styles

lAll styles are valid depending on your

organizational context, the effective

experience level of your staff, and yourpersonal leadership principles

lSubscale 1 vs 2 is simply the healthy vs. the

average version of the style.lEveryone has a dominant style


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Trust - An Important Topic for

the Times

lTrust Destroyersq unhealthy levels of ambition, power, need for recognition

q volatile personalities/Class A jerks/inconsistent emotional reactions

q personal vs. organizational agendas at odds

q under-performance

q misplacing benevolence on others

q false or no feedback to others

q non-confrontational/paralyzed

q scapegoating others or failing to trust others

q taking away the everyday!/excessively strict or inflexible

q Bait and switchers

q inconsistent communicators

q

complicated situations/always in crisis or chaos/rapidly changing life


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Heres a given: a starting

assumption:

Tops

Middles

Bottoms

In every organization,

no matter how flat,

there are tops,

middles, and bottoms.


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Exercise

l In small groups of 5 to 7 people:q Tell each other a story of a time when you personally

experienced a major change in an organization. (Take 5

minutes per person!)

Where were you in the organization at the time ofthe change (a top, middle, or a bottom)

Focus on how you felt during the change effort

Relate your feelings to the style of the leadership

teamq Make a List of What Was Done Well, etc. for each

group


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The collective intelligence andexperience exists in this room

today to lead a masterful change.The question is.will you take the

time, gather the experience, and

communicate in a way that takesadvantage of the collective?


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Exercise: How Will We Show Up?

lChange is experienced differently for tops,

middles, and bottoms

lDrawing on your change stories, and given

your particular challenge What do you need to do differently for each group

in the coming change you need to implement? How are you going to ensure the discipline required

to implement this?


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Its not so much that were afraid of change,

or so in love with the old ways, but its theplace in between that we fearits like being

between trapezes. Its Linus when his blanket

is in the dryer. Theres nothing to hold on to.

M. Ferguson


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In order for us personally to

change..

lWe need..q Coaching, instruction or mentoring

q

The attitude of the beginnerq A supportive environment(people)

q A transitional object (Linus blanket)

q

A safe environment where risk-taking is OKq A place where you can experiment with

different strategies (rehearsal or practice)

q A way of rewriting your autobiography!


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Leadership is about creating the

conversation to focus priorities

-Steve Williamson


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Like Magellan, let us find our islands

To die in, far from home, from anywhere

Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places,

Lest we go down in comfort and despair.

For years we have labored over common roads,

Dreaming of ships that sail into the night.

Let us be heroes, or, if thats not in us,

Let us find men to follow, honor bright.

Like Magellan, let us find our islands

To die in, far from home, from anywhere

Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places,

Lest we go down in comfort and despair.

For years we have labored over common roads,

Dreaming of ships that sail into the night.

Let us be heroes, or, if thats not in us,

Let us find men to follow, honor bright.

Magellan

By Mary Oliver

For what is life but reaching for an answer?

And what is death but a refusal to grow?

Magellan had a dream he had to follow.

The sea was big, his ships were awkward, slow.

And when the fever would not set him free,

To his thin crew, Sail on, Sail on! he cried.

And so they did, carried the frail dream forward.

And thus Magellan lives, although he died.

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