Session at Inaugural Session of Wyoming Society of CPAs Leadership Academy

1. Leadership:
The capacity to influence
human thought, emotion,
and behavior . . .
. . . starting with my own.

2. What separates truly
great performers
from everyone else?

3. Deliberate Practice

4. Deep Domain
Knowledge

5. Willingness to Repeat Hard Things,
Even After Initial Failures

6. Push Themselves Just
Beyond Their Current
Capabilities

7. "Organizations tend to assign
people based on what they're
already good at, not what
they need to work on."
- Geoff Colvin

8. Developmental Goals
"The best performers set goals
that are not just about the
outcome, but about the process
of reaching the outcome."

9. Focus On Strengths

10. Separate Coaching
from Mentoring

11. Structured
Coaching

12. 3-3-1 in 15 minutes
•What’s working?
•What’s not?
•One goal

13. Coaching Tip: Ask Good Questions
• What’s the one thing that you could do now
that would have the biggest impact on your
future success in practice development?
• What's the one thing you could do that would
have the biggest impact on your relationships
with members of your engagement teams?
• What relationships should you be cultivating?
• What are you doing to stretch yourself from a
technical perspective?

14. Coaching Tip: Practice Reflective
Listening
“What I hear you
saying is . . .”

15. Confidence in
your
presentation . . .

16. Confidence in
your
presentation . . .

17. Goal Setting

18. Intellect Can Clarify Intent

19. Emotion Moves Us to Act

20. What’s My Motivation?

21. “The greatest untapped source of
motivation . . . is a sense of service to
others; focusing on the contribution of
our work to other peoples’ lives has the
potential to make us more productive
than thinking about helping ourselves.”
Dr. Adam Grant – Wharton

22. Selecting a Coach or Mentor
• What do you
hope to
achieve?
• What criteria
will you use in
selection?
• Who will you
ask?

23. MOTIVATION ABILITY
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Can I do it?
Do others
motivate
me?
Do others enable
or hinder or
prevent me from
performing?
Does my
environment
motivate me?
Does my
environment
enable or hinder
my performance?
Am I
motivated?