Learning Objective: Discuss traits that help develop and expand your leadership repertoire
Are leaders born or made? How do aspiring managers succeed in an ever-changing business environment? How do they lead different groups to action? Throughout this seminar, we will explore how great leaders assess themselves, manage collaborative teams, and effectively manage negotiations and conflict.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
a. Discover how leaders communicate through storytelling and employ other communication strategies to influence.
b. Explore and analyze leadership styles.
c. Identify how organizations can develop team charters to optimize their groups, and develop a game plan for effective negotiation.
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High Performance Collaboration:
Leadership, Teamwork, And Negotiation
• Introduction
• Are leaders born or made?
• How do you succeed in an ever-changing
business environment?
• How do you lead different groups to
action?
• Next Steps
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Are Leaders Born Or Made?
• What comes to mind for you?
• What’s true about me?
• Why does it matter?
• What do you see for yourself and for your
organization?
• Ways to know
• The answer
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How To Succeed In An Ever-changing
Business Environment
• How well do you know yourself?
• My big surprise; and again.
• Weak signals.
• Feedback
• Mentorship
• Prepare
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How To Lead Different Groups To Action
• Be a student
• Influencing and being influenced
• Listening
• Valuing story
• Giving credit
• What “no” means
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Next Steps
• Decide for yourself
• Fuel your inspiration, learn, & grow
• Assess yourself
• Assess environment
• Assess your fit
• Adjust to complete PDCA
Editor's Notes
Intro:
Very proud to be ranked high in the top 20 utilities worldwide for gender diversity. I have a mom, sister, daughters and wife who’ve worked hard at helping me to value everyone equally and to help others bring their whole selves so that they can contribute fully. Blessed to have been led by women in many venues. I enjoy an environment where leaders are recognized and awarded for empowering women. This session discusses how we advance our personal and professional growth through leadership. And this matters because our world needs you.
Point 1: Are leaders born or made?
What comes to mind for you?
What’s true about me?
Why does it matter? –Does it drive you to develop?
Ability + motivation is required.
What do you see for yourself and for your organization?
Do you become impatient? Do you want other to feel that way that you do?
Leadership is influence.
You’ve already demonstrated that you are willing to learn more on this topic
I enjoy helping others develop and to achieve desired results
Point 2: How do aspiring managers succeed in an ever-changing business environment? Support
Know yourself
Not just about your motivations and intentions like we discussed on the last slide. It also involves what you know about others and how they perceive you.
That is not always clearly visible.
With conflict, know your derailleurs. Know what triggers them. Ask for a coach to point it out real-time.
Story:
Apprentice challenged my self-perception
Emotional intelligence
Know others
Do you pick up on weak signals?
Feedback
Don’t obsess over it. Ask yourself, is that a perspective that I want them to have?
Self-reflect often. Request feedback every week. Request feedback from everyone. Be approachable.
Preparation, confidence, courage: the secret sauce to wipe our insecurity
Make the world a better place
Mentor and be mentored; teach and be taught
Learn to tell stories. Listen to great story tellers. Podcasts
No regrets strategy
Point 3: How do they lead different groups to action? and Support
Be a student of personality characteristics and needs
Be a student of group dynamics and organizational behavior
Explore and analyze leadership styles.
The accomplishment of predetermined objectives through others
When entering a planning session, should you have a purpose, destination, and path? keep it to yourself… until the right time
What works for me:
Have a plan. Know the details well. Listen, share it incrementally, flexibly
Act with integrity. Stretch yourself. Be yourself.
Listen
Value their story. Weave the stories together. Adjust and adapt until you can move forward united.
Your priorities don’t have to be first.
Discover what they want, over and over. Help them achieve it. Conscientiously tie their desires to the bigger picture.
Implement others ideas and give them credit. Don’t require perfection…yet.
Don’t stop. Keep the vision fresh and continually in front of the team.
“No” often means, not yet, the value for me/us isn’t clear, or our relationship is not in a good place.
Embrace tension without being contentious. Lead with what is in common.
Leverage “offline” interpersonal interactions.
Practice by volunteering in the community. Fulfilling, practical education.
Were you born a leader? Will you be made into one? In either case, decide to grow. That is a decision that you make. It must be intentional. Fuel your inspiration and let your inspiration fuel you.
Succeeding in an ever-changing environment? Assess; yourself, your environment, your fit. Then adjust.
How to lead different groups into action. PDCA.
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