This document discusses the importance of authentic leadership in building trust within teams. It defines authentic leadership as allowing oneself to be genuine, exposing one's ethics and beliefs transparently. Authentic leaders foster better relationships, higher trust, and increased productivity. They avoid "masks" like charisma that reduce trust. Becoming an authentic leader requires self-awareness, transparency, and leading with one's true mission and values aligned. Authentic leadership creates psychological safety for innovation and open dialogue to empower individuals and teams.

1. TheRoleofAuthentic
LeadershipinTeamDynamics
2022 PM Retreat
1 Nov 2022

2. “Withouttrustwedon’ttrulycollaborate;wemerelycoordinate
or,atbest,cooperate.Itistrustthattransformsagroupof
peopleintoateam.”
-StephenCovey:Author7HabitsofHighlyEffectivePeople

3. Authentic Leadership -Origins
 Reaction to both the Enron and Volkswagen Scandals
 Management acting as they thought management should act
(masking)
 Management not following their own moral compass
 Bill George wrote the first book on the subject
 Authentic Leadership
 Bill George’s second book
 Discovering Your True North
 Brings the theory to a ‘movement’

4. Whydoweneed Authentic Leadership
 Better Relationships with Colleagues and Teams
 Fosters Higher Levels of Trust
 Increased Productivity
 More Positive Working Environment
 Creates Psychological Safety

5. TheMasksofLeadership
 Mask of Charisma
 Easily detected
 Reduces trust
 Creates environment of false platitudes
 Mask of Technocracy
 Alienates teams and coworkers
 Leaders seem cold, disinterested
 Mask of Knowledge
 Doesn’t admit mistakes
 Doesn’t like to be questioned
 Doesn’t listen to direct report’s inputs
 Leaders seem cold
 Direct Reports begin to wonder why they even show up

6. Authentic Leadership isAllowing Yourself tobe
Yourself
 Being the Genuine You
 Exposing your:
 Ethics
 Morals
 Thoughts
 Believes
 Mission
 Can’t just be turned on/off
 So your teams know
 Precisely Who you are
 What you do
 How you do it
 And the processes you use to get there

7. Becoming anAuthentic Leader
 Committed to Bettering themselves
 Willing to take trainings
 Asking for 360 feedback
 Cultivation of Self Awareness
 Why do I feel this way
 What are my Strengths/Weaknesses
 How am I showing up to Work/the World
 Disciplined
 Insure you complete what you promised
 Communicating with colleagues
 Mission Driven
 Understand your mission
 Personal Mission should align with Business Mission
 Influence your team for a collective purpose
 Inspiring Faith
 Must be willing to take the leap of faith when things are difficult
 Be transparent with your employees to tap into their motivational drivers

8. Traits ofAuthentic Leadership
 Power
 Source is not from the Hierarchy
 Not from potential rewards to reports
 Influences others by honestly and personality
 Optimism
 Faith that it will all work out for the best
 Research Shows its hard to fake
 Transparency
 Invites trust by establishing honesty
 Allows teams to see your thought process
 Must allow teams to question thought process
 Resiliency
 Admitting and Owning Mistakes and Failures
 Being able to recover from Mistakes and Failures
 Able to rally the team after the issue

9. HowIOperationalize Transparency
 Question Hour/AMA
 One Hour Meeting held every 2 weeks
 Set on a Monday to help “Set the Tone” for the week
 I cannot give out tasks during this meeting
 I can only accept tasks during this meeting
 If I don’t know the answer, I have until the End of Week to relay to the team
 Everyone is invited, but you don’t have to attend

10. Authentic Leadership Influence onTeams
 Creates Psychological Safety
 Its okay to fail
 Teams are more likely interact with each other honestly
 Its okay to be transparent
 I don’t have to hide who I am
 Its okay to be who I am
 These all lead to
 More Innovation
 Higher levels of trust
 More Productivity

11. Authentic Leadership Influence onIndividuals
 Creates Open Dialog
 I am heard
 Individuals feel empowered
 I can question and present ideas
 Individuals feel self efficacy
 I can be more effective at my job
 These all lead to
 Lower turnover
 Greater levels of interaction
 Higher Productivity

13. “Fearofbeingshamedcausespeopletoputonmasksand
liveinfearandpretense,creatingastrongholdofpride.
Authentic,transparentleadersencouragepeopletodevelop
trustthroughtheirownhonestyandvulnerability.Theydo
notviewtransparencyasweakness,butrecognizeitasa
sourceoftheirvirtue,powerandanointingbecausepower
flowsthroughhumility.”

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