The document outlines a strategy for developing leadership skills. It recommends discovering your strengths and weaknesses, defining your values and personal mission, and developing a personal board of directors. Specific steps include taking a DISC assessment to understand your behaviors, crafting a governing value and mission statement, and identifying the types of advisors needed. The strategy is meant to "awaken the leader" in you so that you can develop and market your leadership abilities.

1. Cindy Allen-Stuckey
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2. Agenda
• Truths about leaders
• A strategy for “awakening” the
leader in you
• Now what? - Develop & Market
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3. Leaders Don’t Wait for an
Appointment
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4. …Decision, Not a Position
A Boss Who Did Not Lead A Leader Who Wasn’t the Boss
Name, Position Name, Position
Situation, Context Situation, Context
Reason Reason
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5. Leaders Don’t Wait for an
Appointment
Leadership is a Decision,
Not a Position
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6. Strategy - Awaken the Leader
• Discover: understand yourself
• Define:
• guiding values
• personal mission
• Develop:
• personal BOD
• training www.makingperformancematter.com

7. Discover Yourself - DISC
• Not a test, but an acronym
• Addresses “how” we behave
• Observable actions I
D
D I
• No right or wrong answers
C S
C S
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8. DISC - What Does it Mean?
• D Dominance = How you handle
Problems/Challenge
• I Influence = How you handle
People/Contacts D I
• S Steadiness = How you handle C S
Pace/Consistency
• C Compliance = How you handle
Procedures/Constraints
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9. Define Your Governing Values
Governing Value :
 Determine highest priorities
 Brainstorm corresponding values
 Clarify - use positive terms “I am”, “I
do”, I will”
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10. Define Your Mission Statement
Mission:
 Direction you want your life to head
towards
 Steps you plan to take in order to get to
your destination
 Reminder of overriding goals and beliefs
 Becomes an internal compass
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11. Develop Your Personal BOD
The supporter The bridge
The questioner
The sage
The maven The risk-taker
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12. Awakening the Leader
• Discover: understand yourself
• Define:
• guiding values
• personal mission
• Develop:
• personal BOD
• training www.makingperformancematter.com

13. Now What
If you want to
become a leader -
Develop & Market Yourself get started!
 Combine with desire
 Steps you plan to take in order to get to
your destination
 Becomes an internal compass
 Reminder of overriding goals and beliefs
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14. Thank you for your time!
Cindy Allen-Stuckey
Making Performance Matter
www.makingperformancematter.com
(812) 343-4366
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15. Making Performance Matter
www.makingperformancematter.com
(812) 343-4366
Cindy Allen-Stuckey, Med, MSM
cindy@makingperformancematter.com
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