A reflective session on leadership, management, and managing up for the New Jersey Bonner VISTAs. Part of the mid-year retreat, March 2015. With Ariane Hoy and Afnan Rashid, Bonner Foundation.

1. Strategic Thinking &
Facilitative Leadership
An Opportunity to
Reflect, Assess, and
Move Forward
with the NJ VISTA Network
Ariane Hoy & Afnan Rashid

2. What we are
going to do
✴ Let go of the past!
✴ Share some new
frameworks and
tools for leadership
and management
✴ Reflect and get into
meaningful dialogue
✴ Brainstorm ideas
generate plans for
the future

3. •Make a careful list of all
things done to you that
you abhorred. Don't do
them to others, ever.
Make another list of
things done for you that
you loved. Do them for
others, always.
Phd - short course

4. •Here is the very heart and soul of the matter. If you look to
lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself
— your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation,
and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with
authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use
the remainder to induce those you "work for" to understand
and practice the theory. I use the terms "work for"
advisedly, for if you don't understand that you should be
working for your mislabeled "subordinates," you haven't
understood anything. Lead yourself, lead your superiors,
lead your peers, and free your people to do the same.
Heart & Soul

5. •The problem is never how to
get new, innovative thoughts
into your mind, but how to get
old ones out. Every mind is a
room packed with archaic
furniture. You must get the old
furniture of what you know,
think, and believe out before
anything new can get in. Make
an empty space in any corner
of your mind, and creativity will
instantly fill it.
creativity

6. creativity

7. What do you want or need to let go?
make that space!
draw, write, etc.

8. Facilitative leadersHIP

9. what they do
Coach
Guides others
towards improved
performance, self-
awareness, and full
potential
Team Leader
Manages the process
by which a team
accomplishes its goals
and tasks
Change
Agent
Encourages
continuous
improvement of the
organization and
systems

10. eight practices

11. if you are at your best,
which do you want to be?
Coach
Guides others towards
improved performance, self-
awareness, and full potential
Team Leader
Manages the process by which a team
accomplishes its goals and tasks
Change Agent
Encourages continuous
improvement of the
organization and systems
Assets challenges
what are you great at and
what do you need to work
on?

12. Remember your style
North
South
EastWest
“Action Jackson”
“Betty Blue Sky”
“Sam So Nice”
“Peter Practical”

13. balancingwhat is important

14. Results
Were the results high-quality? Did
it get done on time?
Was your organization/those
involved satisfied?
Process
Was the process inclusive?
Was the process clear/
transparent? Is/was the process
appropriate to the task and
context?
Relationships
Do team members/ colleagues
feel supported?
Do team members/ colleagues
feel valued? Do I trust others
and feel valued?

15. think about an upcoming role,
how can you do this better?
Results
• get things done
• on time
• demonstrate (& claim) success
Process
• inclusive & transparent
• organized & replicable
• build systems
Relationships
• build human capital
• advocate
• mentor/be mentored
what do you need to do
more of?
What do you need to do
less of?
reflect - then groups of 3

16. especially think about tools
at your disposal...
add onto your plans
❖ Meetings
❖ Emails
❖ VADs
❖ Basecamp use
❖ Interactions with your boss
❖ Interactions with your colleagues
❖ Interactions with people in the community
❖ Other VISTAs
❖ PR/Press
❖ Sharing relevant information
❖ etc.

17. •40% managing yourself
(integrity, reputation,
own work)
•30% managing up
(others with authority
over you)
•15% managing peers
and colleagues
•15% empowering
others to do the same
(pushing up!)
let us think about this again

18. How?
add onto your plans
❖ Preparing in advance (agenda, wish list, report, synopsis)
❖ Covering someone (going to them in private, advanced
conversation, sending an email, helping them prep)
❖ Asking for more (can I take that on?, I’d like to...)
❖ Taking initiative (volunteering, going extra mile)
❖ Being an advocate (standing up for...)
❖What will you do?...

19. • 40% managing yourself (integrity, reputation, own work)
• 30% managing up (others with authority over you)
• 15% managing peers and colleagues
• 15% empowering others to do the same (pushing up!)
where do you want to
spend more time & Effort?

20. Flash forward:
the most important thing I did was....