The abc's of working together generic 2013
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The documents provide guidance on creating an authentic work environment characterized by leadership, values, and personal growth. Key points include: 1) Establishing an authentic leadership group to discuss works promoting personal development, values-based leadership, and organizational excellence. 2) Defining turbulent times and behaviors to avoid, such as short-term thinking and fear-based decisions, which can demotivate staff and stifle creativity. 3) Promoting authentic leadership through discovering personal purpose and values, developing compassionate relationships, and encouraging others' growth.
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The abc's of working together generic 2013
- 2. Goals for all Teams • Help everyone cope & grow within the current negative environment. • Help everyone deal with personal changes as they impact themselves and others. • Help everyone understand the changes going on within the organization, Big Picture. • Help everyone understand the need for collaboration internally/externally 4/26/2013 2
- 3. Foundations of the Authentic Work Environment • Start an Authentic Leadership Group within Your Organization • Include works of Bill George from his book “True North” • Include work of Michael Bungay Stanier’s book “Find Your Great Work” • Include work of Jim Collins, “Good to Great” • Include work of Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success 4/26/2013 3
- 4. • Personal Values compromised • No clear direction beyond the day-to-day • You’ve become just another number, “CDU” or worse, a “Resource” • You don’t feel part of anything good • You know when and if you are part of something bad • All consistency feels like stagnation • You struggle to find meaning in your work • You wonder if you are next on “a” list! HOW DO WE DEFINE TURBULENT TIMES? (Personal) The Employees’ “Death of a Thousand Cuts”
- 5. •Fear •Scarcity •Individualism •Protectionism •Blame & Judgement •Stasis replaces Creativity •Management vs. Leadership WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH WHAT CAN NORMALLY HAPPEN? ..TURBULENT BEHAVIORS?
- 6. AND WHAT RESULTS CAN THESE BEHAVIORS BRING? Knee-Jerk decision making Short Term Thinking A Focus on the past Further Fear of Change De-motivated Staff Dissatisfied Customers Stifled creativity Values Conflicts Acceptance of Fear Micro Management
- 7. LIFE ISN’T ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS; IT’S ABOUT: Anon LEARNING TO DANCE IN THE RAIN!
- 8. 0 Your Brand should mean, amongst other things… 0 Being Purposeful in all that you do 0…including developing the understanding of yourselves, your values, your needs 0 Being Passionate about the things that you do 0 …including aligning yourselves with actions that make your hearts sing! 0 Being Ingenious by allowing yourselves to be creative 0 …and building environments that encourage bravery to say or try new things & possibly fail 4/26/2013 8 HONORING YOUR HISTORY & SHAPING YOUR FUTURE
- 9. AUTHENTIC personal LEADERSHIP ..AN INVITATION “Leadership is a conscious process of discovering and nurturing infinite possibilities in a human being” Debashis Chatterjee
- 10. AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP The ‘DNA’ of an Authentic Leader is: • Purpose leading to passion • Values leading to “right” behaviour • Heart leading to compassion • Relationships leading to connectedness • Self Discipline leading to consistency • Self Awareness leading to knowledge & personal growth
- 11. The ABC’s of Working Together.. 0 Authenticity 0 Be your true self – the person who you were born to be! 0 Stay true to your Values, (e.g. Trust, Openness, Honesty) 0 Act out of Abundance not Scarcity 0 Be a role model to grant permission to others to be Authentic 0 Blame 0 Take the blame out of all that you say and do 0 Don’t judge PEOPLE - focus on the PROCESSES that are broken 0 Courage 0 Build your inner strength to overcome obstacles with Compassion 0 Have the courage to say how things really are:- 0 to create a safe place to exhibit “right” behaviours 0 to form an Inspirational environment for the team and for yourself. 0 to Feel and Acknowledge your fears - and do things anyway! 4/26/2013 11“Do or do not, there is no try!” - Yoda
- 12. 0 BE the real you - true to your WHOLE self 0 Understand and live to your personal values 0 Identify and remove conflict, personal first 0 Widen your comfort zones 0 Develop self-knowledge & self-faith 0 Recognise your fears and do things anyway! 0 Build fulfilling relationships 0 Develop the courage to see it through 0 Reach your potential 0 Grant PERMISSION to others to do the same! 4/26/2013 12 AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP …AN INVITATION FOR EVERYONE!
- 13. 0 A process that enables your “investors” (Employees, Managers, Customers, Suppliers) to be driven by values and principles to do the right thing, no matter how difficult the situation. 0 Rules, regulations and laws tell you what you can do, but values inspire in you what you should do. 0 The primary goal is to make relationships more sustainable. 4/26/2013 13 AWE – Elevator Speech …easy to relate, quick thought!
- 14. 0 Things only get interesting when you take full responsibility for the choices you make 0 Changing your Focus Changes what’s possible 0 You must make the full choice 0 If everyone is happy then you’re not doing great work 0 You need to welcome others to your journey 0 Good is the enemy of GREAT! – Jim Collins 4/26/2013 14 Great Work Truths …Michael Stanier – Find Your Great Work!
Editor's Notes
- In order to set the scene for the tone of our conversations and interactions and indeed to create an environment where we are all able to collaborate most effectively and authentically, we are introducing the ABC’s of working together at the start of every gathering. (Even if you are reading this – take a moment – treat yourself to some ME time – and give yourself the chance to embrace new ways of thinking and being)So, what are these ABC’s?Well firstly, I invite you all to see that you are sitting comfortably.Now let’s bring ourselves to being fully present in our conversation.When ready, take a Deep Long breath, in through the nose and out through the mouth.Letting all the tension and stresses drain away with the out breath.A is for AuthenticityThis is an invitation to be your true self and about finding out who that person is, so that you can bring your best to every situationIt is about understanding and developing awareness of our values, individually and collectively and being true to those valuesIt is a call to be open and sharing in the way we express ourselves, or exchange our ideas and informationIt is an opportunity to be a role model for Authenticity and by so doing we grant other people permission to behave similarly.B is for BlameAnd acts as a reminder to each of us to actively work at taking the blame out of our interactions with people – including ourselves!This is about refusing to fall victim to the “need” that we are often expected to have to find fault and judge each other.Only by focussing on the processes that do not work and removing the personal blame, judgment and criticism, can we head towards truly collaborative, inclusive and inspired problem solvingC is for CourageThe Courage to be who we are no matter what the temptation is to falter.Courage to say what needs to be said, or to do what needs to be done – and always to do these things with Compassion.Others will be on a different journey, their journey, be cognisant of where they are.It takes courage to create an environment where people can be completely open and honest and exhibit the “right” behaviours when overcoming obstacles.And it takes courage to acknowledge the fear in letting go of negativity and embracing the potential in ourselves and of our people.And as YODA said “Do or do not, there is no try!”Either you will use the ABC’s or you won’t!The choice is yours aloneNamaste(The Spirit within me recognizes and honours the Spirit within you)