Leadership The World

needs

The Perks of Being a Role

Model

Leadership as a role in your lifeBegins with a simple question:

“Who I’m I?”

Self Awareness

Self-awareness – a clear understanding of your personality and how others perceive

you – is an essential tool for successful

leadership, and a trait all good managers should strive

to attain.

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When Self Awareness is not working we…

Many of us operate on the belief that we must appear as though we know everything

all the time or else people will question our abilities, diminishing our effectiveness as leaders.

Instead of …

If you're honest with yourself, you'll admit that really the opposite is true.

Because whether you acknowledge your weaknesses or not, everyone still sees them. So rather than conceal them, the

person who tries to hide weaknesses actually highlights them, creating the perception of a lack of integrity and self-

awareness.

That’s the reason why…

When you acknowledge what you have yet to learn, you're modeling that in your organization it's okay to

admit you don't have all the answers, to make mistakes and most importantly, to ask for help.

These are all characteristics of an organization that is constantly learning and springboards

to innovation and agility -- two hallmarks of high performing organizations.

5 Steps for Cultivating Self-Awareness

1.

2. Utilize tools for understanding yourself

3. Create tangible tools for self-reflection. 

4. Admit mistakes.

5. Be aware of others.

The most effective executives I knew had, I believe, realistic assessments of their own abilities – their strengths and weaknesses, their effect on others, the gaps that

needed to be filled.

The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails

1. Training focuses on technique/content/curriculum – Development focuses on people.2. Training adheres to standards – Development focuses on maximizing potential.

3. Training is transactional – Development is transformational.4. Training focuses on maintenance – Development focuses on growth.5. Training focuses on the role – Development focuses on the person.

6. Training encourages compliance – Development emphasizes performance.7. Training focuses on reporting lines – Development expands influence.

8. Training is mechanical – Development is intellectual.

If what you desire is a robotic, static thinker – train them. If you’re seeking innovative, critical thinkers – develop them. I have always said it is impossible to have an enterprise which is growing and evolving if leadership is not.

TEAM EXPERIENCE is To GUARANTEE: Training and Development at the same time.

The new role of leaders

Social Physics

We tend to see organizations as made up of particular objects, such as divisions, departments, and product groups.  Yet in reality, they are more like a collection of communities, each with their own

culture, beliefs and practices.  How these networks are structured has an enormous impact on how they perform

Managing Networks of Unseen Connections

Strategy is no longer a game of chess.  We can’t think only in terms of planning and execution, but need to understand how information flows and cascades self-organize around strategic intent.  Hierarchy fails in the digital age not because it is illegitimate, but because it is slow and the world has

become fast.

Today, you gain power and capability not by increasing scale, but by deepening and

widening connections.  

The role of leadership has changed.   It is no longer enough to merely plan and direct action, today we must inspire and empower

belief.

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Three Critical Innovation Roles: Broker, Role Model, Risk-Taker

Is not about

Is About this

Send lawyers, guns and money . . . to get me out of this.Warren Zevon

If you are faced with understanding, building, or nurturing a culture of innovation in your

organization, you may be looking for a similar combination of resources that can be a total

solution 

  Brokers, Role Models and Risk-takers. 

Where you find these functions or roles being filled,  you’ll find innovative cultural states;

where these functions are not being filled, you’ll will find a relatively bland, safe and predictable organizational

dynamic.

BrokersExchange and conversation is the fuel that

drives innovation in organizations

Role ModelsRole models embody an authentic

and purposeful set of values and demonstrate those values through their actions.

Risk TakersThe innovation risk-taker brings good

judgment and self-awareness to everything, but understands that there is a point – just there, beyond the safe, beyond

the secure – where there are disproportionate rewards

Managers today no longer command armies,

we must learn to lead movements

I’m Strong Because i’ve been weak, i’m fearless beacuse i’ve been afraid,

I’m Wise because i’ve been foolish