the art of self leadership

 8  et  9  avril  2015  –  Université  de  Lausanne  

Self-­‐Leadership!Lars  Sudmann  mail@lars-­‐sudmann.com  Twi@er:  @larssudmann    !

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More  than  200  million  people  work  in  remote  teams  

Source: Manpower

Audiences

Self-Leadership defined “The process of influencing oneself” (Neck & Manz 2010)

Audiences „Led“

Leader

Leadership Lecturer

Organizational Advisor

Elements  of  Self-­‐

Leadership  

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Envision   Execute  

Enquire  

@larssudmann

www.lars-sudmann.com

       Principles    

   #Principle    The  bucket  principle  

   #Principle    The  spagheO  principle  

   #Principle    The  Tocky  principle  

18 Tocky,  h@p://www.nandahome.com/  

   #Principle    The  Tocky  principle  

   Groundrules    

Explore

Envision  

Audiences

“If you don’t know where you’re going you’ll end up someplace else” Yogi Berra

   #Tool    100+  Goals  

Envision  

Enquire  

“Alright,  let  me  send  this  email”    

“Now  the  phone  call…”  

“I  will  just  update  the  micro-­‐blog  of  the  

company”  

“Let’s  do  a  video  conference  with  my  new  

team”  

“Ok…that  is  done…work  went  well  today”  

“He  was  typing  all  the  Mme  while  on  the  phone  –  he  does  not  care!”  

“’Do  that!’  as  email  text    

How  rude  of  him!”  

“Did  you  see  that  funny  picture  in  the  background?  Was  he  in  his  kid’s  room?”  

“How  banal  -­‐  here  surely  is  somebody  who  cannot  blog…  and  even  spelling  mistakes….hahaha”  

E-­‐Mail   Phone  Video   Blog  

…    

   #Tool    Get  21st  century  communicaVon  feedback  

Blind  Spots  

Known  to  others  

Not  known  to  others  

Known  to  self  

Not  known  to  self  

Johari-Window in Interaction

Based  on:  Luft / Ingham "The Johari window”    

   “Feedback  is  like  that  gi[  you  get  from  your  aunt.  You  may  like  it  or  you  may  not  like  it.  You  may  use  it  or  throw  it  away  later.  But  you  smile  and  say:  Thank  you.”      

Engage  

Envision  

Enquire  

“What will they think of me?”

“I can’t do this”

“This will never work…”

“My pants are too long…”

   #Tool    Reframing  

   #Tool    (Self-­‐)  Coaching  

       “What  could  you  do?”    

The Nespresso question

       “What  could  you  do?”    “What  else?”  

Engage   Enable  

Envision  

Enquire  

   #Tool    Pomodoro  15-­‐25  minutes  focus  5  minutes  pause    

#Apps Focus Booster Coffitivity Focus@Will Headspace Evernote

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Envision  

Enquire  

Matt Cutts  

Quelle: TED.com – für Demonstrationszwecke!

   #Tool    30-­‐day  challenges  

#Tool    Don’t  break  the  chain    Jerry  Seinfeld  

Richard St. John!

Quelle: TED.com – für Demonstrations-/Analysezwecke!

   #Tool    “Accountability-­‐Partner”    

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Envision   Execute  

Enquire  

Alan  Weiss  

“Done  is  be@er  than  perfect”  

   Jiro  Sushi    “Jiro  dreams  of  Sushi”  

   #Tool:      Constant  Improvement:    1%  rule  

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Envision   Execute  

Enquire  

   #Tool    Future  calendar  entry  

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Execute  

5! 5!

5!

5!5!

5!0!

Envision  

Enquire  

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Execute  

5! 5!

5!

5!5!

5!0!

5!

5!

“The  Visionary”  Envision  

Enquire  

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Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Execute  

5! 5!

5!

5!5!

5!0!

“The  Executer”  Envision  

Enquire  

An average meeting

Meeting Picture…

Time…

Sleep

No time for other things…

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Execute  

5! 5!

5!

5!5!

5!0!

5! 5!

Envision  

Enquire  

“If you seek to lead, invest at least 40% of your time in leading yourself”

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www.lars-sudmann.com

Self-­‐Leadership!Lars  Sudmann  mail@lars-­‐sudmann.com  Twi@er:  @larssudmann    !