empowering leaders igniting organizationstions...strengths ! 1st person share a leadership problem...
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Coalition Leadership
June 5, 2014
ALVAREZ PORTER GROUP EMPOWERING LEADERS IGNITING ORGANIZATIONSTIONS
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This morning’s program
n Strengths-based leadership
n Courageous conversations
n Survey on cloud-based collaboration
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Our commitment to each other
n Provide support to each other
n RESPECT
n Direct, one-on-one Communication
n Give the best of ourselves
n Work collaboratively
n Honesty
n Have clear expectations of one another
n “I want clarity around what is expected of me”
n Give each other the benefit of the doubt
n Benevolence
Put Strategy
into Action
Achieve Self
Mastery
Develop Fantastic People
Build Great Teams
Create a Results Climate
Coalition Leadership Framework
Check in on learning
1. Positive experiences with new learning?
2. What was coaching like for you?
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Making extraordinary things happen by focusing on the strengths and potential in people and situations.
Strengths Based Leadership
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Talent Skill
Ability
Attitude
Knowledge
Initiative
Half empty or half full?!
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…optimism & Strengths
…pessimism & Weaknesses
Rather than ? ?
What happens if we focus on…
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What fears does it raise?
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What’s the case for strengths-based leadership?
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What’s the case for strengths-based leadership?
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Fear of… !Failure, losing
Being seen as a fraud, being wrong
Being held accountable for others’ incompetence
Being blamed and shamed
False hope, being a sucker
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When have you been led by a strengths-based leader?
Four practices of strengths-based leadership
1. Building on your own strengths
2. Encouragement 3. Listening for
potential 4. Reframing
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Domains of Strengths Influencing Executing Strategic
Thinking Relationship Building
Activator Command Communication Competition Maximizer Self Assurance Significance Woo
Achiever Arranger Belief Consistency Deliberative Discipline Focus Responsibility Restorative
Analytical Context Futuristic Ideation Input Intellection Learner Strategic
Adaptability Connectedness Developer Empathy Harmony Includer Individualization Positivity Relator
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Can you think of an example of how you use your strengths in your current role? Could you imagine leading from strengths more often? What difference would it make?
This is something
you do really well
Encouragement
Take that idea and run with it
I won’t yuck his yum
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Level 1: Listening for Confirmation
Level 2: Listening for Information
Level 3: Empathic Listening
Level 4: Listening for Potential
Level 4: Listening for Potential
I agree/disagree
That’s interesting
I feel your pain
I hear possibilities
Listening for Potential
Reframing 1. Look at what is, not what isn’t 2. Change the point of comparison 3. What would so-n-so think? 4. Take a longer view 5. Choices
What’s another way to
look at it?
Exercise n Get into pairs and review the other person’s
strengths
n 1st person share a leadership problem you are having at work – someone who you want to influence or lead who you are having difficulty with
n 2nd person use positive, strengths-based leadership to help THEM solve their problem
n DO NOT GIVE ADVICE FROM YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE
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What is one thing you could do to build on your strengths? HH – ask yourself, how likely is it to Help? How likely is it to Happen?
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Stretch break
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Coalition Leadership Development
n Motivation Webinar June 24th
n Additional coaching
n July final training