tenbrook ten women’s leadership seminars
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Tenbrook Ten Women’s Leadership Seminars. Seminar I 2 February 2014 Pam McNamara, Anne Gardiner, Lauren Millette. Purpose & Agenda. 20-30 min. 20 min. 45-60 min. 15 min. Agenda for Today’s Session and The Series Objectives Intro’s, check in & Ground rules - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Tenbrook TenWomen’s Leadership Seminars
Seminar I2 February 2014
Pam McNamara, Anne Gardiner, Lauren Millette
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Purpose & Agenda
• Agenda for Today’s Session and The Series • Objectives • Intro’s, check in & Ground rules• Seeking a “Seat at the Table”• Earning and Growing in your Seat at the Table
• Good Meetings – What it Takes• Case Study• Giving and Receiving Feedback
• Next Seminar• Wrap up, Check Out
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20-30 min
20 min
45-60 min
15 min
Tenbrook Ten Series
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SEMINAR SERIES
I. Taking Charge
II. Managing Expectations
III. Using our Voices
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Objectives for Tenbrook Ten (T-10)
• “Our goal is to develop practical skills that will help Tabor's female students be powerful agents of change now and in the future”
• Your Objectives:• …• …• …
• With your input, build this into a stronger program
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Check in & Ground Rules
Check in
• Why do it?
• Today’s “check in” • Share
interesting/surprising thing
• “Weather report”• YOUR Objectives for T-12
• In “Regular Meetings” • Brief, 30-60 seconds• No responses, editorials
from others• Confirm “in” the meeting
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Ground Rules
• Why ?
• One speaks, all listen• Mobile phones off• Respect others’ opinions• Be fully “in” the meeting• Start and finish on time• What happens in Tenbrook
stays in Tenbrook*
*Conversations, information shared “in” the Tenbrook meetings
Seeking a Seat at the Table
• Sheryl Sandberg, “Lean In” – Chapter 2• Sheryl Sandberg TED Talk Dec 21 2010• http://www.ted.com Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at wh
y a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions -- and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18uDutylDa4
Discussion: 1. Sit at the table2. Make your partner a real partner ….
Pam’s corollary: “Recruit, engage mentor/s”3. Don’t leave before you leave
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Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
GOOD MEETINGS: Organizing and motivating groups
Characteristics of Good Meetings?
Characteristics of Poor or Ineffective Meetings?
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Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
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PURPOSE: “Desired Outcome”
INTENT FOR MEETING/AGENDA: Discussion, Advice, Consensus, Decisions, Information (in or out of mtg?)
AGENDA: Topics (& intent for each)
TIME MANAGEMENT: Each item, realistic
ROLES: Overall (Chair), by Item (Leader/presenter), Timekeeper (how), Scribe -- THESE ARE SEPARATE
MEETING MINUTES: Decisions, actions (who, when), issues, communications
GOOD MEETINGS: The Basics
Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
GOOD MEETINGS: Tips
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Wiki… “How to Run an Effective Meeting (with Examples) – wikiHow”1. Make every meeting matter - or don't meet at all.2. Define goals and distribute agenda in advance.3. Own your meeting, take charge and keep your meeting moving forward.4. Get the constructive input you need from everyone present5. Close with an Action plan, try to make sure that everyone leaves knowing thenext step.6. Keep track of progress of things decided during the meeting7. Make sure that your meeting didn't happen in isolation by letting the rightpeople know what was decided and what will happen next.
How to Run an Effective Meeting | Inc.com
Tips on Meetings - Harvard Business Review
Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
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A non-controversial description of conditions when they were stable
Questions raised by the complications
What altered the stable situation and created the problem
TOOL: The key ISSUE or QUESTION is developed from a Situation –Complication - Question (SCQ) analysis
Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
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Head of School Election, NY School “Sarah” won, beat “Joe”Sarah appointed Joe Secretary, Student Council
Could Sarah provide Joe feedback, reset expectations for Joe to be a productive, constructive Council Secretary?
Weekly meetings of New Student Council: new rolesJoe did not produce minutes, agreed actions (late, or at all)Joe vocal, attempting to dominate meets (as Head?)Joe and Sarah had been friends
Case Study: ROLES AFTER THE ELECTION Diagnosing with SCQ
Feedback….
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Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
Case Study: ROLES AFTER THE ELECTIONKey Question: Could Sarah provide Joe feedback,
reset expectations for Joe to be a productive, constructive Council Secretary? YES
• Private conversation • Sarah Acknowledged “owning” the issue
• “I may have not been clear, new in roles”• “What we need you to do…”• “This is hard, we are friends”
• Joe accepted, acted on feedback
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EXERCISE
FEEDBACK EXERCISE: Watch the “Santa Session” video. What does this tell us?URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN9AZ-N3Npo
When and how has it
been useful OR not
useful to you?
Why does feedback
matter i.e. is it a good
thing or a bad thing?
Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
Below are the top five ways people deflect a feedback given to them
1. You are wrong
2. You don’t see the whole picture
3. You just don’t like me
4. This is irrelevant
5. This is a bad system
Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
Here is a simple useful guide for giving feedback
What should this person:Retain?Reduce?Increase?
Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
EXERCISE
1. Pair up with a partner2. Have one of the partner draw a Rabbit ( 1 minute)3. Show that to your partner (1 minutes)4. Give your partner feedback on Retain, Reduce, Increase (1 minute
each)
Practicing Feedback 1:
Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
Earning and Growing in Your Seat at the Table
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Observable Data
AddMeaning
DrawConclusions
SelectData
The Ladder of InferenceIn
quiry
AdvocacyProductive Conversations TOOL: •Balance: Inquire vs Advocacy
Source: Chris Argyris; also summarized by Peter Senge, et al, “Fifth Discipline”
Check Out & Next Steps
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Tools & Concepts for Monday Morning
• Taking Initiative• Finding Mentors• Meeting Purpose, Plan, Agenda• Meeting Check in (weather report), Ground Rules• Giving and Receiving Feedback• Ladder of Inference• Situation, Complications, Key Question: SCQ• Check out, Summing Up• ….• ….• ….
Check Out: • Putting what we’ve discussed “to work” • Next seminar on “managing expectations”
Tenbrook Ten Series
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SEMINAR SERIES
I. Taking Charge
II. Managing Expectations
III. Using our Voices
Effectively organizing projects and goals
Organizing and motivating groups
Becoming a persuasive communicator
Check Out & Next Steps
What Worked Well?
• Why ?
• ….• ….• ….
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What We Can Do Better Next Time?
• Why ?
• ….• ….• ….
Check Out: • Putting what we’ve discussed “to work” • Next seminar on “managing expectations”
Thank you for your engagement!
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19 Meadow Shores Rd.South Dartmouth, MA 02748
[email protected] +1-508-951-2156
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Tenbrook TenAnn Tenbrook lived at 192 Front Street for about 40 years. She was a friend of Tabor, a world traveler and a well respected leader in Marion. We are going to be meeting at her house. Thus, we are calling this group the Tenbrook Ten. (Ms. Gardiner now lives there.)