Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Knowledge
What? Why?
Habits
Behavior
Mindset
How To? Want To
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Provide Direction - Where we are headed
Communicate
Behavior
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Provide Direction
- Leaders show the way
Communicate
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“Power of rhetoric” If you want things to
change, declare success about it
◦ Raise visibility by having things be part of the
language
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Be able to articulate your vision in an easily
understood way
◦ Provides a focus for your leadership
Get a core group of people working with you
◦ Buy-in is critical.
Build on people’s strengths and passions
◦ Invest people in forwarding your/their agenda
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Be willing to lose openly and often
◦ Accepting loss speaks to integrity and
leadership
Use a group of key people in your life
whose advice you trust
Be willing to change your thinking
To be a leader, you need to be able to get
people to follow
◦ You need to get people working together and
engaged with a mutual agenda
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People follow leaders with vision
◦ Vision must be simple, focused and compelling
◦ Leader must do their homework
◦ You must be able to sell your vision
You need to master when to use influence and
when to use power
◦ You need to know how to use both
Actions are at least as important as words
◦ If you think something is important, you need to
demonstrate it to your reports wrt your priorities, how
you spend your time, etc.
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You need to be able to work in a number of
different time scales
◦ You need to be able to plan far ahead
You need to be able to manage both self-
confidence and self-doubt
◦ Take enough input to question yourself
You need to be able to create new leaders
◦ Good organizations have bench depth
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Stay at the table – don’t give up on people
or what you believe in
Leaders should listen
◦ Be obliging in the way you refuse
You have to be respected even if you or
your decisions are not liked
Be a role model for your organization
◦ Interact with your staff consist in the way you
want the culture to be
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Make your goals about your team’s success
rather than your success
You need to get good at managing both up
and down
◦ With direct reports, it’s useful to foster
communication among parties
Strategy: Each person can explain the other’s point of
view
Value the idea and not just the status of the
person who said it
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“Never doubt that a small group of
committed people can change the World.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has”
Margaret Mead
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Have dreams and desire
Place an increased focus on enhancing your
leadership skills
Be on the lookout for examples - good and bad -
of leadership that you can use as a model
Be assertive all the time
Best way to learn to lead is to do it
- Be on the lookout for your opportunity!
opportunity
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Thank You.
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