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 High-­‐Performance  Leadership  in  the  21st  Century!

Lars  Sudmann  mail@lars-­‐sudmann.com  @larssudmann  !

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Leader

Leadership Lecturer

Organizational Advisor

Elements  of  Leadership  

@larssudmann

www.lars-sudmann.com

Envision  

 “A  leader  is  someone  who  knows  the  way,  goes  the  way  and  shows  the  way”        

         John  C.  Maxwell  

“I have a nightmare”

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   #Tool      Strategic  Intent  

If  we  do  nothing  else  during  tomorrow’s  mission,  we  must  ________________________.    The  single,  most-­‐important  thing  that  we  must  do  tomorrow  is  _____________________.

   #Tool      Show  what  is  possible    (with  stories)  

Idea: Write down whenever

somebody laughed

 Pixar  Model    Once  upon  a  Tme______________________  Every  day_____________________________  One  day____________________________  Because  of  that_______________________  Because  of  that_______________________  UnTl  finally__________________________  

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  Gme  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  communicaTon  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”    

   #Tool    Giving  energizing  feedback  

1)  Be specific

2)  Share the impact on YOU (“I…”)

3)  Give potential solutions

Giving Feedback

Engage  

Envision  

Enquire  

I have this great idea

People like it!

Ok, let’s do it

“Say  no  to  a  1000  things.”  

Steve  Jobs  

#Tool: One in, one out

Engage   Enable  

Envision  

Enquire  

Teambuilding

       How  do  you  like  to  be  led?  

   #Tool    Be  a  coach  

       “What  could  you  do?”    

The Nespresso question

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

Classic Directional

Mutual Exploration

N-K

K K N-K

Lead

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New Insights

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Envision  

Enquire  

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“On  days  you  have  not  been  fired…    …you  can  think  of  yourself  as  having  been  praised.”  

Entrepreneur  

https://

   5  :  1  

hbr.org/2013/03/the-ideal-praise-to-criticism/

   #Tool    Praise  5  :  CriTcism  1  

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Envision   Execute  

Enquire  

 Why  do  projects  fail?      

0 20 40 60 80

Standards  missing  

ImplementaTon  not  audited  

UnrealisTc  Planning  

Decision  Process  

Missing  ObjecTves  

Source:  Hays,  27.12.12,  in  %,  combinaTon  of  “fully  agree”  and  “mostly  agree”    

 Improve  your  decision-­‐making  process  

1 Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.

Question now: What is now the most likely

alternative: a) Linda is a bank teller b)  Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement?

Source: e.g. Kahneman, Thinking Fast & Slow

2 Please give an estimate of yourself - your qualities as a car driver are :

a) Well above average b) Above average c) Average d) Below average e) Well below average?

Source: Plous 1993, The Psychology of Decision Making

There are 12 cows, 4 sheep, and 8 pigs onboard a ship

What is the captain‘s age?

Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapitänssyndrom

Source: Asch, S.E. 1956 – A minority of one against a unanimous majority.

#Tool    Install  Devil’s  Advocate  posiTons  

Be  a  realist  when  making  a  decision  and  an  opTmist  when  implemenTng  it  –  not  the  other  way  around.  

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Envision   Execute  

Enquire  

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Execute  

5! 5!

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5!5!

5!0!

Envision  

Enquire  

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Execute  

5! 5!

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5!5!

5!0!

5!

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“The  Visionary”  Envision  

Enquire  

Flickr/evilerin

Engage   Enable  

Energize  

Execute  

5! 5!

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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!

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5!5!

5!0!

5! 5!

Envision  

Enquire  

“The  person  who  has  a  Why  can  bear  almost  any  How”  

 Why?  

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 High-­‐Performance  Leadership  in  the  21st  Century!

Lars  Sudmann  mail@lars-­‐sudmann.com  @larssudmann  !