EMPOWERING LEADERS IGNITING ORGANIZATIONSTIONS...strengths ! 1st person share a leadership problem you are having at work – someone who you want to influence or lead who you are

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


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?


Making extraordinary things happen by focusing on the strengths and potential in people and situations.

Strengths Based Leadership


Talent Skill

Ability

Attitude

Knowledge

Initiative

Half empty or half full?!


…optimism & Strengths

…pessimism & Weaknesses

Rather than ? ?

What happens if we focus on…


What fears does it raise?


What’s the case for strengths-based leadership?


What’s the case for strengths-based leadership?


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


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


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


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


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


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?


Stretch break


Coalition Leadership Development

n Motivation Webinar June 24th

n  Additional coaching

n July final training

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