The Reluctant Leader

The essential key to leadership success

Where we’re going today

talk

•The single most important key to being a successful leader.

thinking

•Get you thinking and working together

help

•How I can help you – and how you can help me.

Safe space

Conversations stay in the room

Inspiration

Fun

Pairs

Who in your professional life has inspired you, and why?

“A leader is someone with the power to project

either shadow or light onto some part of the world

and the lives of the people who dwell there.”

Parker J Palmer.

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Professional foundations/ qualifications

Skills, experience,

CPD

Industry & organisational

knowledge

YOU

The one thing that makes all the difference:

YOU

are the key to your

leadership success

YOU

Personality and style

Strengths & Values

Energy & resilience

Relationship & politics

Context and fit

PERSONALITY AND STYLE

Jung’s archetypes: the foundation

for personality profiling

Source: Richard Olivier: “Inspirational Leadership” – model from Gareth Hill,

“Masculine and Feminine”

Being

Doing

Static masculine

“Good King” - Order

Dynamic masculine

“Warrior” - Action

Static feminine “Great

Mother” - Nurture Dynamic feminine

“Medicine Woman” –

creativity & change

Source: Richard Olivier: “Inspirational Leadership” – model from Gareth Hill,

“Masculine and Feminine”

Being

Doing

“Good King” – Rigidity,

resistance to change

“Warrior” - tyranny

“Medicine Woman” –

constant, chaotic change

“Great Mother” -

smothering

Jung’s archetypes: the shadow side

Ann’s Facet5 profile

warrior

Good king

Great mother

Medicine woman

© N Buckley, 1984 - 2012

Ann’s work style preferences

© N Buckley, 1984 - 2012

Pairs

What most strikes you about the impact of personality

for leaders?

ENERGY AND RESILIENCE

Third state

Second state

First state

• forceful

•pushing against

• Present

•calm

•balanced

•diminished

• inwardly-focused

•withdrawing

Three Energy States

Based on “Three Circles of Energy” from “Presence” by Patsy Rodenburg

Or to put it another way: The Parent-Adult-Child model from

Transactional Analysis

From “TA Today”, Ian Stewart & Van Joines

Self-doubt & insecurity of

identity

Treating warfare as the

norm

Believing you have to do it

all yourself

Fear of chaos

Four leadership shadows

Source: Parker J Palmer, “Let Your Life Speak”

I am my CV

Life’s a battle and everyone else is the

enemy.

I have to make them

clear this up!

No initiative without the appropriate

form.

Pairs

What are your thoughts about your own Energy?

RELATIONSHIPS & POLITICS

Relationship parameters

stakeholders peers

team

boss

Relationships and

politics

Facet5 Teamscape – comparing profiles

© N Buckley, 1984 - 2012

And how are they right now?

1: Distant/non-existent

2: Abrasive/combative

3: Cool/neutral

4: Collaborative/creative

What relationships

are key to your

success?

Relationship parameters

stakeholders peers

team

boss

Pairs

What comes to mind when you think about your own

working relationships?

YOU

are the key to your

leadership success

Remember...

What I said we’d cover:

talk

•The single most important key to being a successful leader.

thinking

•Get you thinking and working together

help

•How I can help you – and how you can help me.

YOU

are the key to your

leadership success

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