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• You and your team operate smoothly and without
conflict
• You represent your organization positively
• You contribute to the organization and its goals
• You feel self-fulfillment
The Benefits: When you are an effective leader :
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The job: What does an effective leader look like:
• Understands the organization, its goals and priorities
• Manages resources
• Is an informed problem solver, decision maker
• Takes appropriate action
• Communicates upwards to Board, out to colleagues
and team
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• Reflects, assesses, changes as necessary
• Leads by example
• Rewards thoughtfully
• Identifies and develops evolving leaders
What does an effective leader look like (cont.):
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Job Breakdown: Understanding the Organization:
• Who we are:
• Structure
• Processes
• Values
• Goals
• Priority
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Understanding the Organization (cont.):
• Why understanding is important:
• To know where we’re going and how we’re going
to get there
• To do only those things that help us achieve our
goals and priorities
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Understanding the Organization (cont.):
• Whose problem is it?
• What are the consequences of our actions?
• PROs and CONs
• Cost of resources
• Effect on community or partners
• Effect on team
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Managing resources:
• What are our resources?
• $$, people, time, tools
• Partnerships, goods, goodwill, ability to barter
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Managing resources (cont.):
• How do we manage resources?
• Stay knowledgeable
• Be aware of strengths and weaknesses
• Assess, replenish and reward
• Match appropriately
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Problem-solving and making decisions:
• Describe the problem
• Whose is it
• What will it cost in resources
• Assign the resources
• Identify success factors
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Taking action:
• Communicate the plan
• Monitor
• Assess
• Report
• Build or adapt
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Communicating:
• Talk, talk, talk, listen, listen, listen
• Promote discussion, suggestions, challenging,
questioning at team level
• Build your networks; use your sources
• Identify your mediums (meetings, social media,
phone-tree, email, visit)
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Communicating (cont.):
• Check to see if message is understood
• Restructure and check again
• Get audience to rephrase
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Reflect, assess, change:
• Stay informed
• Keep checking results against your success factor
• Ask team to help identify issues and solutions
• Learn from mistakes, failures
• Communicate
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The cycle: Lead by example:
• Do anything you see me do
• Why is this an unpopular mantra
• Why it works really well for leaders and teams
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Reward appropriately:
• Give clear, results-based direction
• Assess against those results
• Know your team and use meaningful rewards for
success
• Offer constructive results-based advice
• Encourage comment on your results and make
changes when necessary
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Develop future leaders:
• Use an assessment tool to define needs of team
members
• Define willingness and capability: willing? may
need encouragement; able? may need help or
training; both? Run with it!!.
• Use and build on strengths; focus on
strengthening weaknesses; celebrate success
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Develop future leaders (cont.):
• Dare; offer opportunities to capable, motivated team
members
• Share responsibility; offer formal or informal
mentoring