Leadership

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Myrna Bentley President, CEO
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Leadership . . .Stepping up to the Challenge
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Leadership Defined

• Variety of perspectives on leadership
• Need to identify what leadership means to you

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Why Leadership Strategies?

• Co-operative Trust in 1997
• Co-operative Trust needed to be revitalized
• Lots of opportunities, but risk averse
• Back seat player in the industry
• Strong team, but not empowered

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Leadership Strategies

• Create Good Pictures . . . Vision
• Agree on your Principles . . . Principle Based
  Leadership
• Leaders have Willing Followers . . . Lead with
  Passion

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VISION
Create Good Pictures!
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Vision

• Its not just about one vision
• Pictures facilitate a common understanding
• There are many opportunities to use pictures

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How To Create Good Pictures

• Develop the image / words
• Singular clarity of purpose
• A vision should be tested
• Is it authentic / meaningful
• Does the vision inspire

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Communicating Your Vision

• Message must be consistent
• Deliver the message with conviction and passion
• Beyond verbalizing - live the vision

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Vision

• Are all Leaders born Visionaries?
• Creating good pictures and communicating them
  takes effort and practice!

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Principle Based Leadership
Agree on Your Principles !
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Principle Based Leadership

• A foundation of common beliefs
• Progress - not perfection
• Agree on your leadership principles
• Organizational Success

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Leadership Guiding Principles

• Cultivate... a Legacy of Leaders
• Identify Leadership Principles
• Implement Leadership Practices
• Commitment to long term sustainability and
  self-sufficiency

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Leadership Guiding Principles

• Honesty
• Respect
• Trust
• Compassion
• Courage
• Integrity

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Leadership Insight

• Balance Kindness and Toughness - be soft as a
  flower when it comes to kindness but tough as
  thunder when it comes to principle. Be courteous
  and polite at all times but never be pushed
  around. Ensure that you are always treated with
  respect.
• Robin Sharma

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LEAD WITH PASSION!
Leaders Have Willing Followers !
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Lead With Passion

• Focus on people
• Tools that provide value at a personal level
• With caring comes willing followers
• Leadership is about guiding

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Supporting Leadership

• INVESTMENT - time, resources and money
• EDUCATION - shared understanding of leadership
  and organizational expectations
• PLANNING - the path to achieving the Vision

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Supporting Leadership

• BALANCE - personal and corporate
• Personally, take time for family, fun and YOU!
• Corporately, find a balance between growth and
  cost effectiveness.

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Leadership Checkpoint

• Co-operative Trust today
• Acknowledged leader in the co-operative financial
  community
• Growing reputation in the financial industry
• Empowered team - Legacy of Leaders
• Seizing opportunities enthusiastically
• Significant, positive Progress... not perfection

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Leadership Insight

• Live your VISIONS
• .with PASSION
• . with PRINCIPLES
• .and you will have
• .willing followers!
• Myrna Bentley

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Thank-you