SelfLeadership

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Self-Leadership

• Leadership
• Begins
• Internally

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Self-Leadership

• Using character to motivate
  decisions and choices.
• Understanding the mutual influence
  of self action and external forces.
• Choosing to Be Proactive when
  faced with challenges.
• Choosing how things affect us
• Attitude is everything.
• Motivating yourself to persist and endure through
  adversity and challenge.

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Self-leadership When Challenged

• Self-leadership assessment
• How strategic are you?
• World-altering strategies
• Self-imposed strategies
• Goal setting for performance improvement
• More on this next week
• What is your purpose? What will your legacy be?

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Motivation in Self-Leadership

• Extrinsic
• Seeking desired rewards.
• Understanding the effect certain rewards have on
  our behavior.
• Intrinsic
• Choosing a career, job and tasks that we find
  rewarding unto themselves.
• Concept of flow in work.
• The joy of the actual work.

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How Does Self-Leadership Influence Learning?

• Motivation techniques used?
• Social awareness?
• Attitude?
• Risk taking?
• Attribution of causality?
• Other ways?

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Self-Leadership and Personal Skill Learning

• Five critical insights
• Knowledge acquisition and skill acquisition are
  different.
• Effects of individual style differences.
• Performance model underpinnings for personal
  skill learning.
• Personal learning in complex settings.
• Skill development as a continuous improvement
  process.

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Kolb's Learning Cycle
CE
Doers Accommodators
Sensors Divergent Thinkers
RO
AE
Thinkers Connection Makers
Creators Convergent Thinkers
AC
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Learning Styles

• Divergent Thinkers
• Combines interest in experiencing and reflecting.
• Best at brainstorming in the Reflection stage.
• Assimilators or Connection makers
• Combining an interest in reflecting and thinking.
• Best at the Connecting stage.
• Convergent Thinkers or Solution finders
• Combining an interest in thinking and doing.
• Best at the Deciding stage.
• Accommodators
• Combining an interest in doing and experiencing.
• Best at Coordinated Action.

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What Interferes With Learning?

• Insecurity
• Denial
• Lack of Self-Awareness
• Incorrect attributions for what causes problems,
  failures, and successes

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Attribution Theory

• Attributing behavior to
• Factors outside our control (External).
• Factors we control (Internal).
• Three factors influence External/Internal
  attribution
• Distinctiveness
• Is an individuals behavior similar within
  different situations?
• Consensus
• Does everyone respond to a situation in the same
  way?
• Consistency
• Is an individuals behavior the same over time?

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What Interferes with Correct Attribution?

• Fundamental attribution error
• We underestimate the impact of environmental
  factors and overestimate the influence of
  personal factors in evaluating someone elses
  behavior.
• Self-serving bias
• When we achieve good outcomes - internal
  attributions
• But when we achieve poor outcomes - external
  attributions
• Effect is to psychologically remove self from
  situations with possible negative outcomes

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Self-Leadership Through Role Management

• Becoming aware of our roles and their priorities
  and effectively managing role conflict
  enhances our self-leadership abilities.
• A role consists of
• The demands, expectations, responsibilities and
  pressures that other people impose on us.
• Our own perceptions of what we think we ought to
  be doing.
• Our behavior (conscious and unconscious).
• In other words, our behavior is a result of the
  expectations of others and ourselves.

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Exploring Self-Leadership and Role Management

• Draw a Role Pie
• A circle with sections representing different
  roles.
• Rank the sections of the pie.
• Complete the Role Management Inventory
• Reflect on the results.
• What role management strategies do you use most
  often?
• How effective are these strategies for you?
• How is your self-leadership influenced by the
  roles you have?

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Leadership Debates

• Choose your own teams of three or four.
• Lottery used to pick leaders to focus on.
• Important dates
• October 10th one hour in class to prepare for
  debates.
• October 31st Debates take place and summary
  due.
• Prepare to do research outside of class on each
  leader.
• Basis of research will vary based on leader
  chosen. (i.e. driven by industry, availability,
  etc.).