Leading Innovation

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Leading Innovation

• Middle Level ManagerLeadership Training

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Session Overview

• Sharing Work
• Delegation
• Mentoring

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Learning Objectives

• To understand
• Idea of Paradigm
• Importance of Delegation
• Importance of Mentoring

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Action Goals

• Examine Use of Time
• Select Delegation Task
• Develop Action Plan
• Schedule Liaison Visit

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Transfer of Learning

• Classroom Learning Applied on job
• Between-session activities
• Support System
• Sharing Learning

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Support System
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Leadership Model
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Paradigms

• Mental Models
• Ways of Seeing the World
• Accepted Ways of Acting

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Paradigm Puzzles

• Solutions

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Connect the Dots

• Connect all nine dots with just four straight
  lines
• Do so without lifting your pen or pencil from the
  paper
• Think out-side-the-box

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The Start
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A Solution
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The Start
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Double the Area

• Double the area of the square by moving just two
  dots

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The Solution
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GroupSystems Activity
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Time Constraints
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Delegation

• Sharing Your Work

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Benefits of Delegation

• A Way of Sharing Your Work That
• Enhances leadership
• Frees Your Time
• Motivates Associates
• Helps Your Associates Grow

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Delegation

• The Process

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A Sense of Task

• Develop a clear sense of your tasks
  responsibilities

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Check Out Your Associates

• Take a good look at your associates
• Interests
• Experience
• Capacities
• Potential

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Select Tasks

• Decide which might be good candidates for
  delegation?
• Which do you have to do?
• Which might be well done by others?

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Match Associates to Tasks

• Match associates to tasks that can be delegated
• Start with a couple
• Then expand
• As your experience grows

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Present Opportunity

• Present idea to your associate
• Be positive
• Give them a choice
• Express confidence

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Be Willing to Mentor

• Be ready to support your associate
• Mentor them as they take on the new task

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What if Doesnt Work

• Make sure youve extended trust
• Be prepared to mentor from start
• Sometimes its not meant to be
• Then back down
• Focus on the task not the person
• Delegation failed
• Associate did not

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GroupSystems
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Mentoring

• Helping Associates Grow

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Whats a Mentor

• Some one who helps someone else learn something
  they might nor have learned, or have learned more
  slowly, or not as well
• A teacher
• A guide who conveys wisdom gained from experience

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Styles of Mentoring

• Five Approaches

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The Wizard

• The guru
• Its important to be knowledgeable
• But dont use mentoring to show off

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The Comic

• Use humor when you can
• Dont confuse entertainment with learning
• Focus on helping associates grow

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The Motivator

• Use your passion
• Use stories to motivate
• Appeal to the intrinsic motivation of your
  associates

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The Sergeant

• Sometimes its necessary to be directive
• But still let your associates know you have
  confidence in them

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The Partner

• Work together with your associates
• Support them in their learning
• Youre both learners
• Youre both teachers

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Mentors

• Fundamental Characteristics

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Be Generous

• Share your wisdom and experience
• Be ready to receive
• The more you give, the more youll get

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Good Listener

• Value your associates input
• Respond to them
• Let them know youve heard them

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Model Your Values

• Be clear about your values
• Walk your talk
• Say what you mean, mean what you say
• If you do so, your associates will be better
  motivated

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Be Passionate

• Believe in what you are doing
• Communicate your passion
• Let your associates know you truly care about
  their development

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Be a Risk Taker

• Encourage associates to try new things
• Be ready to support them
• Dont give up of it doesnt go well at first
• Learning involves some risk

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Celebrate!

• Let your associates know you appreciate them
• Tell them when they have done well
• Be their biggest fan
• Be genuine! Mean it!

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GroupSystems
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Action Plans

• Essential Questions

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Key Questions

• Whats the task?
• What are my goals?
• How will I know if I have succeeded?
• What resources?
• When?
• How much?

• What people?
• When?
• How long?
• Specific steps?
• How will I monitor progress?
• How to Evaluate?
• How to revise?

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Wrap-up

• A Managers work
• Mentorship
• Practiced Mentoring
• Delegation

• Selected delegation task
• Reviewed action plans
• Developed action plan
• Critiqued action plan

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Expectations

• Meet with Liaison Person
• Complete Values Arrangement List
• Carry out delegation project
• Use Price Chopper eXchange to communicate
• Complete Mentoring Style Evaluation