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Title: Understanding Your Leadership Style


1
Understanding Your Leadership Style
  • Melanie Berru, MA
  • Jacquie Marroquin

2
  • Introductions
  • Framing of our time together
  • Understanding leadership in context of
    anti-oppression
  • Agreements to co-create a liberated learning
    space
  • Agenda for the day

3
Goals and Objectives
  • To identify the leadership directions we
    personally use at work and to create spaces where
    we can build skills in all directions.
  • To build and understanding how each persons work
    style may affect the rest of the team.

4
What are our observations of people in leadership?
  • What are the behaviors of positive, influential
    leaders?
  • What are behaviors of oppressive, ineffective
    leaders?

5
Exploring our Leadership Styles
  • History and Basic Concepts
  • Book Four-Fold Way, by Angeles Arrien, PhD
  • Native American-based practice of Medicine Wheel
  • North, South, East and West have profound
    strengths and potential weaknesses.

6
North (Warrior )
  • Approaches to Work/Work Style
  • Assertive, active, decisive
  • Likes to determine the course of events and to be
    in control of professional relationships
  • Enjoys challenges presented by difficult
    situations and people
  • Thinks in terms of the bottom line
  • Quick to act or make decisions expresses urgency
    for others to take action
  • Perseveres, not stopped by hearing no, probes
    and presses to get at hidden resistances
  • Likes variety, novelty, new projects
  • Comfortable being in front
  • Values action-oriented phrases, do It now!, or
    Ill do it, Whats the bottom line?

7
South (Healer)
  • Approaches to Work/Work Style
  • Understands how people need to receive
    information in order to act on it
  • Integrates others input when determining the
    direction of whats happening
  • Value-driven regarding aspects of professional
    life
  • Uses professionals relationships to accomplish
    tasks, interaction is a primary way of getting
    things done
  • Supportive of colleagues and peers willing to
    trust others
  • Willing to trust others statements at face value
  • Feeling-based thoughts and actions trusts own
    emotions and intuition intuition regarded as
    truth
  • Receptive to others ideas, builds on others
    ideas, tema player, non-competitive
  • Able to focus on the present
  • Values words likeright and fair

8
East (Visionary)
  • Approaches to Work/Work Style
  • Visionary who sees the big picture
  • Generative and creative thinker, able to think
    outside the box
  • Very idea-oriented
  • Makes decisions by looking towards the future
    (insight/imagination)
  • Insight into mission and purpose
  • Looks for overarching themes and ideas
  • Adept at, and enjoys, problem solving
  • Likes to experiment and explore
  • Appreciates a lot of information
  • Values words like option, possibility,
    imagine

9
West (Teacher)
  • Approaches to Work/Work Style
  • Understands what information is needed to make
    decisions
  • Seen as practical, dependable, and thorough in
    task situations
  • Provides planning and resources, is helpful to
    others in these ways and comes through for the
    team
  • Moves carefully and follows procedures and
    guidelines
  • Uses data analysis and logic to make decisions
  • Weighs all sides of an issue, balanced
  • Introspective, critical thinker, self analytical
  • Skilled at finding fatal flaws in an idea or
    project
  • Maximizes existing resources-gets yhe most out of
    what has been done in the past
  • Values word like objective and analysis

10
Becoming Aware of Your Primary Leadership Style
  • What is your first inclination when you get a new
    project?
  • How do you react under pressure?
  • What feedback have you been given about yourself
    previously?
  • Which direction seems to best describe you?

11
Identifying Characteristics of Your Primary
Leadership Style
  • What is really great about being your direction?
  • What is really hard about being your direction?
  • What is difficult about working with the other
    directions?

12
Report Back
13
North (Warrior)
  • Overuse (Style Taken to Extreme)
  • Can easily overlook process and comprehensive
    strategic planning when driven by need to act and
    to make decisions
  • Can get defensive, argue, may attempt to out
    expert others
  • Can lose patience, push for decisions too early,
    or avoid discussions to a significant extent
  • Can be autocratic, want things done his/her way,
    has difficulty being a team member
  • Sees things in terms of black and white, not much
    tolerance for ambiguity
  • Gets impulsive, disregards practical issues
  • Not heedful of others feelings, may be
    perceived as cold
  • Has trouble relinquishing control, finds it hard
    to delegate, thinks, If I want
  • something done right, I have to do it
    myself!

14
South (Healer)
  • Overuse (Style Taken to Extreme)
  • Can lose focus on goals when believes that
    relationships or peoples needs are
  • being compromised
  • Has difficulty refusing requests
  • Internalizes difficulty and assumes blame
  • Prone to disappointment when others see
    relationships as secondary to tasks
  • Difficulty confronting or handling anger (own or
    others) may be manipulated by
  • emotions
  • Can over-compromise in order to avoid conflict
  • Immersed in the present loses track of time may
    not take action or see long-range view
  • Can become too focused on the process at the
    expense of accomplishing goals

15
East (Vision)
  • Overuse (Style Taken to Extreme)
  • Can put too much emphasis on vision at the
    expense of action or details
  • Can lose focus on tasks
  • Poor follow-through on projects, can develop a
    reputation for a lack of
  • dependability and attention to detail
  • Not time-bound, may lose track of time
  • Tends to be highly enthusiastic early on, but
    then burns out over the long haul
  • May lose interest in projects that do not have a
    comprehensive vision
  • May become frustrated and overwhelmed when
    outcomes are not in concert with vision

16
West (Teacher)
  • Overuse (Style Take to Extreme)
  • Can be bogged down by information, continues
    doing analysis at the expense
  • of moving forward
  • Can become stubborn and entrenched in a position
  • Can be indecisive, collect unnecessary data,
    become mired in details, analysis
  • paralysis
  • May appear cold, withdrawn, with respect to
    others working styles
  • Tendency to remain on the sidelines, watchful,
    observing
  • Can become distanced from other people
  • May be seen as insensitive to others emotions
  • May be resistant to change

17
Going to the Extreme
  • When you take your direction to an extreme or are
    inflexible with your style, what do you think
    people who associate with the other directions
    think about working with you?

18
Rotate through three directions
19
BREAK!
  • 15 minutes

20
Case Scenario
  • Your team has been given 5,000 to spend on an
    outreach campaign to an underserved community in
    your service area. Create an action plan. How do
    you handle this situation?
  • You must address this as a group from the
    perspective of your fourth (or weakest) style.

21
Processing Case Scenario
  • How did your group approach this?
  • Did you identify any issues with the group
    process? What did you notice?
  • What was your action plan?
  • How was it to work in your weakest direction?
  • What did you learn?

22
Creating Personal Leadership Maps
  1. Take five minutes to review the four directions.
    Go through all four directions and mark off
    characteristics you feel you have.
  2. Map where you belong in each of the four
    directions on the Medicine Wheel provided. The
    further from the center represents the strength
    in that direction.
  3. List three traits/skills you have in each
    direction AND three traits/skills you would like
    to further develop.

23
Moving Forward Action Plan
  • Reflect and identify ways you can apply the
    information learned from this training to nurture
    your strengths AND develop your challenges as a
    leader (reference your personal maps). Please be
    specific.
  • Pair up with a colleague and discuss how you will
    support one another to grow in your skills and
    hold one another accountable.
  • Exchange contact information for follow up.
    Schedule a check in call to each other by
    January 14th 2011.

24
  • At the end of the workshop one of the pair will
    need to write down the names of the pair on one
    of two easels. You will be receiving an email
    from the facilitators that will inform you to
    check in with Melanie or Jacquie for a conference
    call. You will decide who of the pair will
    coordinate the conference call with the
    respective facilitator.

25
Lets chat
  • Gracias!
  • Jacquie Melanie
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