leading up

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leading up
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• Co-Founder, Accelinnova
• President, Evolutionary Systems
• Director, Institute of Collaborative Leadership

Pollyanna PIXTON
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• Why Lead Up
• When To Lead Up
• Doing the Research
• Manage Your Risks
• How to Lead Up
• Working Together
• Integrity

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when to lead up
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Leading Agile
need action from manager

• Collaboration Model
• Collaboration Process

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information to succeed
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manager
to stand back
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what else?
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Unleashing Innovation
research first !

• Collaboration Process

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where does your manager focus?
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• how does your manager
• define
• success?

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What are your managers
HOT BUTTONS
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• assess system
• politics
• competition
• style differences

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• command
• and
  collaborative control
• Where is your manager on this scale?
  Where are you?

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• what are your risks?

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can you risk

• Being off the bus
• Departure Lounge
• Demotion
• Penalty Box
• Lack of Respect and Trust
• Out of the inner circle
• No advancement opportunities

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Managing Risks

• List Three Professional Options

list 3 professional options
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• what is
• your personal
• mission and
• vision?

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• what are you passionate about?

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what do you do best ?
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how do you define success?

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what do you want to do differently?
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what do you fear?
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tools for leading UP
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• you
• are not
• going
• to change
• YOUR
• manger

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• speak so you can be heard

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focus on business value!
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• practice
• a forward
• going
• approach

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Appreciative Inquiry

• Appreciative Inquiry
• Value What Is
• Envision What Can Be
• Discuss Next Steps
• Basic Assumption
• An organization and the people know the
  possibility.
• Fall Forward !

• Problem Solving
• Identify the Problem
• Analyze the Causes
• Plan the Actions
• Basic Assumption
• An organization is a problem to be solved.

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Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Orientation
Problem-Solving Orientation
CURRENT STATE
FUTURE
PAST
DISCOVER REALIZE POSSIBILITIES
ANALYZE FILL THE GAP
QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS
Whats Wrong? What Happened? Whos to Blame? How
Do We Fix It?
Whats Working? Wheres the Passion? Whats
Possible? How Do We Achieve It?
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timing
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• deliver
• results as
• committed
• and
• often

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let it be their idea
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• trust your Intuition
• listen, remember and trust your first thoughts

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• trust your Intuition
• Rely on your
• gut
• reaction for
• warning signals

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trust your Intuition Listen openly for
the secondary messages
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• Island

trust your Intuition COLLECT DATA note when you
first thoughts have been accurate
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Stay Positive

• communicate, OFTEN
• Pass on results often
• Check in often, daily or weekly
• find the best communication format

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bring solutions not just problems
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• FIND
• COMMON
• GROUND

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• working
• with
• different
• leadership
• styles

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dont take it personal
Ill get back to you on that.
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your most useful how to?
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integrity

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• How
• do you
• define
• integrity?

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What do you do when someone asks you to
compromise your integrity?
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• Assessment First.
• How much influence do they have?
• Why have they made this request?
• Why have they asked you?
• What are the possible outcomes?
• Can you talk about this with anyone in
  confidence?
• What do you think?

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possible responses

• Collaboration Model

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• present
• an
• alternative

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question the purpose inline with
corporate goals and objectives?
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express reservations
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tell someone
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politely refuse
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you already said yes, now what?
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is there such a thing as situational
integrity?
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One final word
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• maybe its time to leave?

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leadership key factors
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Project Management
decide where you want to place your emphasis, on
control or on results

• How Do We Deliver?

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purpose over personal agenda
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expect the practice of professional
behavior
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• you do not need
• consensus.
• get
• team
• commitment
• to team goals

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• teams need

leaders
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members who do not deliver their commitments are
off the bus.
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• move boulders, carry water

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listen between the lines
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know the difference between mistakes and not
delivering

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celebrate! have fun.

• Collaboration Model

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Crossing the void why am I doing this?
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• The Wall What was I thinking?

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living with
uncertainty
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• the tendency to
• go back
• to (old) school
• Under stress
• Because its easier
• You know it works

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when times get tough?
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• avoid
• responding to old-school behaviors with
  old-school behaviors

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build Support, Networks And Resources find a
mentor someone whos done this before
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• surviving the transition

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Trustworthiness
reflect dont react
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leave the room
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recall successful risks taken
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• your best survival skills?

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summary
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leading up maintaining integrity leadersh
ip key factors
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know when to lead up discover your leaders
style speak so your leaders can hear you hone
your message, dont just present problems, bring
solutions Manage your risk
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• Stand Back and Deliver co-author, published by
  Addison Wesley, due out in early 2009
• The Seven-Day WeekendRicardo Semler
• Orbiting the Giant HairballGordon MacKenzie
• Punished By RewardsAlfie Kohn

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• accelinnova.com
• evolutionarysystems.net
• collaborativeleadership.com
• 1 . 801 . 209 . 0195
• p2_at_ppixton.com

Pollyanna PIXTON
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