Mgt. 667 Leadership Session 4

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Mgt. 667 LeadershipSession 4

• Rex Mitchell
• Spring 2006

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LPI Results Application
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Objectives

• Analyze data to add insights re your strengths
  and weaknesses as a leader
• Choose some areas you will work on next
• Commit to a few actions you will take in the next
  three weeks to become a better leader

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Critical Points of View

• Leadership is a relationship
• Leadership is everyones business
• Leadership development is self-development

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LPI Organized AroundFive Practices

• Model the way
• Inspire a shared vision
• Challenge the process
• Enable others to act
• Encourage the heart

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Your LPI Report

• Five practices data summary page
• Summary page for each of the five practices
• Leadership behaviors ranking page (based on peer
  ratings)
• Comparisons
• Latest 5,000 from KP workshops
• Our class

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Five Practices Data Summary Example
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Model the Way Data Summary
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Leadership Behaviors Ranking
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Leadership Behv. Ranking (low end)
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Percentile Ranking (KP Data)
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Comparing with Our Data

• Means and standard deviations for our class data
• For each practice
• Self, others, total

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Make the Most of Your Data

• Look for messages in the data, not measures
• Accept feedback as a gift
• Trust the feedback you receive
• Value the differences
• Plan to use the data for action

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Process

• Receive feedback reports
• Do Step 1 in your Participants Workbook
• Share impressions with one person (both share)
• Do Steps 2-7 in Workbook on your own
• Share discuss feedback with one person

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How We Learn

• From experience
• By example
• In formal educational settings
• Jot down a few possibilities in each section
  (Step 8, p.23)

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Leadership Development Worksheet

• Review example on p.26-27
• Pick one Practice for focus of attention
• Choose 1-2 behaviors
• Write measurable goals
• Select a primary learning strategy
• Write 3-5 action steps to enact your strategy
  achieve your goals

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What are some things that will make it more
likely that you will actually follow through on
your written plans?
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People are more likely to follow through if they

• Make free choices about their actions
• Make those choices visible to others
• Make those choices hard to back out of

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Share briefly in your group

• For one practice and behavior
• Goals
• Strategy
• Action plans
• Make plans to share more completely in the group
  via email

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Best Learning Practices

• Tip 1. Be self-aware
• Tip 2. Manage your emotions
• Tip 3. Seek feedback
• Tip 4. Take the initiative
• Tip 5. Engage a coach

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• Tip 6. Set goals and make a plan
• Tip 7. Practice, practice, practice!
• Tip 8. Measure progress
• Tip 9. Reward yourself
• Tip 10. Be honest with yourself and humble with
  others

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Make Leadership Development a Part of Your Life

• Integrate this draft Leadership Development
  Worksheet with Myers-Briggs and other data to
  develop your Leadership Assessment Development
  Plan (due 5/11)
• Review your Plan at least once a month. Make
  notes about your progress. Make necessary changes
  to action plans.

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• Create new action plans to address other
  leadership practices.
• Think about your leadership goals strategies
  when you create your to-do lists. Schedule at
  least one activity every week designed to help
  you meet goals.

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• Regularly reaffirm with others your development
  goals
• Find ways to get feedback from others on your
  progress (e.g., include a discussion of your
  leadership behaviors in appropriate sessions)

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Ch. 13. Leadership is Everyones Business

• Make a Difference

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• Believe that you can be an effective leader
• Leaders make a difference (389)
• Leaders make a connection between people the
  present and the future (390)
• Leaders take us to places weve never been before
• and wouldnt go by ourselves

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• Watch out for catches any leadership practice
  can become destructive
• Even more dangerous is hubris becoming arrogant
  pursuing selfish ends

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• The best-kept secret of successful leaders is
  love
• Staying in love with leading
• With the people who do the work
• With what the organization does
• With those who honor the organization by using
  its work

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Leadership is not an affair of the head

• Leadership is an affair of the heart

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Personal Best Experience

• Think back over your leadership experiences
  choose one you consider to be a personal best
  a time when you performed at your peak as a
  leader
• For the experience you choose, ask yourself the
  questions on the instruction sheet (Web) take
  notes

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Some Questions As You Write Your Personal Best
Example

• What characterized the situation? Who was
  involved? Where and when did it take place? Who
  initiated it?
• What motivated you to engage in this project? How
  did you challenge yourself and others?
• What did you aspire to achieve? How did you build
  enthusiasm and excitement?
• How did you involve others? How did you foster
  collaboration? How did you build trust and
  respect? How did you build the capacity to excel?
• What principles and values guided you and others?
  How did you set an example? What structures and
  systems did you apply? How did you progress from
  one milestone to another?
• How did you recognize individuals? How did you
  celebrate successes?
• What lessons did you learn about leadership from
  this experience?

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• Each person will share a brief (2-3 min) summary
  next time
• This means that you select from your notes on the
  previous questions only a few main points to
  present

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Exam

• At start of next class
• Essay questions - from KP book
• No questions on cases or exercises
• 70 minutes for 4 of 5 questions given
• Closed-book
• Excellent answers score higher than minimally
  satisfactory ones

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Visualization
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Visualization

• Self-fulfilling prophecies
• Pygmalion effect, plus or minus
• We tend to create negative images
• Replace with intentional, positive images
• Can help in many ways, e.g.
• Public speaking
• Stress reduction
• Difficult interpersonal interactions
• Health

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• Argue for your limitations and, sure enough,
  theyre yours.
• Richard Bach
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that
  human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of
  their minds, can change the outer aspects of
  their lives.
• William James

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Visualization Exercise

• Identify a specific future situation in which you
  want to perform effectively
• Get very comfortable and relaxed
• Visualize moving yourself through space and time
  to be in that future situation
• With you in that situation performing effectively
  and the situation playing out positively
• Experience it, not observe or think about it
• With input to all senses sight, hear, smell,
  feel, taste

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Next Session

• Midterm
• Personal Best presentations (2-3 min
  each)