Clarifying Your Center

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Six Steps to Effective Leadership
Jason L Mike D Julie B
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Six Steps Overview

• Clarifying your center
• Clarifying what is possible
• Clarifying what others can contribute
• Supporting others so they can contribute
• Being relentless
• Measuring and celebrating progress

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Clarifying Your Center

• Why?
• Opposition will not unsettle you
• You gain the confidence to be you
• How?
• Clarify what you stand for
• Develop character
• Times of focused thinking

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Clarifying Your Center

• Bono
• Secret Policemans Ball, 1979
• Live Aid trip to Ethiopia, 1980s
• Obsessed with fixing stupid poverty

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Clarifying What Is Possible

• Clarifying mental images of what can be
• Thinking into the future during the present

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Clarifying What Is Possible

• Bono
• Short term goals
• ONE campaign seeks to allocate 1 of US budget
  toward African poverty
• Debt cancellation, trade reform, anti-corruption
  policies
• Clothing line, Edun, to promote fair trade
• Awareness
• Long term goals
• Eradication of stupid poverty

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Clarifying What Others Can Contribute

• Why?
• Because you cant do it all yourself
• Job descriptions do not describe people
• Bureaucratic thinking vs. empowerment
• Are we growing, learning beings, or robots?
• Tend to get what you expect of employees

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...Clarifying What Others Can Contribute (contd)

• What are the critical skills needed?
• Technical? (Level 1 thinking)
• Social?
• Emotional?
• Cognitive?
• Which are the hardest to teach?
• Effective leaders think past technical credentials

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Supporting Others So They Can Contribute

• The information age is shaking up organizational
  structure
• Infocracy rising!
• Authority yielding to information
• Consider how to best enable people
• By any structure necessary

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Being Relentless

• Commitment building
• Reflection and means of clarifying center
• Understand others and utilize resources to move
  towards goals

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Measuring and Celebrating Success

• Flexible, proactive leadership
• Frequent positive feedback
• Focus on right measures
• Unintended consequences

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Take Away Points

• Know yourself and what you can do
• Knowing who can help and how to get them to help
• Keep motivated
• Personally and group

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Thank you for your attention!