Leadership From the Inside Out

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Leadership From the Inside Out

• Dan Tuten, PMP, MCSE
• Kingtiger Solutions

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Supporting Slides

• About the presenter
• Project Manager, PMI Virtual Communities Project
• Former Chair, PMI IT Telecom SIG
• IS Manager, GA Dept of Revenue
• Chief Consultant, Kingtiger Solutions
• International speaker

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Agenda

• Defining Leadership
• Knowledge of Self
• Understanding and motivating others
• Insight into communication problems
• Next steps

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Defining Leadership
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Defining Leadership

• Leadership can be defined as the ability of an
  individual to influence, motivate, and enable
  others to contribute toward the effectiveness and
  success of the efforts in which they are involved

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Defining Leadership

• Leader
• Influence
• Inspiring
• Building Relationships
• Based in Character

• Manager
• The things we do
• Planning
• Budgeting
• Problem Solving
• Organizing

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Defining Leadership

• If you are a manager today, you can work towards
  being a manager that leads, rather than just
  manages.
• Everyone, regardless of their level of leadership
  should continuously seek improvements in this
  area.

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Defining Leadership

• Leadership is always about character
• People want to follow people of character
• People want to follow people they can trust
• Character is who you are when you are in the
  dark with no one around.

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Defining Leadership

• Leadership always starts with YOU
• If you wont follow you, who will?

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Knowledge of Self
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Knowledge of Self

• So how do you go about getting to know YOU?

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Knowledge of Self

• Clint Eastwood Style The Good, The Bad and the
  Ugly
• When it comes to building your relationships,
  write out your qualities and put them in
  categories
• Good Things you do Well
• Bad Things you do poorly, but could improve
• Ugly Serious drawbacks in dealing with others

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Knowledge of Self

• Pick a few of your qualities that you think you
  do well, and ask trusted friends, co-workers, etc
  for their honest opinion of your skills in this
  area
• You may be surprised that others may see you as
  stronger or weaker in these areas as you do.

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Knowledge of Self

• Start with the 10 we will discuss
• Based on the work of Dr John C. Maxwell, there
  are 21 traits for which a leader should strive

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CHARACTER

• Be a Piece of the Rock!

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CHARISMA

• The First Impression can Seal the Deal
• Focus on Others, Not yourself!

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COMMITMENT

• It separates Doers from Dreamers

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COMMUNICATION

• Without it, you travel alone!

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Competence

• If you build it, they will come!
• Say it, plan it , do it!

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COURAGE

• One person, with courage, is a majority!

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DISCERNMENT

• Put an end to unsolved mysteries!

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FOCUS

• The sharper it is, the sharper you are!

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GENEROSITY

• Your candle loses nothing when it lights another!

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INITIATIVE

• Of all the things a leader should fear,
  complacency should top the list!

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Understanding and Motivating Others
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Understanding and Motivating Others

• Relationship Awareness is founded on four simple
  yet profound premises
• We all do what we do because we want to feel good
  about ourselves.
• We tend to take two different approaches to life
  
• When we feel that things are going well, and
• When we feel that we are faced with opposition or
  conflict.
• A "personal weakness" is no more or no less than
  the overdoing or misapplying of a personal
  strength.
• We naturally tend to perceive the behaviors of
  others through our own filter, our Motivational
  Value System.

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Understanding and Motivating Others

• Barry the Blue
• Altruistic and Nurturing
• Motivating by helping others
• Relationships are VERY important
• A People person

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Understanding and Motivating Others

• Eric the Red
• Assertive-Directing
• Action, Action, Action
• People are there to help get things done
• Compete to Win!

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Understanding and Motivating Others

• Gary the Green
• Analytical-Autonomizing
• The more data the better
• Ill have the answer as soon as we run one more
  test(quote heard after test s 78, 96, and 113)

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Understanding and Motivating Others

• Harry the Hub
• Flexible-Cohering
• Consensus is the cats meow
• Can be a chameleon of other colors as needed

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Understanding and Motivating Others
BLUE
RED
HUB
GREEN
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Insights into Communication Problems
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Insight into Communication Problems

• Since we tend to work with others through our own
  MVS, there is a huge potential for communication
  problems
• Lets cover some basics on each

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Insight into Communication Problems

• BLUEs
• Want to know how people will be affected
• Want to build relationships
• Want to know about your family

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Insight into Communication Problems

• REDs
• Bullet pointsneed we say more?

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Insight into Communication Problems

• GREENs
• Want ALL and yes we do mean ALL the details
• Data
• Reports
• Analysis

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Insight into Communication Problems

• HUBs
• Consensus
• Consensus
• Consensus

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Next Steps
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Next Steps

• Dr John C. Maxwell
• Several Books on Leadership
• Seminars
• Personal Strengths Publishing
• Strength Deployment Inventory (How to measure
  Motivational Value System)
• www.personalstrengths.com

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Questions

• Dan Tuten, PMP, MCSE
• Dan.tuten_at_sbay12.com
• 404-663-0558