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Finding Your True North

Coaching in Leadership Theory and Practice:Theory and Practice:Authentic Leadership

Nick CraigAuthentic Leadership Institute

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Why Authentic Leadership

Create a level of honesty, transparency, and openness in hours that usually takesopenness in hours that usually takes 3 weeks in a program 6 months of coaching

Goal is for you to experience it so you can begin to do the same

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2001 Ken Lay Enron Ken Lay Enron Bernie Ebbers World Com Dennis Kozlowski TycoDennis Kozlowski Tyco

2008 Richard Fuld Lehman Brothers Richard Fuld Lehman Brothers John Thain Merrill Lynch Daniel Mudd Fannie MayDaniel Mudd Fannie May



HBR January 2001 Jim Collins Level 5 LeadershipLevel 5 Leadership

Builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical combination of personal humility plus personal will tocombination of personal humility plus personal will to

create sustained business results.

We would love to be able to give you a list of steps for getting to Level 5other than contracting cancer, going

through a religious conversion, or getting differentthrough a religious conversion, or getting different parentsbut we have no idea. Our research exposed

Level 5 as a key component inside the black box of what it takes to shift a company from good to great it takes to shift a company from good to great.



How We Define Authentic Leaders

Clear and unique expression of leadership by being true Oxford Dictionary: Authentic = known to be real and genuine and not a copy

to themselves

Motivated by a larger purpose versus ego Demonstrate high integrity by making sound decisions

independent of political expediency

Results-driven in a way that creates sustained value



A Sampling of Participants

Entrepreneurs CEOsHoward Schultz StarbucksCharles Schwab SchwabDonna Dubinsky Palm

Professional CEOsDick Kovacevich Wells FargoAnne Mulcahy XeroxDan Vasella Novartis Donna Dubinsky Palm

Narayana Murthy InfosysJon Huntsman HuntsmanDavid Kelley IDEO

Dan Vasella NovartisKevin Sharer AmgenAnn Fudge Young & RubicamMarilyn Nelson CarlsonJohn Smale P&G

Social EntrepreneursWendy Kopp Teach for AmericaNancy Barry Womens World BankingSteve Rothschild Twin Cities Rise!

John Smale P&GRoy Vagelos MerckJohn Whitehead Goldman SachsAndrea Jung AvonBrenda Barnes Sara Lee Steve Rothschild Twin Cities Rise!

Ellen Breyer HazeldenLeadership ScholarsWarren Bennis Univ. of Southern CalDavid Gergen Harvard Kennedy School

Brenda Barnes Sara Lee

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Leadership is a long journey into your own soul.

Jeff Immelt, CEO, General Electric



The Leaders Story

Their stories define them better than any set of t h t i ti t it t l thassessments, characteristics, traits, styles, or other

artificially imposed construct.



What We Know About How Executives DevelopHow Executives Develop

Courses 10% Key People 20% Job Assignments 70%

.. Of the 70% only 25% counts

Hardships are the 25% that gets you 70%



What We Have Discovered

There is no 5-element model to fit within.h b f d h h d l d This is about finding the Authentic Leader already

within you.

O t f th 25% th t t 70% f th One must focus on the 25% that gets 70% of the result.



The Leadership Journey

Accumulation

Peak/Seminal Leadership

Wisdom/Giving Back

LeadershipD l

Preparation for Leadership

of Experiences

Development

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Character Formation

cruciblecrucible



What is a Crucible?

A process of melting material at high temperatures A process of melting material at high temperatures such that a chemical transformation occurs.

An event that causes you to:An event that causes you to: Redefine the underlying assumptions about

who you are as a leader. Redefine your values and how you lead. Shift core behaviors that you have outgrown.

It shows the deeper truth that has always been there.It h th l l t f Y St

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Leadership

LeadershipCr cibleA i pRedefinedCrucibleAssumptionsValuesWays of being



Some Common Crucibles

Major new job or assignment Significant reversal in ones professional or personal lifeg p p Protracted challenge/opportunity that goes on for a long

time

Combination of the above



Discovering Your Uniqueness

Describe 2 stories of your lifes most challengingexperiences (one should be your crucible).

Choose instances that challenged and then changedd t di f lfyour understanding of yourself.



Sweet Spot



Final Note

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am theI have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable orI possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.In all situations, it is my response that decides whether aIn all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized.If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. IfIf we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Goethe


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