Day Five: Session 13: Loose Ends

• Program Talk Template• Charter/Letter to Linda• Bob Johnson: Self Leadership revisited• Review the challenges agenda established on

Monday• What lingering questions or issues would you

like to “tie up” this morning?• Concluding Exercises

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Levering the Program Impact

• Letter to Self: What did you learn? What if you could implement that? What obstacles would you expect? How will you overcome them?

• Complete as much of the evaluation as you can (minus last session).

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Session 14. Some Concluding Thoughts

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You cannot change the world around you,

you can only change the way you deal with the world around you.

Change begins with you.

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Society

Can you change anything in the world “out there” without changing yourself first?

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Organization

Team

Self

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Leadership Point of View

1. Do you SEE what needs to be done?2. Do you UNDERSTAND all of the

forces at play?3. Do you have the COURAGE to act?

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RESULTS

Financials?Customers?Efficiency?

Employees?Learning?

RESULTS

Financials?Customers?Efficiency?

Employees?Learning?

Elements in Effective Leadership

EnvironmentLegal, Cultural,Financial, etc.

ORGANIZATION

TASKOTHERS

SELF

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Leadership is about managing energy,

first in yourself and then in others.

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VABE based BehaviorThe missing variable

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L3: VABEs EVENTS

L1: BEHAVIOR

L2: CONCLUSIONS

FEELINGS

LEVEL 1LEVEL 2

LEVEL 3

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Charters bring clarity …

Mission Vision

Values

Goals

LEADERSHIP

1. Mission Statement

2. Vision Statement

3. Values Statement

4. Strategy

5. Operating Goals and Milestones

6. Leadership

Strategy

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GENERAL CHANGE PROCESS

BASELINEBEHAVIOR

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Good is the Enemy of Great

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“Conversely, perpetuating mediocrity is an inherently depressing process and drains much more energy out of the pool than it puts back in. …

‘I want them to have a great experience, and to have the experience of being part of something absolutely first class.’”

Running Coach, p. 208

“WE TEACH WHAT WE TOLERATE.” Marietta Frey

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Importance of Learning

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The only real source of competitive advantage may be the capacity to learn.

Arie de Geus, The Living Company

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Some additional resources …

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1. Course Portal at UNH: http://wsbe2.unh.edu/creating-future-leadership-and-change

URL will be emailed to you.1. Recommended Bibliography on my website or in the book on

page 464.2. My website (or just Google “James Clawson”) for Balance

Wheel, etc.: http://faculty.darden.virginia.edu/clawsonj/3. Powered by Feel: how individuals, teams and companies excel,

World Scientific, 20094. For career decision making (30 years of teaching career

management now on the web @): www.CareerNextStep.com5. Balancing Your Life: executive lessons for work, family and self.6. E-mail me as you wish. JimClawson@virginia.edu.

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AN INVITATION / CHALLENGE

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