Networked Leadership Development and Practical Skills for Emerging Leaders Module 1: Leading Self

Personal Mission Statement, Leadership Styles, and Self-Awareness

June 9, 2015

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Networked Leadership Development and Practical Skills for Emerging Leaders Module 1: Leading Self

Personal Mission Statement, Leadership Styles, and Self-Awareness

June 9, 2015

The Team

Beth Kanter

The Playbook

Stephanie Rudat

Peer Learning Facilitators

• Commitment

• Be ready to do

the homework

• Review with

your mentor

• Connect w/

accountability

buddy

Topics OUTCOMES

• Ask questions in chat

• More discussion during pods on 6/24!

• Continued discussion Facebook Group

FRAMING

Program Logistics (5 mins) Understand your personal strengths and values (15 mins) Understand your leadership style (15 mins) Emotional Intelligence Intro (15 mins) Wrap and Homework (5 minutes)

#netlead

http://networked-emerging-leaders.wikispaces.com/

Agenda

Schedule

• Sent calendar invites • Email reminders • Facebook Group

reminders

This Month!

Program Delivery

Topic Conference Calls

Wiki Playbook

Homework

Peer Coaching Pods

Accountability Buddy

Mentor Sessions

Online Discussion

http://networked-emerging-leaders.wikispaces.com/

Accountability Buddies

http://networked-emerging-leaders.wikispaces.com/Accountability+Buddies

Module 1: Learning Objectives

• To develop and write a personal mission statement, identify values, and user’s manual

• To understand one’s authentic leadership style • To introduce concept, framework, and diagnostic for

emotional intelligence and ways to practice EI self-awareness skills

Why Inner Work?

“Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission”

- Zig Ziglar

1: Understand your mission, strengths, and values

Personal Mission Statement: What and Why?

• What: Declaration of who you are, what you stand for and what you want to put out into the world. It is a conscious call to action to help you understand your own motivation or lack there-of!

• Why: Gives you a sense of direction to move towards your goals. Intentional energy and a single-minded focus. Gives you permission to say no to things that are distractions.

Personal Mission Statement: Example

“My purpose is to be an inspiration for social change activists and organizations to have greater impact by leading by using networks, data, and learning as a world class master trainer, speaker, and author. “

Personal Mission Statement: How

1. Brainstorm 2. Write your first draft 3. Use positive, actionable words 4. Write in the present tense 5. Revise your statement 6. Sign it 7. Display it 8. Share it with your mentor or

accountability buddy

Worksheet on Wiki

Personal Mission Statement: Tool

https://www.imperative.com/

Values

What: Priorities that tell you how to spend your time, right here, right now. Why: Helps with managing your time Avoid distraction Alignment with purpose Help motivate and drive us in our work Inform our decisions Internal map of our reality Give us meaning Helps us work with others more smoothly

Values: How

Worksheet

1: Times most happy 2: Times most proud 3: Times most fulfilled 4: Pick top 10 5: Prioritize your top values 6: Reaffirm your values

Worksheet on Wiki

Develop Personal User Manual Answer these questions: • What is your style? • When do you like people to approach

you and how? • What do you value? • How do you like people to

communicate with you? • How do you make decisions? • How can people help you? • What will you not tolerate in others?

Refine it into a draft, get feedback from your mentor or others, and revised based on feedback. Revise it annually

Worksheet on Wiki

Leadership Styles

Leadership Styles: Six Types

“The best leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” – Tom Peters

• Do as I do now! Pacesetting

• Come with me Authoritative

• Do what I tell you Coercive

• People come first Affiliate

• Try this Coaching

• What do you think? Democratic

Source: Daniel Goldman, Leadership that Gets Results

Command

Shared

Different Styles for Different Situations

• Quick results, highly motivated or skilled team Pacesetting

• A new direction or vision Authoritative

• Crisis, turnaround, problem employee Coercive

• Heal rifts or motivate during stress Affiliate

• Improve performance or long-term strengths Coaching

• Build buy-in or get input Democratic Source: Daniel Goldman, Leadership that Gets Results

Leadership Styles Assessment

Link on the Wiki

Emotional Intelligence: What and Why

“What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills – your EQ — not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.” — Daniel Goleman

Emotional Intelligence: Skill Sets

WHAT I SEE WHAT I DO

ME SELF-AWARENESS SELFMANAGEMENT

OTHERS SOCIAL

AWARENESS

RELATIONSHIP

MANAGEMENT

Module 1 Module 2

Module 3 Module 4

Emotional Intelligence: Self-Awareness

Self-awareness is your ability to accurately recognize your emotions as they happen and to understand your general tendencies for responding to different people and situations. Seeing ourselves as others see us Knowing what pushes our buttons Our past and self-image play a large role in how we choose to interpret other people’s behavior and how we react

How Leaders Become Self-Aware

Test Yourself Watch Yourself Reflect/Learn

Test Yourself: EQ 2.0 Diagnostic

Link on the Wiki

• Tests give you a framework for self-awareness

• Helps bucket your strengths and weaknesses

• Tests facilitate self-reflection which leads to better awareness

• Take EQ assessment

Watch Yourself

• Lean into your discomfort • Feel your emotion physically • Know who or what pushes your buttons • Look at situations from above like a hawk • Ask yourself why you do the things you

do • Check your outward appearance in

situations • Get to know yourself under stress • Observe the ripple effect on others

Based on “Emotional Intelligence 2.0” – Chapter on Self-Awareness

Reflect and Learn

• Record your emotions • Track trends • Get trusted feedback from

mentor • Just thinking about self-

awareness will help you change

Journal Prompts on Wiki

Keep A Journal

• Leadership is about forming new good habits

• Writing it down helps you change

• Good keep all the “homework” in one place

• Treat yourself to a new pen and notebook or download a journal app

Resources on Wiki

Homework

• Write personal mission statement (30-60 minutes)

• Identify your values (30-60 minutes) • Write your operating manual (30

minutes) • Take Leadership Style assessment

and write reflect in your journal (15 minutes)

• Take the EQ Test, pick self-awareness skill to practice (15 minutes)

• Practice • Check in with your mentor (30-60

minutes)

Next Steps and Reminders

Coaching Pods #1: June 24th at 1:00 pm PST #2: June 24th at 1:30 pm PST

Check in with your mentor Connect with your accountability buddy Don’t forget to join and check the Facebook Group Accept your Calendar Invites!!