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Leading for superior growth
Extraordinary Leadership
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Catherine McFarlane Australian Businesswomen’s Network
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Suzi Dafnis Australian Businesswomen’s Network
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Introductions
• Name • Company • What is your biggest leadership challenge?
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Agenda
1. Recap of leadership principles 2. Leadership Journey - why people follow 3. A healthcheck on your leadership approach 4. Developing a growth mindset 5. Supercharge your leadership capabilities 6. Building momentum 7. Importance of communication
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Defining Leadership
“ Leadership is all about inspiring and empowering others under a shared vision to deliver beyond the ordinary, to create something special, and to ultimately result in making this world a better place.”
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Leadership Principles
To do so you must:
• Listen to your people
• Look to your people
• Learn from your people
• Live as you wish others to live
• Love as you wish others to love
• Lead through strong communication
• Lead by example
• Lead by sharing, growing & engaging
• Lead through empowerment & acknowledging others
• Lead because you will have more people wanting to help you deliver your vision!
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The Leadership Journey – Why people follow:
1. Position – title provides you with some leadership credibility
2. Permission – people like you and are happy to follow you
3. Production – momentum picks up, people follow because of the results you have achieved
4. Reproduction – people follow because of how they & others have been developed & grown by you
5. Respect – people follow because of respect based on how much you have achieved & how much you have done for others
Read more about Leadership levels: John C Maxwell
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Your Leadership
• Vision – how do you inspire & provide for aspiration?
• Audacity – how audacious are your goals & how fearlessly do you pursue greatness ?
• Passion – how do you generate energy for you & for others ?
• Commitment – how persistent are you in walking the talk ?
• Values – how does your behaviour match your values ?
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Developing your Growth Mindset (your own and those you lead)
• Cultivate talents & abilities
• Play to strengths (teams & people)
• Continuously learn & develop
• Embrace challenges & opportunities
• Continuously connect & communicate what is happening
• Share lessons learned from mistakes and stumbles
• Replicate yourself & do yourself out of your job!
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Super-charge your leadership capabilities for growth, things to do immediately• Revisit your vision & your progress against your vision
• Reset &/or confirm your BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)
• Gather your team or community for an off-site review: - Revisit & review behaviour against values - Reconfirm vision & goals - SWOT & brainstorm on the how - Allow for ownership of implmentation
• Review your team & identify key talent, strengths and gaps. Plan for your people development (yours & theirs)
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Building Momentum
• Provide Proof:
- Win validation for your people about what you are doing from real outside “experts” & influential people
- Win and share customer & community testimonials
• Demonstrate power of your promise & commitment
- How it has helped others
- Encourage evangelism & sharing by others
• Produce & publish real data on progress
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Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!
• Your direction & focus
• Feedback & progress against vision and goals
• Inspirational anecdotes, key learnings, philosophies, growth developments
• Acknowledgement of others
• Your passion for your people and for what you do
• Connect all of this to making the world a better place!
Take these steps today and lead for superior growth.
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• www.abn.org.au/forums
• Start a discussion
• Participate
• Network
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