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Review the cards on your chair.Set aside white and yellow cards.Pick up, shuffle and use 52 blue cards.

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Sort the blue Experience cards into 2 stackso Experiences you have hado Experiences you have not had

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From the blue Experiences you have had cards, select 1 or 2 that are “very memorable” for you, and which you feel have shaped the way you approach leadership.

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Turn to a neighbor and share as much of the story of your very memorable experience and the key lessons you drew from the experience.

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Network: Find another partner and repeat the sharing of stories and lessons learned.

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What did you notice about the stories you shared and heard? What were the similarities and differences? What are your observations?

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Go back to your one very memorable (blue) experience card.

Set aside all other blue cards.

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Pick up, shuffle and use 40 yellow Lesson cards.

For your one very memorable experience, find (yellow) Lesson cards that remind you: What main lessons did you learn?

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Reflection What do you notice about the lessons you learned? Were they about the world of Work / People / Self?


Leadership abilities are tri-dimensional (3-D)


World of Work

Building skills and perspectives

to get work done—

by attending to strategy,

operations, and culture.

Leading the Organization


World of Inner Self

Managing oneself—one’s thoughts,

emotions, actions, and attitudes.

Leading Self


World of People

Leading People

Developing interpersonal and

social skills for connecting

with people.


LessonsShifts in ….

Experiences Memorable events that influence the way in which a person leads & manages

Knowledge

Skill levelAttitudes

Behavior

Values

Experience

Experience

What the LiFE Explorer™ cards tell us…

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Coursework and Training

DevelopmentalRelationships

ChallengingAssignments

20 1070What Research Tells Us

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5 universally

important

experiences


Basic Five

Horizontal move

TurnaroundBosses & superiors

New Initiative

Increased job scope


+ Two

Personal Experiences

Crises Stakeholder Engagements

Ethical Dilemmas

Mistakes Crossing Cultures


how can we make learning from experiences

intentional not incidentalnor accidental ?

We must ask ourselves …

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• We can grow more leaders by diversifying experiences that help people to stretch, fail (maybe), and learn.

• We can develop more capable leaders by diversifying lessons people learn.

In summary …


The LOE research program is guided by one question:

• What are the processes by which executives learn, grow, and change over the course of their careers?

• The assumption underlying this question is that leadership is learned.

• We believe that today, even more than before, the manager’s ability and willingness to learn the lessons of leadership from experience is the foundation for leading with impact.


A series of pioneering studies

36 countries 1999 101 16 global

1981 - 1984 191 6 corporations, including 5 Fortune 50

1996 288 1 global + program participants

1984 - 1985 76 25 Fortune 100

Country Year # Executives # Organisations

2007 - 2010 54 4 state-owned, 2 private

2007 - 2008 34 12 ministries, 18 stat boards

2006 - 2007 71 8 home-grown Indian global

2004 - 2005 234 117 private, 21 public, 13 non-profit

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