“ If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”—JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
What strengths can you work from? Where can you stretch?
LEADING STRATEGICALLYLeaders need to manage beyond planning, delegating, and controlling. They must fi nd and overcome threats, accommodate adversity and understand business and market. They must be adept at:
___ Leveraging strengths and turning them into opportunities
___ Identifying and overcoming threats
___ Understanding complex interactions that infl uence enterprise activity and markets
___ Leading as if life matters by using enterprise to enrich and enliven
___ Navigating ambiguity
INFLUENCING OTHERSInfl uence is crucial at every level of management and leadership. There are many ways to use infl uence. Including:
___ Using the power of your position/title
___ Leveraging to power of collaborative networks
___ Demonstrating expertise, insight, foresight
___ Taking action
___ Identifying the “mountains to climb” and helping to shape a vision that inspires and engages
DESIGNING A COLLABORATIVE CULTURE OF “CAN DO!”Culture supports and sustains enterprise action. Cultures of “can do” can be designed. Here are some things a leader can do to enable others:
___ Encourage, recognize and reward collaboration
___ Seek out ideas/voices that might not be heard
___ Resource people to succeed
___ Design learning in and certainty out
___ Establish a sustaining and shared vision
___ Model and encourage active listening
___ Put an equal emphasis on achieving results, building relationships, and contribution to shared goals
___ Develop systems to manage performance strategically toward vision
EXPERIMENTEvery great and deep diffi culty bears initself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to fi nd it.- NIELS BOHR
Do you need to “change your thinking”-to unlearn in order to learn?
How might you apply new learning to “Drive Your Thrive” at work and in those around you?
Where do you see opportunities to manage strategically, infl uence others, nurture climate?
What will you do today to begin your journey toward tomorrow?
“The way we live our lives, timorous or bold, will have been our life.” —SEAMUS HEANEY
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