Leading

From a Position of Limited Power

L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l l a b o r a t i o n

Pollyanna PixtonPresident, Evolutionary SystemsFounding Partner, Accelinnova

ppixton@accelinnova.com www.accelinnova.com

L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l l a b o r a t i o n

Overview

Why Lead Up When To Lead Up Doing the Research Manage Your Risks How to Lead Up Working Together Integrity

Exercise

Why

Lead Up?

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When To Lead Up

When to Lead Up

Action from Manager For Information to Succeed Get Manager to Stand Back

When to Lead Up

What else?

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Research

Research

Where Does

Your

Manager

Focus?

Research

How Does

Your Manager

Define

Success?

Research

What are your manager’s ‘hot buttons’

Research

Assess System: Politics Competition Style Differences

Research

Where is your manager on this scale:

Command and Collaborative Control

How do you define Command and Control? Collaborative Leadership?

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What are Your Risks

Managing Risks

Your Risk Assessment

Managing Risks

List Three Professional Optionslist 3 professional options

What About You?

What is your personal mission and vision? What are you passionate about? What do you do best? How do you define success? What do you want to do differently? What do you fear?

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How To Lead Up

How to Lead Up

Your Are

Not Going

To Change

Your Manger

How To Lead Up

Speak

So You

Can Be

Heard

How To Lead Up

Focus on

Business Value!

How To Lead Up

Practice

a

Forward Going

Approach

Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry: Value What Is Envision What Can Be Discuss Next Steps Basic Assumption:

An organization and the people know the possibility.

“Fall Forward !”

Problem Solving: Identify the Problem Analyze the Causes Plan the Actions Basic Assumption:

An organization is a problem to be solved.

Appreciative Inquiry

Problem-Solving Problem-Solving OrientationOrientation

Appreciative Appreciative OrientationOrientation

PASTCURRENT

STATEFUTURE

ANALYZE & FILL THE GAP

DISCOVER & REALIZE

POSSIBILITIES

QUESTIONS

What’s Wrong?

What Happened?

Who’s to Blame?

How Do We Fix It?

What’s Working?

Where’s the Passion?

What’s Possible?

How Do We Achieve It?

QUESTIONS

How To Lead Up

Timing

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Deliver

Results As

Committed

And

Often

How To Lead Up

Let It Be Their Idea

How To Lead Up

Trust your Intuition: Listen, remember and trust your first thoughts Rely on your ‘gut’ reaction for warning signals Listen openly for the secondary messages Collect data: note when you first thoughts have

been accurate

How To Lead Up

Communicate, Often Pass on results Check in once

per week, or daily Find the best

communication format

How To Lead Up

Bring

solutions,

not

just

problems

How To Lead Up

Find

Common

Ground

How To Lead Up

Working with

Different

Leadership

Styles

How To Lead Up

Don’t take it personal.

“I’ll get back to you on that.”

How To Lead Up

Your most useful ‘How To’ ?

Integrity Summary

Assess the participants Assess the options List all possible outcomes Assess the risks Make a plan with best and worst case

scenarios

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Summary

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Know when to lead up Discover your leader’s style Speak so your leaders can hear you Hone your message, don’t just present

problems, bring solutions Manage your risk

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Your next steps…

Action Plan

What do you want to do? How can you measure it? By when? How? What obstacles might arrive? Can you do anything to deter these

obstacles?

References

Watch out for articles that are manipulative!

That said, these look interesting:- seekingsuccess.com/articles/art147.php3- poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5495

Look for ‘managing your manager’ or ‘leading up’

Contact

Pollyanna Pixton: www.accelinnova.com www.evolutionarysystems.net www.collaborativeleadership.com

801 . 209 . 0195 p2@ppixton.com