Audiences
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High-‐Performance Leadership in the 21st Century!
Lars Sudmann mail@lars-‐sudmann.com @larssudmann !
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Audiences „Led“
Leader
Leadership Lecturer
Organizational Advisor
Elements of Leadership
@larssudmann
www.lars-sudmann.com
Envision
“A leader is someone who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way”
John C. Maxwell
“I have a nightmare”
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#Tool Strategic Intent
If we do nothing else during tomorrow’s mission, we must ________________________. The single, most-‐important thing that we must do tomorrow is _____________________.
#Tool Show what is possible (with stories)
Idea: Write down whenever
somebody laughed
Pixar Model Once upon a Tme______________________ Every day_____________________________ One day____________________________ Because of that_______________________ Because of that_______________________ UnTl finally__________________________
Envision
Enquire
“Alright, let me send this email”
“Now the phone call…”
“I will just update the micro-‐blog of the
company”
“Let’s do a video conference with my new
team”
“Ok…that is done…work went well today”
“He was typing all the Gme while on the phone – he does not care!”
“’Do that!’ as email text
How rude of him!”
“Did you see that funny picture in the background? Was he in his kid’s room?”
“How banal -‐ here surely is somebody who cannot blog… and even spelling mistakes….hahaha”
E-‐Mail Phone Video Blog
…
#Tool Get 21st century communicaTon feedback
Blind Spots
Known to others
Not known to others
Known to self
Not known to self
Johari-Window in Interaction
Based on: Luft / Ingham "The Johari window”
#Tool Giving energizing feedback
1) Be specific
2) Share the impact on YOU (“I…”)
3) Give potential solutions
Giving Feedback
Engage
Envision
Enquire
I have this great idea
People like it!
Ok, let’s do it
“Say no to a 1000 things.”
Steve Jobs
#Tool: One in, one out
Engage Enable
Envision
Enquire
Teambuilding
How do you like to be led?
#Tool Be a coach
“What could you do?”
The Nespresso question
“What could you do?” “What else?”
Classic Directional
Mutual Exploration
N-K
K K N-K
Lead
er
Led
New Insights
Engage Enable
Energize
Envision
Enquire
Audiences
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www.flickr.com/SeanMacEntee
“On days you have not been fired… …you can think of yourself as having been praised.”
Entrepreneur
https://
5 : 1
hbr.org/2013/03/the-ideal-praise-to-criticism/
#Tool Praise 5 : CriTcism 1
Engage Enable
Energize
Envision Execute
Enquire
Why do projects fail?
0 20 40 60 80
Standards missing
ImplementaTon not audited
UnrealisTc Planning
Decision Process
Missing ObjecTves
Source: Hays, 27.12.12, in %, combinaTon of “fully agree” and “mostly agree”
Improve your decision-‐making process
1 Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.
Question now: What is now the most likely
alternative: a) Linda is a bank teller b) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement?
Source: e.g. Kahneman, Thinking Fast & Slow
2 Please give an estimate of yourself - your qualities as a car driver are :
a) Well above average b) Above average c) Average d) Below average e) Well below average?
Source: Plous 1993, The Psychology of Decision Making
There are 12 cows, 4 sheep, and 8 pigs onboard a ship
What is the captain‘s age?
Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapitänssyndrom
Source: Asch, S.E. 1956 – A minority of one against a unanimous majority.
#Tool Install Devil’s Advocate posiTons
Be a realist when making a decision and an opTmist when implemenTng it – not the other way around.
Engage Enable
Energize
Envision Execute
Enquire
Engage Enable
Energize
Execute
5! 5!
5!
5!5!
5!0!
Envision
Enquire
Engage Enable
Energize
Execute
5! 5!
5!
5!5!
5!0!
5!
5!
“The Visionary” Envision
Enquire
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Engage Enable
Energize
Execute
5! 5!
5!
5!5!
5!0!
“The Executer” Envision
Enquire
An average meeting
Meeting Picture…
Time…
Sleep
No time for other things…
Engage Enable
Energize
Execute
5! 5!
5!
5!5!
5!0!
5! 5!
Envision
Enquire
“The person who has a Why can bear almost any How”
Why?
Audiences
1
High-‐Performance Leadership in the 21st Century!
Lars Sudmann mail@lars-‐sudmann.com @larssudmann !