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‘Insider Secrets’ from a Coach Dubai – Feb 2015 The ‘fast-track’ route to effective & more conscious leadership
Leadership Coach, Tricia Evans
MY ROLE = TO MAKE YOU THINK (& to give you a structure & tools)
Helpful States
Harmful States
Internal External
A
B
IDENTIFY WHERE YOU’RE STARTING FROM
Your Point A
Your background Your beliefs Your personality Your work experience Your skill set Solo operator or team player What interests you What makes you ‘tick’ Your life stage Your life experience What got to offer Get your thinking clear - Your personal ‘BRAND’ - Your TAGLINE
What did your team accomplish in 2014?
What do you want to be able to look back & say at the end of 2015?
What are the burning issues for your part of the business?
Be still – make time to think Capture your thoughts Build up a picture of yourself, & keep in one file/notebook Be radically honest – don’t kid yourself! Use questionnaires, speedwriting, meditating, journals, visualising, dreaming, art, courses, counselling etc
PERSONAL GOALS Don’t let other people steal your dreams!
QUESTIONS TO GET YOU STARTED
What’s great, & not so great about your life? What makes you feel successful? What really makes your eyes sparkle? What would you do if you had only 6 months left to live? What would you like your epitaph to be? What do you need in your life to feel ‘whole’
YOUR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP BRAND …what you stand for & how you behave
YOUR ESSENCE The mood you evoke!
YOUR Benefits How you perform
YOUR Attributes How you come across
Your Brand is defined by people’s experience with you over time
MAP OUT YOUR KEY RELATIONSHIPS
Name each person, & mark the quality of your working relationship with them on a scale of 1-10 NOW, & as you’d like it to be
9 – 10 3 - 9
6 – 9 7 – 10 5 – 8 8 – 8 Identify gaps
2/3 of the people you meet in your life will think you & your style is fine...1/3 of the people you meet won’t!
The world is ALL about relationships & connectedness!
HOW DO PERSONALITIES IMPACT ON PROGRESS?
Our backgrounds have a HUGE impact on us & our view of what is ’right’ &/or ‘normal’
Personalities have a HUGE impact on relationships
BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS
FRIENDLY HELPERS Motivation = helping others Reward = relationships
TOUGH BATTLERS Motivation = challenge Reward = achieving
ANALYTICAL THINKERS Motivation = complex problem solving Reward = process/depth
TEAM PLAYERS Motivation = flexibility Reward = flexibility
How do you see yourself - How do others see you - How do you want to be seen?
Source: SDI Questionnaire
DECIDE WHAT YOU’RE AIMING AT
Your Point B
Tricia Evans Business Coach & Writer
UNDERSTAND TEAMS & THE IMPACT OF HOW YOU CURRENTLY WORK
Assess your level of team maturity
IDENTIFY STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT
‘FORMING’ stage
‘PERFORMING’ stage
‘NORMING’ stage
‘STORMING’ stage
Where is your team??
MATURITY MODEL Assess your stage of team development & maturity
Level 0 – Non existent
Level 1 – Initial/Ad Hoc
Level 2 – Repeatable but Intuitive
Level 3 - Defined
Level 4 – Managed & Measurable
Level 5 - Optimised
VISUALISE HOW YOUR TEAM
WORKS & DRAW 2 PICTURES...
How you currently work How you’d like to work as a team? as a team?
CORE QUESTIONS What must your people be good at to
make your strategy happen? How do your current staff match up to this checklist? What sort of people do you now need to recruit?
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP
Success in 20s/30s
• Individualistic
• Delivering short term results • Creativity • Ambition & high standards • Speciality strength • Being contentious
Success later on o Team player • Strategic vision & longer term results • Managing innovation & others’ creativity
• Humility • General management skills • Creating unity & cohesion
WHY SO MANY ‘SMART’ PEOPLE FAIL
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW YOU CURRENTLY LEAD YOUR PART OF THE BUSINESS WHAT LEARNT? - Leadership Challenge - Team Effectiveness Survey - Delegation self-assessment - Change Model - 2014-2015 presentation - Team pictures
How will you use this stuff?
ADD STRATEGIC VALUE Split your thinking & time into…
Strategic focus - Be clear what you’re aiming at People - Build right team - Support those who step up/replace those who can’t Processes/getting things done - Create systems & approaches that enable the business Profit/money - Start with business outcomes Communicating - Remove uncertainty - Make actions concrete & specific
MEETINGS Identify your rhythm of daily, weekly, monthly & quarterly meetings Assess their usefulness & effectiveness Agree which meetings you need to track your progress & stay accountable - & how to make them great meetings!
DO THE THINGS THAT GET
YOU THERE
Bridge the gap between A & B - Quick wins
- 3 month laser focus
- Track your progress
Urgent &
Important
HOW TO PRIORITISE
Not Urgent but Important
Urgent but Not Important
Not Urgent & Not Important
TO STAND OUT - Get your A & B clear - Identify critical ‘game changing’ things for you - Free up time for leadership responsibilities - Plan how to over achieve & excel where it counts - Make conscious choices about how to spend your time - Stop reacting – work out what is repetitive & build a process - Leverage your value by developing people & teams - Delegate so you do the work ONLY you can do - Use LinkedIn strategically (photo, job title, tagline, elevator
pitch, summary - post regularly, ask for & give recs) - Have a good email signature
TO STAND OUT - Keep up to date - Surround yourself with inspiration (people, ideas, books, experiences, music, colour) - Spend time with people you can learn from - READ - & learn constantly about stuff that matters - Watch others – learn from them - Capture good ideas – take notes - Evolve your leadership - raise the level every month
Tricia Evans Business Coach & Writer
SURROUND YOURSELF WITH INSPIRATION... & TAKE TIME TO THINK!
WHERE 1:1 COACHING FITS
…helps to ‘fast track’ the shift from A B A shift in thinking, feeling & motivation – clarity on the way forwards - specific & sustained behaviour change Coaching provides a ‘safe space’ to explore & work this out Coaching is different from Therapy or Counselling
TOP ‘TAKE HOME’ MESSAGES & PERSONAL COMMITMENTS
Tricia Evans Business Coach & Writer
FOOD FOR THOUGHT I HOPE? Remember... ‘Success is not an accident, it’s a decision!’
Tricia Evans, Business Coach & Writer For more information, contact me on [email protected] or connect with me on LinkedIn
