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Leadership Habits for Women Business Owners

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Nancy ChorpenningFounder & Managing Director, C-Suite Advisors

@CSuiteAdvisors

Leadership for Women Business Owners

❖ What is Leadership?

❖ How does Leadership manifest in business?

❖ What Leadership differences ought women to be aware of?

❖ How do I develop Leadership skills and abilities?

© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

What is Leadership?

❖ Organizing & directing a group of people or an organization to achieve a common goal

❖ A process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task

❖ Employees, contractors, customers, colleagues, suppliers, community


What is Leadership?

“Management is doing things right.

Leadership is doing the right things.”

- Peter Drucker


What is Leadership?

“Leadership is not magnetic personality – that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people – that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

- Peter Drucker


Leadership Skills

❖ Goal-setting: Where are you taking your company?

❖ Prioritizing and Planning: Are you focused or scattered?

❖ Effective Communication: Your style matters

❖ Feedback: Do you know what people think of your leadership?

❖ Relationships: Who do you know?

❖ Rewarding Employees: It’s more than just $$

❖ Facilitating Others’ Work: Making room for success


Leadership Development Model

❖ Ask

❖ Listen

❖ Think

❖ Thank

❖ Respond

❖ Involve

❖ Change

❖ Follow-up

courtesy of Marshall Goldsmith


5 Practices of Exemplary Leadership

courtesy of Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner


Servant Leadership

❖ Listening

❖ Empathy

❖ Healing

❖ Awareness

❖ Persuasion

❖ Conceptualization

❖ Foresight

❖ Stewardship

❖ Commitment to the growth of people

❖ Building Community

courtesy of Robert Greenfield


Leadership Pitfalls

❖ Low self-esteem

❖ High need for power and control

❖ People-pleasing and inability to say ‘no’

❖ Boundary issues

❖ Reactivity

❖ Caretaking

❖ Avoiding conflict

Codependent Leadership


–Rolanda Watts, CEO, Watts Works Productions

“Be courageous, strong, and daring in your risk-taking business venture. Replace fear

with faith when challenged. Make work and play look and feel like the same thing. Do

what you love and love what you do.”

Bring a Positive Mindset When Building a Business


– Emily Constantini, President, EMME

“When I started [my] business, I made the [conscious] decision to do three things: stay true to my vision for my product;

collect opinions and decide which are valid; and leverage resources for expertise outside

my own”

Be Sure to Keep a SolidBusiness Plan


– Virginie Glaenzer, EVP, Marketing, Great Eastern Energy

“Learning from other people’s mistakes prevents you from making them for yourself and helps your business grow more quickly.”

Mentors Are Increasingly Important


– Jenna Woodul, Chief Community Officer, LiveWorld

“Even though your focus is sharp — and you’re passionate, directed, and believe

you’re right — remember that business and competitive conditions change quickly; keep one foot up and be ready to pivot.”

Remain Focused on Goals


– Heidi Lorenzen, Chief Marketing Officer, Cloudwords

“Look at your business frequently through both your binoculars and microscope. In a

small operation, the little things are the big things. Peer deep into your business but

don’t lose perspective by constantly focusing on details.”

Take in the Big Picture Regularly


Thank you very much!

Nancy ChorpenningFounder & Managing Director, C-Suite Advisors

CSuiteAdvisors.com@CSuiteAdvisors

http://CSuiteAdvisors.com/