Pressure
Do not make same mistakes
Value of the network
Self awarenedd
Delegation – your crappy work might seem great to your team
Accept change
Be consistent
When I feel awake I can do thing on the fly
Protect 30 mins a day to have alone time
Try and extercice
Need to go running
Plan what you can because stuff will happen
I need to rest to perform optimally
Lead with the headline
Kevin Ryan – MBTI
Being in the grip – google this
You can take on caricature style of your oppositve MBTI profile
Some people talk to think versus think to talk, so reamin concscious of other peoples preference
That which is most personal is usually the most common
Intuitive
What is possible
Big picture
Do not need a lot of data
Shoot from the hip
See the patterns
Sensing
Think things through
Like data want facts
Like process
Thinking
Independent
Analysing plans
Critizes
Process
Feeling
Relationships
Understand peoples
Spontaneously appreciates
Judging
Plan ahead
Works first then plays
Feels pressure when deadline approaches
Perceiving
Adapative and flexible
Play while working
Energized under stress of deadlines
Tough to kill projects that need to get killed
Pair up with opposite profile in tough times
Keep having discussions
Heritage
Passed down from future genreations, characteristics
Need to control how much I talk in groups to respect the point of views of others – Not everyone is a Traynor
How lucky we are to live in America
Graeme Boddy – Builder Mutual Insurance
Always need a way out - M from James Bond
Be able to do the difficult thing
Seasons of life
Need to work for a company that matches your values
Explain the need for change, follow up after implementation
Make time for yourself and family
Honesty, integrity above all
Try not to create losers
Have difficult conversation and be willing to wrestle the gorillas
Make time for fun and laugh
Imitiation can short cut things but it can also limit potential
Be true to yourself
Be willing to step out
Need to keep execersing your mind or it will atrophy
Networking what can I do to help you?
IT is the business
Need to understand the marketing, sales and products that we do
How do we enable?
Make IT a good investment
Surrond your with people smarter than you
Fire bad apples as fast as you can
Walk the floor be seen
Give feedback, ask for feedback
Gives wins to others, support innovation and creativity
Never hide behind HR says
What have I failed at
Irish as account manager
Never fix squeaky wheels ad you cannot fix them, spend your time wisely
Hire your weakness
Focus on what they are good at
Murad – Zen of Listening
Be present in the moment
When mediating think of throughs like bubble and let them float away and focus on breathing
Tools to be more mindful
Observation
Appreciate yourself
Accept a complement
Give other benefit of doubt
End negative self talk, negative statements made about yourself are instantly considered true by others
Become conscious of barriers
Mediate on become more open
When listening make sure you
Hear
Emphathize
Analysis
Respond
Pete – 2 old women
Take things back to basics
You need to stretch your team, not all stress is bad
Train to the point its muscle memory
Power of stories
I could go back to development
When everyone is screaming, if you talk quietly they need to shut up and listen
Assignment Elevator Speech
Gary – Networking for people who hate networking
Write notes on business cards
Tribal leadership - book
5 stages
1. Life sucks
2. My life sucks
3. Im great
4. Were great
5. Life is great
Friday June 21st 2013
Ask everyone for a situation they are trying to change and use the influencer model, breaking the group up into 4 groups
Chocolate covered strawberries this week
Meetings are about discussion more than presentation
Edward Toufty courses on presenting information
Steve Pickett – Penske Corp CIO
Know the business side of the business, get to know their problems
Be and remain flexible
Benefits of learning a foreign language
Getting CIOs moving in the same direction is just like trying to move senior doctors
Healthy Discontent
Make it easy to do business with you
IT sees all the departments
3-5-7 years, you need to change by 3, ideally by 5 and absoluately by 7
Create your own project, take the work that now one else wants
What else could we be doing?
IT is an umbrella function, where are the pain points
Get an IT snippet in the CFO and CEO speeches
Become a marketed part of you consumer value proposition
Develop a project presentation method that is both slick and consistent and stick to it
Be better than your business colleagues when launching a system
Be a can do department
Do not let them get staff get to far down the I am the greatest path as they always have room to improve
Sometimes a force march gets people to work together
Need to get better at disconnecting at networking events
Ben Zander Composer video
Speak the possible
Rule #7 do not take yourself so seriously
Possibility to live into rather than live up to
Never doubt the capacity of your team to reach what you are dreaming
Look for shining eyes
Get your team to optimal flow by possibilities and not domintant leadership may open possibilities
Allow them to find new pathes
Do not self impose barriers
Lead by making other powerful
Nina – Leadership passages
Ask for help
Need time for crises
Lean into possibilities push the envelope and accept failure
I can always make a comeback
What did you fail at this week
The Summons
http://www.spiritandsong.com/compositions/30338
4. Will you love the ‘you’ you hide
If I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside
And never be the same?
Will you use the faith you’ve found
To reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound
In you and you in me?
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