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Regional Leadership Forum Session 5
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Sept 26th 2013
Being great at IT is table stakes you need people after that and the people skills
Raise my game, looks to the vision not the day to day
Courage before clarity
Communicate slowly
Leadership out the company matters inside
Build your reputation
The Dip Seth godin
Tribes book for June
Choose discomfort over resentment
The gifts of imperfection
David M Leadership and management
Influence power is necessary at CNL
  Marketing
  Internal Sales Managers
  Compliance
  PSP
  Jeff H
Do not use ALWAYS or NEVER respect the context
What the CEO wants you to know book
Dennis Zank Raymond James
Sometime luck helps a lot
Get the wrong people off the bus
Knowledge comes from many sources be sure to listen
Become good at self assessment
Have team give me a reach review
  What I am good at?
  What do I struggle with?
  Fix 1 thing at a time
  Eliminate why your boss cannot promote you, remove the buts?
I struggle with
  Getting into the weeds
  Conflict management
  Sugar coating things
  Taking on too much
  Need to keep emotion and ego in check
Questioning what I want to do
  How do I protect the downside?
  What if CNL ends tomorrow?
  Broaden my network
  Control my emotion and ego
  Give away the hurt and threat it caused
  RLF caused me to reflect
CNL has showed me this time around how sausages are made
Try and become a generalist when it comes to the business
Org charts do not mean a damn thning
Be flexible
Seize opportunity when it presents itself
Its not about how many times you get knocked down but how quickly you get up and what you do next?
Learn how to communicate to your boss
Data will guide you to the right decision if you decide what is truly important
To influence behavior follow the money
Need to reward the behavior you want – Raymond James
Measure
  Reviews
  Assets
  Professional competences
Challenges in business are almost always people related
Get your ego out of the way
Critical success factors
  Know your weaknessed
  Reponsiveness is always measured
  Treat everyone the same
  Be consistent in good times and in bad
  Listen, listen, listen
You need to be technically competent, people excellent and to sell, sell sell
Be candid with people
Orgnaization need balance in their structure to remain healthy
Volunteer for everything
Cannot cut cost forever need to innovate and grow revenues
Cannot afford to do everything, pick your poison
Tipping point book
Lack of sleep makes me punchy
Networking
  Pete and Murad
Cannot cross or burn a bridge untul you have first built it
EX1
  Positive
  Intelligent
  Forth right
  Easy to get to know
  Sarcastic
  Excellent resource
Joel
Weakness form Myers Briggs, help identity your weak spots
Context for the leader
Need to be able to better change gears
Student of the game
Life long learning
Stay focused
Do not over value relationship
Everything at work is transcient and can be gone tomorrow. All you have is your reputation
Social Animal Book
Blink book
100 conscious processed against 1 million unconscious processes
Intuition = experience plus expertise
Fastest way to get intuition is to immerse yourself
Intentional immersion in everything you are passionate about
Do 1 thing at a time
Be prepated to drop information until you get what you want
Take people on journeys

Friday September 27th 2013
Make fun of yourself
Hardball for women book
5 language of apologies book
Only thing I control in my reaction
Other cannot make you a victim

Others
Husband
Father
Coach
Mentor
Travel
Play
Eat together
Listen
Mediate
Stretch
Develop
Thank
Act of service
Myself
Running
Mentee
Socialize
Eat together
Develop
Sleep
Exercise more
Go out once a week
Give hurtful emotions away

5 dysfunctions of a team
Project go where teams lead them
We lost 2-7 but I score 2 goals i.e. I did my part therefore I am alright but the team still lost
Death by meeting book
Working sessions
Code review
Model the behavior you want to see in other
Silence is acceptance
Overcoming the 5 dsyfunctions of a team book
Life story for team
Steve Finnerty
71% not actively engaged in there work
75% of grads and post grads are not engaged
Expand role do more stuff
Need to mae sure you values match the organization
To success you need
  Fun
  Learning
  Contribution
  Great boss





Critcal Success factors for growth
Self Knowledge
  Mission Statement
Strengths, Weaknesses, Passion
  Clear guiding values and principles
Trust / Respect Relationships
Compelling Vision for the Future
Roadmap / Path Defined and Communicated
Balanced Life
  Four Quadrants
Portfolio of Broad / Deep Challenging Experiences
Help ? Give and Get It
Humility / Teachability / Curiosity
The “A” Team
Persistence (Resilience, Adaptable to Change)
Need to be realistically optimistic about this
Conflict
Courage to say here is how I am seeing this
Be aware of the weakness
Then get coached
Then practice with immediate feedback
C O M P E T E N C I E S

Functional Expertise
Team leadership
People and organizational development
Results orientation
Collaboration and influence
Change leadership
Strategic orientation
External customer focus
Market knowledge
Commercial orientation

C H A R A C T E R
Self and other awareness
Purpose and Passion
Forward looking
Strong values & principles
Authentic behavior
Courage & Risk Taking
Trust / Respect Relationships
Adaptability & Persistence
Curious & Teachable
Optimistic & Energetic
Discipline & Self Control

Who am I?
What do I want to become?
How do I get there?
Am I making progress?
Insights tools
  Steve is green/yellow
Why not now?

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