28 July 2016Dr Martina Carroll-Garrison

Aka Dr Tina

Who Am I?????

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1. An ICF professionally Certified Coach

2. I provide individual and group coaching programs

3. I offer high impact high energy interventions.

4. I support agencies organizations and individuals• self awareness• deeper engagement• group cohesion and • organizational understanding

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Engineers Can Become Great Leaders, When They Employ 3 Smart Strategies

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Although I may be biased I believe that Engineers Can Make Great Leaders!

Having spent 30 years working among engineers I understand that our world

is truly a better place for their ability to create order out of chaos.

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Engineers Can Become Great Leaders, When They Employ 3 Smart Strategies

Consciously develop their self-awareness

Consciously develop an awareness of others

Purposely develop an understanding of the

interplay of self and others within organizations

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What Will You Learn?

About the importance of…

Consciously developing your self-awareness

Consciously developing an awareness of others.

Purposely developing an understanding of the interplay of

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Overview

• Your engineer leadership team is your competitive advantage.

• I began my career as an engineer

• now I am in the people business.

• The general population typically perceives our engineer brethren as

• NOT being in the people business, NOT being great leaders of people.

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Through their critical thinking, obsession for details, natural curiosity and passion for problem solving Engineers just make things better.

• While these worklife strengths are often conducted as a solitary endeavor

• engineer leaders need to lead many other engineers and non-technical personnel in pursuit of solutions.

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Engineers often monopolize certain challenging personality traits

• and workplace behaviors that can make their evolution from a

• solitary operator to • motivational or

influential leader • quiet difficult.

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Engineers’ challenging personality traits can be overcome…

• Consciously developing a deeper degree of self-awareness,

• Consciously developing a deliberate awareness of others, and

• Purposely developing a deeper understanding of organizational behavior and the interplay of self and others within organizations.

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#1. Consciously Develop Your Self-Awareness.

• Self-awareness involves an ability to identify your strengths and areas for growth and improvement.

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Being self-aware includes consciously noticing what you do and how others respond to you…

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Noticing is a form of self-monitoring…

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Although initially difficult, request and listen to feedback from others…

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Think critically about the feedback, then use it constructively to address worklife behaviors…

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#2. Consciously Develop An Awareness Of Others.

•Awareness of others involves an ability to consider the needs and motivations of individuals and groups.

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Being aware of others includes consciously noticing what they do and how you and others respond to them…

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Because we don’t usually notice the cultural content in our own behaviors…

• it’s easy to become annoyed with the behaviors of others that seem very different from what we perceive as natural and normal.

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Awareness of this phenomenon gives us a basis for responding to differences in others in a rational way…

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To achieve this perspective, you need to focus on the underlying logic that shapes the attitudes and behavior of

others.

• Through purposeful listening and observing, with the intention to identify the underlying logic that shapes the attitudes and behavior of others.

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When others’ logic becomes observable…

• it can help explain many aspects of their behavior that may be confusing, annoying or contrary to your leadership expectations.

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One of the easiest way to improve awareness of others..

• to observe oneself carefully (self-awareness as described above) and then reflect upon the differences and similarities in others.

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With careful observation of the patterns of behavior in both oneself and others…

• you can learn to see things more easily from the perspective of others and respond to behaviors that seem different or even annoying in a calm and rational way.

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#3. Purposely Develop An Understanding Of The Interplay Of Self And Others Within Organizations.

• Workplace organizations are living breathing entities with their own rhythms and logic.

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Diverse behaviors and cultures occur within organizations and …

• it’s easy to become annoyed with the behaviors among and between workgroups and micro cultures

•that seem very different from what we perceive as natural and normal.

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Awareness of organizational micro cultures gives us a basis …

• responding to differences among and between work units in a rational way

• and allows us to modify our own behavior to meet the leadership needs of different groups.

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When other groups and work units’ logic becomes observable…

• it can help explain many aspects of their behavior that may be confusing, annoying or contrary to your leadership expectations.

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Understanding the micro-cultures created within organizations is a key tool in good leadership…

• and it requires effort, • particularly when it comes to •at recognizing the assumptions and values

• that motivate the group.

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Workgroup conflict is usually a product of the inability to not only recognize the ways culture shapes the actions of others,

but also our own ideas, attitudes, and actions.

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Great leaders understand that workgroups are living breathing organisms that require understanding and nurturing

at the individual and group level.

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Summary

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Although I may be biased I believe that Engineers Can Make Great Leaders!

What Did You Learn?

About the importance of…

Developing your self-awareness…

Developing an awareness of others…

Developing an understanding of the interplay of

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Questions??

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