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Leading for superior growth

Extraordinary Leadership

Leading for superior growth Extraordinary Leadership

Catherine McFarlane Australian Businesswomen’s Network


Suzi Dafnis Australian Businesswomen’s Network

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Emma Lo Russo Experienced Business Coach & Organisation Leader


Introductions

•  Name •  Company •  What is your biggest leadership challenge?

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Agenda

1.  Recap of leadership principles 2.  Leadership Journey - why people follow 3.  A healthcheck on your leadership approach 4.  Developing a growth mindset 5.  Supercharge your leadership capabilities 6.  Building momentum 7.  Importance of communication


Defining Leadership

“ Leadership is all about inspiring and empowering others under a shared vision to deliver beyond the ordinary, to create something special, and to ultimately result in making this world a better place.”

Extraordinary Leadership Leading for superior growth

Leadership Principles

To do so you must:

•  Listen to your people

•  Look to your people

•  Learn from your people

•  Live as you wish others to live

•  Love as you wish others to love

•  Lead through strong communication

•  Lead by example

•  Lead by sharing, growing & engaging

•  Lead through empowerment & acknowledging others

•  Lead because you will have more people wanting to help you deliver your vision!

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The Leadership Journey – Why people follow:

1.  Position – title provides you with some leadership credibility

2.  Permission – people like you and are happy to follow you

3.  Production – momentum picks up, people follow because of the results you have achieved

4.  Reproduction – people follow because of how they & others have been developed & grown by you

5.  Respect – people follow because of respect based on how much you have achieved & how much you have done for others

Read more about Leadership levels: John C Maxwell

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Your Leadership

•  Vision – how do you inspire & provide for aspiration?

•  Audacity – how audacious are your goals & how fearlessly do you pursue greatness ?

•  Passion – how do you generate energy for you & for others ?

•  Commitment – how persistent are you in walking the talk ?

•  Values – how does your behaviour match your values ?


Developing your Growth Mindset (your own and those you lead)

•  Cultivate talents & abilities

•  Play to strengths (teams & people)

•  Continuously learn & develop

•  Embrace challenges & opportunities

•  Continuously connect & communicate what is happening

•  Share lessons learned from mistakes and stumbles

•  Replicate yourself & do yourself out of your job!

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Super-charge your leadership capabilities for growth, things to do immediately•  Revisit your vision & your progress against your vision

•  Reset &/or confirm your BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)

•  Gather your team or community for an off-site review: -  Revisit & review behaviour against values -  Reconfirm vision & goals -  SWOT & brainstorm on the how -  Allow for ownership of implmentation

•  Review your team & identify key talent, strengths and gaps. Plan for your people development (yours & theirs)


Building Momentum

•  Provide Proof:

-  Win validation for your people about what you are doing from real outside “experts” & influential people

-  Win and share customer & community testimonials

•  Demonstrate power of your promise & commitment

-  How it has helped others

-  Encourage evangelism & sharing by others

•  Produce & publish real data on progress


Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!

•  Your direction & focus

•  Feedback & progress against vision and goals

•  Inspirational anecdotes, key learnings, philosophies, growth developments

•  Acknowledgement of others

•  Your passion for your people and for what you do

•  Connect all of this to making the world a better place!

Take these steps today and lead for superior growth.

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•  Start a discussion

•  Participate

•  Network

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