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The Creative Path Towards Leadership

And Effective Execution

Alma Moya
2018
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Rules

Do’s

• Cell Phones to Vibrate.

• Everybody Participates.
• Listen Actively.
• Share Your Knowledge.
• Be Open Minded.
+ Who
are you?

Please Introduce Yourself

• Name & Institution.

• Role.
• Your Experience.
• What Is Your Hope/Expectation For This Workshop.
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With this Workshop you will be able Goals
to:
• Learn about leadership styles Leading
Change
• Evaluate your own leadership style and be conscious about it.
• Enhance your capabilities. Influence
People
• Discover about creativity and intuition.
Personal
• Understand about the learning ladder.
Growth
• Discover all tools available for your growth.
Effective
Execution
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About Competencies

Knowledge, skills, attitudes, commitments and

What ? inclinations.

Characteristics that mark the differences

How ? associated with success.

Observable behavior associated with outstanding

Why ? performance levels.
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What is competency training?

It is performance

I
improvement by
identifying our
levels of
knowledge, skills
and attitudes.

M
It optimizes
management skills
and problem
solving.

P
It evaluates our
performance ability
in order to define
our own individual
development plans.

It promotes
successful career
paths. S
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Definition
Is the ability to influence, motivate and guide people,
fostering a climate of confidence, dynamism and
commitment.

Guiding effectively performance in accordance to plans,

objectives and organizational/environment/global
changes.

However there is more…

We should add to this statement:
WITH
Characteristics
Honesty

Authenticity Communication

Ability to
Intuition
Delegate

Creativity Confidence

Positive Attitude Commitment

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Understanding Leadership

Is it about Is it about
power? CT popularity? QC

Is it about
wisdom? ME
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Understanding Leadership

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ami3nF3N0T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxKJ4R99VCo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBgQ6h6Fys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fpK9591u6M
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Leadership Styles
Authoritarian Participative Delegative

Do “X” Do “X” or “Y” Which is best,

As you see fit “X” or “Y”?
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Authoritarian

Leaders Decision

• Leader controls all

decisions.
• No input from team.
• One-way
communication.
Authoritarian
Strengths
• Quick decision making.
• Clear team expectations.
• Identify problems early.
• Crisis management or
tight timelines.
Weaknesses
• If abused, leader seen as
“bully”, “uncaring” or
“tyrannical”.
• May stifle creativity or
innovation-team is leader-
dependent.
• Increased workload for the
leader.
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Participative

• Leader consults team

Team
Input
before decisions.
• Two-way
communication:
leader engages team.

Team
Action
Participative

Strengths Weaknesses

• Team cooperation and • Leader spends too much

motivation. time listening.
• Team feels engaged in • Long decision-making
process. cycle.
• Higher quality work. • “Griping Sessions”
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Delegative

Individual
l Decision In d
i dua i
iv ion De vidu
Ind ecis c is a l
ion
D

• Leader allows team

In d e ci s i
Dec idual

D
n

ivi on
isio

du
iv

to make own
al
I nd

decisions.
Individual

Individual
Decision

Decision

• Leader trusts that

team knows best.
Ind cision
al

D iv i d
In d
i du

e c i s u al
v
De

ion
i

D
n
io al In ecis
s di
c i u v i d i on
De ivid ua
d l
In Decision
Individual
Delegative

Strengths Weaknesses

• Team efficiently performs • Un-skilled teams = less

tasks. productive.
• Team feels trusted and • Out of sight, out of mind
respected. syndrome.
• Leader spends less time • Silos.
on decision.
Situational Leadership

Capable but
Enthusiastic Disillusioned Self Reliant
Cautious
Beginner Learner Achiever
Learner
Some Moderate High
Low Competence
Competence Competence Competence

High
Low Variable High
Commitment
Commitment Commitment Commitment

Directing Coaching Supporting Delegating

Authoritarian Participative Delegative

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Choosing The Right Leadership Style

Characteristics to Consider

Personal

Company Team
Leadership Assessment
Lessons Learned
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The Creative Path

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZp3SkO0gjQ
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Why The Creative Path?

• Everything a person
knows and can do in the
Expertise broad domain of their
work.

• The capacity to put

existing ideas together in
Thinking
Creativity Styles
new combinations when
approaching problems and
solutions.

• Determines what people

are willing to do and how
Motivation likely they are to
persevere through tough
problems or obstacles.

You
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Execution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPvGju7Of7w&index=2&list=RDyg1zYIjKENs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqShW7Yl908
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Defining Execution

The concern for reaching and/or surpassing the

challenges and expected results of the job, despite
the obstacles that might arise, acting quickly and
with a sense of urgency.

Completing the processes assigned with high

levels of quality and working passionately
towards the effective attainment of the goals and
objectives established by the organization
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Where Are We?
The Learning Ladder
Noel Burch 1970, Gordon Training International

Unconsciously
Competent
Consciously
The individual has had so much
Competent practice with a skill that it has

Consciously become "second nature" and can be

Unconsciously
Incompetent
The individual does not
understand or know how to do
something and does not
necessarily recognize the deficit.
performed easily
Incompetent The individual understands or
knows how to do something
Though the individual does not
understand or know how to do
something, he or she does recognize
the deficit, as well as the value of a
new skill in addressing the deficit
Lessons Learned
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Summing Up

Knowledge &
Experience

Competencies

Motivation

YOU
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Effective Leadership

People Development Core Business Leader

• Manage • Coach Staff. • Build Own Skills.

People. • Manage Change. • Be
• Seek feedback. • Values Training & Entrepreneurial
• Build Development. • Create Quality
relationships.
Environment.
• Support Staff.
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There Is One More Thing To Add

Intuition “the ability to

understand something
instinctively, without the need
for conscious reasoning.”

It is a keen and quick insight,

independent of any reasoning
process.
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Your Mission
Lessons Learned
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