Developing Your Leadership Competencies

1. Developing Your Leadership Competencies Roy Romero, CPA Inside Results Stan Payton SPACS.com

2. I Am Who I Am • Why am I here? • What do I expect to learn? • If I rate this seminar from 1-10 (ten being the highest possible rating), what rating do I expect to give?

3. OBJECTIVES • Understand Leadership Competencies • Understand how competencies can be used to improve Leadership abilities. • How Affirmations create new leadership behaviors • Tools that help your determine your leadership roadmap. • Begin your path towards leadership development

4. Leadership Autograph Seeker Bingo • Obtain signature from fellow participants in boxes that identify with their experiences. • First person to black out card call out “BINGO” • Prize for the winner.

5. Traits and Components Commonly Found in Leadership Competency Models • Values • Cognitive Skills • Interpersonal Skills • Diversity Components • Change Orientation A competency model is a roadmap to individual and group leadership success.

6. Components of Competency Frameworks • Competencies are labels that describe how they relate to leadership and behavior • Competencies are often written as definitions that describe observable behaviors • Various types of frameworks used, many similarities, many differences • Army – Field Manual 22-100 • ECQ’s – 5 Areas, 27 competencies • Marines -11 Principles, 14 Traits • IRS - 5 Core Responsibilities, 21 competencies • Others?

7. Values Values are our core beliefs that we feel most passionate about. There are individual, family, community, cultural and work values. For example: • Family • Spiritual • Learning • Integrity • Honesty • Self Awareness

8. Cognitive Skills • Decisiveness • Problem Solving • Political Savvy • Strategic Thinking • Entrepreneurship • Analytical Thinking • Technical Knowledge Cognitive skills represents knowledge acquired through perception, reasoning, and intuition. (i.e. analytical skills, learned processes like problem solving, planning and monitoring)

9. Interpersonal Skills • Oral Communication • Written Communication • Influencing & Negotiating • Developing Others • Coaching • Mentoring • Partnering Interpersonal skills pertain to interactions between individuals.

10. Diversity Components • Cultural Awareness • Diversity Awareness • Teamwork • Customer Focus Diversity encompasses the understanding, respect and acceptance of the various differences and uniqueness of individuals.

11. Change Orientation Change orientation is a systematic approach to achieving change at individual and organizational levels. • Leading Transformation • Risk taking • Achievement Orientation • Change Management • Creativity • Innovation • Adaptability • Flexibility • Resilience

12. Exercise • Break into groups of four • Discuss various types of models from your respective organizations • What categories are emphasized most? • Values • Cognitive • Interpersonal • Diversity • Change

13. What is Leadership? • Influencing, motivating and inspiring others through direct or indirect means to accomplish organizational goals. • John Maxwell: Influence, nothing more and nothing less. • What aspects come to your mind when you think about leadership?

14. Interesting Facts About Leaders and Leadership Development • Leadership skills are developed • Leaders are viewed through their strengths • As you develop your strengths, perceptions of your other skills improves (halo effect) • Don’t concentrate on weaknesses unless they are profound

15. What are Leadership Characteristics? • Flipchart

16. Developmental Process Projected Goal Self-Image Comfort Zone

17. What is Your Self-Image About Your Personal Leadership Capabilities? • I am a great leader. • I have many leadership skills. • I have leadership gaps. • I am not a leader. • I don’t know how leadership skills impact me. • I don’t really understand leadership. • I prefer to follow than to lead

18. Your Current Reality about Leadership is Your Comfort Zone • Your current reality is “your truth” and is the area in which you are comfortable. • To develop your leadership skills you must be willing to move out of your comfort zone.

19. Developing Your Leadership Capabilities Projected Goal ____ “Creates Tension” Self-Image Comfort Zone

20. Leadership Picture Summary • Current reality (Where you are now) • Your comfort zone (Where you feel comfortable now) • Affirmation creates picture of projected reality • Repeated affirmations make picture clearer • Creates tension (creative tension) • You begin moving towards the projected reality • Learning opportunities take place • Resources become available • Your projected reality becomes your new current reality

21. Affirmations • We make them all of the time. • They can be positive or negative. • When an affirmation takes us out of our current reality (and comfort zone), we have a natural tendency to move back within our comfort zone. • Repeating Affirmations helps us to see a new reality with more clarity and helps us to create a new “comfort zone” • It is through this learning process that we can begin to extend and develop our leadership skills

22. Affirmations Influence Leadership Development • What is an affirmation? • Self Talk • Talk to others

23. Guidelines for Writing Affirmations • Personal • Positive • Present tense • Indicate achievement • No comparison • Action words • Emotion words • Accuracy • Balance • Realistic • Confidential

24. Affirmation Statements • I easily earn respect with my team by sharing power and control. • I eagerly invest in and develop my team members, readying them for full empowerment. • I easily collaborate with my team, sharing authority, control, responsibility and rewards. • I am easily trusting of others when we meet. • I value ideas and input others have to offer. • I respect and value others opinions even when I don’t agree. • It is just like me to consistently show respect for all employees and help them transfer that respect to our customers. • My actions reveal high self-confidence in what I do and how I do it – and I take actions that instills self-confidence in others. • I am fully aware of attitudes and behaviors that reveal my “best self” day in and day out.

25. Leadership Development Cycle • Assessment and Alignment • Individual Learning • Social Application • Sustain and Reinforce • Measure and repeat process

26. Profound Leadership Assessment Tool Stan Payton Computer Guru

27. Path to Leadership Development • Affirmations • Assessment tools • Action Plan • Reading • Observing behavior • Formal program • Community leadership activities • Other

28. Exercise • Write three affirmation statements that improve your leadership capabilities • Write three affirmation statements pertaining to your personal development • Begin to explore the paths that will make your affirmations Your Reality

29. Conclusion • Why was I here? • What did I learn? • I rate this seminar from 1-10 (ten being the highest possible rating)