LEADERSHIP

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LEADERSHIP

• Al Condeluci, PhD.
• UCP/CLASS of Pittsburgh

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• Leadership is the ability to step outside the
  culture that created the leader and start
  evolutionary change processes that are more
  adaptive
• E. Schein

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Good Leaders

• Give Permission
• Provide Protection
• Promote a Process

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• There are two ways of spreading light to be
  the candle, or the mirror that reflects it
• Edith Wharton

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Leader Ingredients

• Vision
• Passion
• Integrity
• Trust
• Curiosity/Daring

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• Never confuse movement with action
• Ernest Hemmingway

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Leader Ability

• To articulate a vision
• To embrace error
• To encourage reflective back talk

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Leader Traits

• Self-knowledge
• Open to feedback
• Eager to learn
• Curious, takes risks
• Concentrate
• Learn from error
• Balance
• Open style
• Work systems
• Model and Mentor

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Leaders in Organizations

• Telling
• Selling
• Testing
• Consulting
• Co-creating

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Leadership Frameworks

• Problem Orientation
• Solution Orientation

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Problem Orientation

• Puts spotlight on what is not working what is
  wrong
• Looks for someone to blame
• Causes defensiveness
• Causes more problems as attention to the problems
  that already exist
• Drains off valuable energy
• Keeps us stuck in boxes

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Solution Orientation

• Puts the spotlight on strengthening what is
  already working
• Develops openness and involvement
• Naturally moves us toward the goal it is focused
  upon
• Creates energy and enthusiasm
• Creates open communications and continuous
  renewal
• Develops a creative atmosphere for solution

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• The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers,
  but it takes a creative mind to spot the wrong
  questions
• Anthony Jay

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Effective Questions Ask

• What is already working?
• What makes it work?
• What is the objective?
• What are the benefits?
• How to move it?

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Effective Questions

• Gets people to think
• Empowers people
• Creative ownership
• Develops people
• Builds positive attitudes

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Effective Questions are

• Open ended
• Focus on the forward side
• Asks what or how rather than why
• Helps learning
• Are you focus

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• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision
  to reality
• Warren Bennis

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Leadership Variable Ratings

• Integrity 15,000
• Communication 8,500
• People Focused 7,000
• Visionary 6,100
• Decision Maker 4,500
• Dedicated 3,500
• Model 3,200
• Motivator 3,000

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Social Capital-relationships in workplace

• Builds tolerance
• Enhances problem-solving
• Promotes honesty
• Builds loyalty
• Enhances healthfulness
• Builds morale
• Diminishes turnover

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Social Capital in the Workplace

• Promote finding employee similarities
• Provide opportunities for engagement
• Make sure employees know what is expected
  (rituals-patterns-jargon)
• Enlist gatekeepers to link new employees

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Principle-Centered Leaders

• Continuous Learners
• Service Oriented
• Radiate Positive Energy
• They Believe in Others
• They Lead Balanced Lives
• They See Live as an Adventure
• They are Synergistic
• They Exercise Self-Renewal

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• Leadership is communicating to people their
  worth and potential so clearly that they come to
  see it in themselves

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On Self Knowledge - Gibran

• And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge.
  And he answered saying Your hearts know in
  silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
  But your ears thirst for the sound of your
  hearts knowledge. You would know in words that
  which you have always known in thought. You
  would touch with your fingers the naked body of
  your dreams.

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• And it is well you should. The hidden
  well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run
  murmuring to the sea and the treasure of your
  infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.
  But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown
  treasure and seek not the depths of your
  knowledge with staff or sounding lines. For self
  is a sea boundless, measureless.

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• Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I
  have found a truth. Say not, I have found the
  path of the soul. Say rather, I have met the
  soul walking upon my path. For the soul walks
  upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line,
  neither does it grow like a reed. The soul
  unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

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Al Condeluci

• 4638 Centre Ave
• Pittsburgh, PA 15213
• 412-683-7100 x 2122
• 412-683-4160 fax
• acondeluci_at_ucpclass.org
• www.ucpclass.org