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It’s Not Just For Executives Anymore: Leadership At Every Stage Of Your Career

Discover the non-negotiable behaviors and characteristics that define strong leaders, and learn how to lead with authenticity, simplicity, consistency, competence, generosity, passion, humility, and a strong ability to hire well. This book will help you develop and strengthen your leadership skills at any stage of your career.

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It’s Not Just For Executives Anymore: Leadership At Every Stage Of Your Career

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  1. It’s Not Just For Executives Anymore: Leadership At Every Stage Of Your Career

  2. Agenda • My Background • Leadership…your definition & mine • The seven non negotiables & the one level five distinguisher • Q&A

  3. Everyone is a Leader… • The behaviors & characteristics that define the strongest leaders of teams & organizations are just as important to success to those individuals that currently do not directly lead people

  4. #1 People leave their job is…

  5. Leadership - IMO • The quality to inspire someone to willingly follow when they have the freedom and the choice not to follow • Leaders by demonstrating certain behaviors & characteristics build TRUST throughout the organization • What are those behaviors that I label “Leadership Non Negotiables”…

  6. The Leadership Non Negotiables • Be Authentic & Flawed • Character Matters • Flawed is the New Perfect • Self awareness • Self deprecating sense of humor • Selfless not selfish • Personal Agendas • May lead to short term gains but eventually are exposed • You will not willingly be followed…you lead by title only • If you care more about yourself…don’t pursue a leadership position It has been my experience that folks who have no vices…have very few virtues.” -Abraham Lincoln “Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is who you truly are, while your reputation is merely who other people think you are.” -John Wooden

  7. The Leadership Non Negotiables • Be Simple & Concise • If you have too many priorities…you will be disappointed in the results • “Hedgehog” principle “Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.” -Richard Branson

  8. The Leadership Non Negotiables • Be Consistent & Positive • Don’t leave people wondering if its going to be a good or bad day • Confront the facts consistently • Treat people like your own bank account…ensure you have made enough deposits before making a withdrawal • The only controllable is your attitude “Kids go get your mother…she will never see a fire like this one -Thomas Edison 1914

  9. The Leadership Non Negotiables • Be Competent & Curious • The 4 Levels of Learning • Ask & Listen with Genuine Curiosity…and you will build trust • Great Leaders listen to what they need to hear…not what they want to hear • The Person who knows how will always have a job, the person who knows “why” will always be the boss • “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts” -John Wooden • “It’s hard to lead the cavalry, when you think you look funny sitting on the horse.” • -Hal McRae

  10. The Leadership Non Negotiables • Be Generous & Giving • Giving is the highest level of living • Every day try and do something to brighten someone’s day. “People will forget what you did and said…but they will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -Calvin Coolidge

  11. Giving…

  12. The Leadership Non Negotiables • Be Passionate & Committed • The “Flywheel” • Have you been moved to tears? • How will you change the lives of others? • If your not leading people…same relevance • “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” • -Thomas Edison

  13. The Leadership Non Negotiables • Hire Well • Single most effective leadership skill • Look for the “unteachables” • Drive • Sense of Urgency • Passion • Overcoming Obstacles • Coachability • Do we have the right people on the bus? • Greatest compliment…someday you work for someone you hired

  14. The Leadership Non Negotiables • And the most important of them all…. • Be Humble • Successful people are proud and have an ego • Level 5 Leadership…The X factor • When people discover something you accomplished on their own or through others…without you telling them…they will follow you anywhere • Use “We” instead of “I” as much as you can “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” -Andrew Carnegie The secret to my success is whomever I was talking too, I always imagined they had a sign around their neck that read “Make me feel important” -Mary Kay Ash

  15. The “Trust Builders” • Summary • Be Authentic & Flawed • Be Simple & Concise • Be Consistent & Positive • Be Competent & Curious • Be Generous & Giving • Be Passionate & Committed • Hire Well • Be Humble

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