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Crafting Your Personal Leadership Blueprint

Learn to develop a personal leadership plan to translate vision into reality, overcome challenges, and enhance executive effectiveness. Understand the importance through assessment tools and resources as you define goals, identify strengths and weaknesses, and create strategies for success. Discover leadership practices and plan for future growth with a clear vision, reflection, and goal alignment for organizational success.

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Crafting Your Personal Leadership Blueprint

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  1. Creating Your personal leadership Plan Donna Grande, Products and Services Vice President ANA

  2. Objectives • Understand importance of developing a leadership plan • Differentiate an organizational plan from a personal leadership plan • Review the Leadership Assessment • Initiate your own personal leadership plan

  3. Why develop a Leadership Plan? “ Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality through planning.” --Warren Bennis American scholar and pioneer in leadership studies

  4. Ask yourself… • How do you want to be remembered? • What legacy do you want to leave? • Is there a unique role or gap you can fill at this time and in this place? • What is your calling….your vision? • What impact do you want to have on your place of employment or your state nurses association?

  5. Challenges • 50-65% of newly appointed executives fail within the first 18 months of their assignments • Not an inevitability • Requires intentionality • Preparation and commitment

  6. Exceptional Executive’s Power Source • 10-year study of executive performance • Demonstrate the choice, breadth, context, connections • Decades of Leadership effectiveness studies • Learning—skills/ability to adapt to new circumstances • Posture of curiosity and suspended disbelief • Understand business systems • Emotional and social intelligence • Character • Clarity of aspiration

  7. How many of you have taken a 360-assessment or participated in a personal feedback process?

  8. Assessment Tools • Leadership Practices Inventory • Myers Briggs • Gallup’s Strengths Finder • Life Balance Wheel • DiSC Assessments • Center for Creative Leadership and the customized 360-assessment instrument • Others

  9. Leadership Practices Inventory Five Leadership Practices—(Kouzes, Posner) • Model the Way—find your voice and model the way • Inspire a Shared Vision—envision the future and enlist others in your vision • Challenge the Process—search for opportunities, experiment and take risks • Enable Others to Act—foster collaboration and strengthen others • Encourage the Heart—recognize contributions and celebrate values and victories

  10. Resources for Planning These tools will help you: • Define your Development Goals • Assess mid-range capability and make it stronger • Identify a weakness and transform it into a mid-range strength • Compensate for a weakness by creating strategies to work around it

  11. What do Leaders Need? • Leaders need feedback—it increases self-awareness which helps us respond to a variety of situations • Leaders need variety in leadership—a variety of challenges, increases awareness of development gaps—each time gaps are closed, skills are acquired. • Leaders need the ability to learn from experience—a variety of experiences provides an opportunity to learn new skills rather than simply repeating past habits

  12. Differences • Organizational Strategic Plan—mission, vision, goals, objectives, strategies and tactics • Personal Leadership Plan—a tool to inspire those around you—to chart your course for the next three years

  13. What Constitutes a Leadership Plan? • Leadership vision • Blind Spots • Learning agenda/opportunities • Personal mission statement • Early wins • Strategic alignments • Celebrations

  14. Individual Planning Next 5-10 minutes to work on your plans

  15. Vision • What do you want to create for yourself and those around you? • Create a vision that can be understood by the entire organization • Remember to be inspirational

  16. Reflection and Application • Recall exemplary leadership practices • Identify blind spots • How will you manage your blind spots • What will you need to move your vision forward?

  17. Opportunities • List three tough decisions • What would you do differently next time to achieve early wins?

  18. Align your Goals • Identify three activities to advance your goals and those of your organization. • How will you accomplish these? • Who will help you? • Identify supporters • Plan your victory party

  19. Conclusion • Effective leaders create a climate where people can turn challenges into success. • In today’s climate of change, leaders must be prepared. They need to take the time for self-reflection, develop a personal leadership plan, and be prepared to lead their organization to success.

  20. Thank you….and, may your journey be full of fun adventures!

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