CCSD 553: Book Review

1. CCSD 553: Book Review Presented by: Heather Codding & Sascha Larrabee

2. Women Leaders • Forbes 500 List • 4% Record: Now 20 Women are CEO's • 23% of college presidents are women • Nearly twice as many men as women have tenue (AAUW) • Half of Ivy League Universities have women presidents

3. Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston Conference Speakers Conference Speakers

4. Five Dimensions of Leadership

5. Part One: Meaning “Meaning is a defining trait among successful leaders” • Happiness • Strengths • Purpose • Dreaming

6. Part One: Meaning Happiness • Happiness is motivating • Happier teams are more creative • Leaders who exude happiness are more effective • Happiness improves physical health, as well as stamina and resilience. Happiness Equation H=S+C+V • S: Set Point (the disposition you are born with) • C: Conditions of your life (age, gender, where you live) • V: Voluntary activities you choose to engage in (that build on your own strength and give you satisfaction)

7. Activity: Your Turn • What do you really do well? • What kind of work comes easily to you? • In what work situations did time seem to fly by and when did it drag? • What strengths set you apart from others? • Do others see these capabilities as part of what makes you you? • Are you excited and energized when you use them?

8. Part One: Meaning Purpose • Important to have a sense of purpose • Goal Setting can be easier • You have the courage to face new challenges Dreaming and Doing • It's okay to dream • big

9. Part Two: Framing • Positive Framing • Seeing facts without distortion • Don't let negative feelings distort their view of reality- i.e. exaggerating dangers • Allow you to confront reality in constructive way • Provides you clarity and energy to face problems and find solutions • The strength to move on when you've done all you can

10. Activity: Scenario What is your immediate gut reaction? “Your boss calls you in for an unexpected meeting. When you enter the room, you observe two other executives with her. They immediately stop talking and hastily put away their papers. They avoid looking at you as they leave. Your boss looks down at some papers and then back up at you. She doesn't ask you to sit.”

11. Part Two: Framing “I am an optimist. It does not seem to much use being anything else.” -Winston Churchill Optimists- don't let setback spill into the rest of their lives, they recover quickly from unavoidable setbacks Pessimists- believe they can not improve the outcome Mind-sets • Flexible- mind-sets continue to learn new skills • Fixed- mind-sets tend to see their own talents and abilities as limited and are often threatened by fresh thinking that challenges their beliefs

12. Part Two: Framing Reframing a Conscious Act • Disputation- requires re-examination of the situation spartating how you experienced the incident emotionally from what actually happened. • Avoid rumination- it’s dangerous • Rumination is an inner voice that plays a tape on an endless loop, each time replays its intensifies and you keep wishing for a different ending

13. Part Three: Connecting I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. -Isabel Allende I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. -Isabelle Allende

14. Part Three: Connecting Mentors and Sponsors Mentors use their experience and their wisdom to guide but sponsors get involved and make things happen Mentors use their experience and their wisdom to guide, sponsors get involved and help you make things happen. You need both!

15. Activity: Mentoring Networking: oh why, oh why?

16. Part Four: Engaging Find your Voice!

17. Part Four: Engaging Be bloody, bold and resolute People write off people who don't speak

18. Activity: Have you ever said... • -I don't have anything to say • -Its all been said before • -Other people enjoy talking, so let them • -I’m here to listen • -I’m new here • -I get things done outside of meetings • -Actions speak louder than words d

19. Part Five: Energizing • 26% of women feel that they need to be available 24/7 to respond to job related issues • 14% work with or manage people in different time zones • 20% feel pressure to stay extra hours in the office Assumptions • Women tend to assume that being out of balance is the cause of energy issues • Other women have somehow found work-life balance- you just haven't cracked the code Its a myth- no one is in balance- it’s about coming more into balance when you are way off

20. Part Five: Energizing Manage your actual energy flow • Replacing an insoluble problem (obtaining work-life equilibrium state) with Managing your Energy Reserves • Never run on empty • Redesign your job to maximize your energy • Fill up on Energizers • Minimize the drains

21. Activity: Energizing Do you have a Pavlovian reaction to your cell phone or electronic device?

22. Centered Leadership Survey It is the combination of the five dimensions of centered leadership that really affect change. • Centered leadership appears to have validity across the sample • Correlation to performance and satisfaction • Centered leadership builds on women's strengths

23. Our Critique • Likes • Example of women leaders • Practical application and practice to any profession • Linked to statistical data • Dislikes • Does not account for unearned socio-economic status of populations

24. Final Thoughts

25. Reference Barsh, J., Cranston, S., & Lewis, G. (2011). How remarkable women lead: The breakthrough model for work and life. New York: Crown Books. Questions?