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December 11, 2008

Developing Women as Corporate Leaders. December 11, 2008. Purpose & Outcomes. Purpose: To support women in achieving their goals as corporate leaders Outcomes: Understand the power of full engagement Develop practices that support leadership Understand your source of influence.

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December 11, 2008

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  1. Developing Women as Corporate Leaders December 11, 2008

  2. Purpose & Outcomes Purpose: • To support women in achieving their goals as corporate leaders Outcomes: • Understand the power of full engagement • Develop practices that support leadership • Understand your source of influence

  3. Creating value as a learning community • Participate fully • Take what you hear and wonder - what else? • Listen to learn • Generate a lively discussion

  4. Our Current Circumstances • Constant pressure for results • Immense challenges • Unstable world • Industry changes • Complex org structures • Increased pressure from multiple stakeholders

  5. Sometimes life feel like this…. Judie Bomberger

  6. SO…….. • What does this have to do with Leadership? • What is leadership? • What does is it mean to be a leader?

  7. Leadership A leader is anyone who takes a step, makes a move to alter or change the environment they are in. Leading is a choice. It is taking the first step. This sounds so easy. Why don’t we? Why don’t we make this choice? What is stopping us?

  8. Leadership is … …….a conscious process. • Begins with insight about oneself; • follows with clear choices about how one lives one’s life; • Gives us the capability to step out and have influence in those areas of our lives that we care about.

  9. Strategies to succeed We need to cultivate habits of mind and behavior to thrive in an uncertain world, uncertain environments. What are they?

  10. Strategies to succeed • Engage • Manage your energy • Step up!

  11. Engage • Manage moods & emotions – Emotional agility • Cultivate courage • Choose your perception

  12. Engage – Emotional agility Dispositions – your body Stable Open Closed YOU Flexible

  13. Engage - Courage Role Core Self Awareness Blind Crisis Personal Accountability From Cindy Solomon

  14. Engage – Choose your perception Defend: protect your view or position VS. Open: let go of fears & preconceptions & engage from a fresh perspective

  15. Manage your Energy • The body • physical energy • The emotions • quality of energy • The mind • focus of the energy • The human spirit • energy of meaning and purpose T. Schwartz

  16. Manage your energy - Values We live our values. We aspire to our ideals. What do you value?

  17. On Life… "When shall we live if not now?" “He who is everywhere, is nowhere." "That part of life that we really live is short." “As a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.“ Seneca (Roman philosopher and dramatist) 5 B.C. to 65 A.D.

  18. An Integrated Life Social &Play Spirituality & Meaning Work & Achieving Health & Fitness Intellectual & Learning Creativity & Exploration Community & Giving Love & Family

  19. Life Integration - Example

  20. Step up! • Clear purpose • Take responsibility • Be accurate

  21. Step Up! – Purpose & Responsibility What do I want to influence? What do I value about this? What am I willing to risk? Who is involved? What is important to them about this? What are the circumstances?

  22. Step Up! - Accuracy Explanations Facts

  23. Step Up! • Key to Influence • Appreciating the facts and circumstances of life before seeking to make the world a better place

  24. Our Work Integration (Managing our energy) Intention (Engage) Influence (Step Up!)

  25. Feminine & Masculine A continuum Feminine Masculine

  26. Women’s Ways of Leading • Contextual View • Power from Connection • Long term view • Tolerate ambiguity • Transformational • Transparency

  27. Your Leadership What aspects of who YOU are do you most want to manifest in your leadership role?

  28. For reflection… • If I was to be fearless with my leadership….. (finish this sentence) • What do I need to walk out of? (from a conversation with Margaret Wheatley. Fearlessness is not being afraid of who you are) • What do I want to engage in?

  29. Thank you Please contact us at: www.syncresse.com catherine@syncresse.com susan@syncresse.com

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