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Leading From a Position of Limited Power

L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l l a b o r a t i o n. Leading From a Position of Limited Power. L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l l a b o r a t i o n. Pollyanna Pixton President, Evolutionary Systems Founding Partner, Accelinnova

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Leading From a Position of Limited Power

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  1. L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l l a b o r a t i o n Leading From a Position of Limited Power

  2. L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l l a b o r a t i o n Pollyanna Pixton President, Evolutionary SystemsFounding Partner, Accelinnova ppixton@accelinnova.comwww.accelinnova.com

  3. Overview • Why Lead Up • When To Lead Up • Doing the Research • Manage Your Risks • How to Lead Up • Working Together • Integrity

  4. Exercise Why Lead Up?

  5. Leading Up When To Lead Up

  6. When to Lead Up • Action from Manager • For Information to Succeed • Get Manager to Stand Back

  7. When to Lead Up What else?

  8. Leading Up Research

  9. Research Where Does Your Manager Focus?

  10. Research How Does Your Manager Define Success?

  11. Research What are your manager’s ‘hot buttons’

  12. Research Assess System: • Politics • Competition • Style Differences

  13. Research Where is your manager on this scale: Command and Collaborative Control How do you define Command and Control? Collaborative Leadership?

  14. Leading Up What are Your Risks

  15. Managing Risks Your Risk Assessment

  16. Managing Risks List Three Professional Options list3professional options

  17. What About You? • What is your personal mission and vision? • What are you passionate about? • What do you do best? • How do you define success? • What do you want to do differently? • What do you fear?

  18. Leading Up How To Lead Up

  19. How to Lead Up Your Are Not Going To Change Your Manger

  20. How To Lead Up Speak So You Can Be Heard

  21. How To Lead Up Focus on Business Value!

  22. How To Lead Up Practice a Forward Going Approach

  23. Appreciative Inquiry: Value What Is Envision What Can Be Discuss Next Steps Basic Assumption: An organization and the people know the possibility. “Fall Forward !” Problem Solving: Identify the Problem Analyze the Causes Plan the Actions Basic Assumption: An organization is a problem to be solved. Appreciative Inquiry

  24. Appreciative Inquiry Appreciative Orientation Problem-Solving Orientation CURRENT STATE FUTURE PAST DISCOVER & REALIZE POSSIBILITIES ANALYZE & FILL THE GAP QUESTIONS QUESTIONS What’s Wrong? What Happened? Who’s to Blame? How Do We Fix It? What’s Working? Where’s the Passion? What’s Possible? How Do We Achieve It?

  25. How To Lead Up Timing

  26. How To Lead Up Deliver Results As Committed And Often

  27. How To Lead Up Let It Be Their Idea

  28. How To Lead Up • Trust your Intuition: • Listen, remember and trust your first thoughts • Rely on your ‘gut’ reaction for warning signals • Listen openly for the secondary messages • Collect data: note when you first thoughts have been accurate

  29. How To Lead Up • Communicate, Often • Pass on results • Check in once per week, or daily • Find the best communication format

  30. How To Lead Up Bring solutions, not just problems

  31. How To Lead Up Find Common Ground

  32. How To Lead Up Working with Different Leadership Styles

  33. How To Lead Up Don’t take it personal. “I’ll get back to you on that.”

  34. How To Lead Up Your most useful ‘How To’ ?

  35. Integrity Summary • Assess the participants • Assess the options • List all possible outcomes • Assess the risks • Make a plan with best and worst case scenarios

  36. Leading Up Summary

  37. Leading Up Summary • Know when to lead up • Discover your leader’s style • Speak so your leaders can hear you • Hone your message, don’t just present problems, bring solutions • Manage your risk

  38. Leading Up Summary • Your next steps…

  39. Action Plan • What do you want to do? • How can you measure it? • By when? • How? • What obstacles might arrive? • Can you do anything to deter these obstacles?

  40. References Watch out for articles that are manipulative! That said, these look interesting:- seekingsuccess.com/articles/art147.php3- poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5495 Look for ‘managing your manager’ or ‘leading up’

  41. Contact Pollyanna Pixton: • www.accelinnova.com • www.evolutionarysystems.net • www.collaborativeleadership.com • 801 . 209 . 0195 • p2@ppixton.com

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