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Influencing Change

Influencing Change. CAAWS Women and Leadership Program. Today ’ s Agenda. Habits that Limit Your Influence Tips on Being Heard 8-Step Change Model Different “ Change Styles ” Your Change Commitment. Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity

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Influencing Change

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  1. Influencing Change CAAWS Women and Leadership Program

  2. Today’s Agenda • Habits that Limit Your Influence • Tips on Being Heard • 8-Step Change Model • Different “Change Styles” • Your Change Commitment

  3. Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity Encouraging girls and women to get off the bleachers, and onto the fields and playing courts, into the pools, the locker rooms and boardrooms of Canada

  4. CAAWS at a Glance LEADERSHIP  PARTICIPATION  EDUCATION  COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT • Women and Leadership • Professional Development • Women on Boards • Women & Leadership Network • Lunch & Learns • On the Move • Aboriginal, Newcomer & Racialized girls & young women • Quality After School Programs • Mothers in Motion • Physical Activity for Women 55-70+ • Addressing Homophobia in Sport • Active & Free: Young Women and Tobacco • CS4L Supplement • Psycho-Social Factors • Ontario Project • Awards & Scholarships • Most Influential Women in Sport and Physical Activity • WISE Fund • Website & eNewsletter • Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn • Photo DVD

  5. Leaders Talk • Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO What Would You Do if You Weren't Afraid? http://leanin.org/discussions/sheryl-sandberg-to-graduates-you-are-the-hope-for-a-more-equal-future/

  6. Being Heard • Benefits of Speaking Up • Tips when Speaking Up • Tips for Good Listening • Personal Reflection

  7. Benefits of Speaking Up • Improves Organizational Performance • Commands Respect • Strengthens your Influence • Leads to Unexpected Opportunities • Accelerates your Career

  8. Tips When Speaking Up • Be prepared and informed • Ask questions and listen to responses • Indicate the benefits of the idea • Create and maintain rapport

  9. Tips for Good Listening • Listen to Understand • Remove Distractions • Be Silent • Use Body Language • Empathetic Sounding Back • Ask Questions

  10. Kotter’s Change ModelWorksheet #4

  11. Preparing to Change

  12. Implementing the Change

  13. Managing the Change

  14. Change Styles • Change Style Indicator – measures your preferred style in dealing with change • 3 styles on a continuum

  15. Conservers • Accept structure • Prefer retaining existing systems and paradigms • Prefer gradual change • May appear cautious and inflexible • Ask the hard, detailed questions

  16. Pragmatists • May adapt/evolve the structure • Operate as mediators and catalysts • Are results focused • May appear reasonable, practical and flexible but also noncommittal

  17. Originators • Challenge the structure • Enjoy risk and uncertainty • Prefer quicker, expansive & radical change • May appear disorganized & undisciplined • Original thinkers

  18. Parting Thoughts… “Don’t think that a small group of committed individuals can not change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead “The shift to a more equal world will happen person by person. We move closer to the larger goal of true equality with each woman who leans in.” Sheryl Sandberg

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