Overview
Leaders often see themselves as value creators – bringing value that wouldn’t exist without them. While that value can occur, all too often a leader’s daily activities do the opposite: value destruction. Learn how to spot these behaviors, and practice the small, daily disciplines to get back on track and restore value.
Abstract
Leaders are responsible for overseeing work: the conversion of energy into value. Unfortunately, all too often this energy is lost along the way, in six key areas.
- Exhaustion: when team members can’t bring enough energy to the table because they’re burnt out, ill, or just plain tired.
- Exclusion: when team members are spending their energy wondering how they’re next going to made to feel unwelcome, or internally raging about the last time.
- Demotivation: When team members don’t feel any passion for doing the work asked of them.
- Inability: When team members’ skills don’t line up with the work they’re doing.
- Ineffectiveness: When the work a team does fails to launch or effect change.
- Misalignment: When teams work at cross-purposes, negating each others’ value contribution.
Leaders can practice skills in six core disciplines to negate these value destroyers.
- Wellness: ensuring that when team members are working, they’re at their best.
- Inclusion: making sure every team member feels valued.
- Inspiration: ensuring team members are aligned with the work.
- Development: growing team members skills so that they are more effective at value creation.
- Planning: protecting energy from wasted efforts.
- Alignment: coordinating the team’s value creation with the broader organization’s to maximize value.
This talk uses actual skills from 1% Leadership so that the audience can easily use the book as a reference as they strengthen their leadership practice.
Key Takeaways: Leaders need to practice skills at Wellness, Inclusion, Inspiration, Development, Planning, and Alignment; and these skills apply at all levels: individuals, teams, and organizations.
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