Presentation for Carson Valley Leadership Program, April 21, 2015

1. Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.
www.bretlsimmons.com
Carson Valley Leadership Program
April 21, 2015
Embracing and
Leading Change

2. www.bretlsimmons.com
http://www.slideshare.net/BretLSimmons
simmonsb@unr.edu

3. What do you want
to learn today?

4. Leadership

5. The Process of Leadership
Assume responsibility for the choice
to engage with others and use your
influence to pursue substantive
changes that advance a shared
purpose

6. The Process of Leadership
Assume responsibility for the choice
to engage with others and use your
influence to pursue substantive
changes that advance a shared
purpose
What is the hardest choice you have to
make when you participate in this
process?

7. Change

9. For anything to change, someone has to
start acting differently. Can you get
people to start behaving differently? (p.4)

10. Change Metaphor

11. Rider - Rational
– Deliberates,
analyzes, looks into
the future
– Provides planning
and direction
Elephant – Emotional
– Feels pain and
pleasure
– Provides the energy

12. Direct the Rider
Follow the bright spots:
Investigate and clone the successes

13. Destination
postcards:
Shows the Rider
where you are
headed and the
Elephant why the
journey is
worthwhile
Change is easier
when you know where
you are going and why
it is worth it

14. Script the critical moves
Be specific about the behavior you want to change

15. Direct the Rider
• What looks like resistance is
often a lack of clarity
• Clarity dissolves resistance

16. Motivate the Elephant
Find the feeling
Motivation comes from
confidence. The
Elephant has to believe
that it’s capable of
conquering the change

17. Shrink the change:
Break down the change until
it no longer spooks the
Elephant
Sense of progress is critical

18. Make change a matter of identity, not consequences
Who am I? What kind of situation is this? What
would someone like me do in this situation?

19. Grow your people
Encourage a growth
mindset by praising
effort rather than skill

20. Growth Mindset
• Talent is NOT fixed unless you
believe that it is. Treat talent as
something almost everyone
can earn, not that just a few
people own.
• Everyone can learn to work
smarter
20

21. Motivate the
Elephant
Change is hard because people
wear themselves out. What looks
like laziness is often exhaustion

22. Shape the Path
Tweak the environment. When the situation
changes, behavior changes

23. Build Habits
Supportive habits that are easy to embrace
and advance the new behavior

24. Action Triggers: Decisions you make to
execute a certain action when you encounter
a certain situation

25. Checklists help educate
people about what is best
by showing then the right
way to do something

26. Rally the Herd
Behavior is contagious; help it
spread

27. Shape the path
What looks like a people problem is
often a situation problem. When
you shape the path, you make the
change more likely, no matter
what’s happening with the Rider
and the Elephant

28. The law of
crappy systems
trumps the law
of crappy
people
28

29. Application
Identify a change that is happening
right now at in your community or at
work. Discuss ways that you can
direct the Rider, motivate the
Elephant, and shape the Path to
help improve the success of this
change

31. Reciprocity Style
Taker, Matcher, or Giver

32. Takers view success as attaining
results that are superior to others

33. Matchers see success in terms of balancing
individual accomplishments with fairness to
others

34. Givers characterize success as
individual achievements that have a
positive impact on others

35. How you give determines if
you will achieve long term
success or languish at the
bottom

36. Concern for Other’s
Interests
LOW HIGH
Concern
for
Self-
Interest
LOW Apathetic Selfless:
Self-
sacrificing
givers
HIGH Selfish:
Takers
Otherish:
Successful
Givers

37. Application
How can you improve the citizenship
behavior in your community or
organization?
Discuss ways you can direct the Rider,
motivate the Elephant, and shape the
Path to create more otherish givers in
your organization.

38. Questions?