Leadership workshop presentation tera allas january 2014
1. Leading with purpose
January 2014
Reflections on leadership:
performing at our best
Tera Allas
@TeraPauliina
Director General, Strategic Advice, BIS
2. 2
Today’s discussion
• What is “leadership” and why is it important?
• What type of leaders perform the best?
• What skills do leaders need?
-
Prioritisation
Influencing
Self-awareness
Resilience
• What are the challenges and what to do
about it?
3. 3
By definition, real leaders have followers
Which model
do you think
will have more
followers?
rt
What do you
think is the
dominant
emotion in
each?
Leader as
“servant”
S
up p
o
Leader
as
“tyrant”
Enabling leadership:
“What can I do for you?”
i on
rect
Di
trol
Con
Com
man
d
Coercive leadership:
“What can you do for me?”
4. 4
Good leadership makes a huge difference
Level of challenge
Employees’ mental state as a function of capabilities and challenges
Anxiety and
burn-out
Apathy
al l
m (“f
i
pt ce
O an
rm
fo
r
pe
)
w”
o
Boredom and
disengagement
Level of capability
* http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2054066
Source: Novak & Hoffman 1997, “Measuring the flow experience among web users”
Companies in the top 100
“great places to work”
outperformed the stock
market by 2.3-3.8% p.a.
The leader’s role is to help
teams perform “optimally” in
the current moment and to
build capability for the future
5. 5
Today’s discussion
• What is “leadership” and why is it important?
• What type of leaders perform the best?
• What skills do leaders need?
-
Prioritisation
Influencing
Self-awareness
Resilience
• What are the challenges and what to do
about it?
6. 6
One check list summarises the 7 “C”s
Characteristics of effective leaders: one check-list
The 7 “C”s
•Clarity
•Commitment
•Courage
•Confidence
•Competence
•Compassion
•Curiosity
7. 7
Effective leaders make long-term choices
Source: McKinsey research in association with Professor Robert Kaplan,
2012: “How senior executives can user their time more effectively”
Average % of executive time spent on different activities
Setting direction and strategy
16
9
19
20
Making operational decisions
Reviewing organisation's
performance
Managing stakeholders
Managing and motivating
people
Managing short-term issues
12
12
13
16
14
13
Effective time
optimisers
Ineffective time
optimisers
17
30
8. 8
Today’s discussion
• What is “leadership” and why is it important?
• What type of leaders perform the best?
• What skills do leaders need?
-
Prioritisation
Influencing
Self-awareness
Resilience
• What are the challenges and what to do
about it?
9. 9
BIS staff are telling us they need better
prioritisation support from their leaders
Quotes and input from staff on prioritisation
“Prioritisation is hard but
that’s not an excuse to
dodge it”; “We need to be
honest about constraints”
“Could management
please decide the priorities
and stick to them for more
than a day?!?!”
ESBR Pulse Survey
SCS Awayday
51% of BIS (vs. 65% for
High Perf. CS orgs)
agreed* with: “I have an
acceptable workload”
People Survey 2011
* Sum of “Agree” and “Strongly agree” responses
“We need to match
resources with demand”;
“Prioritisation should be
led from the top”
Conversations
“To prioritise, we need
permission for risk taking
and saying ‘no’ without
negative consequences”
G6/G7 events
11. 11
Rational argument is one way to influence
List of different influencing tactics
• Appealing to friendship (asking for help)
• Socialising
• Consulting
• Appealing to values
• Modelling
• Alliance building
• Exchanging (trading/negotiating)
• Legitimizing (using authority)
• Stating (making a direct request)
• Logical persuading
ource: Interpersonal and Interactive Skills, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Are we over-reliant
on the intellectual
influencing tactics?
11
12. 12
Self-awareness helps hone your impact
Itention – Action – Impact: self-observation over time helps get this right
Intention
Example 1
Example 2
Help team member
improve his/her
presentation skills
Action
Impact
Provide detailed
unsolicited feedback
on how he/she could
have done better
Team member
loses confidence
and motivation to
improve
Ask the team member
how they thought the
audience reacted to
his/her presentation
Team member
reflects on own
performance, may
ask for advice
Critical to have trusted sources of constant feedback for yourself
13. 13
Research points to 5 sources of resilience
Types of emotional intelligence are key to long-term successful leadership
Source: Centered Leadership, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
14. 14
Today’s discussion
• What is “leadership” and why is it important?
• What type of leaders perform the best?
• What skills do leaders need?
-
Prioritisation
Influencing
Self-awareness
Resilience
• What are the challenges and what to do
about it?
15. 15
Shaping your role can be key to success
Sources of positive and negative energy at work
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633319.Managing_Your_Self
Notes de l'éditeur
Thank you
I hope you have all had a chance to review the pre-reading – given time, I will go through the introduction relatively quickly
[Key message:] What I will argue is that prioritisation is particularly important and particularly challenging in BIS – a collective leadership task for us and our DDs and team leaders
[Purpose:] The purpose of the presentation is to set the scene for joint work in the break-outs which will identify ways in which we can support each other – and our DDs and team leaders – in doing this
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
Turning to what we observe internally in BIS,, our staff are telling us that they really need our leadership and support to get this right
Here are just a few quotes from the SCS Awayday, G6/7 events, the Conversations and our Staff Survey
But my favourite quote is the one provided by a staff member in the free form text part of an ESBR pulse survey :…
I can certainly empathise with that staff member…
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups
With that background, what I’d like to do in the next 10 minutes or so is:
Very briefly define what I mean by prioritisation
Share my observations on why it is particularly important, and particularly challenging, in BIS
As an example, give you an overview of the Board’s recent prioritisation exercise
Leave you with some thoughts to take forward in the break-out groups