1.
Leadership Habits for
Women Business
Owners
presented to NAWBO Atlanta
Nancy Chorpenning
Founder & Managing Director, C-Suite Advisors
@CSuiteAdvisors

2.
Leadership for Women Business
Owners
❖ What is Leadership?
❖ How does Leadership manifest in business?
❖ What Leadership differences ought women to be aware
of?
❖ How do I develop Leadership skills and abilities?
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

3.
What is Leadership?
❖ Organizing & directing a group
of people or an organization to
achieve a common goal
❖ A process of social influence in
which one person can enlist the
aid and support of others in the
accomplishment of a common
task
❖ Employees, contractors,
customers, colleagues,
suppliers, community
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

4.
What is Leadership?
“Management is doing things right.
Leadership is doing the right things.”
- Peter Drucker
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5.
What is Leadership?
“Leadership is not magnetic personality –
that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is
not making friends and influencing people –
that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a
person's vision to higher sights, the raising
of a person's performance to a higher
standard, the building of a personality
beyond its normal limitations.”
- Peter Drucker
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

6.
Leadership Skills
❖ Goal-setting: Where are you taking your company?
❖ Prioritizing and Planning: Are you focused or scattered?
❖ Effective Communication: Your style matters
❖ Feedback: Do you know what people think of your leadership?
❖ Relationships: Who do you know?
❖ Rewarding Employees: It’s more than just $$
❖ Facilitating Others’ Work: Making room for success
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

7.
Leadership Development Model
❖ Ask
❖ Listen
❖ Think
❖ Thank
courtesy of Marshall Goldsmith
❖ Respond
❖ Involve
❖ Change
❖ Follow-up
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

8.
5 Practices of Exemplary
Leadership
courtesy of
Jim Kouzes &
Barry Posner
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9.
Servant Leadership
❖ Listening
❖ Empathy
❖ Healing
courtesy of Robert Greenfield
❖ Awareness
❖ Persuasion
❖ Conceptualization
❖ Foresight
❖ Stewardship
❖ Commitment to the
growth of people
❖ Building Community
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

10.
Leadership Pitfalls
Codependent Leadership
❖ Low self-esteem
❖ High need for power and control
❖ People-pleasing and inability to say ‘no’
❖ Boundary issues
❖ Reactivity
❖ Caretaking
❖ Avoiding conflict
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

11.
Bring a Positive Mindset
When Building a Business
“Be courageous, strong, and daring in your risk-taking
business venture. Replace fear with faith
when challenged. Make work and play look and feel
like the same thing. Do what you love and love
what you do.”
–Rolanda Watts, CEO, Watts Works Productions
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

12.
Be Sure to Keep a Solid
Business Plan
“When I started [my] business, I made the
[conscious] decision to do three things:
stay true to my vision for my product;
collect opinions and decide which are valid; and
leverage resources for expertise outside my own”
– Emily Constantini, President, EMME
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

13.
Mentors Are Increasingly Important
“Learning from other people’s mistakes
prevents you from making them for yourself and
helps your business grow more quickly.”
– Virginie Glaenzer, EVP, Marketing, Great Eastern Energy
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

14.
Remain Focused on Goals
“Even though your focus is sharp — and you’re
passionate, directed, and believe you’re right —
remember that business and competitive conditions
change quickly;
keep one foot up and be ready to pivot.”
– Jenna Woodul, Chief Community Officer, LiveWorld
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

15.
Take in the Big Picture Regularly
“Look at your business frequently through both your
binoculars and microscope. In a small operation,
the little things are the big things. Peer deep into
your business but don’t lose perspective by
constantly focusing on details.”
– Heidi Lorenzen, Chief Marketing Officer, Cloudwords
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC

16.
Thank you very much!
Nancy Chorpenning
Founder & Managing Director, C-Suite Advisors
CSuiteAdvisors.com
@CSuiteAdvisors