Leadership presentation for Year 12 leaders at Epsom Girls Grammar, Auckland, NZ

1. Dynamic
leadership
IS IT ALL ABOUT YOU?
Philip Patston

2. Dynamic leadership

3. IS IT ALL ABOUT YOU?
Self-awareness
Self-leadership
Being the change
Dynamic leadership

4. IS IT ALL ABOUT YOU?
When things go well
Dynamic leadership

5. IS IT ALL ABOUT YOU?
When things go
pear-shaped
Dynamic leadership

6. What dynamic
leadership is…
• Being focused on the future, grounded in the present, aware
of the past
• Being persistent, patient and resilient
• Being generous, compassionate
and fair
• Being ok about being wrong
• Being willing to learn from mistakes
Dynamic leadership
(TED.com: Kathryn Shultz)

7. What dynamic
leadership isn’t…
• Projecting
> being self-aware
• Blaming
> being non-judgemental
• Shaming
> being courageous and
vulnerable
Dynamic leadership
(TED.com: Brené Brown)

8. Cultivating both self-confidence and
humility, signs of a balanced ego...
humility self confidence
Dynamic leadership

9. “Arrogance...is generally a cover for a
chronic lack of self confidence.
“To be specific, self-confidence is when one
is aware of his or her qualities without falling
victim to false modesty…
Dynamic leadership
Françoise Simpère
“…while humility allows one to
recognise quietly that even
though he or she is a wonderful
person, there may be qualities
that he or she lacks.”

10. Cultivating both self-confidence and
humility, signs of a balanced ego...
humility self confidence
Dynamic leadership

11. As leaders we…
• start something, and see who notices it
• lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than
aggression
• create the conditions for bringing out the
best in us as humans
• know that relationships are all there is
— nothing and no-one exists in isolation
• stop pretending we are individuals that
can go it alone
Dynamic leadership
Margaret Wheatley

12. Accountability and
Dynamic leadership
commitment

13. Accountability and
Dynamic leadership
commitment

14. As leaders we…
• restore and reconcile our community (school) by shifting the
nature of the public conversation
• create a public conversation based on
communal accountability and commitment
• act as owners and part creators
• make a promise with no expectation
of return
• create the possibility of an alternative future
Dynamic leadership
Peter Block

15. Dynamic leadership
Trust or
trustworthiness?
• Competence
• Reliability
• Honesty
(TED.com: Onora O’Neill)

16. Is it all about you?
Dynamic leadership

17. Leadership lessons from a
Dynamic leadership
dancing guy…
Derek Sivers
www.sivers.org/ff

18. www.diversitynz.com/resources