Lupe Lopez Masterflight Foundation

 Experience new ways of interacting as leaders  Shift the way we use our leadership skills  Learn new skills  Know yourself  What can you do as a leader?

Managing and Leading are unique and complementary systems of action

 If your numbers lean heavily to either side of the scale, let’s talk!  Both types of skills are needed to be effective in this changing world  If you are an ED, got news for you, you need to balance both, how much time depends on how many staff you have  As a board member, your time should lean towards the right side of the scale

 Acknowledging and sharing uncertainty  Embracing error  Responding to the future  Becoming interpersonally competent (listening, nurturing, coping with value conflicts, etc.)  Gaining self-knowledge

 Ability to accept people as they are, not as you would like them to be  Capacity to approach relationships and problems in terms of the present rather than the past  Ability to treat those who are close to you with the same courageous attention you extend to strangers and casual acquaintances  Ability to trust others, even if the risks seems great

The Art of Achieving Aligned Action

Information Understanding Implications Commitment Aligned Action

 As a leader in your organization, it is important that you consider implementing an aligned action model that addresses the following questions: Why is this important? Why now? What is going to change? How is it going to change? How will this affect me? How will this affect my project/department/community?  As a leader in your organization, it is important that you consider implementing an aligned action model that addresses the following questions: Why is this important? Why now? What is going to change? How is it going to change? How will this affect me? How will this affect my project/department/community?

 Information alone does not make change happen  Engage your organization in a process that includes understanding the new information and create space to discuss implications  This process develops commitment to the new direction that will result in aligned action  Information alone does not make change happen  Engage your organization in a process that includes understanding the new information and create space to discuss implications  This process develops commitment to the new direction that will result in aligned action

 Your teams will be operating at 90+% of their true capacity  This is NOT about superficial harmony  Real alignment is about figuring out where to invest resources, people, time and focus.  Your teams will be operating at 90+% of their true capacity  This is NOT about superficial harmony  Real alignment is about figuring out where to invest resources, people, time and focus.

Conversant solutions, LLC

 The basic unit of work in an organization  Definition: a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people.literarytheatricalconversational  “The quality of the dialogue determines how people gather and process information, how they make decisions, and how they feel about one another and the outcome of decisions” -- Ram Charan, Conquering a Culture of Indecision

Disagree Defend Destroy

Align Act Adjust

The assessment I make of you when you commit to take some action

 Sincerity ◦ The assessment that you are being honest with me ◦ You are not holding back some part of your truth, your own private conversation about the commitment you have made  Competence ◦ The assessment that you are able to perform the actions necessary to fulfill the commitment  Reliability ◦ The assessment that you are able to fulfill the commitment on time and as promised

 Think long term ◦ How do you wish to behave as a trustworthy and respected leader (how do you wish others to perceive you)?  As a leader in a changing world, are you taking action? ◦ Handout 8 is a trust worksheet from the book The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey ◦ Consider 2 to 3 actions you are willing to do during the rest of this conference – and then do them!

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