Styling Leadership Skills Leaders Circle – Team A Tanisha Parker, Susanne Johnson, Felicia Jones, Shannon Gipson, Leila Langston 15 January 2015

Understanding your Strengths Taming your Inner Critic Keeping Emotions in Check Q&A Introduction

Understanding Your Strengths Presenter: Susanne Johnson Credit: StrengthsFinder 2.0 (Tom Rath)

Four Domains of Leadership Strength Influencing – Leaders who help their team reach a much broader audience. They are always selling the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization. Executing – Leaders whom you turn to time and again to implement a solution. They will work tirelessly to get something done. They have an ability to take an idea and transform it into reality within the organization they lead. Relationship Building – Leaders who are the essential glue that hold a team together. They possess strengths associated with bringing people together — whether it is by keeping distractions at bay or keeping the collective energy high — and can transform a group of individuals into a team capable of carrying out complex projects and goals. Strategic Thinking – Leaders who are able to keep people focused on what they could be are constantly pulling a team and its members into the future. They continually absorb and analyze information and help the team make better decisions. Presenter: Susanne Johnson

Taming your Inner Critic Our Deepest Fear Confront, Scan and Go (CSG) “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission” Eleanor Roosevelt “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission” Eleanor Roosevelt “Without self-acceptance, you are always hiding. With self-acceptance, your spirit is gliding.” Robert Holden, PhD, in his book Happiness Now Presenter: Tanisha Parker

Keeping Emotions in Check How do we achieve this? What are your triggers? How do you “wear” your emotions? Presenter: Felicia Jones

Keeping Emotions in Check What should we do?  Be honest with yourself and acknowledge the emotion/feeling  Consider the source  Explore your expectations  Reflect on past occurrences  Address it and Check it!  Meditate/Pray, count your blessings, and move on! Presenter: Felicia Jones

Keeping Emotions in Check SWEEP: Sleep Work Eating Expressing positive emotions Play Presenter: Felicia Jones Credit: Charles Sophy, MD, Psychiatry When should you be concerned?

Q&A Presenters: Leila Langston & Shannon Gibson How does the Strengthfinder Four Domains of Leadership compare with OPM’s ECQs? How do we benefit from having an Inner Critic? Can you share an encounter where you became emotional and how one of the discussed strategies might have helped you? Which strategy will you use to help diffuse future emotions?