Setting Up HR Professionals For Success Voltage Leadership Consulting rd Street, SW, Roanoke, VA Office: Jennifer Owen O’Quill Jeff Smith

Partner Exercise Where are you doing well? Where are you struggling?

Leading Starts with Taking Care of You

Wheel of Life Fun, Leisure and Recreation Personal Growth and Learning Significant Other / Romance Physical Environment (eg. Home) Career Money Health Friends and Family 0 10

168 Hours-Where do they go? 72 Hours Connected to work!!! 56 Hours Sleeping/Eating/Bathing 40 Hours for everything else!!!

Questions to Ponder What is making you feel overworked and overwhelmed? What are the big wedges in your pie chart of how you spend the 168 hours you get each week? What would you like to change about that? What are the biggest drivers of distraction that keep you from being fully present?

Tip #1 Recognize and Overcome the Tyranny of the Present Are you being too responsive? Urgent vs. Important

#2 Is this really necessary?

Time Tip #3 Push Your Calendar’s Reset Button

#4 Understand and Set Your Operating Rhythm Understand Your Time Metabolism

#5 Understand Your Time Metabolism

#6 Give Yourself Time for Unconscious Thought

#7 Set Boundaries and Guardrails

#8 Use Yes and No Strategically A flat out “yes” A flat out “no” A qualified “yes, if” A “yes, but not right now” A “no, but what if…”

#9 Tame the Distraction Dragon

#10 Consider Your Impact

What 1-3 Tips Do You Want to Work on? Share with a partner? Who can hold you accountable? How will you measure if you are successful?

Leading Through Jeff Smith, CEO the Chaos of Today’s World

Bad or Good? Volatile - Vision Unpredictable - Understanding Complex - Clarity Ambiguous - Agility

Problem Orientation = Creator Orientation = Which one do you prefer? What I ____ want Emotional Response What I ____ want DDT TED F______ Exercises: What is your default role? What is your preferred role? How can you shift your mindset? What will shift your employees mindset What can you do differently today? Triggers your ___________ FIsBe *Source The Empowerment Dynamic By: David Emerald

Tantrum-Are these your clients?

Leading a Team Through a Structural Tension Conversation Desired Outcomes 1. What is the ideal State? Include behaviors, physical descriptors, processes… (Spend more time on this discussion than on #2) 2. What is the current reality? Where are we now in relation to our ideal state/desired outcomes? What are the facts about where we are right now? 3. What are our assets (resources)? 4. What barriers may be hindering us? What are our strengths? What’s working well? What connections and possibilities do we see? 5. Considering all of this information, what are the possible next steps we can take? Which assets can we leverage to address possible barriers?

Next steps What do you want? Design a path Teach