1. High Impact Leadership
Rob Parker
June 2008

2. You Are Awesome!

3. Who’s Leading?

4. Why Leadership Matters?
Anything in history worth remembering can be traced back to a motivated group of people and ultimately a single leader.

5. Leadership is only important
Myth #1
Leadership is only important
at the top

6. Leadership is a rare skill
Leadership Myth # 2
Leadership is a rare skill

7. Leaders are born and not made
Leadership Myth # 3
Leaders are born and not made

8. Leadership is not…
Rank
Title
Position

9. …The Ability To Influence …The Ability To Get Followers
Leadership in its simplest form is…
…The Ability To Influence
…The Ability To Get Followers

10. Management vs. Leadership
Management is the process of assuring that the programs and objectives of the organization are implemented.
Leadership involves casting vision and motivating people.

11. What does a leader do?
1. Knowing how to do a job, is the accomplishment of a worker.
2. Showing others how, is the accomplishment of a teacher.
3. Assuring the work is done by others, is that of a manager.
4. Inspiring others to do better work is that of a leader.

12. could be is Leaders help bridge the gap between… Andy Stanley
“Visions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.”
“Vision often begins with the inability to accept things the way they are, and matures into a clear picture of what could be.”
“Could” to “Should” to “Must” is

13. Would you rather be or
managed
led ?

14. Companies that are successful over the long term have some things in common, including great leadership.
Clock Building, Not Time Telling
No “Tyranny of the Or”
More Than Profits
Preserve the Core, Stimulate Progress
BHAG
Etc…

15. Level 5 Leadership Level 1-Highly Capable Individual
Level 2-Contributing Team Member
Level 3-Competent Manager
Level 4-Effective Leader
Level 5-Executive

16. Level 5 Leadership
Totally opposite of traditional view of successful CEO’s.
Not dazzling, charismatic or celebrity type.

17. Level 5 Leadership
A paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will.
Ambitious for the company, not for themselves.

18. Look in the mirror to assess blame
Look out the window to attribute success

19. Level 5 Leaders
Set up their successors for even greater success in the next generation.

20. Minimum Table Stakes
Integrity
Vision
Passion

21. Integrity
What you say
Don’t say
What you do
Don’t do
Who you are…

22. Visionaries see what others cannot yet see…

23. Vision Becomes Passion
Could
Should
Must
Andy Stanley
“Visions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.”
“Vision often begins with the inability to accept things the way they are, and matures into a clear picture of what could be.”
“Could” to “Should” to “Must”
What are you passionate about?

24. Rob’s Top Five Communicator Coach Catalyst Listener
Relationship Builder

25. Do People Enjoy Hearing From Me?
#1-Communicator
Clear & Compelling
Key Messages (Repeat)
Story Telling & Metaphors
Personal & Transparent
Interesting
Do People Enjoy Hearing From Me?

26. Do I Have the Right Players?
#2-Coach
Recruit the right players (who)
Position for Success (strengths)
Develop a game plan (what)
Motivate, encourage, inspire
Call the big plays
Do I Have the Right Players?

27. #3-Catalyst Change Agent Relentless Questioning
No Single or Right Path
Criticism Resistant
Sense of Urgency (LLYD)
Am I a “Go To” Person?

28. Do I Listen More Than Speak?
#4-Listener
Ask the Right Questions
Dig Deeper (why)
What’s not being said?
Guided Discovery
Active Listening
Do I Listen More Than Speak?

29. #5-Relationship Builder
Invest in People
Build Relational Capital
Spend it Wisely
Make it Personal
Develop Your Inner Circle
Will My Relationships Transcend This Job?

30. Your Inner Circle Matters
The people closest to a leader have a huge impact on both their success and their failure. Choose carefully.

31. Relationship Review Inner Circle Goal Group Family/Social/Fun
Time Burners
Energy Zappers
Negative Forces

32. Action Steps Decide to lead Evaluate your inner circle
Identify a mentor
Invest in yourself

33. Great “Must Reads” Good to Great (Jim Collins)
Leadership Gold (John Maxwell)
The Speed of Trust (Stephen Covey)
Fierce Conversations (Susan Scott)
5 Dysfunctions of a Team(Lencioni)
Visioneering (Andy Stanley)

34. High Impact Leadership
Rob Parker
March 31, 2008