1. Personal Challenge for the Unnatural Leader Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?

2. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There!” Source: Marshall Goldsmith, 2007 “What to do?” – Status Quo Organic Organizations- one that is responsive, acts quickly and in a coordinated way and can adjust and learn and grow …..Only organic individuals can create organic organizations. (Robert E. Quinn, Deep Change, 1996) “What to stop doing?” - Change our own habits of behavior for these complex times 2

3. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Unnatural Transformation Leadership How do effective leaders succeed? Ten areas of unnatural transformation leadership The Leading Edge: Unnatural Leadership: Ten New Leadership Instincts 3

4. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Unnatural Habits - Personal Refuse to be a Prisoner of Experience  Ready and willing to change  Be comfortable with chaos Expose your Vulnerabilities Acknowledge your Shadow Side Develop a Right-vs-Right Decision-making Mentality  Multiple interests, perspectives and possibilities makes clear cut decisions difficult!  Always a number of possible right answers. Flexibility is key Dotlich, D.L. and Cairo, P.C. (2002) Unnatural Leadership” 10 New Leadership Instincts. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons 4

5. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Unnatural Habits - Team Create Teams that Create Discomfort  Don’t’ surround yourself with ‘yes’ people  Build teams with contradictory views Trust Others Before they Earn it  Trust is catalyzed by offering it up freely Coach and Teach as well as Lead and Inspire  Avoid temptation to just lead and inspire  Be available to discuss challenges and be honest and supportive in addressing them Dotlich, D.L. and Cairo, P.C. (2002) Unnatural Leadership” 10 New Leadership Instincts. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons 5

6. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Unnatural Habits - Organization Connect Instead of Create  Connections and alliances  Free exchange of ideas and information with allies and competitors Give up Some Control  Strive for balance between control and autonomy for maximum effectiveness Challenge Conventional Wisdom  Preserve culture while opening it up to new approaches and ideas Dotlich, D.L. and Cairo, P.C. (2002) Unnatural Leadership” 10 New Leadership Instincts. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons 6

7. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Leadership Development for Systems Change Georgetown University 7 Habits Consciously developing new habits creates new brain pathways and even entirely new brain cells Jumps our trains of thought onto new and innovative tracks The more we step outside our comfort zone the more inherently creative we become A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. Desiderius Erasmus 15 th century humanist and theologian

8. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Three Zones of Existence Source: Rae-Dupree, J. Can you Become a Creature of New Habits? The New York Times, May 4, 2008 (based on the work of Markova & Ryan) Comfort Stretch Stress

9. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Comfort - Realm of existing habit Stress - Occurs when a challenge is so far beyond current experience as to be overwhelming Stretch- Activities that feel a bit awkward and unfamiliar It’s that Stretch Zone where True Change occurs M.J. Ryan, 2006 Three Zones of Existence

10. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY The Valuable Moment When trying something new, it feels awkward. That’s the valuable moment we call CONFUSION The moment we fuse the old with the new Leading to…

11. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Creation of New Habits Brain organizing new input and ultimately, when the process is repeated enough times, creates new synaptic connections DON’T STOP Move through the unknown to personal innovation that will ultimately transform you and your community

12. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Leadership Journey Question What will I have to do implement new leadership habits that support the implementation of the new innovation?

13. © 2010 NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY “The measure of success is not that we have difficult problems to face, just that it’s not the same problem we had last year.” John Foster Dulles