Stages of Leadership Learning4 Sponsorship (Providing) From personal excellence to system excellence

3 Reliability (Being) From reliable discipline to intuitive personal excellence

2 Action (Doing) From experimental action to widespread, valuable actionPurpose, deep practice, and coaching

1 Insight (Knowing) From inquiry to new understanding

0 Arrogance (I already know) From unconscious complacency to awareness of “fast past matching”

4 Sponsorship (Providing) From personal excellence to system excellence

3 Reliability (Being) From reliable discipline to intuitive personal excellence

Conversation is at the core of culture and Leadership contribution

“Dialogue is the core of culture and the basic unit of Leadership

work.”Ram Charan

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

“Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast”

Peter Drucker

Cultural Moments of Truth 1. What leaders pay attention to, how they behave day-to-day… both formal

and informal… moment to moment…

2. How leaders react to critical incidences

3. Deliberate role modelling, teaching, and coaching – by leaders

4. Observed criteria by which leaders allocate scarce resources

5. Observed criteria by which leaders allocate rewards and status

6. Observed criteria by which leaders recruit, select, promote, retire, and terminate organisational members

7. Organisation design and structure8. Organisation systems and procedures

Impact

The core of conversations…

All humans have purposes (for), concerns (against), and circumstances (facts).

Connect with those!

If I think you understand what really matters to me I will be much more likely to connect and collaborate… if you don’t show understanding, resistance or lukewarm collaboration is likely

The intersection

The intersection in real life

The conversation meter

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Pretence

Listening Focus:

Avoid difficulty

Pretence at work

Sincerity

Listening Focus:

Express and defend my sincere opinion

The product of sincere domination

The Shift Begins With Listening

Accuracy

Listening Focus: Reveal facts and

compare explanations for value

Facts Explanations

Mutually observable and acceptable data

Interpretations, deductions, or

stories that account for the

facts

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Shift to accuracy: Separate facts from explanations

Authenticity

Listening Focus: Clarify essential purpose and reveal intersections

for action

The Shift Begins With Listening – Curious!