Leadership 101 Workshop

Deck from the workshop I presented at CodeMash 2015. This four hour workshop helps you decide if and why you should become a leader (or improve your current leadership skills). It also helps you understand your strengths and weaknesses, plus gives you concrete action items for becoming a great leader.

See also my book "The Leadership Journey": http://bit.ly/leadershipjourney.

Also useful: My talk "It's Not About You" at the KalamazooX Conference 2013: http://vimeo.com/68908830

Transcript

1. Leadership 101 Starting or Changing Your Leadership Journey
2. Jim Holmes Guidepost Systems Jim@GuidepostSystems.com @aJimHolmes http://bit.ly/leadershipjourney
3. Workshop Format
4. Four hours
5. With breaks!
6. Talk Exercises Sharing
7. INTERACTION
9. The Law of Two Feet
11. Lead What?
12. Job
13. Community
14. Volunteer
15. This Workshop’s Goals
16. Do you Want to become a Leader?
17. Why should you become a Leader
18. How to become a Leader
19. Start defining your style as Leader
20. See Success as a Leader
21. Run an awesome team
22. Leave with a roadmap
23. Why Become a Leader?
24. Too few good ones
25. Filling a Gap
26. Self-Fulfillment
27. Exercise: List two reasons why you should become a leader
28. Section One
29. What Makes a Great Leader?
30. Exercise: List things YOU think make a great leader
34. Exercise: List two strengths, two weaknesses YOU have
35. Exercise: Best strength: How to leverage Worst weakness: How to mitigate
36. Finishing Up
37. Clear picture: What a leader should be?
38. Clear picture: What you can work on?
39. Section Two
40. Growing Into Leadership
41. “I want to be a leader. What next?”
42. Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
43. A Leader needs to be confident
44. (…but never arrogant!)
45. Exercise: List two concerns why you shouldn’t become a leader
46. Exercise: Validate those reasons eg: Throw out bogus ones!
47. Exercise: Got a valid reason? How can you address it?
48. Learn the mission
49. Demonstrate Aptitude, Ability, and Desire
50. Ask for more responsibility!
51. Communication Communication Communication
52. It’s about them not you
53. BTW, that “misunderstanding” thing?
54. It’s your fault, not your team’s
55. DISC
56. Decisive Interactive Stability Cautious
58. O’Grady’s Instigator vs Empathizer
59. Wait Ten Minutes
60. Exercise: What one step can you take to grow as a Leader?
61. Finishing Up
62. Clear picture: What can you do to move into leadership?
63. Clear picture: What can you do to improve your communication?
64. Section Three
65. Be A Great Leader
66. “How do I pull this off?”
67. “(And not fall on my face!)”
68. Learn more of the mission
69. Manage Expectations up and down
70. Exercise: How would you tell your boss “No” ?
71. Foster success
72. Small victories
73. Safe to fail
74. Smart failures vs Dumb failures
75. Exercise: What’s one small victory you had that went unnoticed?
76. Reviews
77. Dealing with difficult people
78. FUD
80. Exercise: What’s your biggest blocker when discussing tough issues?
81. Staying the course
82. Find feedback loops
83. Finishing Up
84. Clear picture: What ideas do you have for your Leadership style?
85. Clear picture: What do you need to learn in your organization?
86. Section Four
87. Taking Care of YOU
88. Find a Mentor
89. RIGHT
90. NOW
91. Exercise: Got a mentor? How are they helpful? No gots? List two or three candidates
92. Become a time management super hero
93. Learn to say …
94. “Sorry. No.”
95. Work / Life Balance is not a myth!
96. Finishing Up
97. Clear picture: Know what you want from a mentor?
98. Clear picture: What to prioritize your time on?
99. Section Five
100. Odds and Ends
101. Mentor your team
102. Build broad shoulders
103. Don’t sweat the small stuff (And it’s not all small stuff!)
104. Open your door
105. Answer.Default == “Yes”;
106. You’re part of the team. You’re not in the team.
107. Value your elites. Empower others to become elite.
108. Praise in public. Criticize in private.
109. Finishing Up
110. Clear picture: What ideas do you have for your Leadership style?
111. Clear picture: What do you need to learn in your organization?
112. Endgame
113. Clear picture: Leverage your strengths
114. Clear picture: Mitigate your weaknesses
115. Exercise: Roadmap
116. Thank You!
117. Jim Holmes Guidepost Systems Jim@GuidepostSystems.com @aJimHolmes http://bit.ly/leadershipjourney