“Perfect Your Emotional Balancing Act: Endurance Strategies for Leaders”

Facilitated by

Deborah Chambers Chima Chambers Consulting Group, LtdFebruary 2010 All Rights Reserved

Objectives

Discover the keys to career success utilizing the A-C-S Model© AwarenessCommunicationSupport

Offer insight on successfully interacting with different personality types

Standing Out During Challenging Times

Identify Your Organization’s Culture

Supportive or Non SupportiveMotivational or Rampant NegativityHigh Morale or Plummeting MoraleHigh Performance or Low ProductivityRespectful or Dominating Communication

Mindset for Career Success

Mindset- Career obstacles are nothing more than opportunities to demonstrate your skills.

Mindset for Career Success

Stress Frustration Overreacting Isolation

Career Anxiety vs.

Overwhelm Lack of Patience Feeling

Misunderstood

Career Mastery

Next Level Strategies

Strategy #1 You must change the way you think about

your career successStrategy #2

You must maintain your emotional balance regardless of the situation

Strategy #3You must implement a career mastery

strategic plan

Skill of Influence

“ The ability to motivate and lead others in such a way that they are compelled to follow despite their initial human reaction to resist”

A-C-S Model©

Structured roadmap to accelerate progress

Proactively identifies obstacles and provides solutions

Customized path to career success

A-C-S Model©

Your perspective of your career success is determined by your attitudes, thoughts, and actions.

Your ability to influence and demonstrate leadership depends on:AwarenessCommunicationSupport

3 Components of Self Awareness

Ability to Identify and Execute Your Value Proposition

Perception of OthersResponse to Feedback

3 Components of Awareness of Others

Skill of establishing rapportTime and PlaceKnowledge of Others Personality and

Communication Styles

Effective Communication

Communication is the skill needed to get any task completed successfully. Message sent= Message received Effective Communicators inform, inspire

and listen

Purpose of Effective Communication

To demonstrate your ability to establish rapport with diverse styles in order to create respect for your leadership brand

Importance of a Support Base

To assist you in executing your success strategies in a powerful and influential manner.You need people to help maintain your

balance and ability to move forward in your career.

Take the risk to create win/win collaboration opportunities

Importance of a Support Base

You must have a strong support base:Create win/win collaboration opportunities-

complimentary skills Strive to understand the challenges of

business unitsHow can your skills create success?Create a leadership brand that executive

sponsors are attracted to

Understanding Other Personality Styles

Influencing Aggressive Communicators

Typical StylePushes for what they want through

intimidation and/or nullifying the opinion of others

Tend to be poor listenersStruggle to be team players

Diverse Workplace & Collaboration- Strategy #4

Identifying and understanding how to communicate with other personality styles is key to:Developing strategic relationshipsDemonstrating the leadership skills that

create visibilityExecuting your career mastery plan through

a collaborative focus

Leadership Behaviors

Creating a reputation for helping others be successful is ultimately what will leap frog you above the competitionMinimize the concern about immediate

payoffWhen you provide value people don’t forgetYou will enhance your ability to be influential

by the number of people you assist

3 Keys to Demonstrating Leadership Acumen

Determine what your organization values now and then deliver it

Create collaboration opportunities – win/win

Use innovation to overcome challengesBook recommendation: Made to Stick, Why

Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Chip and Dan Heath

Call to Action

Describe one leadership action you will take to increase your effectiveness in the next 90 days.

Great Career Guide Resource

Creating Success StrategiesAt Work While Navigating

Business ChallengesWorkbook

Created by: Deborah Chambers Chima,

Career and Executive Coachand

Gail Solish, Communication and Relationship Coach

See You in the Winner’s Circle!

deborah@chambersconsult.com

www.chambersconsult.com

630-922-7127