Be a Better Leader, have a Richer Life -Article By Stevart D. Friedman

Presented By-Surbhi GuptaMBA – HRMCentral University of Jammu

You need to know this?

• What Drives you?

• What values are important in your work and life?

• Align (1) and (2)

HBR Article• Research - people unsatisfied; inability

to bear leadership in all life domains (work, home, community & self)

• Achieve 4 way wins, not trade of one for the other but mutual value among them – Total Leadership

• Total – about the whole person

• Leadership- creates sustainable change to benefit you and the most important people around you

• Have a clear view of each domain; design and implement experiments; analyze the effect

WORK!

HOME!ME!

COMMUNITY

PerformanceSatisfaction

Work Life

Home Life

Community Life

Self

20%

28%

31%

39%

Work Life

Home Life

Community Life

Self

9%

15%

12%

25%

Personal Assessment Workshop Program

• Based on a study of 300 business professionals over a 4 month time period

Total Leadership Process 1. Be Real 2. Be Whole 3. Be Innovative • Think, write & talk with peer coaches – clarify what’s

important

• An outside perspective challenges you, helps create innovation & holds you accountable to your commitments

• Identify key stakeholders & expected performance from them; talk to them

• Result – new ways of making life better, for us & for the people around us

Designing Experiments

Work Goal

Home & Communit

y Goal

Self Goal

Productivity

Improving relationships

Improve Health

GOAL

Identify Possibilities• Think of several potential experiments, describe what to do in

each

• Satisfying all domains initially difficult, approach the challenge systematically

• Work does interfere with personal & family life – Make more permeable, not thicker, boundaries between domains

• Identify possibilities that work well in your unique situation

Potential Experiment DesignsTracking and Reflecting Recording visits to gym with

changes in energy level.

Planning and Organizing Prepare for the week on Sunday evenings.

Rejuvenating and Restoring Quitting unhealthy physical habits like smoking.

Appreciating and Caring Joining a health club with coworkers.

Focusing and Concentrating Turning off digital communication devices at a set time.

Revealing and Engaging Having weekly conversations about religion to spouse.

Time Shifting and “Re-Placing” Work from Home.

Delegating and Developing Allocating few responsibilities to your subordinate.

Exploring and Venturing Take a cross functional assignment at work.

Measuring Progress1st Column: Goals of each domain

2nd Column: Describe Result metrics

3rd Column: Describe action metrics from time to time

• People go for Total Leadership because: Dissatisfaction due to lack of love for the work Feeling in genuine by not acting according to their values Disconnection from people who matter to them Crave for creativity

• Look to achieve 4 way wins that satisfy all life domains

• Form a blueprint of experiments – helps perform better and create harmony among all domains

Conclusions

• Formulate ways to measure progress.

• Compare results

• Learn from failures; The only way to fail with an experiment is to fail to learn from it.

• You can be a better leader & have a richer life, if you are ready and willing to rise to the challenge

Conclusions…