Lead From Anywhere

Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.www.bretlsimmons.com

October 17, 2012

Agenda• Priorities• Leadership• Trustworthy• Interdependent Partnership• Questions

Priorities• What is the most important

thing that everyone in your organization needs to understand is the key to the organization’s future?

• What is the most important thing you need to do on a daily basis to help your organization make progress toward achieving this priority?

How do you recognize

good leadership?

Leadership is..

InfluenceReal ChangeRelationship

Shared Purpose

Power (influence) is the heart of leadership

Only when leaders and followers actually intend substantive, transformative changes is a leadership relationship possible.

What do you know about good work

relationships?

Trustworthy, Interdependent Partners

TrustWillingness to be vulnerable to others in risky situations

Trustworthy

• Ability• Integrity• Benevolent Intentions

Interdependent Partnership

Responsibility

Expectations

Accountability

Learning

Responsibility• Foundation of interdependence• Unless and until you assume full

responsibility for yourself, you force others to assume responsibility for you

• Performance– Master your current job– Continuously improve how that job is done

• Caring

Expectations• Framework of interdependence • Know what’s expected of you• Share your expectations of others with

them• Make this a team activity• Promise to deliver

Accountability• Binding strength of interdependence • Two principles

– Always starts with you: performance, caring, expectations, encourage and enable others

– When you look at others, look for solutions rather than blame

• Don’t look the other way when it matters

Learning• Fulfillment of interdependence • Change in behavior• Core performance technology• If you stop learning and growing, you

will increasingly become either a burden or a stranger to others at work

REAL Relationship

• Are you dependent, independent, or interdependent in your work relationships? How does your style of relating affect others at work?

• Are you really learning and growing at work? Name one thing you are doing better now than 3 months ago.

What is your organization’s

shared purpose?

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Purpose: The Missing Factor

Vision – where we are goingMission – who, when, how we

will get thereValues – rules of engagement

and norms of behaviorPurpose – why we do what we

do

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Purpose• Never changes• Short and easy for all to remember• Serves as a guide for everyone’s

daily behavior• When reasonable people disagree

on the “right thing to do”, purpose should be the guiding principle

Purpose

Organizations flourish when everyone behaves purposefully

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Wrap-upTrustworthy, interdependent partners serving the shared purpose can lead from anywhere

Your Questions

Lead From Anywhere

Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.www.bretlsimmons.comsimmonsb@unr.edu(775) 336-9576