Leadership for Women Business Owners
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Transcript of Leadership for Women Business Owners
Leadership Habits for Women Business Owners
presented to NAWBO Atlanta
Nancy ChorpenningFounder & Managing Director, C-Suite Advisors
@CSuiteAdvisors
Leadership for Women Business Owners
❖ What is Leadership?
❖ How does Leadership manifest in business?
❖ What Leadership differences ought women to be aware of?
❖ How do I develop Leadership skills and abilities?
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What is Leadership?
❖ Organizing & directing a group of people or an organization to achieve a common goal
❖ A process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task
❖ Employees, contractors, customers, colleagues, suppliers, community
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What is Leadership?
“Management is doing things right.
Leadership is doing the right things.”
- Peter Drucker
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What is Leadership?
“Leadership is not magnetic personality – that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people – that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
- Peter Drucker
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Leadership Skills
❖ Goal-setting: Where are you taking your company?
❖ Prioritizing and Planning: Are you focused or scattered?
❖ Effective Communication: Your style matters
❖ Feedback: Do you know what people think of your leadership?
❖ Relationships: Who do you know?
❖ Rewarding Employees: It’s more than just $$
❖ Facilitating Others’ Work: Making room for success
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Leadership Development Model
❖ Ask
❖ Listen
❖ Think
❖ Thank
❖ Respond
❖ Involve
❖ Change
❖ Follow-up
courtesy of Marshall Goldsmith
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5 Practices of Exemplary Leadership
courtesy of Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner
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Servant Leadership
❖ Listening
❖ Empathy
❖ Healing
❖ Awareness
❖ Persuasion
❖ Conceptualization
❖ Foresight
❖ Stewardship
❖ Commitment to the growth of people
❖ Building Community
courtesy of Robert Greenfield
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Leadership Pitfalls
❖ Low self-esteem
❖ High need for power and control
❖ People-pleasing and inability to say ‘no’
❖ Boundary issues
❖ Reactivity
❖ Caretaking
❖ Avoiding conflict
Codependent Leadership
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–Rolanda Watts, CEO, Watts Works Productions
“Be courageous, strong, and daring in your risk-taking business venture. Replace fear
with faith when challenged. Make work and play look and feel like the same thing. Do
what you love and love what you do.”
Bring a Positive Mindset When Building a Business
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– Emily Constantini, President, EMME
“When I started [my] business, I made the [conscious] decision to do three things: stay true to my vision for my product;
collect opinions and decide which are valid; and leverage resources for expertise outside
my own”
Be Sure to Keep a SolidBusiness Plan
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– Virginie Glaenzer, EVP, Marketing, Great Eastern Energy
“Learning from other people’s mistakes prevents you from making them for yourself and helps your business grow more quickly.”
Mentors Are Increasingly Important
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– Jenna Woodul, Chief Community Officer, LiveWorld
“Even though your focus is sharp — and you’re passionate, directed, and believe
you’re right — remember that business and competitive conditions change quickly; keep one foot up and be ready to pivot.”
Remain Focused on Goals
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– Heidi Lorenzen, Chief Marketing Officer, Cloudwords
“Look at your business frequently through both your binoculars and microscope. In a
small operation, the little things are the big things. Peer deep into your business but
don’t lose perspective by constantly focusing on details.”
Take in the Big Picture Regularly
© 2014 C-Suite Advisors, LLC
Thank you very much!
Nancy ChorpenningFounder & Managing Director, C-Suite Advisors
CSuiteAdvisors.com@CSuiteAdvisors