Presentation for Microsoft Licensing, Reno, Nevada, October 17, 2012

1. Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.
www.bretlsimmons.com
October 17, 2012
Lead From Anywhere

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

3. 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?

4. How do you
recognize good
leadership?

5. Leadership is..
Influence
Real Change
Relationship
Shared Purpose

6. Power (influence) is the
heart of leadership

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

8. What do you know
about good work
relationships?

9. Trustworthy,
Interdependent Partners

10. Trust
Willingness to be
vulnerable to others in
risky situations

11. Trustworthy
• Ability
• Integrity
• Benevolent Intentions

12. Interdependent Partnership
Responsibility
Expectations
Accountability
Learning

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. What is your
organization’s
shared
purpose?

19. Purpose: The Missing Factor
 Vision – where we are going
 Mission – who, when, how we will
get there
 Values – rules of engagement and
norms of behavior
 Purpose – why we do what we do
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20. 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
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21. Purpose
Organizations flourish
when everyone
behaves purposefully
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22. Wrap-up
Trustworthy,
interdependent partners
serving the shared
purpose can lead from
anywhere

23. Your Questions

24. Lead From Anywhere
Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.
www.bretlsimmons.com
simmonsb@unr.edu
(775) 336-9576