Let’s get ready to rumble! Managing groups and cultures when you are not in charge
Learning Outcome: Increase communication and team building skills
Are you a team player? Do you have the skills to thrive and contribute value in groups? In order to be effective, it is helpful to understand the complexity of group dynamics and people. This seminar will support you in understanding group dynamics, dealing with difficult people, and maintaining your professionalism in a variety of group challenges. Further, we will discuss the role of culture, values, and perceptions in-group interactions. This high level seminar will transform any new professional into a savvy communicator and thoughtful collaborator.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
a) Explore common group dynamics and goals
b) Examine common challenges and struggles
c) Discuss self-management and emotional intelligence
d) Explore the role of culture, values, and perceptions in group situations
Let’s get ready to rumble! Managing groups and cultures when you are not in charge (WOC 2014)
1. Managing groups and cultures when
you are NOT in charge
Rajani Sinha
Manager, Plant Supply Chain Systems
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
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2. Panelist
Lonney F. Gregory
Principal Consultant,
Linkage Inc
Denise Jackson
ICT Manager, Mopar,
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Pam Hutchins-Pugh
Platform Manager, Transmission,
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
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3. Rajani Sinha
• 21 years in Information
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Technology Industry
• Manages Supply Chain Systems
for Chrysler LLC Plants
• Mother of two
• 2013 WOC Pioneer Award
Winner
4. Learning Objective
Increase communication and team building skills
Are you a team player? Do you have the skills to thrive and contribute value in groups? In
order to be effective, it is helpful to understand the complexity of group dynamics and
people. This seminar will support you in understanding group dynamics, dealing with
difficult people, and maintaining your professionalism in a variety of group challenges.
Further, we will discuss the role of culture, values, and perceptions in-group interactions.
This high level seminar will transform any new professional into a savvy communicator
and thoughtful collaborator.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
a) Explore common group dynamics and goals
b) Examine common challenges and struggles
c) Discuss self-management and emotional intelligence
d) Explore the role of culture, values, and perceptions in group situations
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5. What is Leadership ?
GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
• 21 years in IT Industry
• Manages Supply Chain Systems
• Mother of two
• First generation Immigrant
Leadership is "organizing a
group of people to achieve a
common goal". The leader
may or may not have any
in the Workplace
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formal authority.
6. Scenarios of leadership without authority in
today’s corporate environment
GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
in the Workplace
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• Collaborative cross-functional teams
• Suppliers
• Vendors
• Outsourced partners
• Leading upwards
• Leading business partners
• Change management
7. GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
1. Master the Group Process
2. Raise Emotional in the Workplace
Intelligence
3. Understand and Manage
Culture Differences
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8. GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
in the Workplace
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
• Set Leading Goals
business partners
• Build Change commitment management
and engagement,
not obedience and compliance
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9. GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
in the Workplace
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
• Build Trust and Respect
Leading business partners
• Ensure active Change involvement management
and commitment
• Build up a store of “goodwill”
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10. GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
in the Workplace
• Make people “Want” to do the right thing
• Explain priorities using natural consequence
• Give them benefit of doubt
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
Leading business partners
Change management
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11. GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
in the Workplace
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
Leading business partners
Change management
• Engage and Empower
• Seek best fit
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12. GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
in the Workplace
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
Leading business partners
Change management
• Be Flexible - Adapt to changing environment
• Heavy handed approach causes resentment
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13. Raise
Emotional
Intelligence
GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
• Self-awareness – Recognize in the your Workplace
emotions; how they affect thoughts and behavior
• Self-management – Control impulsive feelings and behaviors
• Social awareness – Understand emotions, needs, concerns of other people
• Relationship management –inspire , influence others and manage conflict
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
Leading business partners
Change management
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14. Manage Cultural Difference
Hofstede’s 5 Cultural Dimensions
1. Power/Distance (PD)
GLOBAL Leadership
degree of inequality that exists – and is accepted – among people with and
without power.
Engineering Planning
2. Individualism (IDV)
in the Workplace
- the strength of the ties people have to others within the community.
3. Masculinity (MAS)
- how much a society sticks with, and values, traditional male and female
roles
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
Leading business partners
Change management
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15. Hofstede’s 5 Cultural
Dimensions - CONTD
GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
in the Workplace
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
4. Uncertainty/Avoidance Index (UAI)
Leading business partners
Change management
Degree of anxiety that society members feel when in uncertain or
unknown situations.
5. Long Term Orientation (LTO)
How much society values long traditions and values.
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16. Key Takeaways
• Lead by example
• Build bridges
• Seek the win/win
• Build commitment GLOBAL and Leadership
engagement
Engineering Planning
• Communicate, communicate, communicate
in the Workplace
• Sell you, not your title
• Develop Emotional Intelligence
• Be aware of Cultural Differences
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
Leading business partners
Change management
17. “Leadership isn’t about a position, it’s about behavior. Doing
something willingly because you respect and trust someone is
different from doing something because they have the authority to
give you an order.”
- Jim Kouzes, Ph.D., Toastmasters Golden Gavel recipient 2006
GLOBAL Leadership
Engineering Planning
in the Workplace
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Collaborative cross-functional teams
Suppliers
Vendors
Outsourced partners
Leading upwards
Leading business partners
Change management
• Key Takeaways
• .
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you
want done because he wants to do it.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower