What is your organizations leadership style? Control or Support Does your organization define the type of leadership it wants? What does Leadership look like in action and how can it impact your organization and people? This session will share how: • Defining a purpose for an organization, • Knowing your team and caring about what they care about, • Utilizing people’s strengths and what they are passionate about, • Defining leadership characteristics and • creating a cohesive team drives an organization to success. It will share how empowering multi-generations with leadership skills allow your organization to do more with less by creating an environment where staff are empowered to make the decisions necessary for your organization to thrive. The discussion will share examples of how leadership of our 70-year old firm has evolved. The journey we have been on to prepare us for the future and the success we are enjoying from making these shifts in our culture. It will touch on how creating an environment where Employee Leadership & Development aids with hiring and retaining the staff needed to succeed. It will help you understand: • How you select people with potential? • How you bring leadership out of people? • How you train for leadership? • What are some ways to help an employee develop into a leader?

1. Leadership and People
Are you the Problem or Solution?
Matt Davis, PE, President
Anna Horner, EIT
MME Annual Conference
February 1, 2018

2. What are the pain points
of your organization?
Get to Know You Question
Talent; Diverse workforce; Funding;
Culture of gossip, lack of support, negativity;
Lack of engagement and ownership;
Misalignment of organization;
Overworked and underpaid/valued

3. MWEA Strategic Plan
• What does it mean to have BOLD LEADERSHIP? Why is it important to
your success?

4. What are YOU doing to
change or reinforce these?
If you don’t, who will?

5. LEADERSHIP
An activity you exercise to mobilize
people to change the human condition.
Credit: Tim Terrentine

6. Leadership
• Activity-something you do
• Exercise-you have to practice
• Mobilize people-can’t do it by yourself
• Change conditions-must result in beneficial change
• Behavior not a position-EVERYONE can be a
leader and a CEO of their position

7. About Our Journey

8. Working Towards the Future

9. Where we are now-A Healthier Organization

11. TAGLINE
IT’S ALL
ABOUT PEOPLE.

12. Source:

13. Source:
Why you
should
care?

14. Source:
S

15. 4 Obsessions
• Build and Maintain a
Cohesive Leadership Team
• Create Organizational Clarity
• Over-Communicate
Organizational Clarity
• Reinforce Organizational
Clarity Through Human
Systems

16. Discipline 1.
Build a cohesive
Leadership Team.
• Trust your team
• Do not fear conflict
• Commit to common goals
• Hold each other
accountable
• Focus on team results

17. Discipline 2. Create Organizational Clarity.
Credit: Simon Sinek

18. STORY
WHY To serve people and the communities we live in.
HOW By offering comprehensive multi-disciplinary servic
industry expertise, accurate scope of work, and a
passion for listening.
WHAT We analyze, advise, design, and deliver in partners
with governments, businesses, and institutions in
our communities.
OUR STORY

19. • Our values are:
• Fun & Happy
• Accountable and supportive
• Creative and innovative
• Passionate
• Humble
• Family-oriented

20. Roles & Responsibilities

21. Discipline 3. Over-Communicate Organizational Clarity.

22. Discipline 4. Develop policies and
processes to reinforce
organizational clarity.
“Culture lives in the
way things get done”
–Patrick Lencioni

24. Some of the tools we have used:
• Get to Know You
Questions in Staff
Meetings
• Quarterly Company-Wide
Meetings
• Staff Coaching
• Roles and Responsibility
Matrix
• Building Trust amongst
our team
• Recognizing Success

25. Creating and maintaining a healthy
organization IS hard work.

27. Matt Davis, PE
mdavis@wightman-assoc.com
Ph: 269-927-0100
Cell: 269-449-6817
Anna Horner, EIT
ahorner@wightman-assoc.com
269-927-0100