Leadership Niagara final leadership session. Focusing on leadership as a practice and developing coaching models for enhanced performance

1. Mike Cardus

2. Our Mission
To strengthen regional leadership.
Our Vision
We are the premier leadership resource for our region.
Our Core Values
- Visionary Leadership - Excellence
- Regional Partnerships - Societal Responsibility
- Diversity and Inclusion - Lifelong Learning
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3. Objectives:
1. Closing of Leadership Niagara Class of 2016
2. Processing and application of what was
learned? How does that learning matter? How
did I, or can I, apply what was learned?
3. How can LN continue support LN’16 Leadership
Community?
4. Connect personal learning and appreciation to
other people within LN’16 __
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5. 1.Significant learning experience? How
did it happen? What motivated you?
2.Significant behavior change? How did it
happen? What motivated you?
3.From both responses what makes you
proud of your accomplishments?
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6. How do adults learn?
Adult education is concerned not with preparing
people for life, but rather with helping people to
live more successfully. Thus if there is to be an
overarching function of the adult education
enterprise, it is to assist adults to increase
competence, or negotiate transitions, in their
social roles (worker, parent, retiree etc.), to help
them gain greater fulfilment in their personal
lives, and to assist them in solving personal and
community problems.
(Darkenwald and Merriam 1982: 9)
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7. http://infed.org/mobi/david-a-kolb-on-experiential-learning/
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8. Leadership Niagara 2016
Year in Review
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9. January
Community:
1. What is LN?
2. Who are my classmates?
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10. January
Leadership:
1. DiSC
2. Supporting others to solve similar problems
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11. February
Community:
1. Manufacturing in Niagara County
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12. February
Leadership:
1. Strategic Planning ---- Change Planning
2. Distinctive, Working Well, 100 Days Better
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13. March
Community:
1. Bi-National Leadership Relationships
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14. March
Leadership:
1. Decision Making in Ordered to Unordered Environments
2. Paradoxes of Leadership
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16. April
Community:
1. Niagara Falls Matters
2. Niagara Economic Development
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17. April
Leadership:
1. Team Performance Model
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18. May
Community:
1. Criminal Justice
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19. May
Leadership:
1. Communication & Leadership to Multiple Systems +
Stakeholders
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20. June
Community:
1. LN as a Process
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21. June
Leadership:
1. Leadership Coaching (SOLVED)
2. Understanding Levels of Complexity
Situation
Observer
Level
Validation
Exception
Decision &
Direction
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23. July
Community:
1. Poverty and Policy
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24. July
Leadership:
1. Change Models
2. ‘Individual: Group: System’ differentiation
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26. August
Community:
1. WNY Regional Development
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28. August
Leadership:
1. Thinking Outside of Self
2. Supporting Others to Solve Problems
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29. September
Community:
1. Agribusiness in Niagara County
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30. September
Leadership:
1. Opportunity, Odds, Obstacles
2. Making Products from Waste
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32. October
Community:
1. Diversity in Education
2. Diversity in Leadership
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33. October
Leadership:
1. Understanding & doing something about leadership bias
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35. Mike L Ken D Drew C Jenn S Carissa L Claire S Chris S Jillian C Melissa G
Diedre R Emily M Ameet B Scott B Matt D Kayel S Kristin M Steve B Julia S
Rob R Tracy D Wendy S Lisa S Aaron C Scott D Melissa L Ang B Carole M
Julie B John C
Kathleen
H Len T Mike G Andrea C Camille L Sheila K Nick G
Andrea K Jeff W Kory S Lisa H Ezra S Sara C Kevin K Melanie D Tom M
Carolyn R Roscoe N Brian R
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36. Distinctive
What has stood out to you as
distinctive this year? What
made your experience
special, unique, different than
other leadership processes
Working Well
What did we do that worked
well? Meaning it does not
require much change or
improvement
Improvements
What does better look like for
other classes? How can we
improve this process for
future LN leaders
What impacts did LN have on you?
Through LN’16 a behavior I choose to create or add is …
Through LN’16 a behavior I choose to preserve or enhance is …
Through LN’16 a behavior I choose to eliminate is …
Through LN’16 a behavior I choose to accept is …Mike Cardus

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38. What impacts did LN have on you?
Through LN’16 a behavior I choose to create or add is …
Through LN’16 a behavior I choose to preserve or enhance is …
Through LN’16 a behavior I choose to eliminate is …
Through LN’16 a behavior I choose to accept is …
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39. 6 Personal Leadership Questions
to Ask Everyday
1.Did I do my best to set clear goals?
2.Did I do my best to make progress towards
goal achievement?
3.Did I do my best to find meaning?
4.Did I do my best to be happy?
5.Did I do my best to build positive
relationships?
6.Did I do my best to be fully engaged?
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41. Mike L Ken D Drew C Jenn S Carissa L Claire S Chris S Jillian C
Diedre R Emily M Ameet B Scott B Matt D Kayel S Kristin M Steve B
Rob R Tracy D Wendy S Lisa S Aaron C Scott D Melissa L Ang B
Julie B
John C
Julia S Kathleen
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Len T
Brian R
Mike G
Carole M
Andrea C
Nick G
Camille L
Sara C
Sheila K
Tom M
Andrea K
Melissa G
Jeff W Kory S Lisa H Ezra S Kevin K Melanie D
Carolyn R Roscoe N
HOOPDOM! TEAMS!
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42. Leadership Coaching and Development
1.People share their leadership
development plan
2.Team coach each leader on how to best
achieve and keep the person
accountable to their plan
3.Team develops a process for updating
LN and the class of progress
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43. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Person Person’s name
Questions Questions you have about their LDP
Impressed by List what impresses you about that person and their LDP
Concerned
about
List what concerns you about the LDP
Follow up
process
Identify how the person would like to be held accountable for progress on
their LDP
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46. Leadership Development Is Not About You … It is about
the organization and those you support and support you.
Most of what is written about leadership development is
very introspective.
Focusing on the individual.
Trying to create the Übermensch through excessive self-
discovery, assessments, journaling, therapy, emotional
intelligence, etc.…
Believing that if you can just know more about yourself
you will become a mindful leader that others will openly
follow.
Unfortunately, knowing yourself is half the battle
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49. Mike’s 6 Boundaries of Leadership
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50. Leadership is contextual =
you need to understand the context
you are being asked to exercise
leadership accountability within and
what clues or tools will allow you to
best lead.
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51. My solution will not work for you =
while many people have a close
enough answer to leadership
challenges. You need to frame the
problem within your context and
determine what capacity, skills and
resources you have (or know) can
make progress.
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52. The current environment is enough =
where you are and what you know
right now is sufficient. When
challenged to make a leadership
decision the more you understand
the current environment and ask
people to show you what is
happening, the better you can lead.
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53. When something works take notice=
leadership is creating awareness of
the minute details and how those
things happen. When something
happens that the team would like to
have happen more take notice, figure
out with the team what happened
and design an experiment to repeat
what worked.
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54. The team will grow or wither based
on the organizational system and
your capacity =
your accountability as a leader is to
add value to the decision-making and
problem-solving of the team and to
supply resources to complete the
work.
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55. You will be wrong > 50% of the time.
When you are wrong admit it =
nobody believes that leaders need to
be superheroes. When you are
wrong, make a bad decision, offend
somebody, and fail to understand the
environment tell the team, apologize
and bring the team together to
develop the next small experiment.
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56. As a leader finding solutions and making
progress is not the absence of problems.
Leadership is looking for what is
happening when the problem is absent.
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58. Mike L Ken D Drew C Jenn S Carissa L Claire S Chris S Jillian C Melissa G
Diedre R Emily M Ameet B Scott B Matt D Kayel S Kristin M Steve B Julia S
Rob R Tracy D Wendy S Lisa S Aaron C Scott D Melissa L Ang B Carole M
Julie B John C
Kathleen
H Len T Mike G Andrea C Camille L Sheila K Nick G
Andrea K Jeff W Kory S Lisa H Ezra S Sara C Kevin K Melanie D Tom M
Carolyn R Roscoe N Brian R
Strength Envelopes
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59. Our Mission
To strengthen regional leadership.
Our Vision
We are the premier leadership resource for our region.
Our Core Values
- Visionary Leadership - Excellence
- Regional Partnerships - Societal Responsibility
- Diversity and Inclusion - Lifelong Learning
Mike Cardus