Self leadership

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Self leadership

• Peter Tatham and Gaon Mitchell

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Your career and leadership

• Self awareness
• What lies behind you and what lies before you
  are tiny matters compared to what lies within
  you
• - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Context
Demographic shifts
Skills shortages
Technology
Employment
Me
Financial crisis
Ageing pop.
Human capital
Importing labour
globalisation
Knowledge economies
Equity
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Career

• Career
• A lifestyle concept that involves the sequence
  of work, learning and leisure activities in which
  one engages throughout a lifetime.

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Balance
Life roles
Years
Career management
Actual Career Progression

• What do I have to offer?
• Where do I want to be?
• Who needs what I have ?
• Who will pay for it?

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The protean career the individual owns their
career

• Focus on psychological success rather than
  vertical success
• Lifelong series of identity changes and
  continuous learning
• Career age counts, not chronological age
• Job security replaced by the goal of
  employability
• Sources of development are work challenges and
  relationships, not necessarily training and
  retraining programs
• The new career contract is not a pact with the
  organization rather, it is an agreement with
  ones self and ones work
• Focus on learning metaskills (learning how to
  learn), i.e., how to develop self-knowledge
  (about ones identity) and adaptability
• Adaptability and identity learning is best
  accomplished through interactions with other
  people (reflected in interdependence, mutuality,
  reciprocity, and learning from differences)

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Traditional vs Protean career
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Me Inc CEO of brand you
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Me things I need to know for self understanding

• My Background and life roles
• My self image and confidence
• My values
• My interests and passions
• My preferred lifestyle
• My life goals and personal vision
• How I perform
• My skills and strengths

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Home work discussion

• Share insights to your values, interests and
  strengths with your group
• Achievements and the stories they tell

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Me Inc -my lifestyle

• Preferred work style
• Hours worked
• Work colleagues
• Location
• Balance
• Assets
• Hobbies and interests
• Recreation

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Life work balance -Wheel of life
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Employability Skills and Attributes

• Loyalty
• Honesty and integrity
• Reliability
• Commonsense
• Sense of humour
• Ability to deal with pressure
• Adaptability
• Commitment
• Enthusiasm
• Personal presentation
• Positive self esteem
• Balanced attitude to work and home life
• Motivation

• Communication
• Team work
• Self Management
• Technology
• Initiative and enterprise
• Problem Solving
• Planning and organising
• Learning

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Personality and leadership style

• ESTP/ESFP, Sculptor
• Takes action, produces results, leads from the
  front, sets an example, does what is asked of
  others
• ISTJ/ISFJ, Curator
• Observes, listens, clarifies goals, establishes
  realistic expectations, makes aims crystal clear
• ESTJ/ENTJ, Conductor
• Organises, makes plans, sets measurable goals,
  coordinates work of different people, manages
  resources
• ISTP/INTP, Scientist
• Analyses, uses models, produces explanations,
  compares other situations, engages in
  intellectual debate
• ESFJ/ENFJ, Coach
• People-oriented, motivator, builds personal
  relationships, likeable, interpersonal skills,
  cares for others
• ISFP/INFP, Campaigner
• Value-driven, has passion for key issues, focuses
  on important themes, champions the cause
• ENTP/ENFP, Explorer
• Tries things that are new, prototypes, introduces
  change, looks for unexpected outcomes, creates
  new opportunities, experiments
• INTJ/INFJ, Innovator
• Develops long term vision, produces radical
  ideas, foresees the future, anticipates what is
  outside current knowledge

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Type prayers

• ISTJ -God help me to relax about little details
  tomorrow at 114121
• ISFJ - Lord help me to be more laid back help
  me do it exactly right
• INFJ Lord, help me not to be a perfectionist
  (did I spelt that correctly)
• INTJ Lord, keep me open to others ideas wrong
  though they may be.
• ISTP God, help me to consider other peoples
  feelings, even if most of them are hypersensitive
• ISFP Lord, help me to stand up for my rights!
  (If you dont mind me asking)
• INFP Lord, help me to finish everything I sta
• INTP Lord, but may be less independent but let
  me do it my way

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More

• ESTP- God, help me to take responsibility for my
  own actions, even though they usually not my
  fault.
• ESFP God help me to take things more seriously
  especially parties and dancing.
• ENFP God help me to keep my mind on one thi
  look! a bird --ing at a time
• ENTP God help me to follow established
  procedures today. On second thought I will settle
  for a few.
• ESTJ God help me not to try to run everything.
  But, if you need some help, just ask.
• ESFJ Lord, give me patience, and I want it
  right now.
• ENFJ God, help me to do only what I can and
  trust you for the rest. Do you mind putting that
  in writing?
• ENTJ God, help me to slow down not
  rushthroughwhatIdoamen

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Beliefs impact on how we position ourselves

• I need to be qualified/ experienced
• I am not good enough
• I lack confidence to be a leader
• I prefer followship
• I operate in contexts in which I cannot
  demonstrate my leadership

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Underlying thinking
Dream result
Actions
Emotions
Commitment
The dark side line
Inaction
Emotions
Disaster
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Your pitch Me inc

• Develop a short statement that describes a
• personal vision, your skills values, strengths
  skills
• and passion
• States 5-8 broad strategies

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Building opportunities

• Networking
• Mentoring
• Work shadowing
• Negotiated observations
• Skills coaching
• Project development and management
• Management training
• Action research
• Feedback and evaluation processes -APA

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Power, influence and gate keepers

• Understanding authority structures
• Reciprocity
• Trust
• Generosity
• Perception

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Self management

• Positioning behaviour not position
• Strategic choice/mobility
• Active network development
• Managing learning
• Influence behaviour
• Self promotion
• Can do
• Upward influence
• Boundary management
• Maintenance and transition

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Goals for action

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time lined

• Impacts
• Perception
• Fears
• Actions
• Priority
• Acceptability
• Risk
• Resources

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Your first significant act of leadership

• Reflect on one of your first significant acts of
  leadership
• How do you know it was an act of leadership?
• As a result of this experience what did you
  realise you needed to learn more about?
• Reflect on how comfortable you are with seeing
  yourself as a leader.

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Leadership starts within

• I articulate my values and know how they underpin
  my work
• I know and respect and understand my community
• I articulate what I want to achieve with
• I demonstrate courage in taking responsibly for
• I take time to critically reflect on myself and
  my work
• As a result of this reflection I take action to
  look after myself
• I demonstrate optimism and integrity in
  challenging times