Developing Your Leadership Competencies

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Developing Your Leadership Competencies

• Roy Romero, CPA
• Inside Results
• Stan Payton
• SPACS.com

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I Am Who I Am

• Why am I here?
• What do I expect to learn?
• If I rate this seminar from 1-10 (ten being the
  highest possible rating), what rating do I expect
  to give?

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OBJECTIVES

• Understand Leadership Competencies
• Understand how competencies can be used to
  improve Leadership abilities.
• How Affirmations create new leadership behaviors
• Tools that help your determine your leadership
  roadmap.
• Begin your path towards leadership development

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Leadership Autograph Seeker Bingo

• Obtain signature from fellow participants in
  boxes that identify with their experiences.
• First person to black out card call out BINGO
• Prize for the winner.

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Traits and Components Commonly Found in
Leadership Competency Models

• Values
• Cognitive Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Diversity Components
• Change Orientation
• A competency model is a roadmap to individual
  and group leadership success.

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Components of Competency Frameworks

• Competencies are labels that describe how they
  relate to leadership and behavior
• Competencies are often written as definitions
  that describe observable behaviors
• Various types of frameworks used, many
  similarities, many differences
• Army Field Manual 22-100
• ECQs 5 Areas, 27 competencies
• Marines -11 Principles, 14 Traits
• IRS - 5 Core Responsibilities, 21 competencies
• Others?

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Values
Values are our core beliefs that we feel most
passionate about. There are individual, family,
community, cultural and work values. For
example

• Family
• Spiritual
• Learning
• Integrity
• Honesty
• Self Awareness

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Cognitive Skills
Cognitive skills represents knowledge acquired
through perception, reasoning, and intuition.
(i.e. analytical skills, learned processes like
problem solving, planning and monitoring)

• Decisiveness
• Problem Solving
• Political Savvy
• Strategic Thinking
• Entrepreneurship
• Analytical Thinking
• Technical Knowledge

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Interpersonal Skills
Interpersonal skills pertain to interactions
between individuals.

• Oral Communication
• Written Communication
• Influencing Negotiating
• Developing Others
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Partnering

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Diversity Components
Diversity encompasses the understanding, respect
and acceptance of the various differences and
uniqueness of individuals.

• Cultural Awareness
• Diversity Awareness
• Teamwork
• Customer Focus

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Change Orientation
Change orientation is a systematic approach to
achieving change at individual and organizational
levels.

• Leading Transformation
• Risk taking
• Achievement Orientation
• Change Management
• Creativity
• Innovation
• Adaptability
• Flexibility
• Resilience

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Exercise

• Break into groups of four
• Discuss various types of models from your
  respective organizations
• What categories are emphasized most?
• Values
• Cognitive
• Interpersonal
• Diversity
• Change

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What is Leadership?

• Influencing, motivating and inspiring others
  through direct or indirect means to accomplish
  organizational goals.
• John Maxwell Influence, nothing more and
  nothing less.
• What aspects come to your mind when you think
  about leadership?

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Interesting Facts About Leaders and Leadership
Development

• Leadership skills are developed
• Leaders are viewed through their strengths
• As you develop your strengths, perceptions of
  your other skills improves (halo effect)
• Dont concentrate on weaknesses unless they are
  profound

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What are Leadership Characteristics?

• Flipchart

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Developmental Process

• Projected Goal
• Self-Image Comfort Zone

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What is Your Self-Image About Your Personal
Leadership Capabilities?

• I am a great leader.
• I have many leadership skills.
• I have leadership gaps.
• I am not a leader.
• I dont know how leadership skills impact me.
• I dont really understand leadership.
• I prefer to follow than to lead

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Your Current Reality about Leadership is Your
Comfort Zone

• Your current reality is your truth and is the
  area in which you are comfortable.
• To develop your leadership skills you must be
  willing to move out of your comfort zone.

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Developing Your Leadership Capabilities

• Projected Goal ____
• Creates Tension
• Self-Image Comfort Zone

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Leadership Picture Summary

• Current reality (Where you are now)
• Your comfort zone (Where you feel comfortable
  now)
• Affirmation creates picture of projected reality
• Repeated affirmations make picture clearer
• Creates tension (creative tension)
• You begin moving towards the projected reality
• Learning opportunities take place
• Resources become available
• Your projected reality becomes your new current
  reality

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Affirmations

• We make them all of the time.
• They can be positive or negative.
• When an affirmation takes us out of our current
  reality (and comfort zone), we have a natural
  tendency to move back within our comfort zone.
• Repeating Affirmations helps us to see a new
  reality with more clarity and helps us to create
  a new comfort zone
• It is through this learning process that we can
  begin to extend and develop our leadership skills

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Affirmations Influence Leadership Development

• What is an affirmation?
• Self Talk
• Talk to others

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Guidelines for Writing Affirmations

• Personal
• Positive
• Present tense
• Indicate achievement
• No comparison
• Action words
• Emotion words
• Accuracy
• Balance
• Realistic
• Confidential

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Affirmation Statements

• I easily earn respect with my team by sharing
  power and control.
• I eagerly invest in and develop my team members,
  readying them for full empowerment.
• I easily collaborate with my team, sharing
  authority, control, responsibility and rewards.
• I am easily trusting of others when we meet.
• I value ideas and input others have to offer.
• I respect and value others opinions even when I
  dont agree.
• It is just like me to consistently show respect
  for all employees and help them transfer that
  respect to our customers.
• My actions reveal high self-confidence in what I
  do and how I do it and I take actions that
  instills self-confidence in others.
• I am fully aware of attitudes and behaviors that
  reveal my best self day in and day out.

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Leadership Development Cycle

• Assessment and Alignment
• Individual Learning
• Social Application
• Sustain and Reinforce
• Measure and repeat process

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Profound Leadership Assessment Tool

• Stan Payton
• Computer Guru

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Path to Leadership Development

• Affirmations
• Assessment tools
• Action Plan
• Reading
• Observing behavior
• Formal program
• Community leadership activities
• Other

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Exercise

• Write three affirmation statements that improve
  your leadership capabilities
• Write three affirmation statements pertaining to
  your personal development
• Begin to explore the paths that will make your
  affirmations Your Reality

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Conclusion

• Why was I here?
• What did I learn?
• I rate this seminar from 1-10 (ten being the
  highest possible rating)