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L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l
l a b o r a t i o n
Finding and Keeping Valuable Staff in a Tight
Market
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L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l
l a b o r a t i o n
Pollyanna Pixton President, Evolutionary
Systems Director Institute of Collaborative
Leadership
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Agenda

• Find Good People
• Open Environment
• Culture of Trust
• Motivation
• The 3 Cs
• Leadership Tips
• Summary

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• Individuals The Ultimate Source Of Value

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Find Good People

• The
• Right
• People

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The Right People

• Hire and promote
• First on the basis of integrity
• Second, motivation
• Third, capacity
• Fourth, understanding
• Fifth, knowledge
• Last and least, experience
• - Dee Hock, CEO Emeritus VISA International

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The Right People

• Authenticity
• Attitude
• Intelligence
• Talent

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The Right People

Passionate About
Best At
Organizational Fit
All team members operate within the intersection
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Get the right people on the bus in the right
seats.
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Get the wrong people off the bus.
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Project Management
To Stimulate Ideas Create an Open Environment

• Dependency Management

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Open Environment

• What kind of environment do we need to
• Foster creativity and innovation?
• Encourage ideas?
• Create team ownership and commitment?
• Implement mission critical and differentiation
  ideas?
• What is an Open Environment?

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• Make sure everyone has what they need to
  succeed.

Great Environments
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Increase Productivity Build a Culture of Trust
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Project Management

• Quality Management

How Can Leaders Help Teams Build Trust?
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Can These People Work Together?
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Working Together?

• Assess Trust in the Team
• Talk with each team member confidentially
• Walk the floor
• Visit the break room
• Ask
• Whats working?
• Whats not working?
• How would they fix it?

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• Does one person talk all the time?
• Is anyone listening?
• Is one person ignored works alone?
• Is there respect for everyone?
• Do people listen to each other?

What to Look For
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Start Up

• Exercise Pick a project.

A Difficult Person. Should They Leavethe Team?
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The Vacation Test

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How To Work Together?

• Ask the Team

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Can Broken Trust be Repaired?
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Integrate? Build an Island?

• How Do We Deliver?

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Unleashing Innovation

• Collaboration Process

Create a Culture of Trust
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Remove Debilitating Fear

• Dependency Management

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• Remove Obstacles

Team Based Measurements
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• Change Management

Build Team Confidence
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Unleashing Innovation

• Collaboration Model

Short Iterations
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Team Confidence

• Expect Success Accept Mistakes

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Team Confidence

• Take the
• Fun
• Out of
• Being
• Dysfunctional

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Leadership Role

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Authentic
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• How Do We Deliver?

Trustworthy
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Project Management

• Maintaining Project Focus

Trustworthy
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Leadership Role

• Operate With
• Total
• Transparency

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Leadership Role

• Trust First!

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Definitions
Give Up Command and Control
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Collaborative Leadership

• The Opposite of Control is Discovery

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Collaborative Leadership

• Ricardo Semler, CEO of Semco, believes that all
  people desire to achieve excellence and that
  autocracy dampens peoples creativity and
  motivation.
• - The Seven-Day Weekend

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Motivation
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• Authentic Motivation
• The 3 Cs
• Collaboration
• Choice
• Content
• - Alfie KohnPunished By Rewards

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Collaboration
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Project Management

• How Do We Deliver?

None of us are as smart as all of us. - Japanese
Proverb
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Collaboration Model

• Convene People FromThe Entire Enterprise!
• Customers
• Marketing
• Sales
• Finance
• Technology
• Manufacturing
• Stakeholders

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Collaboration Model

• Foster
• Creativity
• Innovation
• via
• Collaboration Process

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Collaborative Leadership

• Step Aside,
• Let
• Them
• Work!

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Unleashing Innovation

• Collaboration Process

Collaboration Process
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Collaboration Process

• 1. Agree to
• Goals
• Objectives
• Purpose

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Collaboration Process

• 2. Brainstorm
• 3. Group
• 4. Prioritize
• Based on ???

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Collaboration Process

• 5. Individuals
• Volunteer
• For What
• And
• By When

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Choice
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Choice

• Let Individuals Choose How
• Let Teams Decide
• On success measurements
• How to hold each other accountable
• Self-evaluations and what to share with
  leadership

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Choice

• They tell you
• what needs
• to happen
• for success
• and results.

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• Create a place where people want to be not have
  to be.

Great Leadership
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Content
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Definitions
Create Meaningful Work
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Leadership Tips

• Leadership Influence

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Leadership Tips

• Free Team to Question, Analyze and Investigate

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Keep Focus Through Questions

• Focus, Communication, and Expectation Management

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Protect Team Boundaries

• Protect Team Boundaries

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Stay Positive
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Leadership Tips

• Influence Not Authority

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Leadership Tips

• Keep
• the
• Purpose
• Alive

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Leadership Tips

• Fix Processes
• Not People

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Leading Collaboration

• No Such Thing
• As
• Constructive
• Criticism

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Leadership Tips

• Feedback
• That Honors
• The
• Relationship

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Leadership Tips

• Fail Early Fail Fast!

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• Remove Obstacles

Remove Obstacles
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Leadership Tips

• Organizations change in the directionin which
  they inquire.
• Inquire.
• Question.
• Listen.

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Monitoring and Tracking

• Making Adjustments For Successful Results

People Need Leaders
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Summary

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Project Management

• Planning, Tracking, and Correcting

• Create an Open Environment
• Build a Culture of Trust
• Bring the Right People Together
• Authentically Motivate The 3 Cs
• Stand Back and Deliver

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Leadership Tips

• Push Decisions to the Edge of the Organization
• Ask, Dont Tell
• Communicate Total Transparency
• Remove Boulders Carry Water
• Stand Back
• Guide Through Questions
• Take the Fun Out of Being Dysfunctional

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Summary

• Leadership Tipping Point
• When to lead?
• When to step back?
• Where is your Tipping Point?
• How can you step up and still be collaborative?

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Summary

• Your
• Questions?

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References

• Stand Back and Deliver, co-author, published by
  Addison Wesley, due out in November 2008
• The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball A Corporate Fool's
  Guide to Surviving with Grace, Gordon MacKenzie
• Organizing Genius, The Secrets of Creative
  Collaboration, Warren Bennis

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Contact

• Pollyanna Pixton
• www.evolutionarysystems.net
• www.accelinnova.com
• www.collaborativeleadership.com
• 1 . 801 . 209 . 0195
• p2_at_ppixton.com