Leadership Strategies that Support a Healthy High Performance Workplace

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Leadership Strategies that Support a Healthy High
Performance Workplace

• HR Conference
• February 18, 2009

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AGENDA

• Opening comments introductions
• Spirit at Work Inspired Leadership Val
  Kinjerski
• Leadership versus Management - Dr. Al Cook
• What can we learn from the best - Dr. Greg
  Banwell
• Discussion

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Discussion Focus

• Best Practice
• What do the best employers do in this area and
  what is working well at the UofA?
• Issues
• Key institutional and local level challenges
• Suggested Actions
• Practical steps we could take at the
  institutional and local level to improve our
  practices

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CHARACTERISTICS OF A HEALTHY WORKPLACE

• fairness
• respect
• teamwork
• cooperation
• commitment
• empowerment
• supportive
• balanced (work/life)
• communication
• sustainable

• encouragement
• participation
• recognition
• involvement
• engagement
• leadership
• resiliency
• capacity
• collaboration

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Panel Presentations
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UofA Human Resources Conference

• Al Cook
• Professor
• Speech Pathology and Audiology

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Leadership and Management Judith Gibson,
University Manager, Spring 2003

• Managers cope with complexity, leaders cope with
  change
• Mangers focus on present, leaders on future
• Managers perform to expectations, leaders create
  expectations
• Management is about controlling while leadership
  is about unlocking
• Leadership and management are both required in
  university administration

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Leadership and ManagementJudith Gibson

• Lead by
• Inspiring a shared vision envision a hopeful
  and optimistic future
• Modeling the way - live by your values
• Challenge the process-look for what isnt
  working, experiment and take risks
• Encourage the heart - celebrate accomplishment,
  reward, recognize
• Enable others to act Remove barriers and foster
  collaboration, build capacity in others

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One-on-one Meetings with Academic and Support
Staff Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine

• Important issues
• Trust
• Recognition
• Communication
• Balance of teaching and research
• Followed over five years

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Connections - the Key to Strength

• Organizations could accomplish so much more if
  they relied on the passion evoked when we connect
  to others, purpose to purpose.
• Margaret Wheatley, A Simpler Way

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Chinese saying

• The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
• The good leader is he who the people revere.
• The great leader is he who the people say We did
  it ourselves.
• Lua Tsu

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Panel Presentations
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Discussion Focus

• Best Practice
• What do the best employers do in this area and
  what is working well at the UofA?
• Issues
• Key institutional and local level challenges
• Suggested Actions
• Practical steps we could take at the
  institutional and local level to improve our
  practices

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DISCUSSION