Leadership: What type of leader are you? safety

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Leadership What type of leader are you?
safety

• American Society of Safety
  Engineers (ASSE)
• National Capital
  Chapter
• January 24,
  2013
• Joy Erdman, MS, CSP, CIH
• Joy.erdman_at_navy.mil
• joyerdman00_at_gmail.com
• W 703.695.4705

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What type of leader are you?
Purpose Reflect on your leadership strengths
and areas needing
improvement.

• Introduction Transitioning from Manager
  to Leader
• Qualities of a Leader
• Toxic Leadership
• Leading Change
• Managing Failure
• Building Trust
• Integrating Contradictions
• Transforming Yourself
• Key to Safety Leadership in the 21st Century

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What type of leader are you? For those
of you who think this topic is too soft, here
are the technical websites Joy Erdman leads on

• Acquisition safety
• Safety policies
• Safety and occupational health success stories
• Electrical safety

• http//www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Pages/acquis
  ition/acquisition.aspx
• http//www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Pages/instru
  ctions/OPNAV_Policy.aspx
• http//www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Pages/osh/Su
  ccess_Stories/safety_success_stories_home.aspx
• http//www.denix.osd.mil/eswg/

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Leadership What type of leader are you?

• Transitioning from a Manager to a Leader
• 1st Step Instead of viewing people as the
  problem
• View people as the
  solution
• 2nd Step Give up primary focus on technical
• Focus on problem solving
• 3rd Step Instead of thinking short term
• Think long term .Strategic
• Think teamwork

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Comparing Leaders and Managers
Select the Leader

• Originator.. . or .. Copier
• Accepts the status quo..or... Challenges the
  status
• 
  quo
• Thinks people.. or... Think things
• Asks how and when.. or .. Asks what and why
• Watches the bottom lineor .. Watches the
  horizon
• Thinks short term or... Thinks long term
• Does things right or Does the right things

See also DK Leadership
Leading and Managing (p. 7)
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What type of Leader are you?
Qualities of Leaders

• Character Be a piece of the rock
• Charisma The 1st impresson can seal the deal
• Commitment It separates doers from dreamers
• Communication Without it, you travel alone
• Competence If you build it, they will come
• Courage One person with courage is a majority
• Discernment Put an end to unsolved problems
• Focus The sharper it is, the sharper you are
• Generosity Your candle loses nothing when it
  lights another
• Initiative You wont leave home without it
• Listening To connect with their hearts, use your
  ears
• Ref Maxwell, John C., The 21 Indispensable
  Qualities of a Leader Becoming the Person Others
  Will Want to Follow

1. Passion Take this life and love it
2. Positive Attitude If you believe you can, you
   can
3. Problem Solving You cant let your problems be a
   problem
4. Relationships If you get along, theyll go
   along
5. Responsibility If you wont carry the ball, you
   cant lead the team
6. Security Competence never compensates for
   insecurity
7. Self-Discipline The first person to lead is you
8. Servanthood To get ahead, put others first
9. Teachability To keep leading, keep learning
10. Vision You can seize only what you see

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What type of leader are you?
Toxic Leaders We should ask

• Do we create toxic leaders?
• Do we tolerate them?
• What should we do about them?
• How many toxic leaders are in
• your organization?
• Toxic Leaders, Bullies, Creeps, Jerks,
  Tyrants, Tormentors, Despots, Backstabbers,
  Egomaniacs, Assholes
• Ref George Reed, Toxic Leadership,
  george.reed_at_sandiego.edu

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Results and leader behavior
Positive Leader Behaviors
Poor Results
Good Results
Negative Leader Behaviors
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Toxic Leaders Solutions/Antidotes

• Name the problem (toxic leadership) and talk
  about it openly.
• Develop and select with an eye to leadership
  style, not simply short term effectiveness.
• Implement the no asshole rule.
• Hold supervisors responsible for the style of
  their subordinates.
• Implement climate assessments. Look for the weak
  signals.
• Evaluate the long term health of the organization
  as well as accomplishment of the short term
  goals.
• Implement 360 degree or multi-faceted evaluations
  for development, and eventually as a data point
  for promotion, selection, and assignment.
• Have the hard discussions.
• Ref George Reed, george.reed_at_sandiego.edu

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What type of leader are you? Toxic Leaders
- Is there a cost that must be paid for
leaders with a destructive leadership style?

• Enforcing the No Asshole Rule
• Say the rule, write it down
• Assholes will hire other assholes
• Get rid of assholes fast
• Treat certified assholes as incompetent employees
• Power breeds nastiness
• Embrace the power-performance paradox
• Manage moments not just practices, policies,
  and systems
• Model and teach constructive confrontation
• Adopt the one asshole rule
• bottom line Link big policies to small decencies
• Ref Sutton, PhD, Robert, The No Asshole Rule
  Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One
  That Isnt

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What type of leader are you?
How do you handle change?
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How do you handle change?
Change is a constant

• Faster pace
• Multiple and cross-cutting
• Increasingly threat driven
• Unreliable infrastructure
• Change is a permanent
• process
• Inner attitudes and values now
• important (unlike past)

• Occurs as surprises
• Usually novel
• Messy can of worms
• Costly, impossible to ignore
• Cant solve with policy
• Going to continue
• indefinitely

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How do you handle change?
Change is a constant

• Good News Youre Not Alone
• Bad News Its screwed up everywhere!
• Ability to let go of control
• Ability to exercise greater patience
• Leaders rock the boat not afraid to change not
  afraid to risk failure

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How do you handle change?
Transforming your organization

• Establish a sense of urgency
• Form a powerful coalition
• Create a vision
• Communicate the vision
• Empower others to act on the vision
• Plan for and create short-term wins
• Consolidate improvements and produce still more
  change
• Institutionalize new approaches
• Refs John P. Kotter, Leading Change
• Harvard Business Review on Change

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What type of leader are you?

• Your ability to create and sell a vision
• Your ability to create and manage through teams
• Your ability to fail successfully
• Your ability to build trust
• See also DK
  Leadership
• Vision (p. 12, 40, 54, 64)
• Teams (p. 48)
  

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What type of leader are you? Failure
Most Common Causes of Failure

• Poor interpersonal skills
• Wrong Fit (environment, value system, co-workers)
• Lack of commitment
• Bad luck
• Self destructive behavior
• Too scattered to focus
• Sexism, ageism, racism
• Over or under delegation
• Hanging on
• Doesnt get help from others
• Manage subordinates poorly
• Takes on very low risks
• Doesnt work through issues
• Ref Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb, When Smart
  People Fail

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What type of leader are you?

• Failure Your ability to fail successfully
• Leaders take risks and are willing to fail.
• Prevent big failures by getting feedback Use
  scorecard (rate A F)
• When fail, reflect and learn
• Exercise
• When did I try and fail?
• What did I learn?

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What type of leader are you?

• OPM releases executive onboarding guide
• Oct 17, 2011
• According to the guide, since the beginning of
  2006, about 16 percent of Senior Executive
  Service members failed to complete their initial
  1-year probationary period successfully, for
  reasons that included termination for
  performance, performance significantly below
  expectations, or voluntary resignation from the
  new position.
• The most common causes for that failure, the
  report says, include a lack of political savvy,
  failure to establish a cultural fit, uncertainty
  about performance expectations, failure to build
  teamwork, and a lack of a formal assimilation
  process for new executives.
• Refs http//federaldaily.com/articles/2011/10/1
  7/opm-releases-executive-onboarding-guide.aspx?sF
  D_181011
• OPM Hit the Ground Running
• Establishing A Model Executive
  Onboarding Program (28 pp)
• http//www.opm.gov/WIKI/uploads/docs/Wiki/OPM/tra
  ining/Hit_the_Ground_Running_Establishing_a_Model_
  Executive_Onboarding_Framework_2011.pdf

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Your ability to build trust

• 1. Discovering yourself
• 2. Appreciating constituents
• 3. Affirming shared values
• 4. Developing capacity
• 5. Serving a purpose
• 6. Sustaining hope
• Ref James Kouzes and Barry Posner, Credibility
  How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand
  It.

• Reflect - When you made a difference. Why does
  org need me tomorrow? Stop doing things sort
  out the important.
• 2. Create organization that nurtures the best
  (ability to contribute best be valued)
• 3. Emphasize what agree on
• 4. Stop talking/deciding
• 5. Market others. Ask Questions
• 6. High hope high performance
• Set goals Dispute neg. beliefs

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Your ability to build trust

• DWYSYWD is Welsh for
• Do What You Say You Will Do
• Ref James Kouzes and Barry Posner, Credibility
  How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand
  It.

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Leadership Courses

• ASSE Leadership Symposia http//www.asse.org/lead
  ership/
• ASSE Safety Body of Knowledge http//www.safetybo
  k.org/
• USDA Graduate School www.grad.usda.gov/leader
• Harvard JFK School of Govt www.hks.harvard.edu/
• OPM Leadership Courses www.leadership.opm.gov
• Center for Creative Leadership (Greensboro NC)
  www.ccl.org/leadership
• Basic Leadership Development Leadership at the
  Peak Programs - rated 1 in Wall St. Journal
• Uses tests, video, 2-way mirrors, class opinion,
  instructor opinion.look for behavior and results
• Most frequent advice given to attendees
• ______________
• Toastmasters International http//www.toastmaster
  s.org/

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What type of leader are you?
Integrating Contradictions

• Become more focused on self
• Become more focused on others
• Produce actions that are logical
• Produce actions that are emotional
• Look at the short term
• Look at the long term
• Reflections
• What has helped me to increase my ability to
  focus on the contradictions above?
• What action did I take that was both logical and
  emotional?
• What other contradictions do I face as a leader?

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What type of Leader are you?
Transforming yourself

• Winning too much
• Adding too much value
• Passing judgment
• Making destructive comments
• Starting with No, But, or However
• Telling the world how smart we are
• Speaking when angry
• Negativity, or Let me explain why that wont
  work
• Withholding information
• Failing to give proper recognition
• Ref Goldsmith, What Got You Here
  Wont Get You There How Successful People Become
  Even More Successful

• Claiming credit that we dont deserve
• Making excuses
• Clinging to the past
• Playing favorites
• Refusing to express regret
• Not listening
• Failing to express gratitude
• Punishing the messenger
• Passing the buck
• An excessive need to be me
• See also DK Leadership,
• Leadership Transitions,
• p.63

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What type of leader are you?

• 21st Century Leader
• Path Finding Will keep ahead by exploring
  uncharted territory serving as advanced scout
  will do this through a disciplined monitoring of
  external conditions.
• Aligning Will be expert at quickly and
  effectively bringing together people and
  resources needed to address issues of critical
  importance will do this through alliances with
  diverse industries, organizations, community
  groups and professions.
• Empowering Will maintain an environment within
  which key constituencies and staff have access to
  information and technical assistance necessary to
  advance their success will do this through
  effective use of internet technology along with
  traditional methods of communication which have
  proven themselves to be effective.
• Ref Ed Barlow, http//www.creatingthefuture.com

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What type of leader are you?
More on alignment

• The key to success in the 21st century is
  alignment. Staying in alignment with a world
  that I guarantee will be characterized by
  complexity, diversity, and pace of change.
• Ref. Ed Barlow, http//www.creatingthefuture.com

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What type of leader are you?

• Select 5 areas you want to learn more about to
  improve your leadership capabilities
• __________________________
• __________________________
• __________________________
• __________________________
• __________________________

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What type of leader are you?

• Did you pick up a few new ideas to
• Improve your leadership skills?
• Advance your career ?
• Help the safety profession.?
• Did you win a free leadership book?
• Did you meet someone new?
• Did you enjoy yourself?

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Leadership What type of leader are you?
safety

• American Society of Safety
  Engineers (ASSE)
• National Capital
  Chapter
• January 24,
  2013
• Joy Erdman, MS, CSP, CIH
• Joy.erdman_at_navy.mil
• joyerdman00_at_gmail.com
• W 703.695.4705