Leadership

Question 1

What is a leader?

Answer 1

Leaders inspire people to achieve shared objectives.

Question 2

Most important qualities for effective leaders?

Answer 2

Awareness: Ability to gather info/data
Synthesis: Ability to reorganize or digest data into ideas
Inspiration: Ability to inspire people to achieve shared objectives

Question 3

Self-awareness

Answer 3

Being a spectator to your own thoughts, especially when you become emotional

Question 4

Compassion

Answer 4

Compassion equals empathy plus action.

Question 5

Why compassionate

Answer 5

when Invest in the success of others, you invest in your own success
Compassion -> Trust -> Shortcut -> Better decision made faster
Proactively ask difficult questions

Question 6

Compassion is not conditional.

Answer 6

It’s the people that you don’t naturally connect with, those are the folks that need your compassion the most.

Question 7

Know what you want to accomplish

Answer 7

Optimizing for both your passion and your skill

Question 8

Generate self-awareness

Answer 8

Mindful practice
Getting feedback from the direct report is valuable
Through Mentorship

Question 9

Team-awareness: Building the team

Answer 9

Build a team that complements their own strengths and weaknesses. Not just skills, but also perspectives and life experience

Question 10

Team-awareness: Reading the room

Answer 10

Listen, with the intent to understand and not just the intent to reply

Speak with the intent to be understood, and not just prove your point

Be aware of how the message was received and course correct

Question 11

Team-awareness: Team diverse

Answer 11

Diversity - people with different background
Inclusion - invite to meetings
Belonging - sense of belonging otherwise they won’t speak

Question 12

Team-awareness: The 3 qualities of people I most enjoy working with

Answer 12

Dream big
Get stuff done
Know how to have fun

Question 13

Team-awareness: Expressing gratitude

Answer 13

Doing so from a place of deep authenticity,

Question 14

Team-awareness: Meeting dynamic

Answer 14

Identify what problem you’re trying to solve.
Balancing between presentation and discussion
Balancing between tension and patience (there is an optimal level of patience)

Question 15

Three tiers of feedback

Answer 15

One person’s opinion
Strong suggestion
Mandate

We should not give too many mandates. Otherwise, something is wrong

Question 16

Awareness: Company

Answer 16

Weekly/Daily data: Dashboard, email updates
Weekly meetings: 1:1s, value meetings: tracking key performance indicator
Longer-term bigger picture meetings: Quarterly business review

Question 17

Awareness: Macro

Answer 17

You’re going to beat the competition by being true to who you are as a company. By recognizing your own sustainable, unique, competitive advantages and playing to those strengths.

Question 18

Synthesis

Answer 18

Separate the signal from the noise and you’re able to focus on the stuff that matters most.

Question 19

Synthesis: Vision to values

Answer 19

Vision: the dream, it’s designed to inspire.
Mission: singular, overarching, and measurable realizable goal
Value proposition: the benefit or advantage that you’re trying to create for your customer or your end user.
Target audience: the person your value proposition serves
Culture: the collective personality of our organization. Who we are and who we aspire to be. That aspirational component is absolutely critical.
Values: first principles upon which you make day to day operating decisions

There’s a lot of power to stability in terms of what I would call the big four: mission, vision, culture, and values

Question 20

Strategy and Priorities

Answer 20

Strategy is how you navigate the competitive landscape. Priorities are the tactics designed to realize that strategy.

Strategic objectives change every year.

When you prioritize a business objective over a core value proposition, what risk do you run? Short-term success, but it’s mortgaging the long-term future.

Question 21

Synthesis: FoCuS

Answer 21

FCS.
The F, fewer things done better.
The C, communication, communicate the right information to the right people at the right time
The S, the speed and quality of your decision-making

Question 22

RAPID decision-making framework

Answer 22

Recommend: Key part
Agree: huge power
Perform: who executes it no surprise
Input
Decide

Question 23

Very important transitions that you’re going to end up making as managers.

Answer 23

tactical <=====> strategic

problem solving <=====> coaching

Question 24

Time management

Answer 24

The more senior you become, the more you’re responsible for others, the more you’re responsible for making decisions, for prioritizing, for thinking strategically, for thinking proactively, for thinking big, for establishing a vision, the more time you need, unscheduled time

take a look at someone’s or your schedule and compare it with your priority. do they align?

Question 25

Inspiration

Answer 25

The ability to inspire others, to achieve shared objectives.

if you want to inspire others, you need to start with what inspires you.

Question 26

Inspiration: encourage of your conviction

Answer 26

Personal value
Leadership value
Company value
more or less would overlap
I should take time to do this

Question 27

Effective communicators

Answer 27

authenticity: Leaders model behavior
transparency
repetition

Question 28

Effective public speaking

Answer 28

know your audience is very important
know your material, not memorizing your speech. it’s not about memorization, not about words, it’s about your energy!

How info is received
spoken words 7%
voice tone 38%
body language 55%