Powershift Flashcards
What is a leadershift?
It is the ability and willingness to make a leadership change that will positively enhance organizational and personal growth.
In the Economist Intelligence Unit’s study what were the top three leadership qualities that will be important in years ahead?
1) the ability to MOTIVATE staff
2) the ability to work well across CULTURES
3) the ability to facilitate CHANGE
What is the negative quality of blending in, becoming average, refusing to stand out or capitalize on one’s uniqueness?
Conformity
What are the seven things you must do to leadershift successfully?
1) LEARN, unlearn, relearn
2) VALUE yesterday but live in today
3) rely on speed but thrive on TIMING
4) see the BIG PICTURE as it keeps getting bigger
5) live in today but think about TOMORROW
6) move forward courageously in the midst of UNCERTAINTY
7) realize todays best will not meet tomorrow’s CHALLENGES
What is advance attraction?
When you become aware of what you need or want, you’re able to see it and attract it.
What is the first and most important shift anyone must make to become a leader?
Going from soloist to conductor.
What is the result of an increased effort to first focus on others and add value to them.
Increase the energy of those you led and it will increase your energy while leading them.
What are five realities you have to face when transitioning from soloist to conductor? Others*
1) going SLOWER so you can go farther
2) recognizing that you NEED OTHERS
3) making the effort to UNDERSTAND OTHERS
4) wanting OTHER TO SHINE more than you
5) HELPING OTHERS to become better everyday
What are the requirements of the leadership dance?
1) step ahead of people, staying close enough for them to see you
2) step beside people, listening to them and talking about the journey
3) staying behind people, sharing words of encouragement to keep them going
A ———- culture creates wins for everyone. It lifts morale. It encourages team members to make one another better.
Completing culture
What is the formula to lift up people?
- see the possibilities in them
- honor them in front of others
- invite them to help achieve the vision
- notice what they do well and compliment
- thank them to make sure they know they are valued
What does it require to help people you lead improve?
Taking the focus off yourself and looking for ways you can help others reach their potential.
What are three questions followers ask of their leaders?
1) do you care for me?
2) can I trust you?
3) can you help me?
What does having a seed-sowing mindset mean?
- focus on adding value daily
- add as much value as possible as often as possible
- never wait to add value
- give without keeping score so motives stay pure
- welcome any return as an unexpected blessing
You don’t lose the seeds you sow, the only ones wasted are ——-.
The ones you don’t sow
What is the focus shift?
Soloist to conductor
What is the personal development shift?
Goals to growth
Goals helped me do better, but —— helped me become better.
growth
What are three significant shifts from goals to growth?
1) growth outward to growth inward
2) growth in everything to growth in a few vital things
3) growth with a timeline versus growth without a finish line
What is the first quality that make people successful?
Attitude
What does the acronym R-E-A-L stand for?
Relationship, equipping, attitude, leadership
Name some things needed to become a growth oriented person (4/7)?
1) embrace change
2) adopt a teachable spirit
3) make your love for learning greater than your fear of failure
4) develop relationships with other growing people
5) develop greater humility
6) believe in yourself
7) embrace layered learning
How can you cultivate a growth environment and maintain a teachable spirit (4/5)?
- make growth the number one PRIORITY
- LOOK for growth possibilities in every situation
- ASK questions that will help me grow
- FILE what I have learned
- PASS what I have learned to others
Failure isn’t failure if you do what?
Learn something from it
Humility is not denying your strengths but ———-?
Being honest about your weaknesses
What determines the investment you will make in yourself?
What you think about yourself
What is layered learning?
One life lesson applied upon another and another, each gaining greater insight, depth and weight.
When we make a shift to focusing on growth, it means we’ve begun to adopt a ———— term mindset.
Long term
What is the leadershift perks to price?
The cost shift
What are the three costs of shifting from perks to price? Hill*
1) reality- leaders recognize everything worthwhile is uphill
2) example - leaders must climb the hill first
3) consistency- they never get to stop climbing
When you don’t prepare for the worst, what happens?
The worst wins
What three before and more characteristics do follow-me leaders share?
1) SELF BELIEF
2) set EXPECTATIONS of themselves
3) make COMMITMENTS to themselves
What are the most important commitments a leader makes to him or herself?
Commitment to integrity, responsibility and selflessness
What are some of the ways consistency will help you as a leader?
-Provides security for others
-establishes a reputation
- keeps you in the leadership game
-compounds
What is the leadershift from pleasing people to challenging people?
The relationship shift
——— people is not the same as leading people.
Pleasing
To get the best out of people, leaders must ask for what from them?
Ask for the best from them
You have to put ——- what’s right for your people and organization ahead of what ——- right for you.
Doing and feels
What order should you think about things when separating what’s best for you from what’s best for the organization? (mission.men.me)
1) what’s the best for the organization
2) what’s best for other people within the org
3) what’s best for me
(Mission,men,me)
You never know if people are really with you until you ask them for what?
Commitment
If you feel you are worthy of being developed, you will be willing to ——-?
Develop others
When starting a professional relationship with someone, what is the most important thing to establish up-front?
Our expectations of each other
What three statements set expectations?
It’s not about me-it’s not about you- it’s about the big picture
The future of an organization can be found in the growth of what?
The people who are a part of it and especially the people who lead it
There is is a vast difference between in conceding that ——— is inevitable and believing —— is essential.
Change
What is the 80-20 principal?
Giving 80 percent of your time to the 20 percent of the team that produces 80 percent of the results.
What is the law of diminishing intent?
The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater odds that you will never do it.
What are some questions to ask yourself before having a difficult conversation?
-What is the source of the problem prompting the need for this challenging conversation?
-is it an external issue
- is it a problem with the other person or is it me
Why is having the right attitude during a thought conversation so important?
Because your actions carry more weight than your words and a negative attitude can cause more damage.
What is the 25-50-25 principal?
25% of people will support your efforts
50% will be undecided
25% will resist change
What is your objective relating to the 25-50-25 principal?
Help the middle 50% join the first 25%
What are the five levels of leadership?
1) position - they have to
2) permission - they want to
3) production - you improve the team
4) people development - you improve them personally
5) pinnacle - you help them become leaders
Which is the most difficult step in the 5 levels of leadership?
Level 2 (permission) to level 3 (production)
What is the answer on how leaders move other from “I like being on the team,” to “I need to produce for the team?”
To balance care and candor
What is the shift from maintaining to creating?
The abundance shift
What are the four zones when it comes to innovation?
1) the coasting zone - I do as little as possible
2) the comfort zone - I do what I have always don’t
3) the challenge zone - I attempt to do what I haven’t done before
4) the creative zone - I attempt to think what I have never thought before
The more you foster ——— in the environment you influence, the more you will instill the abundance mindset.
Creativity
What is the 10-80-10 process for making things better.
10% - identify the target
80% - focus on production
10% - make it even better
What does the acronym PLANAHEAD stand for?
PREDETERMINE your course of action
LAY out your goals
ADJUST you priorities
NOTIFY key personnel
ALLOW time for acceptance
HEAD into action
EXPECT problems
ADJUST your plan
DAILY review your plans
What is the TEAM principal?
Together everyone accomplishes more
——— is one of the last remaining legal means you have to gain what feels like an unfair advantage over your competition.
Imagination
What is the shift from ladder climbing to ladder building?
The reproduction shift
What are the four ladder stages when making this shift?
1) ladder climbing - how high can I go
2) ladder holding - how high will other go with little help
3) ladder extending - how high will other go with a lot of help
4) ladder building- can i help them build there own ladder
Success comes from building up your ——?
Strengths
Leaders should want far more —— their people than —— their people.
For , from
We may impress people with tales of our success, but we impact them when se share ———.
Our failures
Ladder building is all about giving another leader the ——-, ———, and ——— to create their own ladder.
Permission, equipment and empowerment
What are some questions to ask before you mentor someone?
1) is this person HUNGRY to learn?
2) what is this persons CAPACITY?
3) are this person’s VALUES compatible?
4) is this individual a LEADER?
A good successful mentor gives to the person mentored what 6 things?
Handles
Laboratories
Road maps
Roots
Wings
Whys
Which leadershift from direction to connection?
The communication shift
What are the seven important things to a leader when connecting with others?
1) HUMILITY- let people know you need them
2) CURIOSITY- ask people questions
3) EFFORT - go out of your way to connect with people
4) TRUSTWORTHINESS- be someone other can count on
5) GENEROSITY- give first and continually
6) LISTENING- open the best door for connecting
7) ENCOURAGEMENT- give people oxygen for their soul
What is the gap between expectations and reality?
Disappointment
What is the mirror test?
Can you look in the mirror and say you did your best
To remain trustworthy, what three areas should you continually work at?
Integrity in my life
Consistency in my actions
Competence in my work
What is the leadershift from team uniformity to team diversity?
The improvement shift
Leadership is not position, it’s ———-.
Influence
What is the definition of team from the Harvard business review?
A team is a small number of people with complimentary SKILLS who are committed to a common purpose, set of performance GOALS, and approach for which the hold themselves mutually ACCOUNTABLE.
Malcom Forbes said diversity is ——-?
The art of thinking independently together
What are common barriers with diversity?
1) fear of conflict
2) Insufficient personal network
3) unwillingness to deal with prejudice
4) arrogance
5) personal insecurities
6) failing to be inclusive
What is the best antidote for personal insecurity?
To think about helping other people and putting them first.
Good leadership supporting inclusion and diversity will help millennials to become fully engaged. What can leaders provide to accomplish this?
A COLLABORATIVE environment in which employees can see the IMPACT of their work, understand the VALUE they bring to the organization and are RECOGNIZED for their efforts.
Which leadershift is positional authority to moral authority?
The influence shift
A leadership position does not give someone leadership———-.
Authority
What is the highest level of influence?
Moral authority
————-is the recognition of a person’s leadership influence
hosed on who they are more than the position they hold. It is attained
jy authentic living that has built trust and it is sustained by successful
leadership endeavors. It is earned by a lifetime of consistency. Leaders can strive to earn ——- by the way they live but only other can grant them ———.
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Moral authority
What are the four things moral authority is grounded in?
Competence
Courage
Consistency
Character
What is the core of moral authority?
Competence
Which shift is trained leaders to transformational leader?
The impact shift
If your actions inspire people to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are a ————- leader?
Transformational
What is the five step process for trying to get another person to do something?
1) I do it
2) I do it, and you are with me
3) you do it, and I am with you
4) you do it
5) you do it, and someone is with you
What is the leadershift career to calling?
The passion shift
What three categories do people fall into when what they think about what they do for a living?
1) you do a JOB
2) you build a CAREER
3) you fulfill a CALLING
Frederick Burch we said that our ——— is at “that place where your deep gladness meets the worlds deep need.”
Purpose
How do you maximize your calling?
1) integrate a DAILY FOCUS with a long term perspective
2) set a clear PATH in a worthwhile direction
3) ASK OTHERS to join with you and your calling
Stockdale paradox
Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal fact of your current reality
