“Perfect Your Emotional Balancing Act: Endurance Strategies for Leaders”
Facilitated by
Deborah Chambers Chima Chambers Consulting Group, LtdFebruary 2010 All Rights Reserved
Objectives
Discover the keys to career success utilizing the A-C-S Model© AwarenessCommunicationSupport
Offer insight on successfully interacting with different personality types
Standing Out During Challenging Times
Identify Your Organization’s Culture
Supportive or Non SupportiveMotivational or Rampant NegativityHigh Morale or Plummeting MoraleHigh Performance or Low ProductivityRespectful or Dominating Communication
Mindset for Career Success
Mindset- Career obstacles are nothing more than opportunities to demonstrate your skills.
Mindset for Career Success
Stress Frustration Overreacting Isolation
Career Anxiety vs.
Overwhelm Lack of Patience Feeling
Misunderstood
Career Mastery
Next Level Strategies
Strategy #1 You must change the way you think about
your career successStrategy #2
You must maintain your emotional balance regardless of the situation
Strategy #3You must implement a career mastery
strategic plan
Skill of Influence
“ The ability to motivate and lead others in such a way that they are compelled to follow despite their initial human reaction to resist”
A-C-S Model©
Structured roadmap to accelerate progress
Proactively identifies obstacles and provides solutions
Customized path to career success
A-C-S Model©
Your perspective of your career success is determined by your attitudes, thoughts, and actions.
Your ability to influence and demonstrate leadership depends on:AwarenessCommunicationSupport
3 Components of Self Awareness
Ability to Identify and Execute Your Value Proposition
Perception of OthersResponse to Feedback
3 Components of Awareness of Others
Skill of establishing rapportTime and PlaceKnowledge of Others Personality and
Communication Styles
Effective Communication
Communication is the skill needed to get any task completed successfully. Message sent= Message received Effective Communicators inform, inspire
and listen
Purpose of Effective Communication
To demonstrate your ability to establish rapport with diverse styles in order to create respect for your leadership brand
Importance of a Support Base
To assist you in executing your success strategies in a powerful and influential manner.You need people to help maintain your
balance and ability to move forward in your career.
Take the risk to create win/win collaboration opportunities
Importance of a Support Base
You must have a strong support base:Create win/win collaboration opportunities-
complimentary skills Strive to understand the challenges of
business unitsHow can your skills create success?Create a leadership brand that executive
sponsors are attracted to
Understanding Other Personality Styles
Influencing Aggressive Communicators
Typical StylePushes for what they want through
intimidation and/or nullifying the opinion of others
Tend to be poor listenersStruggle to be team players
Diverse Workplace & Collaboration- Strategy #4
Identifying and understanding how to communicate with other personality styles is key to:Developing strategic relationshipsDemonstrating the leadership skills that
create visibilityExecuting your career mastery plan through
a collaborative focus
Leadership Behaviors
Creating a reputation for helping others be successful is ultimately what will leap frog you above the competitionMinimize the concern about immediate
payoffWhen you provide value people don’t forgetYou will enhance your ability to be influential
by the number of people you assist
3 Keys to Demonstrating Leadership Acumen
Determine what your organization values now and then deliver it
Create collaboration opportunities – win/win
Use innovation to overcome challengesBook recommendation: Made to Stick, Why
Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip and Dan Heath
Call to Action
Describe one leadership action you will take to increase your effectiveness in the next 90 days.
Great Career Guide Resource
Creating Success StrategiesAt Work While Navigating
Business ChallengesWorkbook
Created by: Deborah Chambers Chima,
Career and Executive Coachand
Gail Solish, Communication and Relationship Coach