influencing change caaws women and leadership program
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Influencing ChangeCAAWS Women and Leadership Program
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Today’s Agenda
• Habits that Limit Your Influence
• Tips on Being Heard
• 8-Step Change Model
• Different “Change Styles”
• Your Change Commitment
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Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport
and Physical Activity
Encouraging girls and women to get off the bleachers, and onto the fields and
playing courts, into the pools, the locker rooms and boardrooms of Canada
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CAAWS at a Glance
Women and Leadership Professional Development Women on Boards Women & Leadership Network Lunch & Learns
On the Move Aboriginal, Newcomer &
Racialized girls & young women Quality After School Programs
Mothers in Motion
Physical Activity for Women 55-70+
Addressing Homophobia in Sport
Active & Free: Young Women and Tobacco
CS4L Supplement Psycho-Social Factors Ontario Project
Awards & Scholarships Most Influential Women in
Sport and Physical Activity WISE Fund
Website & eNewsletter Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
Photo DVD
LEADERSHIP PARTICIPATION EDUCATION COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
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• Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO
What Would You Do
if You Weren't Afraid?
http://leanin.org/discussions/sheryl-sandberg-to-graduates-you-are-the-
hope-for-a-more-equal-future/
Leaders Talk
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• Benefits of Speaking Up• Tips when Speaking Up• Tips for Good Listening• Personal Reflection
Being Heard
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• Improves Organizational Performance
• Commands Respect• Strengthens your Influence• Leads to Unexpected
Opportunities• Accelerates your Career
Benefits of Speaking Up
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Tips When Speaking Up• Be prepared and informed• Ask questions and listen to responses• Indicate the benefits of the idea• Create and maintain rapport
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Tips for Good Listening
• Listen to Understand
• Remove Distractions
• Be Silent
• Use Body Language
• Empathetic Sounding Back
• Ask Questions
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Kotter’s Change ModelWorksheet #4
Adapted from: www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_82.htm
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Preparing to Change
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Implementing the Change
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Managing the Change
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Change Styles
• Change Style Indicator – measures your preferred style in dealing with change
• 3 styles on a continuum
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Conservers
• Accept structure • Prefer retaining existing systems and paradigms• Prefer gradual change• May appear cautious and inflexible • Ask the hard, detailed questions
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Pragmatists
• May adapt/evolve the structure• Operate as mediators and catalysts• Are results focused• May appear reasonable, practical
and flexible but also noncommittal
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Originators
• Challenge the structure• Enjoy risk and uncertainty
• Prefer quicker, expansive & radical change• May appear disorganized & undisciplined
• Original thinkers
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Parting Thoughts…
“Don’t think that a small group of committed individuals can not change the world. In fact, it’s
the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
“The shift to a more equal world will happen person by person. We move closer to the
larger goal of true equality with each woman who leans in.”
Sheryl Sandberg