the challenge of walking & chewing gum! professor emeritus roger collins
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The Challenge of Walking
&
Chewing Gum!Professor Emeritus Roger Collins
PURPOSE
1. To introduce some ideas and tools, that
2. enable better conversations, that
3. enable better decisions and actions, that
4. ensure better outcomes for your students, yourselves and Sydney Institute
AGENDA1. A way of seeing is a way of not
seeing !
2. Great leadership can make a great difference.
3. So what can we do for our people? *
4. Change begins with me! ** Takeaways !
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a way ofseeing
what we pay attention to,how we interpret
andthinking
how we make decisions andsolve problems
Mindset
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Change over Our last decade+
Y2kDotcom Meltdown 9/11Climate changeProblematic regional conflicts
and now the GFC and its aftermath
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Cycle: When the tide goes out ! correction and destruction
1. CHANGE: CYCLES OR TRENDS ?
Cycle: correction and destruction
Buffett
Trend: creation, reinvention
Analogy: Newtonian physics
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2. CHANGE
Threat: caution, prudence, risk management
Opportunity: Boldness, imagination, bias for action
3. Need for a clearer distinction between:
OPERATIONALand
STRATEGICManagement & Leadership
1. PERCEPTION
How we see things
and how we gather
information
Two characteristics of a strategic mindset
2. Ability to move
Across
time horizons
Source: Baghai: The Alchemy of Growth (1999)
Build emerging businesse
s
Sustained
high
performance
Time
Extend and defend core businesses
Create viable options
Horizon 1Horizon 2
Horizon 3
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THE CHALLENGE OF WALKING & CHEWING GUM
PERFORMANCEMANAGEMENT
ORGANISATIONALRENEWAL
Technical leadership & management
Convergent, linear thinking
Continuity
Adaptive leadership
Divergent, associative thinking
Discontinuity
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Compete
&
Collaborate
sustainingyoursuccess
complexity of your organisationlow
high
2.formalisation
controls systems,
discipline values
3.devolution – SBUs
segmentation: services,products, markets, clients
practice areas silos long table
4.collaborationcoordinationintegration
1.pioneer phase
client focus Leadership
5.The connected cellular firm
Networks informal
linkages cross silo
teams
So what does all this mean
for me,
my people, and
the Institute?
Walking & Chewing Gum
(Charles Handy)
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1. THE CRITICAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN LEADERSHIP
AND MANAGEMENT
Analogy: Depression
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THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP
SATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE
EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
UNSATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE
OUTSTANDINGPERFORMANCE
THE VOLUNTEER ZONE
THE COMPLIANCE ZONE
HOW MANAGERS AND LEADERS EXERCISEINFLUENCE
MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP
Structural role influence:job descriptions, policiesprocedures, rewards, feedback.A quasi legal, business ,financial contract
Personal behavioral influencewords, pictures, conversations,inspiration, engagement, care, Futures. A quasi psychological, interpersonal contract
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No consensus Broad consensusAGREEMENT ON MEANS, CAUSE & EFFECT
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LEADERSHIP TOOLS CULTURE TOOLS
POWER TOOLS MANAGEMENT TOOLS
Financial incentives
ValuesStories FolkloreRitualsParticipation
Planning ( S & Op )SOPs, policiesTrainingMeasurement systemsManagement development
VisionRole modelingLeader communicationRoadshowsLeadership development
CoercionControl systemsHiring & firing Negotiation
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2. LOCAL / DIRECT LEADERSHIP
1. EXECUTIVE, CORPORATE LEADERSHIP
3 SELF LEADERSHIP
THREE LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP
The rising importance of “distributed leadership”
So when is the Round Table critical to organisational performance?
1. Brand and reputation2. Integration, cross referral,
seamlessness3. Synergies: eg $$ and KT4. Freedom within a framework:
defining “tight” and “ loose”5. In pluralist, service and
geographically dispersed organisations
6. Corporate transformation
FOCUS
ENHANCECURRENT
PERFORMANCEAND/OR
DEVELOP POTENTIAL
ENHANCEPERFORMANCE
OF YOUREXISTING
BUSINESS MODEL
ENSUREEFFECTIVE AND
TIMELYORGANISATIONAL
RENEWAL
INDIVIDUAL:COMPETENCIES
TEAMS:PERFORMANCEMANAGEMENTCAPABILITIES
TEAMS:ORGANISATIONAL
RENEWALCAPABILITIES
LEVELONE
LEVELTWO
LEVELTHREE
VALUEPROPO-SITION
So what can we do to enable our people to come with us?
Develop resilience ….
Assist some to reinvent themselves…
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WELLBEING A STATE OF MIND IN WHICH WE THINK AND
FEEL THAT WE:
HAVE CONTROL OVER OUR OWN DESTINY,
HAVE FREQUENT POSITIVE EXPERIENCES,AND
HAVE THE ABILITY TO CONTROL THE IMPACT OF NEGATIVE EVENTS AND OUTCOMES
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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT& THE VIRTUOUS CYCLE
GREAT LEADERSHIP
HIGH ENGAGEMENT+ WELLBEING
HIGH PERFORMANCEREWARDS, RECOGNITION & DEVELOPMENT
THE VIRTUOUS
CIRCLE
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WHAT DEVELOPS ENGAGEMENT + WELLBEING ?
1. PLEASURE: feeling good is better than just being OK! Pay, peers, fun, physical conditions, back rubs
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WHAT DEVELOPS ENGAGEMENT + WELLBEING ?
1. PLEASURE: feeling good is better than just being OK! Pay, peers, fun, physical conditions, back rubs
The problem: hedonic adaption
2. EXPERIENCES THAT LEAD TO HUMAN FLOURISHING : utilising strengths and achieving flow
3 MEANING identifying with and contributing to
something higher than, beyond ourselves: the shift from success to significance
So what are the special benefits of well-being?
1. Well-being brings reciprocal benefits which make it more sustainable than engagement,
2. Flow, reservoirs for resilience
3. Physical and mental health
4. Life expectancy
5. Stronger self efficacy: self directedness and proactivity, and
6. Cognitive functioning
FIVE STEPS TO WELLBEING
Research from the Foresight Mental Capital and Wellbeing
Project.
CONNECT ! Connect with family, friends,
colleagues, neighbours. At home, work, school or your local community. Think of these as the cornerstones of your life and invest time in developing them.
Building these connections will support and enrich your every day.
KEEP LEARNING … Try something new. Rediscover an
old interest. Sign up for that course. Take on a different responsibility at work. Fix a bike. Learn a new language or to play an instrument or or how to cook different food. Set a challenge that you will enjoy achieving.
Learning new things will make you more confident . It will refresh your brain and create challenge, uncertainty and fun.
BE ACTIVE … Go for a walk or a run. Step
outside. Cycle. Play a game. Garden. Dance. Exercise makes you feel good. Most importantly, discover an activity that fits your lifestyle. Level of mobility and fitness.
Activity refreshes and energises both body and mind
TAKE NOTICE … Be curious. Catch sight of the
beautiful. Remark on the unusual. Notice the changing seasons. Savour the moment whether you are walking to work, eating lunch or talking to friends. Take notice of the world around you and what you are feeling.
Reflecting on your experiences will help you appreciate what really matters to you.
GIVE…. Surprise or do something well
meaning for a friend or stranger. Thank someone. Smile. Volunteer your time. Think about and act on the needs of others.
These acts enable you to move from success to significance. They provide positive, higher level experiences that build resilience and worthiness.
Occupational / Professional Reinvention
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SUCCESSFUL TRANSITIONSREQUIRE :
• ENDINGS
• A NEUTRAL ZONE : LIMINALITY
• BEGINNINGS
Finally…..
CHANGE BEGINS WITH ME !
2 things that you can start with next Monday
Low
0.1:1
Medium
0.7:1
High
1:1
0.3:1 1:1 3:1
Ratio of
Inquiry/advocacy
Positivity/Negativity
Level of Team Performance
3 to 1 ratio of encouragement & support to disapproval & sarcasm
Same ratio found for successful relationships
Model suggests an upper limit of positivity
The
power and impact of
gratitude !
“The future is not a place to which we are
going.
It is a place we are creating.
The paths to the future are not found but
made
and the activity of making them changes both
the maker and the destination.”
Martha Cleary