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Dr. John Kenworthy

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Enabling and Equipping your Leadership Attributes, Abilities and Agilities

2010 Dr. john Kenworthy Rights Reserved

What is the GAINMORE LeadershipAdvantage?

Lesson Outcomes

Know and understand the GAINMORE Advantage framework.

Appreciate and be able to use the holistic nature of the framework.

Recognize how the framework is related to personal leadership

development.

45 minutes

Presentation online here http://tiny.cc/wovjw


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Lesson Map

Welcome to the GAINMORE Leadership Advantage Leader Guide.

You are constantly being asked to do more with less. Whether in

business, social or family life. Everyone is striving or being pushed to

improve performance - do things better, faster, cheaper. The pressures

on every individual to increase their own and their team's performance is

increasing - the more turbulent the environment, the greater the

pressure!

This guide is intended to help you understand and develop yourleadership Attributes, Abilities and Agilities and enable you to more

effectively develop yourself and the people you work with and those that

you lead. Throughout this guide, I use the game of golf as a metaphor

and parallel to the game of leadership to aid your understanding and

illustrate with examples.

Before the non-golfers panic!

You do NOT need to be a golfer to understand this, even if you have

never held a golf club. If you know that Tiger Woods is a golfer and not a

large cat in the jungle, then the examples are easy to see and follow.

This guide forms the basis of our work with individuals, small teams and

organizations to develop individual leadership capability and in

developing team cohesiveness and performance.

The GAINMORE model, on which this is based, has developed over

many years of experience working with many individuals and companies

and is a spin-off of my doctoral research into management learning and

effective leadership development.

I trust that you enjoy your journey with me.


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Why it is called GAINMORE?

Each letter represents a distinct step in the learning and development

process.

G stands for Goals and incorporates the values and beliefs system for a

particular person and the vision of the goal. Why no V and B and V then?

Basically it didn't make for a memorable mnemonic. Our goals, values

and beliefs determine what we want from life and thus everything that

we do or do not do.

A stands for Attitude and Alignment. Two distinct aspects of an

individuals attributes, the first is about our approach and mindset, the

second about the effectiveness of our use of the resources we have.

I stands for Influence - according to John C Maxwell, leadership (including

self-leadership) is all about influence. How we influence ourselves and

others determines the followership we have.

N stands for our Nature and our Network. Our nature or as some call it,

our character or personality, is shown as a result of the preceding


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elements. We change our nature by changing one or more of our goals,

values, beliefs, attitude, alignment or the way we influence. Our network

refers to other people with whom we connect, associate, and indeed, our

followers and our own leaders. Our network is, of course, external to

ourselves, but how we network is key to the effectiveness of our

influence.

M stands for Motivation. Motivation is something that is generated by

the interaction of three aspects of anything we do. We have a goal, we

have certain resources (our mind, body, money, tools) and we utilizethose resources to satisfy something that we personally value.

O stands for Outcome. Everything that we do, say or think results in an

outcome - this may be tangible and physical or it may be intangible.

R stands for Review. Every outcome we create is reviewed against our

goals and we reflect on the learning.

Finally, E stands for Evaluation. Closely tied to Review in that it is usually

the end result of the review process. This is when we have achieved an

outcome, reviewed it against our goals and measure it against our

personal values. A positive outcome of evaluation is motivating, a

negative can be demotivating.


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Let me take you through an example of how the GAINMORE Advantage

framework works in a typical situation:

Every person, whether they know this or not, bases all of their actions

and behaviors, every single thing that they do, on their personal Values.

You may not know what yours are, and if this is the case for you, thats

OK, you can work on this in the Values module.

Our foundation is also made up of our Beliefs. Whether you consider that

your values inform your beliefs, or that your beliefs inform your values, or

both, is less important for us at this point.

Beliefs are most often related to our personal experience not always,

but these are things that we believe about ourselves and the world. For

example, you have heard of the Law of gravity? You believe that the law

of gravity applies to you and everyone else in this world? You have some

experience that this is true.

I also suspect, that you believe, that in outer space, you would float

because there is no gravity. Am I right?

So when did you go into outer space? Unless you are one of a handful of

the worlds population, you have no personal experience to support this


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belief. Yet, it forms part of your personal foundation.

So, lets get going with an example. I shall use the game of golf,

something I do quite a lot, as an example.

If you play golf, you do so because you get something out of it. That is, it

is valuable to you.

You believe that striking a little solid ball with a stick will propel the ball

towards a distant hole. You believe that gravity will play a part and bring

the ball back to earth.

To play golf, it is very likely that you have some degree of hand and eye

coordination. You enjoy walking in the fresh air, and probably play quite

frequently. This is part of your nature.

You have a Goal when you play golf! Several goals for some. Perhaps it is

ultimately your goal, to beat Tiger Woods in the Open Championship.

Perhaps it is to beat your buddy today. It might be just to hit the ball. At

least once.

You have a Vision of your goal, you know what it looks like, sounds like,

and feels like. The richer your vision, the more clear it is for you.

Your Attitude, or mindset if you prefer, determines how you approach

taking the shot. If you approach the shot with a positive attitude, you are

more likely to execute it correctly. A negative attitude and your muscles

receive conflicting signals. It is primarily your attitude to different

situations that make up your Nature. Your attitude informs your habitual

behaviors. Spend each day in the office in grumpy mood, speaking

negatively about every situation and others will consider you grumpy

and negative. You may well perform exceedingly well, and it may work for

you, but it is unlikely to work well for others.

How well you Align yourself and the club for the shot is critical too. Use adriver wood for long tee shots, a wedge club for high pitching shots and a

putter on the green. As a leader you are already equipped with many

tools to do your job, choosing the right tools in the situation is essential

to be as effective as you can be. The other aspect of alignment is, of

course, your aim. Generally speaking, we find that it is a good idea to aim

towards a achieving a particular outcome, and usually this is towards the

goal. If you are on the first tee, aiming at the water hazard or the flag on


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the 9th hole is unlikely to yield the desired result of getting the ball onto

the first green.

Then there is the way you influence yourself. Let alone how leaders

influence others, first step is influence yourself. This might be in the form

of self-talk, or simply brain activity. How well you focus on what you aim

to achieve and quieten the distractions.

Your Network is other people who are involved in the situation. The

game of golf is one of those rare activities where the actions of other

people are irrelevant to your own performance. The same cannot be said

of leadership.

So far, everything has been leading up to a particular behaviour and

action. You swing your club and, if suitably aligned, make contact with

the ball. How the ball flies, where it lands is the Outcome. In team

situations, the behaviour and actions of your network may affect the

outcome.

Now it is time to Review the outcome. Did the ball go in the direction I

(believe I) aimed? Was the swing smooth? Was that the best choice of

club for me in this situation? Good golfers review every single shot, learnfrom them and continuously strive to improve the next shot. Good

leaders do likewise.

We also Evaluate our performance. Did the ball land where I intended? Is

it now placed in a good position for the next shot?

Our review and evaluation add experience to the way we influence

ourselves and our beliefs about the situation and what we would do in

the future.

Evaluation is also the point and the only point for a human, when

Motivation is created. We measure our performance against our goal andpersonal values. When the shot you make is congruent with your goal

and satisfies a personal value, you generate this thing we call motivation.

Now, let me wrap up this overview of the GAINMORE Advantage

framework. You can now understand how the model works in typical

situations. The connections I show here are not the only connections.

The human brain is intelligent and vastly complex, but as a logical


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process, studies of the functioning of a normal, healthy human brain

show that this is the learning process.

I break this into three main areas of our functioning as humans

the Spirit the foundations we live by, the Mind mostly brain processing, and the Body where we engage our muscles.

As a last point whilst sharing the model with you. My paradigm for

developing you and others is experiential learning. I believe, and have

considerable evidence to support the thesis, that if you deliberately

change behaviour or action, that the learning process (especially review

and evaluation, generating positive motivation) will enable you to most

easily change any of the personal attributes.

Now that you understand the framework from an individual perspective,

you can see how the same framework, unlike any other leadership

model, works across the individual levels, the team level and the

organization level.


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The GAINMORE framework works from the organization needs and

drivers down, and from the individual needs up.

Unlike other models that only work at one level, the GAINMORE model,

works across all levels.

Whatever the external drivers, from the external economic situation, to

the need of an individual to pay their mortgage. Our behaviour is affected

by these drivers. We need to change our behaviors if our competitive

priorities change.

We separate competency, and competence. Competency, we define as

the behaviors and soft skills and our personal characteristics. These are

generic skills that apply no matter what your job. Competence, on the

other hand, includes the specific job, or task related skills. To be sure that

we remain clear, we refer to behavioral competencies as Abilities.

Using the GAINMORE framework, we can identify the needs of the

organization. And, given the external drivers, identify the priorities that

the organization needs to develop, now.

We can also help you identify the needs of each individual, and their

priorities. If you have already taken your GAPPS3

assessment and

received your report and feedback coaching, you know this for yourself

already.


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Sprit, Mind, Body connection

It is tempting to think that the GAINMORE model is always linear, and

there is certain logic to it. Yet, you know that human beings do not

always follow a strict pattern of logic, if we did, then life wouldn't 'be so

exciting and interesting.

I think of us, human beings, being created as three parts:

We have a spirit - the fundamental base that sets humans apart from

other animals - this is the centrality of our beliefs and values - which in

turn are the major influence on our nature - who we are deep down.

We all have a mind. Informed by our spirit, this is dominated by the way

we consciously think and process. The mind is something we can choose

to control to a greater or lesser extent. It is the centre of our attitude to

any given situation, the way we communicate and influence ourselves

and others and it is where we review and evaluate ourselves and our

actions.

We live in a house called body. This is the tool of our mind; it is the part

that makes the actions happen - our outcomes manifested in behaviour

and physical action.


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In the diagram above, I show a simplified connection between the

elements.

Worth noting here is that the thing we call Motivation - is the result of

the mind evaluating outcomes with the goal(s) and our personal values.

For simplicity, I have excluded our network in this diagram - once other

people are included the links become incredibly complex. For example -

your own beliefs were and are informed by other people - and naturally,

you will evaluate them against your own existing beliefs and values,

goals, experience and so on, how much influence that person, or those

people have on you helps determine how much you may change any

existing beliefs or values you have... you see what I mean, it is complex

and would make for a very untidy diagram.

When we connect our spirit to our mind to our body, we create complete

cycles. Many people in society today find that they have a spiritual gap, a

hole or something missing. I believe that this is the grounding in firm and

understood beliefs, values, nature and goals - anything missing from this

area in your life can only result in a feeling of emptiness.


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Reflect

For example - if you wake up each morning asking yourself"Why...?" (Why am I here? Why am I doing this job? Why do Ihave to get up today?) Then you have a sure sign that something ismissing in your spirit. You may not really believe that the job youare doing is worthwhile - it perhaps does not satisfy an importantvalue.

Many people get up to work each Monday because by doing so,

someone else provides them a monetary return which is used topay the bills that keep a roof over their heads, food in theirstomach, perhaps some savings for a rainy day. Is this enough? Formany it isn't - they want more, but exactly what 'more' is a moredifficult question. More money certainly - but even the very richestpeople in the world ask themselves these questions too.

I hear a few cries of "Yes well, if only I had a big house/swimmingpool/Ferrari in the drive..." Yes, you'd be happy for a while, butthis type of 'happy' is a result of something outside happening andmay only last a short while. As we will see, our attitude to outside

happenings determines our emotions (including happiness) morethan the outside happenings. It is what we think in our mind andwhat we choose to think that can change the way we feel about theworld outside.

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