DEVELOP YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE WITH

A NEW MINDSET

Yvonne McLean BA Hons (Oxon) PCC (ICF)

Who am I being today (at this moment)?

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What do you want from today?

This is what we’re covering:

• Your mindset

• Fixed and Growth Mindset

• The relationship between mindset and feedback/criticism

• What is your preferred leadership style?

• The relationship between attitude and mindset

• Some strategies for developing a mindset that will bring out the best in people (including yourself)

Exercise: What is your preference ?

GROWTH Mindset:Leads to a desire to

learn

• Embraces challenges

• Persists in the face of setbacks

• Sees effort as the path to mastery

• Learns from criticism

• Finds lessons and inspiration from the success of others

FIXED Mindset:Leads to a desire to look smart

• Avoids challenges

• Gives up easily

• Sees effort as fruitless or worse

• Ignores useful negative feedback

• Feels threatened by the success of others

A map of the world?

Criticism, Feedback and Praise

What hooks you into praise and into avoidance of criticism?

How does your mindset influence how you respond to feedback and criticism?

Source: Tara Mohr – Playing Big

Relational focus

Heighted awareness of

other’s reactions

History of survival –

likeability &

social influence

Fear of personal

attack

Cultural focus on

appearance

“Good girl” conditioning

What keeps [women] US attached to

praise?

Criticism

Re Tara Mohr:

“Criticism hurts when it mirrors what we believe about ourselves”

Use criticism to uncover what negative beliefs we hold about ourselves

Source: Tara Mohr – Playing Big

Feedback is a gift:

• It doesn’t tell you about you

• It tells you about the person giving feedback

• It gives us their opinions and preferences

• It tells us whether we are reaching the people we need to reach

Feedback

Source: Tara Mohr – Playing Big

My perception is my reality

Seeing the World as it Isn’t (Daniel Simons)

https://youtu.be/9Il_D3Xt9W0

What is your natural orientation?

Locating Yourself by The Conscious Leadership Group

https://youtu.be/fLqzYDZAqCI

Exercise: What is your preferred leadership

style ?

Leadership Styles

Assonant • Visionary

• Coaching

• Affiliative

• Democratic

Dissonant • Pacesetting

• Commanding

Source: The New Leaders – Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee

Happiness and mindset/attitude

3 proven skills to improve your reality and become more engaged, productive and innovative at work:

• Recognise alternative realities

• Add vantage points

• Pursue your most valuable reality

Source: Shawn Achor – Before Happiness

4 key leadership traits

“Good leaders” have 4 traits:

▪ The practical skills to communicate to others

▪ A ‘True North’ serving as an internal compass of values

▪ A willingness to challenge authority

▪ The ability to travel outside their own world view

Re. Harvard Professor & Psychologist, Howard Gardner

What I hear,

I forget.

What I see,

I remember.

What I do,

I understand.- Confucius

References• Mindset – Carol Dweck https://mindsetonline.com/

• Playing Big – Tara Mohr http://www.taramohr.com/book/

• Before Happiness – Shawn Achor https://youtu.be/Muce2TxDlMw

• The New Leaders / Primal Leadership – Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee

• Leadership that gets results – Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzisand Annie McKee (HBR, March/April 2000) https://hbr.org/2000/03/leadership-that-gets-results

©2017 Yvonne McLean, Strategic Direction Consulting Limited