CCSD 553: Book Review

Presented by: Heather Codding & Sascha Larrabee

• Forbes 500 Listo 4% Record: Now 20 Women are CEO's

• 23% of college presidents are women

• Nearly twice as many men as women

have tenue (AAUW)

• Half of Ivy League Universities have

women presidents

Women Leaders

Conference Speakers

Conference Speakers

Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston

Five Dimensions of Leadership

“Meaning is a defining trait among successful

leaders”

• Happiness

• Strengths

• Purpose

• Dreaming

Part One: Meaning

Happiness• Happiness is motivating• Happier teams are more creative• Leaders who exude happiness are more effective• Happiness improves physical health, as well as

stamina and resilience.

Happiness Equation H=S+C+V• S: Set Point (the disposition you are born with)

• C: Conditions of your life (age, gender, where you live)

• V: Voluntary activities you choose to engage in (that build on your own strength and give you satisfaction)

Part One: Meaning

• What do you really do well?• What kind of work comes easily to you?• In what work situations did time seem to

fly by and when did it drag?• What strengths set you apart from others?• Do others see these capabilities as part of

what makes you you?• Are you excited and energized when you

use them?

Activity: Your Turn

Purpose• Important to have a sense of purpose

o Goal Setting can be easiero You have the courage to face new challenges

Dreaming and Doing• It's okay to dream • big

Part One: Meaning

• Positive Framingo Seeing facts without distortion

• Don't let negative feelings distort their view of reality- i.e. exaggerating dangers

• Allow you to confront reality in constructive way

• Provides you clarity and energy to face problems and find solutions

• The strength to move on when you've done all you can

Part Two: Framing

What is your immediate gut reaction?“Your boss calls you in for an unexpected

meeting. When you enter the room, you observe two other executives with her. They immediately stop talking and hastily put away their papers. They avoid looking at you as they leave. Your boss looks down at some papers and then back up at you. She doesn't ask you to sit.”

Activity: Scenario

“I am an optimist. It does not seem to much use being anything else.” -Winston Churchill

Optimists- don't let setback spill into the rest of their lives, they recover quickly from unavoidable setbacks

Pessimists- believe they can not improve the outcome

Mind-sets• Flexible- mind-sets continue to learn new skills• Fixed- mind-sets tend to see their own talents and

abilities as limited and are often threatened by fresh thinking that challenges their beliefs

Part Two: Framing

Reframing a Conscious Act

• Disputation- requires re-examination of the situation spartating how you experienced the incident emotionally from what actually happened.

• Avoid rumination- it’s dangerouso Rumination is an inner voice that plays a tape

on an endless loop, each time replays its intensifies and you keep wishing for a different ending

Part Two: Framing

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

-Isabel Allende

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated -

can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

-Isabelle Allende

Part Three: Connecting

Mentors and Sponsors

Mentors use their experience and their wisdom to guide but sponsors get involved and make things happen

Mentors use their experience and their

wisdom to guide, sponsors get involved

and help you make things happen.

You need both!

Part Three: Connecting

Networking:

oh why, oh why?

Activity: Mentoring

Find your Voice!

Part Four: Engaging

Be bloody, bold and resolute

People write off people who don't speak

Part Four: Engaging

o -I don't have anything to sayo -Its all been said beforeo -Other people enjoy talking, so let themo -I’m here to listeno -I’m new hereo -I get things done outside of meetingso -Actions speak louder than words d

Activity: Have you ever said...

• 26% of women feel that they need to be available 24/7 to respond to job related issues

• 14% work with or manage people in different time zones

• 20% feel pressure to stay extra hours in the office

Assumptions

• Women tend to assume that being out of balance is the cause of energy issues

• Other women have somehow found work-life balance- you just haven't cracked the code

Its a myth- no one is in balance- it’s about coming more into balance when you are way off

Part Five: Energizing

Manage your actual energy flow• Replacing an insoluble problem (obtaining

work-life equilibrium state) with Managing your Energy Reserves

• Never run on empty• Redesign your job to maximize your

energy• Fill up on Energizers• Minimize the drains

Part Five: Energizing

Do you have a Pavlovian reaction to your cell phone or electronic device?

Activity: Energizing

It is the combination of the five dimensions of centered leadership that really affect

change.• Centered leadership appears to have

validity across the sample• Correlation to performance and

satisfaction• Centered leadership builds on women's

strengths

Centered Leadership Survey

• Likeso Example of women

leaderso Practical application

and practice to any profession

o Linked to statistical data

• Dislikeso Does not account for

unearned socio-economic status of populations

Our Critique

Final Thoughts

Questions? Reference

Barsh, J., Cranston, S., & Lewis, G. (2011). How remarkable

women lead: The breakthrough model for work and life.

New York: Crown Books.