Hardcore Leadership: Master Lessons for Creating Personal and Organizational Success

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Hardcore Leadership Master Lessons for Creating Personal and Organizational Success Deborah L. Parker The DPJ Training Group Leesburg, VA [email protected]

Transcript of Hardcore Leadership: Master Lessons for Creating Personal and Organizational Success

Hardcore Leadership 

Master Lessons for Creating Personal and Organizational Success

Deborah L. ParkerThe DPJ Training Group

Leesburg, [email protected]

Discussion Objectives• Assess and build on leadership

style from a variety of situations

• Understand the importance of

hardcore leadership in a changing and challenging environment

Execution

GRIT - Implications, Definitions

HARDCORE

What words come to mind?

Let’s look at the following images

VUCAHardcore Leadership Needed

Today’s Environment

• V = Volatility. The nature and dynamics of change, the speed of change forces and catalysts.

• U = Uncertainty. The lack of predictability and the prospects for surprise

• C = Complexity. The myriad of change forces along with the chaos and confusion they bring

• A = Ambiguity. The haziness of reality, the potential for misreads, and the mixed meanings of conditions

The US Army War College

ExtractExtract

Reconcile/BalanceReconcile/Balance

PreservePreserve

Give Honor, AcknowledgeGive Honor, Acknowledge

Leadership is Personal: Discover Your Grit SourceLeadership is Personal: Discover Your Grit Source

Packing and Unpacking Your GritPacking and Unpacking Your Grit

Think of one of the most difficult times in your Think of one of the most difficult times in your life (professional or personal).life (professional or personal).

How did you get through the situation?How did you get through the situation?What did you learn about yourself and how What did you learn about yourself and how

has that experience impacted your has that experience impacted your leadership style?leadership style?

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them

into the impossible." Anonymous

Your VUCA Mission

• Vision • Understanding • Clarity • Adaptability 

The Institute for the Future fellow Bob Johansen

Your Hardcore Creed

• Fundamental beliefs• Guiding principles • Authoritative statements– Keep you on course– Linked to purpose and vision

A Winning Leadership Campaign

• Rework your mission and vision Intel on your current situation? • Working and not• Take ownership of AOR (area of responsibility)

• Be agile and alert to new ways of doing the work of leadershipGain  momentum in your key areas of impact and influence Rebuild trust and engage in damage control when needed 

• Execute with all of your assets and abilities

Lead on! Press forward!

Courageously Execute Get Organized Stay Focused Make Tough Decisions Act to Move Out Evaluate the Process Ignite Passion Along the Way Claim Victory at Critical Points

Hardcore Leadership:11 Master Lessons from My Airborne

Ranger Uncle’s “Final Jump”http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C01XPUY