LEADERSHIFT

Speaker: John Maxwell

From Soloist to Conductor

• Go slower so you can go farther
  • It’s slower in the beginning to include others
  • As the challenge escalates, the team has to elevate
• ONE is too small of a number to achieve greatness
  • How big is your dream? Not the right question
  • How big is your team? The right question
  • Are you competing or completing with your team
  • Competing – scarcity mindset (perception of artificial limits)
  • Completing – abundance mindset (we accomplish more as a whole, no limits)
  • YOU alone are not enough – you need a TEAM
• Bring out the best of others and shine the light on them
• Help others to get better everyday; add value daily
• Ask yourself daily: “How can I make my team better today?”
• Three things asked of a leader by their followers:
  • Do you care for me?
  • Can you help me?
  • Can I trust you?
• OPPORTUNITIES:
  • BELIEVE IT
  • ANTICIPATE IT
  • GO AFTER IT
• Never wait to add value – Be the first to demonstrate
• Evaluated experience is the best teacher

 

From Perks to Price

• Why do you want to be a leader? Do you really know your why?
• Leadership is a constant uphill battle
• A price is what stands between you are potential
• Common costs leaders must pay:
  • Facing Reality – expectations vs. reality – the disappointment gap
  • When you don’t prepare for the worst, the worst wins
  • What we won’t do will hurt us more than what we can’t do ***
  • Going first as a leader gives you moral authority
• Be a “follow me” leader
  • You have to go first and be out front in order for others to follow you
  • They set expectations for themselves first, before others do it for them
  • Set your standards high and keep them high when no one is looking
• Consistency – because leadership is an uphill battle, climbing never stops
  • If you want to keep leading, you have to leading
• You have to give up in order to go up.
  • What are the things, ideas, perks you have to give up to go up?
  • Time, convenience, etc ?
  • What is the price you will have to pay?
• Consistency compounds over time
• The price you pay today opens the way to the next door where you pay a higher price

 

From Maintaining to Creating

• Coasting zone, comfort zone, challenge zone, creative zone
• You need to build a creative culture
• Leaders in the creative zone constantly want their people to try new things
• Faster empowerment and autonomy
• Minimize hierarchy
• Don’t rest on the best – or you’ll fall into maintenance mode
• It’s a disaster when you become satisfied
• How can I make my best better? (this is true growth)
• Make plans but look for options to improve on them
• Live on the other side of yes (positive and expectant mindset)
• Comfortable is:
  • Dangerous to success
  • Has nothing to prove
  • No new ideas
  • Won’t commit
  • Has no guts
  • Never dares to be greet

From Team Uniformity to Team Diversity

• Diverse team’s fill-in the experience gap
• Diversity of temperaments
• Diversity of perspective
• Diversity brings conflict and comparisons
• When our personal network is not expansive, we should seek out people different from us

 

From Positional Authority to Moral Authority

• Recognize the different types of Authority:
  • Natural-ability authority – natural influence
  • Positional authority – Rank/Position
  • Knowledge authority – What you know
  • Situational authority – Timing/Situation
  • Relational authority – Who you know
  • Proximity authority – Your environment
  • Success authority – Past success
  • Mentoring authority – Being in a coaching/mentoring relationship
  • Seniority authority – Been there longer, or oldest person
  • Moral authority- Who you are and what you are. It is earned.
• Pathway to obtaining Moral Authority
  • Competence – Be excellent at what you do
  • Courage – Respect is earned on the difficult ground. There are times when you have to fight for things you will not win. People don’t follow title, they follow courage.
  • Consistency – Establishes your reputation, you have to do before you can have
  • Character – Be bigger on the inside than the outside
    • You have to “be” before you can “do”
    • Unconditionally loving people
    • Put people first
    • Be willing to be lonely for the right reasons (in reference to “being lonely at the top”)
    • Balance Care and Candor (Treating someone with respect and care, but also telling them the hard truth)

From Trained to Transformational

• Do your actions inspire others to be more?
• Do you know your why?
• Trained leaders ask people to follow them, Transformational leaders ask people to make a difference.
• Transformational leaders see things others don’t. They see things as they could be and ask why not?
• Transformational leaders believe things that others do not believe, and they feel things that others do not feel.
• Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
• “Can I” mindset vs. “How can I” mindset
• Transformation leaders have no procrastination in them
• Personal Transformation – be the change you want to see in others
• Start transformation projects in your community (volunteer)
• Good things happen when good people have good values

 

From Career to Calling

• Calling – a purpose with a divine touch, a calling is mainly about others
• A career is something you can do
• A calling is something must do
• Your calling matches who you are
  • Taps into your passion
  • What makes you come alive
• What the world needs is people who come alive
• Its not about you, its bigger than you
• God will open doors for your calling
• Your calling brings fulfillment – what makes you sing, cry, dream?
• Ego drives us, but a calling draws us
• 1 Cor 12:7 each person is given a purpose (paraphrased)
• To maximize your calling, you need to write it down
• Life (experience) will knock the certainties out of you (you become less certain of things you once were very certain about)
• People don’t need a perfect leader – they need an authentic one
• Ask others to join you in your calling

Speaker: Ed Bastion

CEO of Delta Airlines

• Delta has approximately 80,000 employees
• Control the things that you can control
• When things aren’t going well, that’s when people (staff, clients, family, etc. ) figure out who you are
• The virtuous cycle – if you take care of your people, they will take care of your clients
• Leadership is all about the people you surround yourself with
• Delta pays 15% of corporate profits to employees every Valentines Day

 

Speaker: Mark Cole

CEO of John Maxwell Companies

• Do you want to be loved or to lead well?
• Are you connecting to connect, or to direct?
  • Connecting for the purpose of Connecting
  • Connecting for the purpose of Directing
  • Directing for the purpose of Directing
  • Directing for the purpose of Connecting

• We shift to position ourselves for the next shift
• Constantly work to make yourself better, not final, or done
• You have to go to your team where they are, and lead them where they need to go. (Don’t ask them to come to where you are now)

Speaker: Rachel Hollis

Author: Girl, Wash Your Face

• Self-taught but not self-made
• Comfort causes mediocrity/complacency
• Don’t let others determine how much you can grow
• Personal development is the magic bullet
• Don’t let others opinion hold you back
• You are not most people
• In this season of your life, what is the ONE THING you need to work on right now
• Don’t try to be everything to everyone
• Pursue growth every single day for the rest of your life
• Ed Mylett reference – Live your life as if one day you will meet a version of yourself that lived up to your full potential.
• Admit your weakness without shame
• “In this age of free information, ignorance is a choice”

 

Speaker: Trent Shelton

NFL Wide Receiver, RehabTime

• Who are you gonna be when motivation wears off?
• Championship Mindset
• Commitment
  • Stay loyal to what you said you were going to do
  • There are people who are depending on you to be your best you
• Discipline
  • Get good at saying “no” to things that are easy to say “yes” to
  • Are people in your life energizing you or draining you?
  • Some of us are holding on to things and people we need to let go of
• Consistency
  • Are you still going to show up when it sucks?
  • Some people will not see your greatness because they are too close to you
• Faith
  • Believe the odds are beatable
  • Believe that doors will open that don’t even exist yet
  • Transparency leads to transformation