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EDX: Becoming a Successful Leader (Inclusive Leadership)

 
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Week 1: 21st Century Leaders - vision

Lone Nut

  • TED: How to start a movement: Leadership is over-glorified. It is really the first follower that transforms the “Lone Nut” into a leader.
  • Ursula Burns on Leading & Following
    • There is a lot of times when I’m the leader, yet overall I follow a bit more.
    • Leader is not a person.
    • I expect every single person when called on, to step on and take charge.
  • Take 5 leadership
    1. Leadership is about influencing others to achieve a common goal.
    2. Leadership is not as complicated as we think it is.
    3. Anyone can lead.
    4. Leadership requires simple action anyone can do.
    5. followers are also leaders. First follower tuns a lot nut into a leader.
  • Jim Turley: Why this matters
    • Teams are going to be more diverse.
    • Diverse teams perform either absolutely great or absolutely awful.

EACH

  • Empowerment - allow people to do the things their own way
  • Accountability - holding people responsible for their own actions
  • Courage - helps put people group interest above personal ones
  • Humility - foster connections and encourage people to learn from another

Week 2 - blind spots

  • Unconscious Bias(es). We all have, it makes us human.
  • Stereotypes:
    1. generalizations. Mental shortcuts. We rely on them to help us save time and energy.
    2. stereotypes can be misleading.
    3. lead to quick, unaware perceptions.
    4. can cause us unintentionally respond to people in ways that elicit from them behaviour to confirm our stereotypes.
    5. Inclusive leaders are ware of the stereotypes and look for ways to educate, role model and put in place structures to lessen the impact of them on others.
  • Otherness:
    1. Everyone can be an “other”.
    2. Otherness is about being different from the dominant group.
    3. In many organizations, characteristics of the dominant group become normative.
    4. We only feel the need to specify group membership when it is non-dominant.
    5. Inclusive leaders are aware of otherness, can emphasize with feelings of otherness and are willing to explore those feelings in themselves.

Week 3 - EACH framework

  • Every time you’re empowering you’re encouraging to think out-of-the-box.
  • Being hold valuable makes feel valuated, invested in the process.
  • Courage is small and simple. Letting people where you stand and demonstrating true feelings to the staff.
  • Humility is about learning. You don’t have to know it all. You certainly don’t know it all.

Culture of accountability is all about results. See it. Own it. Solve it. Do it. You don’t have to ask the boss for permission.

Week 4 - put it all together