The Leader Habit Master the skills you need

The Leader Habit Master the skills you need in 5 minutes a day

Simple Objectives • Understand habits and how they are formed • Identify a Keystone Habit • Create one habit to practice

Today’s Presentation • • Lots and Lots of participation I will call on people by name…so don’t play on your phone However, there are rewards… If you have a fast or good answer to a question- you may get a Dunkin card (or Starbucks if you like burnt coffee).

The Leader Habit - Intro • Did you brush your teeth today? – How did you know what to do? – Was there an event that triggers you to brush your teeth? – Do you follow a routine to get ready for the day? • I do – What is your morning routine?

The Leader Habit- Intro What is the difference between Knowledge, Skills and Abilities?

The Leader Habit- Intro • We generally don’t think of leadership as a habit, but yet we have habitual patterns of leadership, some are great, others not, and most of them are underdeveloped. • How we get things done at work, and how we manage people, is the result of habits – and those habits can be purposefully changed. • Martin Lanik the author of THE LEADER HABIT: Master the Skills You Need to Lead in Just Minutes a Day, shows you how to develop key leadership skills through simple, daily exercises.

The Leader Habit- Intro • One of the examples from The Leader Habit comes from music education. • You can take classes on how to play the piano and watch You. Tube videos, but that won’t make you a concert pianist. You must practice every day.

The Leader Habit- Intro • Our leadership development fails to take into account the overwhelming influence that habits have on our daily behavior. It assumes that we rationally decide how we behave at work and in life. • Research suggests that almost half of our everyday behavior is actually unconscious and automatic. • How many people decide how they will react to any given situation? – Do you go into routine mode when answering the phone? – How about catheter placement? – What happens when someone asks you a question when you are busy or “attacks” you in the middle of treatment?

The Leader Habit- Intro • How does a behavior become automatic? – Share Examples of Automatic Behavior • What was something you learned that was really hard – What did you do to learn it – What were you thinking as your learned it • Name a hobby, sport or activity that you are passionate about – The “Flow”

The Leader Habit- Intro • Positive habits make us better leaders, while negative habits hinder our performance. • What is a negative habit? – Procrastination • Students- do they procrastinate? – Doubt • When do you doubt yourself at work? – Inaction (Decision Making) • Why is it hard to take action?

The Leader Habit- Intro • Martin Lanik Video- https: //youtu. be/e. V 2 IVLBhcu. Y

The Leader Habit- Intro • THE LEADER HABIT identifies 22 core leadership skills and the underlying micro-behaviors (ingrained habits) that effective leaders possess. – When you go to the movies, what do you eat? – When you climb into your car, what do you wear? • By associating each micro-behavior with a natural cue and then deliberately practicing this pairing every day for 66 days, anyone can turn these effective leadership behaviors into habits.

Italy Underground Tour Only 8 years to build the entire structure. Who knows what that center block is called?

The Leader Habit- Intro • What is a Keystone? • What is a Keystone Habit? • Practice a habit for I 66 days (Practice one habit for 66 days) – What can you practice for 66 days? How about Time Management? – Plan your day. . . everyday, what did Dr. Shaw talk about regarding this?

The Leader Habit- Intro • Once the new habits take root, people perform these effective leadership behaviors automatically, without having to rely on reminders, or even thinking about them. They just happen as seamlessly as putting in a catheter or answering the phone. • Take the leadership habit quiz - https: //leaderhabit. pinsight. com/#!/ • Go to Leadership. Habit. com

The Leader Habit- Results

Leadership Habit- Getting Things Done Most leadership habits are clustered into two groups 1. Getting Things Done • Task oriented leaders provide structure for their teams. They plan organize work, delegate, monitor progress of employees and push to get the job done. .

The Leader Habit- Focus on People Most leadership habits are clustered into two groups 2. Focusing on People – People oriented leaders ten to focus on supporting and developing their employees, showing consideration and motivating them.

What’s Your Leadership Style? Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself- there are no right and wrong answers.

What is your Leadership Style? • If you have three or more selections in the left column, you see yourself as stronger on Getting Things Done. • If you have three or more selections in the right column, you see yourself as stronger on Focusing on People. • This is your self assessment baseline. You can’t be 100% sure because you are not the best judge of your own skills. Homework- Ask at least two people that know you well and whose judgment you trust- to answer the same questions about you.

Keystone Habits

Which Category Do I Choose From? • Consider starting your Leader Habit workout with a skill from the opposite skill category. – If you are good at Getting Things Done, then Focus on People – If you are good at Focusing on People, then do Getting Things Done Make sure the skill you choose is compatible with your personality. It should feel natural and easy, not to hard. It should align with your personality traits.

Next Steps • Complete the Leader Habit Quiz at https: //leaderhabit. pinsight. com/#!/ • Complete the Leadership Style five questions • Ask someone you trust and who knows you well at work to fill out the same questionnaire on you. Remember there are no wrong answers! • Photo copy the page with your Top 5 Most Natural Skills and your Bottom 5 Least Natural (or email me the whole PDF- it will be kept confidential)

Next Steps • The first person who gets me their homework will get a prize • Once I receive your homework, I will put together a plan for you and email it back. This could take a few weeks. Why am I doing this? Because you don’t have time to read the book • Next, I will have you reach out to your assigned partner to discuss your habit goal and how you are doing with it. • Finally- all this stuff will be on https: //VCAGentle. Leader. com • Plus some other cool downloads (and I will be updating it weekly)

Want to know more? • You can buy the book on Amazon, or watch a few You Tube Videos – On https: //www. leaderhabit. com/ there is a video – Check out this You Tube video - https: //youtu. be/e. V 2 IVLBhcu. Y • Go to your itunes/app store or Google play and download an app called- Mind Tools. There are hundreds of free leadership articles on there. You can read them while standing in line for your Dunkin Donuts coffee ! • You can also check out Mind. Tools. com • Check out VCAGentle. Leader. com

Thank You!