Goal Setting, Vision, and Tying it All Together

Jeff Yacup

Recapping 

Leadership is...

a process of influence that requires people working together to achieve goals

effective leaders utilize a range of skills including effective communication (verbal, non verbal, listening), empathy, flexibility, inspiring and motivating others, etc.

Recapping Last Week

The Strengths Philosophy

Top achievers fully recognize their talents and build on them to develop strengths

Top achievers apply their greatest talents in roles that best suit them, and subsequently partner with those to tackle tasks that do not suit them.

Top achievers invent ways to apply their greatest talents to their achievement tasks. They use them to overcome obstacles and invent new ways of capitalizing on them.

Elements of Powerful Partnership

• Complementary Strengths
• A Common Mission
• Fairness
• Trust
• Acceptance
• Forgiveness
• Communicating
• Unselfishness

From The Power of Two by R. Wagner & G. Muller

Stanford d-School Design Thinking Process

• Empathize: work to understand people within the context of the challenge. We need to understand how things are done and why they are done
• Define: Define the challenge at hand. Craft a meaningful actionable problem statement. This is the guiding statement to address the issue.
• Ideate: Concentrate on idea generation...go wide for concepts and outcomes
• Prototype: Generation of artifacts aimed at solving the challenge at hand. Should be able to be interacted with. Prototype if you're right.
• Test: Solicit feedback about prototypes, which will allow greater understanding of user and make changes to prototype. Test as if you're wrong.

Skills Needed to Navigate Conflict

• Communication Skills
• Empathy
• Emotional Intelligence
• Creative Problem Solving

Crucial Conversations: STATE

• Share your Facts
• Tell your Story
• Ask for others' Path
• Talk Tentatively
• Encourage Testing

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Your Values...Your Motivation

Setting Goals

Make Goals SMART

• Specific: Identify who, what, where, when, why

• Measurable: Be able to measure progress towards the goal.
• Attainable: Develop steps to reaching your goal.
• Realistic: You have to be willing to work at it to be able to reach it

• Timely: There has to be a time frame; if no timeframe there will be no urgency to accomplish it.

Your Goals

Goal Discussion

• Who can you utilize to help accomplish this goal?
• What would be your very next step to accomplish this?
• Why is this important to you?