1. Introducing and Implementing New Ideas
Your Path to Leadership: Mastering Core Competencies
to Get Ahead in Government
Bill Spencer and Deb Green
Subject Matter Experts
Week 1: June 11 - June 15, 2012

2. Our Time Together Today…
1. Housekeeping
2. Introduction
3. Leading Change & Building Coalitions
4. Ideas to Reality in Three Steps
5. Q&A

3. Housekeeping
• Twitter Hash Tag: #gltrain
• If you would like to submit a question, just enter it into the chat
window. Our experts will field questions at the end
• If you have any technical difficulties, use the chat window, but direct
it to “Steve Cottle” -- not “all participants”
• After the session is complete, you will be able to find a link to the
archived version of the webinar on the week 1 pages of the course
group on GovLoop

4. Course Info
• Weekly E-mail
• Course Components
– Webinar
– Workbook
– SME Challenge
– Reflection
• Schedule
– 6/11: Introducing and
Implementing New Ideas
– 6/18: Transforming the Toughest
Employees and Teams
– 6/25: Beyond Doing More With
Less: Doing Different

5. Your Hosts
Andy Krzmarzick Steve Cottle
Director of Community Engagement, Graduate Fellow,
GovLoop GovLoop
andrew@govloop.com stevec@govloop.com

6. Meet Our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
Bill Spencer Deb Green
Clerk of the Board, Program Manager,
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board IdeaHub Program Office,
Federal Aviation Administration

7. Bill Spencer
Clerk of the Board,
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

8. The 5 Executive Core Qualifications
• ECQ 1 – Leading Change
• ECQ 2 – Leading People
• ECQ 3 – Results Driven
• ECQ 4 – Business Acumen
• ECQ 5 – Building Coalitions

9. ECQs: Fundamental Competencies
• Interpersonal Skills
• Oral Communication
• Integrity/Honesty
• Written Communication
• Continual Learning
• Public Service Motivation

10. ECQ 1: Leading Change
• Creativity and Innovation • Resilience
– Develops new insights – Deals effectively with pressure
– Questions conventional approach – Remains optimistic
– Encourages new ideas – Recovers quickly from setbacks
• External Awareness • Strategic Thinking
– Understands trends that affect org – Formulates objectives/priorities
– Aware of org. impact on external – Capitalizes on opportunities and
environment manages risk
• Flexibility • Vision
– Open to change – Long-term view
– Rapidly adapts to new info – Builds shared vision with others
– Influences others to turn vision
into action

11. ECQ 5: Building Coalitions
• Partnering
– Develops networks and builds alliances;
– collaborates across boundaries
• Political Savvy
– Identifies politics that impact the work of org.
– Perceives organizational and political reality
• Influencing/Negotiating
– Persuades and gains cooperation from others
– Builds consensus

12. Leading Change in Eastern Europe

13. Change Happens: Anthrax

14. Learned”
Top 12 “Lessons
ew Ideas
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3. I t ’s the net
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4. Socia
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6. Don’t
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7 . Learn t
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8. Hello
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9. S tay on me a mile?
any f e et are in
10. How m
do it
11. Just
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12. Woo-

15. Deb Green
Program Manager,
IdeaHub Program Office,
Federal Aviation Administration

16. “We’ve got all these great ideas…
...What do we do with them?”

17. Before you present an idea…
• Understand your organizational climate
• Understand your organizational mission
▫ Larger agency and immediate unit responsibilities
▫ Know the short and long term goals for both
• Perspective of local “politics”
• Know what your closest levels of management
are trying to accomplish

18. “Bring good things to life...”
• So you’ve got an idea…
• Now you’ll need the following
▫ Audience
▫ Funding
▫ Personnel
▫ Leadership Support
▫ Structure to Implement and Sustain

19. Step 1: Sell It
• Identify an existing gap
▫ Helps identify the audience(s)
• Explain the gap and how it impacts the
organization/agency/department
▫ Understand Sacred Cows
▫ What Keeps Management Up at Night?
• Explain how your idea fills that gap
• What do you gain by filling the gap?
▫ Also: Describe lost opportunities with unfilled gap

20. Step 2: Pitch It
Present that “gap” information – and be prepared to
answer the all important question:
“What do you need from me?”
• Ask for what you need up front
• Plan for IT matters and personnel
• Plan beyond launch
• Ideas can fail if you don’t plan for success beyond getting the
idea off the ground

21. Step 3: Work It
• Assemble your resources
• Inspire the team/communicate the vision
• Trust your team members and verify progress
• Start identifying “small wins” even before putting
the idea into action
▫ Milestones
▫ Excitement
▫ Interest from colleagues/organizations

22. Par ting Thoughts
1. Believe
ur idea
2. Socialize yo
e
3. Stay Positiv
4. Be Resilient
o v e yo u
Find a champion ab
5.
yo u
Find follow ers amongst
6.
nt to see
B e th e c h ange you wa
7.

23. Ask the experts!
Submit your questions in the chat window on the
bottom right.

24. Week 1 Assignment
 Attend Webinar
 Introduce Yourself
 Complete Workbook Traits 1-4 (pp. 5-9)
o Read Section Summary
o Complete Required Reading
o Reflect on Reading; complete and save copy of reflection
notes
 Participate in Week 1 SME Challenge
 Ask Questions / Provide Feedback!