First session in Class slides

1. Executive Women’s Leadership Programme
Introductory Session
19th May 2018 1

2. Today
Introductions and Expectations
Leveraging Leadership
Development
Speaker James McCallum
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3. Why a women only
leadership
programme?

4. Beyond Leaning In – Addressing the Attainment Gap
• Examine the “gendered” aspects of
organizations
• SHOWCASE STRENGTHS women bring
• Capitalize on the lessons from successful role
models (eg Club30)
• Adapt a GROWTH mindset [Away from the
’brilliance’ descriptions of leaders]
• Getting men into the conversation.
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7. “Assignments”
• Networking Leverage Plan [Begin
End of June]
• Summer session 30th August 6pm
• Strategic Challenge Project
[Individual assignment presented
to the panel last day of
programme in December]
Formulate over summer after
working on Lean Canvas with Dr.
Johanna Young, Saturday 9th June
• Team Live Case Solution
[Participation as a ”Board” in
November] some background
materials to review 7

8. Evaluation and
Opportunities for
Developmental Data
• Korn Ferry Assessment
of Leadership Potential
• Will be available
beginning of June for
those interested.
• Will run individual
feedback sessions for
those completing the
assessment
• Programme end and
midway evaluation
online surveys
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9. Your
capacity and
interest to
develop the
qualities required
for effective
performance in a
significantly
more
challenging
leadership role.
Leadership
potential
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10. Introductions
& Expectations

11. The Edinburgh Experience
• Founded in 1583
• One of the largest universities in the UK
• Over 30,000 students, more than 20,000
undergraduates, 10,000+ postgraduates
• Ranked 4th for research excellence in the
UK Research Excellence Framework (REF),
2014
• Ranked 21st in the QS World University
Rankings 2015
• 15 Nobel Prize winners in areas such as
Physics, Medicine, Economics 11

12. • One of the top 1% of Business
Schools world-wide to be triple
accredited by the three largest
and most influential associations:
AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA.
• 21 undergraduate programmes,
14 MSc programmes (including
HRM and International HRM), 2
MBA programmes and a broad
portfolio of Executive Education.
• 100 faculty from 28 countries.
Students from 88 countries.
• Particular strength in strategy,
strategic leadership, resilience,
accounting and finance, service
management and sustainability.
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13. Views on leadership
• At your tables:
• Take a few minutes to think about an
effective leadership action you have
witnessed that has impressed you.
• Introduce yourselves to your table
members and share your example.
• At your table, come up with a couple
of things that will help you get the
most out of the sessions.
• Report back as to the ”nature of your
group” and what impresses the group
about leaders.
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14. Definition:
Strategic
Leadership
• Strategic leadership is
defined as a person's
ability to anticipate,
envision, maintain
flexibility, think
strategically, and work
with others to initiate
changes that will create
a viable future for the
organization.” (Ireland &
Hitt, 2005; reprint from
1999).
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15. 15
Strategic Leadership
Strategic and holistic
in vision
Innovative
in thinking
Entrepreneurial
in action
Responsible
in practice
Global
in perspective
Capable
of leading change
Our Model of Strategic Leadership

16. Leveraging
Leadership
Development
Your Best Practices?
1. Learning from experience
2. The role of reflection
3. Your Purpose

17. Background: What is
developed in leader
and leadership
development?
1. Specific skills around:
Leading self [Intrapersonal]
Leading others [interpersonal]
Leading organisations [outerpersonal?]
2. Improved thinking and problem solving
3. Transition to a new leader identity and the
transition process (requires self awareness)
within one’s gender identity
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18. Contents of One’s Leader Identity
{How we see ourselves as
leaders}
1. Typical leader ideal used as a reference
2. A self evaluation of how well you “do
leadership” matched or compared against
leader ideal that might be situationally based
3. Confidence in your leadership ability
4. A motivation to lead: Is it something you
want?
5. Others’ perceptions, and therefore, feedback
about your ability that you incorporate into
leader identity
6. How much you believe that leadership ability
can be developed in you or in anyone
(developmental efficacy)
7. Specific goals around developing your
leadership ability
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19. You are a Unique Leader
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20. y
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Learning
Practices
Observe and
Learn from
others
Approach new
experiences with
openness to
experience
Seek and use
feedback
Understanding
your strengths
and
developmental
needs
Ask Great
Questions/
CuriousityListens
transformatively
Actively
Experiment
Observe and
Learn from
others
Active reflection
and mindfulness
Take
responsibility

21. Leveraging Leader Development Experiences
• Challenging assignments; stretching
• For assessment key is self awareness
• Reflect on one’s on self evaluation of
outcomes and processes, and impact
• Also gather feedback from others to
help overcome blind spots
• Build your own leadership model
• Support: Who? Networked
approach, mentors, coaches,
sponsors.
Center for Creative Leadership
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22. Reflection
“People don’t get what they want out
of life because they don’t know what
they want out of life.”
- John Goddard
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23. Finding your purpose as a leader
To get started:
• What did you especially love doing when you were a child,
before the world told you what you should or shouldn’t like
or do? Describe a moment and how it made you feel.
• Tell us about two of your most challenging life experiences.
How have they shaped you?
• What do you enjoy doing in your life now that helps you
sing your song?
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24. Taking it forward

25. Keeping Up with the
Programme:
Our 2018 EWLP (private)
LinkedIn Page
• 2018 Executive Women’s
Leadership Programme
LinkedIn Group
• Slides
• Article links
• Videos of the sessions
• Book Shelf
• Reminders
• Invite to join the group will go
out to your work emails
provided for the programme
• If you do not receive an
invitation, please send me
the email associated with
your LinkedIn account
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26. Next Session
• Session II.
• Creative Strategy and
Change with Professor John
Amis
• Guest Speaker
• Valerie Michie
• Drinks Reception begins
5:30
Wednesday
30th May 2018
13:00 to 18:00
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