1) The document discusses building a strong personal network to support your legacy and core values. 2) It provides tips for defining your personal core values and creating a personal mission statement to guide your decisions. 3) The document also outlines a 4-step process for building a better network that includes analyzing your current relationships, removing negative influences, diversifying your network, and capitalizing on existing relationships.

1. 2013 Annual Conference
Intentional Leadership is the Best Legacy
Dr. Monica Scamardo
monica@variateconsulting.com

2. personal core valuesPersonal Core Values
Clarify your understanding of who you are
Require no justification to others
Guide you in making decisions and choices
Run all your relationships

3. Defining Your Personal Core Values
What shapes your behavior?
What are you passionate about?
What do you absolutely love to do?
What motivates your achievements?

4. Know
Thyself

5. Do you have a
Personal
Mission
Statement?

6. Use my gifts and
competencies to connect
with people in ways that
positively influence them
to get intentional results in
work and life.

7. What is Your Legacy?

9. Does Your
Network
Support
Your Legacy?

10. Relationships & Networks
Who is key for you to have a relationship with?
Who is key for you to have a relationship with
but you don’t?

11. Who are the individuals in your network?

12. Mistakes in
Networks
• Too formal
• Too many
• Too safe
• Too biased
• Too superficial
• Too inconsistent

13. Support & challenge
Help to gain influence
Broaden your expertise
Learn new skills
Find purpose & balance
Successful Networks

14. 4 Steps to Building a Better Network
From A Smarter Way to Network, HBR 2011

15. Step 1: Analyze
Where are they located?
What are the benefits of your interactions?
How energizing are those interactions?

16. Step #2: De-Layer
• Who saps your energy?
• Who promotes unhealthy behavior?

17. Move Away From Them
• Reshape your role to avoid them
• Give less time to them
• Change their behavior
• Reframe your understanding of them

18. Step #3: Diversify
• Connect your network to your
legacy
• Who could fill the gaps?
• What 3 results do you want to achieve in the
next 12 months & who could help you with
them?

19. Step #4: Capitalize
Could you get more out of some relationships if
you put more energy into them?
Are there people you rely on in one
area that could fill a need in another?

20. A well-written life is almost as rare
as a well-spent one.
The choices we make about the
lives we live determine the kinds
of legacies we leave.
Dr. Monica Scamardo
monica@variateconsulting.com
512.914.6484