The documents provide guidance on creating an authentic work environment characterized by leadership, values, and personal growth. Key points include: 1) Establishing an authentic leadership group to discuss works promoting personal development, values-based leadership, and organizational excellence. 2) Defining turbulent times and behaviors to avoid, such as short-term thinking and fear-based decisions, which can demotivate staff and stifle creativity. 3) Promoting authentic leadership through discovering personal purpose and values, developing compassionate relationships, and encouraging others' growth.

2. Goals for all Teams
• Help everyone cope & grow within the
current negative environment.
• Help everyone deal with personal
changes as they impact themselves and
others.
• Help everyone understand the changes
going on within the organization, Big
Picture.
• Help everyone understand the need for
collaboration internally/externally
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3. Foundations of the Authentic Work
Environment
• Start an Authentic Leadership Group
within Your Organization
• Include works of Bill George from his
book “True North”
• Include work of Michael Bungay
Stanier’s book “Find Your Great Work”
• Include work of Jim Collins, “Good to
Great”
• Include work of Coach Wooden’s
Pyramid of Success
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4. • Personal Values compromised
• No clear direction beyond the day-to-day
• You’ve become just another number,
“CDU” or worse, a “Resource”
• You don’t feel part of anything good
• You know when and if you are part of
something bad
• All consistency feels like stagnation
• You struggle to find meaning in your
work
• You wonder if you are next on “a” list!
HOW DO WE DEFINE
TURBULENT TIMES?
(Personal)
The
Employees’
“Death of a
Thousand
Cuts”

5. •Fear
•Scarcity
•Individualism
•Protectionism
•Blame & Judgement
•Stasis replaces Creativity
•Management vs. Leadership
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH
WHAT CAN NORMALLY HAPPEN?
..TURBULENT BEHAVIORS?

6. AND WHAT
RESULTS CAN
THESE BEHAVIORS
BRING?
Knee-Jerk
decision
making
Short Term
Thinking
A Focus on
the past
Further
Fear of
Change
De-motivated
Staff
Dissatisfied
Customers
Stifled
creativity
Values
Conflicts
Acceptance
of Fear
Micro
Management

7. LIFE ISN’T ABOUT WAITING FOR
THE STORM TO PASS; IT’S
ABOUT:
Anon
LEARNING
TO DANCE
IN THE
RAIN!

8. 0 Your Brand should mean, amongst other things…
0 Being Purposeful in all that you do
0…including developing the understanding of yourselves, your
values, your needs
0 Being Passionate about the things that you do
0 …including aligning yourselves with actions that make your hearts
sing!
0 Being Ingenious by allowing yourselves to be creative
0 …and building environments that encourage bravery to say or try
new things & possibly fail
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HONORING YOUR HISTORY
& SHAPING YOUR FUTURE

9. AUTHENTIC personal LEADERSHIP
..AN INVITATION
“Leadership is a
conscious
process of
discovering and
nurturing infinite
possibilities in a
human being”
Debashis Chatterjee

10. AUTHENTIC
LEADERSHIP
The ‘DNA’ of an Authentic Leader is:
• Purpose leading to passion
• Values leading to “right” behaviour
• Heart leading to compassion
• Relationships leading to connectedness
• Self Discipline leading to consistency
• Self Awareness leading to knowledge & personal growth

11. The ABC’s of Working
Together..
0 Authenticity
0 Be your true self – the person who you were born to be!
0 Stay true to your Values, (e.g. Trust, Openness, Honesty)
0 Act out of Abundance not Scarcity
0 Be a role model to grant permission to others to be Authentic
0 Blame
0 Take the blame out of all that you say and do
0 Don’t judge PEOPLE - focus on the PROCESSES that are broken
0 Courage
0 Build your inner strength to overcome obstacles with Compassion
0 Have the courage to say how things really are:-
0 to create a safe place to exhibit “right” behaviours
0 to form an Inspirational environment for the team and for yourself.
0 to Feel and Acknowledge your fears - and do things anyway!
4/26/2013 11“Do or do not, there is no try!” - Yoda

12. 0 BE the real you - true to your WHOLE self
0 Understand and live to your personal values
0 Identify and remove conflict, personal first
0 Widen your comfort zones
0 Develop self-knowledge & self-faith
0 Recognise your fears and do things anyway!
0 Build fulfilling relationships
0 Develop the courage to see it through
0 Reach your potential
0 Grant PERMISSION to others to do the same!
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AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP
…AN INVITATION FOR EVERYONE!

13. 0 A process that enables your “investors”
(Employees, Managers, Customers, Suppliers) to be driven by
values and principles to do the right thing, no matter how
difficult the situation.
0 Rules, regulations and laws tell you what you can do, but
values inspire in you what you should do.
0 The primary goal is to make relationships more sustainable.
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AWE – Elevator Speech
…easy to relate, quick thought!

14. 0 Things only get interesting when you take full responsibility for
the choices you make
0 Changing your Focus Changes what’s possible
0 You must make the full choice
0 If everyone is happy then you’re not doing great work
0 You need to welcome others to your journey
0 Good is the enemy of GREAT! – Jim Collins
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Great Work Truths
…Michael Stanier – Find Your Great Work!