Welcome Dr. Jerry Woehr NJASA Co

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Identifying and Using Your Leadership Skills

Developing your Leadership Talents

New Jersey Association of School Business Officials

 Dr. Jerry Woehr, E.I.R.C.

[email protected]

(609) 314-4096 June 4, 2015

WELCOME

Shake hands and introduce yourself to your neighbor (s).

Name something good that happened this week

TODAY’S FOCUS

- KNOWING YOUR STRENGTHS SO YOU CAN BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT LEADER, MANAGER, AND COMMUNICATOR!

BEST TIP: KNOW YOURSELF, AND THEN HOW OTHERS WANT TO BE TREATED

• It is better to build on your strengths than work on your weaknesses.

• You can’t be anything you want, but you can be a lot more of who you are already.

• In this increasing talent-driven society, we need to know and to develop our strengths to figure out where we fit in

ARE THESE TRUE?

HAVE YOU IDENTIFIED STRENGTHS ?

YOUR

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT????

Knowing your signature strengths helps clarify the individual talents you bring to your work unit/team

LEADERSHIP STYLES

ASSERTIVE

–

AGGRESSIVE

WIMPY

ON LINE ‘LEADERSHIP STYLE’ ASSESSMENTS

ARE YOU AN ASSERTIVE EDUCATIONAL LEADER?

Rate three best skills, with a + Rate three skills to be developed more, with a -

Focused, driven Vision articulate it, get others excited Knows generally of steps, personnel, resources AND expected roadblocks to success, but is flexible Dilemma Resolver – not just a problem solver Shared leadership; trusts and respects staff Involves others – and knows when and who Insures all know criteria of ‘SUCCESS” Resourceful Knows when and how to break the rules Gets results!!!!!!!!!!!

DO YOU GET TO USE YOUR STRENGTHS AT WORK?

   What are your identified strengths ? Do you get the opportunity to use them ?

Do you know areas develop ? you will have to delegate or

YOUR

SKILLS

 What administrative tasks are you really good at? May not even be something you like to do, but you just can do it well!

What really makes you happy to see?

 In what areas do you still need to practice?

Reflect on both things you don’t like to do

or

you just don’t know how to do well.

those

WHAT COULD BE DONE TO MAKE YOUR

CIRCUMSTANCES

BETTER?

 What do enjoy in your position?  What makes it hard for you to get your job done?  Not, ‘more help”, but what would help?

YOUR

STRENGTHS

    Describe yourself to a prospective boss in three words Name 5 good characteristics about yourself If you bragged, it would be about… You use your personal strengths as evidenced by…..

DO YOU KNOW YOUR BOSS’ NEEDS?

WHAT DOES S/HE VALUE? WHAT

JAZZES

HIM/HER?

(HAVE YOU COMMUNICATED THAT TO HIM/HER?)

WHICH WOULD YOUR BOSS PICK?

$100,000 ‘found’ in the budget for any use by him/her.

OR Increase of 10% in scores on state tes

results?

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HOW TO ACCURATELY ASSESS YOUR PROFESSIONAL PROGRESS TWO CRITICAL QUESTIONS TO KEEP ASKING!

Weekly, then monthly, then quarterly forever.

Am I doing what you want?

Am I doing it the way you want?

ACCOMPLISHING THE IMPOSSIBLE MEANS ONLY THAT YOUR BOSS WILL ADD IT TO YOUR REGULAR DUTIES.

COMMUNICATION:

38% 7%

WORDS BODY LANGUAGE

55%

TONE

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOURSELF? (COVEY “7 HABITS…”)

Most important skill; #5:

“seek to understand before you seek to be understood”

MOST VALUABLE LEADERSHIP TIP TO

WIN Active listen until you ‘hear’, “You get it!” (not agreeing with their solution, only their concern) Reframe the Question

Warren Buffett

 Know your stuff (content)  Do a few things well; not many just OK  Watch ‘flavor of the month’  Make changes with clear purposes

AND NOW, BACK TO YOUR REALITY

….

A PARENT WITH A TRANSPORTATION ISSUE

Check if busy doing

good

instead of doing

right

?

HOW CAN YOU SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN OUR EVER CHANGING ENVIRONMENT?

 Consistent Personal Professional Development: Successful people do a lot!

Write your S.M.A.R.T.

personal + professional goals;

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate, as knowing what to do next. - Herbert Hoover

OWN YOUR LEARNING State one of the two best ideas you learned today What are you going to do first to begin building on one of the ideas?

OPTIONAL QUESTION : COULD YOUR STAFF VERBALIZE YOUR GOAL(S)? DO THEY KNOW WHAT