Liz Wiseman started the afternoon. Liz is the President of the Wiseman Group, a Silicon Valley leadership development firm. She is a former executive at Oracle Corporation, a Fortune 100 company. She is also a Wall Street Journal Best-selling Author. Check out her book Multipliers for yourself!
- There is more intelligence in our organizations than we can see with our naked eyes and that we are putting to use.
- Multiply the people around you, don’t multiply yourself.
- There is a difference between pressure & stress.
- The difference between the two is all about control. If you carry responsibility that you shouldn’t as a leader you feel pressure and your team feels stress.
- Who’s a diminisher? They criticize, belittle, micromanage, didn’t acknowledge, wasted time, took control, punished.
- Working for them is exhausting and frustrating
- They believe that nobody is going to figure it out without them & their help / didn’t listen, controlling, didn’t delegate, selfish
- Got 48% capability out of their teams
- Love to hire and high talented people but not utilize them
- Tend to be tyrants / know it all / decision maker / micromanager
- Who’s a multiplier? Encouraged, empowered, coached, challenged, freedom, trusted, asked questions, defined a goal, inspired…had vision, listen
- Working for them is exhausting but fun
- They believed you were smart and they’re going to figure it out
- Talent magnets, liberator, challenger, debate maker, investor
- Got 95% capability out of their teams
- It’s possible to be over worked and underutilized
- Kinds of Leaders:
- Big Idea Leader (new ideas every day)
- Always On (people tune out)
- Rescuer (enables, no on learns)
- Pace Setter (people disengage)
- Etc.
- We don’t drift into better behavior
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