Personal Development, Teamwork and Leadership

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Personal Development, Teamwork and Leadership

• A Foundation for Success Today and Tomorrow
• Designed and presented by Albena S. Maslev

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What is Success?

• Imagine success as a puzzle.
• Use your puzzle to create different pictures.
• You need additional pieces in order to create a
  higher number of pictures with the puzzle.
• You need a brand new puzzle in order to create an
  entirely new picture.

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Why use critical and creative thinking?

• Think before you act!
• In order to lead our daily lives, we think,
  assess,
• and analyze, but in order to move into the
• future, we need to design it!
• Take three steps

1.Think 2.Evaluate 3.Create
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What are the pieces of successful leadership?

• What is the role of leadership in success?
• Who is responsible for your personal success?
• Do you depend on others to achieve success?
• What do you need to do to achieve success?
• How can you achieve success?
• So, what is leadership?

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Where and when do leaders operate?

• Today leaders work in a time of unprecedented
• global change. How should we respond to it?

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How do you become the type of leader you want to
be?

• What leadership skills do you have now? Are you a
  leader?
• What have you accomplished as a leader? Does your
  leadership make a difference?
• What else do you want to accomplish? What will it
  take?

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Transformational Leadership

• Several key elements
• Teamwork, empowerment and motivation
• Agents of change
• Powerful vision and continuous improvement at all
  levels

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Team Leadership

• The leader must ensure success and promote
• Clear purpose and self-direction
• Team culture
• Motivation
• Teams that learn from experience

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Building Learning Teams

• Knowledge is key
• Environment must be supportive
• Mastery of skills required

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How can we arrange our puzzle pieces?

• Use available thinking tools such as
• Socratic Questioning (SQ)
• Analogical thinking
• Problem mapping
• Brainstorming

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Step 1 Focus on Important Questions

• How often do we connect the dots?

When?
What?
Who?
Where?
Why?
How?
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Step 2 Evaluation of Methods and Resources

• What should we do?
• Put together a checklist
• List all major goals in becoming a leader
• Are they achievable? Yes or No? Check!
• Do you have the necessary resources?
• What needs or remains to be done?

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Step 3 Think Analogically

• Lets create a table of correspondence.

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Emotional Intelligence (EI)

• Self-awareness
• Self-regulation
• Motivation
• Empathy
• Social skills

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My Personal Success Plan

• Includes
• Effective task performance
• Increased objectivity and fairness
• Enhanced moral and ethical standing
• Building of effective relationships with team
  members and followers
• Increased Emotional Intelligence (EI)
• Enriched and enhanced personal charisma based on
  EI
• Teamwork, empowerment and motivation of team
  members and followers
• Envisioning, energizing and enabling of myself
  and followers
• Energetic interactions and behavior
• Increased self-awareness, advanced critical and
  creative thinking abilities
• Successfully getting my meaning across
  (communication)
• Management of risk tolerance
• Continuous improvement at a personal and
  organizational level
• Change management
• Creating a powerful vision as a leader and
  follower

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Vital Elements

• Transformational Leadership
• Teamwork
• Critical Thinking
• Creative Thinking
• Emotional Intelligence

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Step 3 Map Problems and Ideas
What connections do you see?
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Step 3Brainstorm

• Engage others in creative thinking and achieve
• success in decision-making
• Leaders
• Team members
• Peers
• Mentors
• Teachers
• Community

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Design and Create the Future Together

• We become successful by creating success for
• others. This is part of our mission as community
• leaders. Leaders are designers of a new world.

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Questions?Please contact Albena Maslev
albena_at_smartseriesworkshops.com636-284-0056

• Thank you!