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Rules and Mindset

Rules and Mindset. “… To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth .” – Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project. Rules & Work. A key leadership principle is to “know yourself.” Self-awareness is a key to change

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Rules and Mindset

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  1. Rules and Mindset • “…To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.”– Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

  2. Rules & Work • A key leadership principle is to “know yourself.” • Self-awareness is a key to change • How do you respond to rules? • Inner Rules • Outer Rules • Questionnaire … • Knowing how our brain works help us understand others!

  3. Do you agree? Disagree? Why? “The brain is like teflon for good experiences … …and like velcro for bad ones.” • Reader’s Digest, p 101, 9-2014 • What message can you find in the quote for your leadership?

  4. What is your rule mindset? Two types of rules: Four Rule Quadrants:

  5. Questioners • Question both inner and outer rules? …are motivated by sound reasoning • Won’t follow rules with which they disagree • “Wake up and say what • needs to be done today?”

  6. Upholders • Respond readily to inner and outer rules …are motivated by fulfillment • Very much want to know the rules and what is expected of them • “Wake up and say what • is on the schedule and • to-do list today?”

  7. Obligers • Respond readily to outer rules but struggle to keep inner rules … are motivated by external accountability • Find it difficult to fulfill obligation they impose on themselves • “Wake up and say what • is expected of me today?”

  8. Rebels • Resist both inner and outer rules …are motivated by present desire • Resist control, even self-control • “Wake up and say what • do I want to do today?”

  9. Which Quadrant is Most Like You? Response to inner and outer rules …

  10. Applying the “inner and outer rule” mindsets to your “BHD” What can you do with it?

  11. The Wisdom of Michael Fullan Motion Leadership Provides a framework of seven themes and examples where practice is the driver.

  12. Wisdom of Michael Fullan The simple part is that the seven themes are easy to grasp one by one. The complex part is getting good at applying them in combination. Simplexity

  13. Fullan on Motion Leadership http://www.michaelfullan.ca/motion-leadership-the-skinny/

  14. Wisdom of Michael Fullan Motion Leadership “Leadership is difficult because people are complicated and sometimes unmanageable. But you don’t need fancy theory to tell you that. The answer is much simpler – but not simplistic.”

  15. Wisdom of Michael Fullan The Change Leader Model* *Modified Change Leader, Michael Fullan, 2011 Motivate the Masses Collaborate to Compete Learn Confidently ←Know Impact Realized Effectives →Be Resolute Do Deliberatively and Sustain Simplexity Practice Drives Theory

  16. Wisdom of Michael Fullan Key Insight #1 The effective change leader actively participates as a learner in helping the organization improve. Practice Drives Theory

  17. Wisdom of Michael Fullan Key #1 Practice Drives Theory “In my experience, effective change leaders …. don’t start with imagining the future. They walk into the future through examining their own and others’ best practices, looking for insights they had not noticed before.”

  18. Wisdom of Michael Fullan Key #1 Practice Drives Theory • Most good ideas come from first examining the practice of others. • Try out the new ideas yourself. • Draw conclusions – expand on them. Deliberative Doing

  19. Wisdom of Michael Fullan Key Insight #2 Effective change leaders combine resolute moral purpose with impressive empathy.

  20. Wisdom of Michael Fullan Key #2 Resolute Leadership The resolute leader stays the course no matter what – but at the same time spawns focused determination by mobilizing and motivating others.

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