Setting Up HR
Professionals For
Success
Voltage Leadership Consulting
www.voltageleadership.com
1420 3rd Street, SW, Roanoke, VA 24016
Office: 540.798.1963
Jeff Smith
Jennifer Owen
O’Quill
Partner Exercise
• Where are you doing well?
• Where are you struggling?
Leading Starts with Taking Care of You
Wheel of Life
Physical Environment
(eg. Home)
Career
Fun, Leisure and
Recreation
Money
0
10
Personal Growth
and Learning
Significant Other
/ Romance
Health
Friends
and Family
168 Hours-Where do they go?
• 72 Hours Connected to work!!!
• 56 Hours Sleeping/Eating/Bathing
• 40 Hours for everything else!!!
Eating/Sleeping/B
athing
Connected to
work
Everything else
Questions to Ponder
• What is making you feel overworked and
overwhelmed?
• What are the big wedges in your pie chart of
how you spend the 168 hours you get each
week? What would you like to change about
that?
• What are the biggest drivers of distraction
that keep you from being fully present?
Tip #1 Recognize and Overcome the
Tyranny of the Present
Are you being too responsive?
Urgent vs. Important
#2 Is this really necessary?
Time Tip #3
• Push Your Calendar’s Reset Button
#4 Understand and Set Your Operating
Rhythm
Understand Your Time Metabolism
#5
Understand Your Time Metabolism
#6 Give Yourself Time for Unconscious
Thought
#7 Set Boundaries and Guardrails
#8 Use Yes and No Strategically
A flat out “yes”
A flat out “no”
A qualified “yes, if”
A “yes, but not right now”
A “no, but what if…”
#9 Tame the Distraction Dragon
#10 Consider Your Impact
What 1-3 Tips Do You Want to Work
on?
Share with a partner?
Who can hold you accountable?
How will you measure if you are successful?
Leading Through
the Chaos of
Today’s World
Jeff Smith, CEO
[email protected]
Bad or Good?
Volatile - Vision
Unpredictable -
Understanding
Complex - Clarity
Ambiguous - Agility
Problem Orientation = What I ____ want
DDT
FIsBe
F______
F______
F______
Creator Orientation
Emotional
Response
=
What I ____ want
Triggers your
___________
TED
Which one do you prefer?
*Source The Empowerment Dynamic By: David Emerald
Exercises:
• What is your default role?
• What is your preferred role?
• How can you shift your mindset?
• What will shift your employees mindset
• What can you do differently today?
Tantrum-Are these your clients?
Leading a Team Through a Structural Tension
Conversation
Desired Outcomes
1. What is the ideal State?
Include behaviors, physical descriptors, processes…
(Spend more time on this discussion than on #2)
4. What barriers may be hindering us?
3. What are our assets (resources)?
What are our strengths? What’s working well?
What connections and possibilities do we see?
2. What is the current reality?
Where are we now in relation to our ideal state/desired outcomes?
What are the facts about where we are right now?
5. Considering all of this information, what are the possible next steps we can take?
Which assets can we leverage to address possible barriers?
Next steps
What do you want?
Design a path
Teach