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Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit
Satellite: Granger Community Church (Granger, IN)
Day 2: August 9, 2013
Session 5a – Joseph Grenny
Mastering the Skill of Influence
- Leadership is intentional influence.
- If you amass a strategy of influence, people change.
- If our own experiences aren’t translating into other habits and experiences, we aren’t leading.
- We often believe the reason people do what they do is because they lack commitment and resolve; that’s naive.
- When somebody fails, we deliver a sermon, which often isn’t what’s needed. We don’t understand influence.
- As an influencer, make the bad things bad and the good things good.
- Our job as an influencer is to make the good stuff feel pleasurable and the bad stuff feel bad.
- Don’t just teach principles. Connect to people’s values.
- Help people frame specific daily decisions in Godly ways.
- Skills are a substantial part of influence.
- Involve more people in deliberate practice
- Hands-on, realistic conditions in small bites
- The most effective influencers start with ability and then move to motivation.
- Want more influence?
- Model. Give praise. Help. Enable.
- Structural ability
- The influence of space, data, cues, tools, processes, and other environmental influences.
- Make bad behavior harder and conscious
- Make good choices easier and obvious
- The space we inhabit influences our choices.
Session 5b – Vijay Govindarajan
The Innovation Challenge: Getting it Right
- Ongoing operations are at odds with innovation.
- Strategy is not about celebrating the past, or the present, but it’s about leadership in the future.
- If you want to be a leader in the future, you have to adapt to change.
- Strategy is asking the question: How do I create the future while I am managing the present?
- Dominant logic is extremely useful. Left unchecked, it can create self-imposed boundaries.
- The central leadership challenge is preserving dominant logic while overcoming it.
- Innovation is more than ideas. Innovation isn’t creativity. Innovation is commercializing creativity.
- Innovation = Idea + Leader + Team + Plan
- Making innovation happen is not just the responsibility of the leader.
- The role of an innovative leader is to be humble and to harness the abilities of their organization.
- Preserve your organization’s dominant logic while at the same time working to overcome it.
- Be bold when choosing people for the task at hand.
- Conflicts are healthy, providing you know how to handle them for the benefit of the future.
- When you’re testing your assumptions, spend a little and learn a lot.
- The job in the innovation phase is to learn to resolve the unknowns.
- We must do a lot more. With a lot less. For a lot of people.
- Innovation is no longer value for money. Innovation is now value for money.
Session 6 – Dr. Brené Brown
Daring Greatly
- As a leader you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and who you allow.
- Love and belonging are two irreducible needs of men, woman and children. In their absence is suffering.
- Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
- People need three things: to be seen and loved, belong, brave.
- Connection is why we’re here. It gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
- Love is messy and hard. It’s a struggle.
- It’s very difficult to love people more than we love ourselves.
- We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable selves to be seen.
- Love is not something we do by ourselves; it is something that grows in connection with other people.
- A leader models the courage to ask the questions, not to have all of the answers.
- The bottom line is we can’t give people what we don’t have. We can’t give people courage when we don’t have courage.
- People are great at helping others who are in need of help but almost never seek out the same help for themselves.
- You’re judging others when you offer help because you’ve attached judgment to needing help.
- We cannot give help when we cannot ask for it.
- You well up with self-judgment when you offer help to someone else.
- The space between how we behave and how we act every day; the things we believe in. That gap is where we lose people.
- Love is a practice. Professing love means little compared to practicing.
- Shame can only rise so far in an organization before people disengage to self-protect.
- A deathly fear of failure produces nothing new.
- Blame is the simple discharging of pain and discomfort.
- Blame is toxic in organizations as much as it is in relationships.
- Feedback is the function of respect.
- “How did you fail? How quickly did you clean it up? What did you learn from it?
- Without failure, there can be no innovation.
- You can’t be good at giving feedback if you’re not willing to be vulnerable.
- Feedback, by definition, should be vulnerable. We don’t like it because it’s uncomfortable.
- You have to make a space for people to show up and be seen for who they are.
- The number one barrier to belonging is fitting in.
- Belonging can’t have check boxes attached to it.
- People want to be a part of something that’s bigger than themselves.
- What kills love, kills organizations.
- Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal and withholding of affection.
- Be here. Be loved. Be Respected. Feel Belonged.
- We were born to be brave. Never in our lives do we feel more alive than when we’re being brave.
- Shame is universal.
- You can choose courage or you can choose comfort; you can’t choose both. They are mutually exclusive.
- If you are not in the arena exposing yourself and getting your butt kicked too, I am not interested in your feedback.
- Contribute more than you criticize.
Session 7a – Oscar Muriu
Viral Leadership: Multiplying Impact Exponentially
- Matthew 9: 37-38
- The size of your harvest depends on how many leaders you have.
- There are not enough harvesters (leaders) to get the job done.
- If you don’t have harvesters around you, your leadership will be constrained to your personal capacity.
- Who have you raised up? How many will remain after you have left?
- It’s not about how hard you worked but how many leaders you have raised up.
- Don’t live for your own generation. Live for those who will come by raising up future generations.
- The impact of your life will depend not on how hard you worked, but on how many young leaders you were able to bring up.
- Always surround yourself with younger leaders you are pouring your life into.
- The size of your harvest depends on how many leaders you have.
- Numbers 11: 10-17
- You’re not to go it alone! Allow others to lead with you.
- Some of the best leaders are right under your nose but they’re so close to you that you can’t see them.
- Identify the budding leaders around you and take them to God in prayer.
- Five C’s of love: Character. Conviction. Comprehension. Competence. Compassion.
- Love God with all your heart (character), soul (conviction), mind (comprehension), and strength (competence)…love your neighbor (compassion)
- To be alone is to waste an opportunity to be a mentor.
- Start simple. Innovate. Create a leadership culture. Increase your impact exponentially.
- The harvest is plentiful but the planters are few. The key is in leaders raising up the next generation.
Session 7b – Dr. Henry Cloud
Reversing the Death Spiral of a Leader
- We need knowledge, but ultimately we need to do the work.
- As leaders we are people that take charge and do stuff.
- Leaders don’t blame, they take ownership of what they are called to steward.
- The hardest thing a leader has to be in charge of is him or herself.
- The ones who can’t do it, but believe they can, will win every time.
- Do you believe it can be done?
- The hardest part of leading is managing yourself.
- #1 trait for leaders to get from here to there is belief.
- We need knowledge but ultimately we need to do the work.
- 3 P’s of how the brain interprets failure:
- Personal
- Everybody meets obstacles. Those who succeed don’t take it personally.
- Your brain begins to change when you are out of control of circumstances that affect you.
- Pervasive
- In a situation out of your control, the brain begins to get pervasive.
- Permanent
- In a situation out of your control, the brain believes this is permanent.
- Personal
- Science and the Bible always agree in a place called reality.
- When we take failure personally, a spiral begins. It turns to pervasive thoughts and snowballs into permanent negativity.
- Successful leaders don’t view failure as personal, pervasive or permanent.
- When you begin to look at the whole picture, you change. Your life is a movie, not a scene.
- The best predictor of the future is past behavior.
- The opposite of bad is not good; it is love and relationship.
- Your brain can turn into a spiraling cesspool of stress if you are constantly focusing on things outside of your control.
- Connect. Connect. Connect.
- When you’re going from here to there and you feel a spiral happening…CONNECT.
- Your brain runs on oxygen, glucose, and relationship
Session 8a – Bill Hybels
- If you want your leadership to matter, lead in ways that matter to God.
Session 8b – Andy Stanley
Closing Session
- Jesus didn’t predict a place. Jesus predicted a people. A gathering. A movement.
- The only thing we have in common is exactly what Jesus predicted: that He would build something and nothing would stop it.
- It doesn’t matter what you do, Jesus is going to continue to build His kingdom and nobody’s death is going to stop it… not even His!
- Our Savior will build His church whether we participate or not. What’s your decision? Are you in?
- James might be the strongest argument for the deity of Jesus. What would your brother have to do to convince you he was the Son of God?
- If a guy can predict his own death and resurrection and pull it off – I’m with him.
- In the future, people will name their children Paul and Peter; they’ll name their dogs Nero and Caesar.
- You will never do anything more significant with your life than serving the local church.
- When Jesus said he was going to build His church, he MEANT IT. – and that’s exactly what He did!