Tim Browne catches up with Proteus’ Director of Education - Richard Dore to discuss the upcoming Creating a Positive Culture workshops. Richard has been delivering this workshop for more than 10 years and the themes of people, culture and engaging leaders remain key factors in an effective workplace. For more information visit the website: https://www.proteuscentre.com/workshops-seminars/creating-positive-culture
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Part 2 - Preparing executive leaders for the Paradox of Leadership - Richard Dore
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Honesty & Hope
Interestingly, if you look at the research on leadership from Kouzes & Posner, it asks followers ‘what characteristics do you look for and admire in your leader - someone whose direction you would willingly follow?’ The universal #1 response was honesty, followed closely by wanting senior leaders to be forward-looking. So in essence, followers want both honesty and hope.
Combine Kouzes & Posner’s with Collins’ research and we discover that we, as leaders, need to be honest about what is happening, while ensuring that we give people hope – something to look forward to. As executives we need to show our followers that there is hope by being authentically passionate about our vision for the future. “Where there is no vision, the people perish!”
Keith McFarland’s book ‘The Breakthrough Company’ outlines five years of research with over 7000 companies. He looks at how start up companies break through the entrepreneurial phase to become extraordinary - his research and book have become the 2008 version of Good To Great for start-up companies! His key finding was that successful breakthrough leaders were both charismatic and egoless; they were driven by vision, while also building something bigger than themselves. “What one characteristic did all of the breakthrough CEO’s studied share? Charisma! But it turns out that the word ‘charisma’ doesn’t mean what many people think it does. Charismatic leaders inspire us with their character.”
So here lies the paradox of leadership - we must strive to be humble by “checking our egos at the door”, and be honest by telling out staff the truth about the current situation and yet, just as importantly, we must be ‘warriors of hope’ and genuinely charismatic about our envisioned futures.
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Part 1 - Preparing executive leaders for the Paradox of Leadership - Richard Dore
Monday, March 1st, 2010“Truth is not in one extreme and not in the middle, it is in both extremes” - Charles Simon 18th Century Pastor
Throughout our executive development programs at Proteus, we challenge senior managers and executives to discover their true leadership style and to embrace the privilege of leadership.
A key resource we utilise to assist executives identify their authentic leadership approach is Jim Collins’ seminal research and book Good To Great. In this book he introduced the concept of ‘Level 5 Leadership’, which has now become part of the business lexicon.
According to Collins, humility is a key ingredient of Level 5 Leadership. His simple formula is Humility + Will = Level 5 Leadership. The executive leaders analysed as part of the research are described as having a paradoxical combination of distinct characteristics, for example; being timid and ferocious; shy and fearless; modest with a fierce, unwavering commitment to high standards; being both humble and having an incredible will to succeed, i.e. ‘a paradoxical blend of humility and will’.
Through running Executive Development programs across Australia the more I see this same paradox in great executive leaders of people and businesses.
These leaders are the principals of our schools, CEO’s of local councils, engineers that have been brave and entrepreneurial enough to start a new business, directors of hospitals, the list goes on.
Many of these people display incredible passion about their organisations’ success and consistently make decisions for the greater good – often at their own short-term expense. For example; when the full impact of the GFC hit one of our clients, a manufacturing company based in Victoria, their US parent company instructed the Managing Director to slash 30% of the staff… his decision was that he would be part of that 30% to go. Why? Because it was the right thing to do!
Continue reading: Part 2 of “Preparing executive leaders for the Paradox of Leadership”
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General Manager QLD - Tim Browne reflects on the highly successful Brisbane Conference
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009One of the joys and privileges of working for Proteus is the opportunity that we have as staff to hear from amazing leaders when they speak at our Leadership events. Last week in my home town, Queensland, leaders gathered at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre to experience one of our best ever speaker line-ups.
It was the following speaker, John Anderson, founder of Contiki Tours, who next shed some tears. He gave a moving recount of how at the age of 22 with only 25 pounds to his name he founded Contiki because he was so passionate about traveling Europe. Now over 2 million young people have travelled with Contiki and while “what happens on the bus – stays on the bus,” John’s anecdotes left a powerful impression. I will always remember the quiver in his voice as he told us that every time he sees a Contiki bus drive past he always waves at the passengers.
Post lunch Terry Hawkins and Tom O’Toole (of Beechworth Bakery fame) cranked it up a notch - challenging the delegates to reflect more carefully on our own behaviour (are we in the pit?) and gave us some great ideas to implement in our own teams and organisations.
We were joined by many of the delegates to close the first day at our traditional networking session – lots of fun!
On the second day – Peter Sheahan – asked us to challenge our assumptions – to flip our thinking and look for how we can leverage our own “STORY”. I am not alone in saying that it was at this point I ran out of room for notes in my Conference booklet!
Whether you are scared of heights or not, base-jumping champion Heather Swan’s story about confronting fear and risking embarrassment was unsettlingly powerful. I remember her reminding us to celebrate the journey as much as we celebrate the destination – a pertinent thought to apply to our own leadership journey.
It was during Richard Dore’s presentation on Establishing Leadership Habits that many of the ideas fell into place. I left with an action plan – with specific things to implement personally – and within my team. To complete the experience, Explosive Minds closed the conference with a bundle of laughs and some practical exercises on improving our communication.
WOW – what a couple of days. Don’t just take our word for it, check out some of the feedback clients have shared with us. Many have also pledged to join us again next year – I hope you can too!
Feedback:
That was undoubtedly the best conference that I have ever attended. The calibre of the speakers was exceptional and there were so many great ideas from all the speakers, which I think will be invaluable for our business. There was no time in that whole two days that I felt bored or not stimulated - so well done.
I wanted to say that the conference was fabulous! It really was the best conference that I have ever attended.
There was never a dead moment. I loved every minute of the two days. What a boost to my motivation and attitude.
Thanks to all for organising such a brilliant line up of fantastic speakers.
I really enjoyed the conference.
It’s amazing what a couple of days out of the office can do for motivation and perspective. Also Richard’s presentation was great. Thanks to everyone involved in organising the whole thing.
Thanks so much. I loved the conference. I think it was one of the best I have attended!
Thank you. It was an excellent conference. I learnt so much in those 2 short days – both personally and professionally. - Looking forward to the next one.
I would just like to express a big thank you to the Proteus Leadership Centre and all the Presenters at the conference.
The conference has been really positive experience for me and has given me a lot of food for thought.
Richard Dore’s take on Seth Godin’s Tribes
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
I’m a big fan of www.ted.com, where I regularly watch international and icon speakers on a brilliant array of topics around the globe – all at no cost.
I recently watched Seth Godin (international author of Tribes, Dip, Meatball Sundae, Purple Cow, etc) deliver a presentation ‘On The Tribes We Lead’, which was fascinating, challenging and quite provocative – especially on leadership.
He suggests that leaders need to ask themselves ‘what do I do’?
According to Seth Godin, a leaders primary response to this question, is to be a heretic! Whereby you actively seek to challenge the Status Quo (look around and identify what it is you don’t like) and go on to lead a tribe a people to change it.
Godin claims that you don’t need permission from people to lead them, they are actually waiting for you to lead them … you don’t have to invent a movement you need to lead it. Look around and find a group of disconnected people (a tribe) that have a yearning for something that they don’t have yet and create a movement.
He asserts, that you don’t need charisma to be a leader – being a leader gives you charisma. By leading a movement that connects you to a tribe – you will become charismatic!
Godin challenges you to ask yourself:
· Who are you leading?
· Who am I upsetting? (Because if you are not upsetting people you are not changing the status quo)
· Who are you connecting with? (Most people want to be connected … they want to be missed!)
So I highly recommend that you check out Godin’s presentation: ‘On The Tribes We Lead’
Let me know your thoughts and whether you agree with Godin assertions on the tribes we lead? - Who knows - you just may connect with a group and create a new movement!
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Richard Dore is a Director at the Proteus Leadership Centres and is based in the Melbourne Office - 03 9848 0500.
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Richard Dore’s Radio Interview
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Richard Dore was recently interviewed by the 5AA radio network about the upcoming Leaders With A Life conference he will be presenting at and the importance of leadership in the current climate. Click the player below to listen in.
Richard Dore has a remarkable gift for story telling and his ability to share his personal workplace experiences openly and honestly has earned him incredible respect amongst his clients, and his colleagues. Richard’s facilitation style has an undeniable wow factor that makes him one of the most sought after and highly regarded speakers across a diverse range of industries and organisations.
He has a unique ability to inject high-level education with a sense of fun and interaction. Motivational, inspirational, hilarious, practical and relevant are just some of the words continually used to describe a day with Richard Dore. It is his ability to demonstrate how people can take complex issues and give them real practical solutions that keeps them coming back again and again.
Richard is a company Director of The Proteus Leadership Centres and continues to play a significant role in the growth and success of the organisation.
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