GLS 2021
Craig Groschel - Expanding your Leadership Capacity
- Grow in your capacity for PUC
- Pain
- There is no pain like leadership pain
- The difference between where you are and where you could be is a painful decision you have to make
- Uncertainty
- A good leader plans for unforseen challenges
- A great leader plans for unexpected opportunities
- If you wait until you are 100% sure, you will be late
- Chaos
- You can have control, or you can have growth, but you can’t have both
- The best leaders obsess about empowering leaders
Juliet Funt - A minute to think
- The need for space in the next normal
- This reboot is giving us a chance for behavioral design
- 4 ways to pause
- Recuperate
- Wedge - a small portion of open time between two activities
- Reflect
- Time for objectiveness and to take ideas to the next level
- Reduce
- Let go of the unnecessary
- Use ‘Shouldn’t be here’ to track boredom
- Construct
- Set ideas aside and then take time to pursue it
- Open mode - creative, unstructured, flowing
- Closed mode - structured, clearing space for open mode
Malcolm Gladwell - The urgency of a leader
- Social risk and Urgency
- You must convince others that what you are doing makes sense
- Social risk-taking is what leaders must do
- Not here to make friends, but to make a difference
- Leaders must learn to protect and nurture this disruptive spirit
Ibukun Awosika - Only you can choose
- Only you can choose
- To thyself be true
- Living more deliberately and intentionally, rather than accidentally
- Your choice is driven by your values, goals, and your ambitions
- Ghandi’s seven social sins
- Wealth without work
- Pleasure without conscience
- Knowledge without character
- Commerce without morality
- Science without humanit
- Religion without sacrifice
- Politics without principle
- Later added
- Rights without responsibility
Rich Wilkerson Jr. - Reclaim the grind and take ground
- The reality of the grind
- Outlook will determine the outcome
- Leaders are lost in monotony, not in epic battle
- How I steward the mundane moments will create the great moments
- Rename the grind
- Names bring identity, identity brings purpose
- Let my purpose dictate my feelings
- Reframe the grind
- Things you appreciate tend to get better
- Silver medal syndrome; Bronze medalists know it could have been worse
- Remain in the grind
- After everything you’ve done to stand, stand firm
Shola Richards - Require civility to lead
- The need for civility
- People follow you because they choose to, or because they have to
- What we allow is what will continue
- We are defined by how we treat each other
- How to lead others in civility
- You either give life, or drain it
- Connect to your hire self - the person you say you are in an interview
- 5 values for leading others
- Value their ideas
- Value their roles
- Value their time
- Value their skills
- Value their humanity
- All bad behavior is an unskilled expression of an unmet need
- How to lead self with civility
- Don’t self-sabotage
- Self-civility statement
- Commitment is doing what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you
- How to leave a legacy of civility
- Your legacy is defined by how you treat others
Michelle Poler - Hello fears!
- Understanding fear
- Fear is not an obstacle, but an opportunity
- The enemy of success is not failure, it is comfort
- Comfort keeps us from risk-taking, from innovating
- Behavioral Inhibition System - Keeps us from acting; tied to risk
- Behavior Activation System - Encourages us to act; tied to reward
- What would you get uncomfortable for?
Dr Francesca Gino - Rebel talent
- Rebel talent
- Rebels who break rules constructively because they are focused on the mission
- Rebels have a talent for
- Authenticity
- Geniuine and authentic selves
- Perspective
- Not going into tunnel vision in a crisis
- What can I learn today?
- Experience can lead to perspective
- Curiosity
- Embrace curiosity; keep asking a lot of questions
- How do we cultivate rebel talent?
- It goes against human nature; we tend to conform
- Pirate ship captains
- They got respect through their actions
- Am I the captain that my crew would choose as its leader today?
Bianca Olthoff - Choose to lead
- The inner saboteur
- “You don’t belong here”
- “I’m not enough”
- Imposter syndrome; feeling of inadequacy that persist despite evident success
- You are chosen to lead
- You were chosen for a reason
- Will you lead when you are invited to?
- When leadership chooses you, you choose to lead
- Your crisis does not dictate your capability, competency, or commitment
- The opposite of unqualified is chosen
Albert Tate - Find your groove
- I’m still here
- An attitude of gratitude will shape your perspective
- What if this period was the lesson and now is the test?
- What if this is the test?
- Losing the valuable, to be present for the invaluable
- When was the last time you created space for meaningful moments?
- Define reality
- One of your biggest jobs is to know the difference between bondage and reality
- Opportunity to see what you’ve never seen before
- An invitation to new
- But new opportunities need new approaches
- The issue is trust; do we trust God to provide?
- Napping is the new hustle
- An invitation to rest
- You will experience scarcity if you go out in a period of rest because you disobeyed
- Rest is freedom
- Take care of yourself; you’re not God, it can go without you
- Healthy leaders have healthy rhythms; you can’t afford to not take a day off
- Grief and Hope make great roommates
- It is okay not to like this season
- Disruption to our system is not welcome
- Move hope into your house
- Second line (New Orleans Jazz), people who dance whether at funerals or weddings
- Melody and joy can live in hard and rough places