YLS - 2021 Partnership

Initiative Resources

Initiative Next Steps

Work on completing the LEAD plan (pages 1-3)
Practice strategies the groups came up with today for activating each of the four styles:
Driver: make an effort to assert this skill with other teams and units, doing more with this outside of our unit
Pillar: Stop, assess existing priorities, and ensure sustainability for self & team.
Advocate: talking to others and asking for feedback or brainstorming, listening, having conversations; spend time with pets, stretching, brainstorming or conversation with trusted friend/colleague.
Innovator: adjust approach based on where other stakeholders are; we talked less about strategies and more about how you have to fuse leadership styles and approaches for different stakeholders within any given effort/project to innovate. In order to innovate, you may have to be a Driver with your team, an Advocate with alumni, and a Pillar with other departments

Initiative Resources

Download Session 5 slides here
Leadership Model Toolkit here
LEAD Plan Toolkit here
Mo-Cheeks video - if you are looking for a reset, watch this video and see if you can observe when the coach shifts between the four styles.

Initiative Next Steps

Leadership Practice Challenge
Send Progress Updates to Gabi by end of day Thursday, May 27
Impact survey: 3 question, 30 seconds, critical to hear your voice, feedback & progress in our work together
Let Gabi know your preference for your team to present out (30-45 mins) over the summer: 6/30, 7/28, 8/25

Steering Resources

Steering Next Steps

Leadership Development

Read Chapters 6-8 of Dare to Inspire; complete Work It activities at the end of the chapters.
Solidify your 2021 leadership goal, milestones, resources/support (see questions in session 2 workbook).
Begin your inspiration practice, activities you can build into your week to activate/sustain your inspiration (Dare to Inspire, Chapter 3-5).

Leading the Initiatives Group

Be prepared to read through their progress report the week prior to our March 29th 1 PM meeting.
Come with 1 question & 1 piece of feedback for each group.

Giving and Receiving Feedback to Foster Learning + Growth

Improving how people receive feedback (listen, take in) in addition to how they give it (specific, shoulder-to-shoulder)
Change the “brand” of feedback - how people think about it (less defensiveness, more openness), receiving it as part of a mentorship or a growth opportunity
Growth mindset vs. fixed mindset - feedback for the sake of growth (a positive intention behind it)
Increasing frequency, as part of culture, so it’s lower stakes; encouraging people to initiate the feedback

Improved Cross Unit Communication + Collaboration

Interdepartmental opportunities to meet (i.e., Covid), learn from each other (cross-functional) - auditing what we are currently doing, taking a thoughtful approach - what’s the right cadence? (a way for all people to be involved)
Opportunities for strategic conversations when we bring together different units/depts
Uses of technology, how to be more uniform re: how we communicate - “best practices / recommendations”
Overarching communication best-practices and norms across YLS (how our unit impacts others; who else needs to know?)

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