09 Oct GWALS Pre-summit Notes from Day 5

Each day, more information!  The Day 5 presentations for the GWALS pre-summit were spectacular.

• Nizenande Machi: Developing your Leadership Mandate – Unleashing the Power in Your Story
• Sam Horn: Open Doors and Close Deals with a Crystal Clear Elevator Speech
• Kare Anderson: Hidden Behaviour Cues that Boost or Bust Credibility
• Laura Rubenstein: How to Grow Your Business with Google Hangouts on Air
• Maria Gamb: Creating Value-Based Leadership, Teams & Organizations

Today I was on the run.  But these were AWESOME presentations.  Sam Horn’s is a don’t-miss and must-listen-to for every entrepreneur.  I am humming with so much information!  My terse notes under-represent the wealth of information and I will eagerly await the membership portal so that I can re-play the portions of the presentations that kept cutting out while I was driving.

• The Early Bird pricing is in effect until Thursday Oct 15.  I would take advantage!  Your ticket entitles you to the recordings of all the pre-summit sessions and a number of host give-aways.

Here are the GWALS Pre-Summit notes for Day 5

Developing your Leadership Mandate – Unleashing the Power in Your Story

Nizenande Machi, SAfrica

Here is one powerful leader.  And inspirational too!  Anyone who started their day listening to Nizenande could not help but be inspired, and walked away secure that they were already leaders within their spheres of influence!

Leadership is a calling, a gifting, a responsibility.  It allows us influence and requires capacity.

I had some pre-conceptions that Nizenande blew away through simple examples and stories.

Doing so already

Most shattering to me, as it was to her, was the realization that without aspiring to it, we each may already be leaders and not know it!  Leaders do not start from a day in the future.  If people have been following your progress, asking your advice, then you may already be a leader because you are ‘influencing a group of people’!  BEWARE!

we lead from a place of Passionate discomfort

Contrary to looking to passion as ‘what makes you happy’ she contends that we often lead in the areas that challenge our sensibilities – the things that we so want to change.  Yes, now that she says it, it sounds so obvious.  We look to redress inequality, or improve a system (whether simple and tactical or world-wide and far-reaching).  People we see as LEADERS – Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Gandhi, Mother Teresa – young and old, female and male, they did not start out their journeys intending to be Leaders with a capital L.  They were upset and passionate enough about a simple injustice or imbalance and started doing something about it.

Think you cannot lead?  Think again.  You may already be doing it!

Like saint-hood, leadership is not purely the domain of those who get public recognition.  (Reference St. Vincent the comedy movie with Bill Murray)  There are leaders walking among us today, doing simple things and setting an example.  If you have had the chance to listen to the pre-summit, no doubt you have identified a few presenters who are ‘leaders’ to you.  It may be a simple process improvement in the office, or starting a breakfast club for hungry school kids, or working with some other parents to improve a school trip, or getting together a menu plan so there would be meals on the table and food in the fridge.  It would not be the ‘what’ that you did, but the ‘why’ you did it, and the fact that you pulled a team together around you to make it happen, or influenced others in some way – that you solved an issue and brought ‘joy’.

Scribbles:   Leadership development: Self Governance, Gifting, Responsibility, Influence, Capacity

Takeaways, Notes & Quotes:

• How do you know you are a leader?  “Because others follow me” (one of the attendees!) 🙂
• Leadership mandate
• What is your WHY? (The Why TedX talk by Simon Sinek) (Start with Why by Simon Sinek)
• StrengthsFinder by Tom Rath on gifting
• A return to love by Marianne Williamson **
• You will most likely lead from a place that makes you unhappy – because you are trying to redress an imbalance
• You do not have to be selfless to be a leader!  A good leader should not feel guilty appreciating the affects and effects of their efforts.  You have to have capacity to be able to continue to make a difference without running on empty.

Open Doors and Close Deals with a Crystal Clear Elevator Speech

Sam Horn

Sam Horn caught my attention.

Have you or your partner, or a colleague been in a situation where they lost the opportunity to make a sale because they could not express what they needed succinctly enough?  Well then you will want to take in Sam’s presentation.

She is engaging.  But more importantly, she is right.  The person who creates a relationship and a dialogue has more opportunity to get to step B of the conversation.  Want to know more?  Here I really suggest you sign up for the summit.  This presentation alone will be worth the investment in time and money!

Takeaways, Notes & Quotes:

• Grab their attention
• Create a dialogue

Hidden Behaviour Cues That Boost or Bust Credibility 

Kare Anderson, USA

How to Grow Your Business with Google Hangouts on Air 

Laura Rubinstein, USA

Creating Value-Based Leadership, Teams & Organizations

Maria Gamb, USA

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Over to you:

} .. Are you inspired?

} .. Now that the GWALS pre-summit is over, what one presentation made the most impact on you?

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INSPIRATION AND RESEARCH MATERIAL FOR THIS BLOG:

• Got to www.gwals.com for the rest of the  pre-summit and full summit programs, and for the full presenter bios
• Register for the program here
• Link to GWALS facebook page