From Goals to Actions: Uncovering the Key Components of Improvement Roadmaps
Leading & Communicating Powerfully with Ambassadors Program
1. Ambassadors Program
Leading & Communicating Powerfully
Heidi Alexandra Pollard
CEO, UQ Power
Workplace Futurist and
Company Culture Architect
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4. Shift happens.
• Hyper-connectivity leading to
increased screen time
• Accelerating pace of change leading
to overwhelm
• Tailored convenience means we want
it all and we want it now
5. Despite all this change one constant has remained
the same – the ability to influence, engage, inspire,
relate and build rapport.
The ability to
communicate
The One Constant
6. Spotlight on USpotlight on U
What’s your biggestWhat’s your biggest
communication challenge?communication challenge?
8. • No right or wrong scores, no style is
better than another.
• One high score (4 pts or more) strong
preference
• Two high scores (within 2 pts) may lead with
preferred style and can draw from others
• Three close scores will lead with a preferred
style, may have developed from experience
• Equal scores in all four styles highly
adaptable, may appear inconsistent to others
PSCI Scoring
9. THE DIRECTING STYLE
Liabilities
• Impatient with those
working too slowly
• Lone ranger
• Can be judgmental
• Tendency to dominate
others
• Difficulty trusting others
with work
• Need to be in control
causes frustrations
Strengths
• Fast paced, quick
thinkers
• Focus on action
and results
• Decisive
• Takes responsibility
• Natural leaders
• Visionary, big picture
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10. THE PRESENTING STYLE
Liabilities
• May not always be
taken seriously
• Poor operational
follow through
• Easily bored
• May overpromise
and underdeliver
• Would rather talk
than listen
• Does not manage
time well
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Strengths
• Knows how to have fun
• Always up, energetic
• Communicates easily
• Motivates others
• Lots and lots of ideas
• Enjoys/prefers new
projects
11. THE MEDIATING STYLE
Liabilities
• Likes privacy, may be
difficult to get to know
• Focuses on people issues
over business progress
• Reluctant to correct
difficult people problems
• Doesn’t like risk taking
• Doesn’t care for surprises
• May avoid centre stage
Strengths
• Subtle, gentle, indirect
and inclusive
• Good listener
• Expert
• Loved by everyone
• Champion of others
• Encourages others
through appreciation
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12. Strengths
• Likes people, not
large groups
• Confident if facts
are known
• Likes to give advice
• Very thorough
• Fair and unbiased
• Enjoys structure
Liabilities
• Difficult to stop pursuing
perfectness
• Fear of mistakes creates
time consuming tasks
• Tends to be critical
• Worries a lot
• Slow to embrace new
THE STRATEGIZING STYLE
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13. Appreciating your style and others
1. The top three positive characteristics of my style are:
2. The three strengths I admire most in people with the opposite style are:
3. The strength of mine that drives others crazy is:
4. I feel most like myself, comfortable when:
5. I feel least like my style, out of my comfort zone when:
6. My preference for handling conflict and difficult conversations is:
7. Draw a symbol that you believes best describes your style.
15. 4 steps to success
The effectiveness of your relationships, your ability to
build trust, your ability to assert yourself and handle
conflict and your ability to craft a powerful message in
person or in writing depends upon
you mastering 4 foundations:
IQ – Intellectually focused
EQ – Interpersonally connected
Body – Physically energised
Vision – Purposefully aligned
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16. You have to #startwithU by being super clear on what you need to
communicate and believing in U and your message.
If you don’t believe, no one else will, every one can spot a phoney!
Step 1 – Be clear on the WHY
17. What are the top 2-3 points
you want to make?
This is all about your FOCUS.
Step 2 – IQ – KNOW YOUR WHAT
22. Making Meetings Work
Meetings also run smoother when you follow the four step process:
1 – Why are you meeting?
2 – What needs to be discussed?
3 – How will it work? Who needs to get involved?
4 – What are the next steps?
23. The most powerful communication
tool at your disposal is not your
mouth, it’s your entire body.
Become fluent in body language as
your second language and watch
your results soar.
Use your body!
24. Understanding your body language and other physical
cues is very important when you are communicating
with others.
Your non-verbal communication skills are just as
important as your verbal skills.
The most important thing to ensure is congruence –
that your messages match your body.
Powerful Body Language
25. - 7% of meaning is in the words that are spoken
-38% of meaning is paralinguistic – the way we say it
-55% of meaning is in body language & expression
WHY YOU MUST BECOME FLUENT
IN A SECOND LANGUAGE
26. “When it comes to body language,
there are some who have better
vocabularies than others.”
Doug Larson
From your pre- work sheet
List your top three personal values (ie: things that must be in your life, relationships and work that are of importance to you. Eg: honesty, creativity):
9.35am It’s important to note before we get started that there are no right or wrong answers with this tool. The PCSI has been used with several thousand people who have validated its efficacy. Remember that it identifies the style you lead with as preferred but there is no correct style. I ask that you do not copy and distribute the PCSI tool/form as it is copyright and should not be duplicated without permission. Once we’ve completed the tool and you’ve added up your responses you will see if you have a strong preference for one or two styles. Knowing your style can help you to: Recognise your tendancies
Build on your strengths
Identify and appreciate the style of others, and
Improve the way you communicate with each other.
Let’s begin. Please turn to the page (3) with the four boxes identified as Parts 1-4 and follow the instructions. Once you have completed this process and added up all the checks or circles you have for each Part please wait before turning the page. This should only take you 5-10 minutes.
How did you go? The highest total is usually the one that best describes you. Although your scores may be closer in more than one Part, most people find that they match just one or two types. Now take a look at the next pages and review the description of your preferred style. We all use all of these styles to some degree depending on the situation, but generally we have a clear preference for one or two. Choose the style that you have the highest score for, or if a couple are close, the one that feels most like you. Remember there is no correct style and we can all draw on all the styles.
The PCSI recognises preferences, behaviours and emotions and can also be used to help to identify development gaps.
It’s important to note before we get started that there are no right or wrong answers with this tool. The PCSI has been used with several thousand people who have validated its efficacy. Remember that it identifies the style you lead with as preferred but there is no correct style. I ask that you do not copy and distribute the PCSI tool/form as it is copyright and should not be duplicated without permission. Once we’ve completed the tool and you’ve added up your responses you will see if you have a strong preference for one or two styles. Knowing your style can help you to:
Recognise your tendancies
Build on your strengths
Identify and appreciate the style of others, and
Improve the way you communicate with each other.
Let’s begin. Please turn to the page with the four boxes identified as Parts 1-4 and follow the instructions. Once you have completed this process and added up all the checks or circles you have for each Part please wait before turning the page.
Now I ask you to take the PCSI and complete the adjective list as per the instructions.
Check all answers that apply. Remember there are no right or wrong answers and it does not matter how few or many ticks you have
Don’t think too long about each word, use your first thought this will yield the best result
Use the scoring guidelines at the bottom of the page to determine your style.
This should only take you 5-10 minutes.
Write up everyone’s scores on the flipchart
How did you go? The highest total is usually the one that best describes you. Although your scores may be closer in more than one Part, most people find that they match just one or two types. Now take a look at the next pages and review the description of your preferred style. We all use all of these styles to some degree depending on the situation, but generally we have a clear preference for one or two. Choose the style that you have the highest score for, or if a couple are close, the one that feels most like you. Remember there is no correct style and we can all draw on all the styles.
Write up everyone’s scores on the flip chart
Form into groups sort out how many (show of hands) break them into groups.
In order for us to understand other people’s communication styles, we first need to understand our own.
Hand out 3 handouts on spotting styles
The most challenging relationships in a team are those that are diagonally opposite.
Get groups to present back at about
Each group 2 mins
Murder, blame, victim, struggle, GFC, war, hate, crisis, rape
What is in your daily diet
1.35pm Building Rapport and Engaging People The rapport phase is the opening of any successful facilitation or presentation. Quality interactions are only achieved when are truly engaging and building rapport with your audience. Building rapport and creating a climate of trust and understanding allows you to prepare the audience for the delivery of your content. Rapport is vital in all forms of communication and essential for conducting effective presentations and facilitating successful workshops, sessions, group work. In the role of facilitator, your task is to persuade and influence so the audience prefers your solution or idea over what they may have been doing in the past.
John Grinder and Richard Bandler researched how expert communicators were able to build rapport. They found that people like people who are like themselves. Rapport is established by pacing. Pacing is the process of matching and mirroring the verbal, para-verbal and body language of the other person to create likeness and similarities which creates rapport. Being in rapport means being alike both verbally and non verbally.
Professor Albert Mehrabian has pioneered the understanding of communications since the 1960s – today he spends his time researching, writing, and consulting as Professor of Psychology at UCLA. His work featured strongly in establishing early understanding of body language and non-verbal communications.
His research provided the basis for the widely quoted and often much over-simplified statistic for the effectiveness of spoken communications.
Here is a more precise (and necessarily detailed) representation of Mehrabian's findings than is typically cited or applied:
7% of message pertaining to feelings and attitudes is in the words that are spoken.
38% of message pertaining to feelings and attitudes is paralinguistic (the way that the words are said).
55% of message pertaining to feelings and attitudes is in facial expression (and body language).
The main thing to remember is that the formula applies to communications of feelings and attitudes not just any communication.
One of the best ways to build rapport if you don’t know the attendees is to use universals. Universals are statements that are ‘true’ for all members in the audience, general statements that are universally accepted.
Here you are setting the scene or the big picture. For example:
We live in a world that…..
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where…..?
Have you noticed how ……..is happening more often today?
11.50am VISUAL BODY LANGUAGE
Show teenage Katy Perry Clip
Make eye contact
1.50pm Neutral Body Stance Practical There are no right or wrong stances for presenting or pitching. However it is important to remember that your body is a large communication vessel for sending messages to your audience and for switching your own brain on. In order to make sure the audience trusts you you need to build resonance!! AND you want your pitch to be meaningful and profitable. Imagine therefore the audience is in pain and your role in pitching is to teach them something but leave a void that they will need and want to pay for to have Enigma fix.