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Leadership Development Understanding Behavioral Styles November 2, 2017 Transmission Roundtable Facilitator: Jack Darrough Eleven years with Atmos Energy Held variety of positions: IT, Program Management, Business Analysis and
Understanding Behavioral Styles
November 2, 2017 Transmission Roundtable
Eleven years with Atmos Energy Held variety of positions: IT, Program Management, Business Analysis and currently Learning Management System Specialist Culture & leadership development facilitator since 2011
Handshake Mill
pipeline
capital investment
Vision
Safest provider of natural gas services
Recognized for:
Exceptional Customer Service Being a Great Employer Achieving Superior Financial Results
Strategy
Operate our Business exceptionally well Invest in our People and Infrastructure Enhance our Culture
Shaping our culture. Developing our employees and growing leaders.
(You will experience a small part of what we do during our time together)
Who we hire. What we expect of ourselves and others. Being highly collaborative.
Recognize how energy and moods can impact results. Gain insights about your own behavioral style. An awareness of the implications of the blend of behavioral styles on the teams you lead and people you work with. Introduce the importance of behavioral style flexing and how it makes your more effective as a leader.
Starts with Self Awareness Stay physically, emotionally and mentally healthy when: I show up for work each day at my best. I work with team members. I focus on the Vision so that Atmos Energy can achieve being the Safest provider of natural gas services.
Managing personal energy is a key to healthy, high performance.
high positive - energetic, enthusiastic low positive – reflective, grateful high negative – angry, hostile low negative – worried, depressed passive-aggressive
Our state of mind (reflected in our moods) determines:
Our thinking drives our behaviors. Our thoughts determine our moods
and our moment-to-moment experience of life.
grateful wise, insightful creative, innovative resourceful hopeful, optimistic appreciative patient, understanding sense of humor flexible, adaptive curious, interested impatient, frustrated irritated, bothered worried, anxious defensive, insecure judgmental, blaming self-righteous stressed, burned-out angry, hostile depressed
up down
List of strengths and challenges
Strengths
List three or more traits that are your greatest strengths:
characteristics that help you achieve results and be effective with people and teams.
Challenges
List three or more traits that reduce your effectiveness in
achieving results or working with people.
disciplined structured logical reserved
precise task-focused shows less emotion
less disciplined more impulsive more intuitive more approachable less organized approximate relationship-oriented shows more emotion
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forceful more certain takes charge emphatic direct impatient challenges states information
less forceful more flexible less directive thoughtful indirect more patient supportive asks questions
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Exercise #2
controlling style
strengths takes charge decisive bottom-line focused potential liabilities impatient insensitive autocratic
analyzing style
strengths thorough
good planner potential liabilities indecisive too detailed risk averse strengths stimulating inspirational idea generator potential liabilities impulsive poor follow-through poor planning
promoting style
strengths team player consensus builder relationship oriented potential liabilities too agreeable avoids conflict not assertive enough
supporting style
formal informal easygoing dominant
Each style gets results!
supporting promoting analyzing know feel about bottom-line results in control the impact on people included that it will be exciting inspired
wants to…
that it is fact- based certain controlling
Diversity brings strength to a team. There is no one “right” style:
All styles get results All styles have strengths and weaknesses
Value your style, but lean toward your
We can connect to and influence others better by being aware of their style.
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