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Looking to the South: A Leader's Role
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• How much of the development can be handled by resources internal to your Work unit? How much will require support from learning and development resources external to your Work unit?

• How will the development be planned and coordinated within the Work unit and with development resources external to the work unit?

• What actions do you need to take to set this up? (Further discussion of this question is part of the Enabling Support Systems element to follow.)

Culture: What You Have Learned in Common and How You Act It Out

• What are the implications of a new culture for your work unit reflected in the work accomplished with the elements of the Wheel so far?

• What are the key attributes of the new culture and what behaviors would reflect them (individual and team)?

• How are these behaviors similar to and different from the behaviors in your culture up to this time?

• What are the "reinforcements" in your environment that will either support or deter the desired behaviors?

• How can you capitalize on the positive and minimize the negative reinforcement?

• How can you reinforce behaviors in your environment that are important to your success and prosperity?

• What actions do you need to take to do accomplish this?

CAREERS and Quality of work Life Enhancement Opportunities

The best way for you to tackle the issue of careers for the people in your work unit is to simply ask the question, "What is your quality of work life experience to date, and in what ways can it be enhanced in the future?"

• What are the important future "quality of work life" goals of each of your work unit members?

• What quality of work life enhancement opportunities do you have under your control within this work unit?

• What can you do to jointly optimize your business objectives, your vision of excellence in operations, and your quality of work life goals?

• What actions do you need to take within your work unit to further your objectives?

• What cooperation do you need from your environment to achieve your objectives?

• What actions do you need to take to secure this cooperation?

• What things are so far out of your influence and control that you need to learn to live with them gracefully? (Are you really sure they are that far out of your influence and control?)

Character and the Diverse Basic Nature of Your People ( Garfield , 1984)

• What do you need to do in your work unit to inspire peak performance?

• What can you personally do to inspire your own peak performance?

• What support do you want from the other members of this work unit to achieve your goals?

• What support and cooperation do you need from outside of your work unit?

• What actions do you need to take to get the desired support?

Support Systems

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Jeff Evans is an executive coach and founder of The Gaian Group, an organization that helps individuals and companies transform their leadership potential.

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