Patrick Lencioni, founder of The Table Group and author of eleven best-selling books, works with companies to improve organizational health and increase leadership potential. In his talk, Patrick tells of the importance of understanding why someone wants to be a leader in order to understand how to be a great leader.
 

Two Leadership Types
Patrick talks about two types of leadership—one good the other bad. He refers to these as responsibility-based leadership or reward-centered leadership. When you think about the most influential leaders who have personally impacted you, what was their primary motive—what their leadership does for others, or what their leadership does for them?
 

When have you operated as a reward-centered leader and how did it impact those around you? When have you operated as a responsibility-based leader and how did it impact those around you?
 

Reward Centered Leaders—5 Leadership Abdications:
Have Uncomfortable, Difficult Conversations with the People I Lead
Not having difficult conversations now can grow to become catastrophic later. Which difficult conversations have you been avoiding? Take some time to reflect on why you might be avoiding these conversations.

 

Which hard conversations do you need to engage in to grow as a responsibility-based leader?

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Manage Direct Reports (Don’t want to be a “micro-manager”)
Consider the managing culture of your team or organization. Would you say your organizational management culture is more autonomous or micromanaged? What has been the impact on the team or organization either positive or negative?

 

In which areas do you see that an increase in accountability (or team management) would improve your team or organization’s performance?

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