Influencing ChangeCAAWS Women and Leadership Program

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Today’s Agenda

• Habits that Limit Your Influence

• Tips on Being Heard

• 8-Step Change Model

• Different “Change Styles”

• Your Change Commitment

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Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport

and Physical Activity

Encouraging girls and women to get off the bleachers, and onto the fields and

playing courts, into the pools, the locker rooms and boardrooms of Canada

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CAAWS at a Glance

Women and Leadership Professional Development Women on Boards Women & Leadership Network Lunch & Learns

On the Move Aboriginal, Newcomer &

Racialized girls & young women Quality After School Programs

Mothers in Motion

Physical Activity for Women 55-70+

Addressing Homophobia in Sport

Active & Free: Young Women and Tobacco

CS4L Supplement Psycho-Social Factors Ontario Project

Awards & Scholarships Most Influential Women in

Sport and Physical Activity WISE Fund

Website & eNewsletter Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Photo DVD

LEADERSHIP PARTICIPATION EDUCATION COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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• Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO

What Would You Do

if You Weren't Afraid?

http://leanin.org/discussions/sheryl-sandberg-to-graduates-you-are-the-

hope-for-a-more-equal-future/

Leaders Talk

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• Benefits of Speaking Up• Tips when Speaking Up• Tips for Good Listening• Personal Reflection

Being Heard

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• Improves Organizational Performance

• Commands Respect• Strengthens your Influence• Leads to Unexpected

Opportunities• Accelerates your Career

Benefits of Speaking Up

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Tips When Speaking Up• Be prepared and informed• Ask questions and listen to responses• Indicate the benefits of the idea• Create and maintain rapport

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Tips for Good Listening

• Listen to Understand

• Remove Distractions

• Be Silent

• Use Body Language

• Empathetic Sounding Back

• Ask Questions

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Kotter’s Change ModelWorksheet #4

Adapted from: www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_82.htm

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Preparing to Change

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Implementing the Change

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Managing the Change

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Change Styles

• Change Style Indicator – measures your preferred style in dealing with change

• 3 styles on a continuum

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Conservers

• Accept structure • Prefer retaining existing systems and paradigms• Prefer gradual change• May appear cautious and inflexible • Ask the hard, detailed questions

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Pragmatists

• May adapt/evolve the structure• Operate as mediators and catalysts• Are results focused• May appear reasonable, practical

and flexible but also noncommittal

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Originators

• Challenge the structure• Enjoy risk and uncertainty

• Prefer quicker, expansive & radical change• May appear disorganized & undisciplined

• Original thinkers

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Parting Thoughts…

“Don’t think that a small group of committed individuals can not change the world. In fact, it’s

the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

“The shift to a more equal world will happen person by person. We move closer to the

larger goal of true equality with each woman who leans in.”

Sheryl Sandberg