Various Stages of Leadership Throughout Your Career
Various Stages of Leadership Throughout Your Career
Various Stages of Leadership Throughout Your Career
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<strong>Various</strong> <strong>Stages</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Leadership</strong><br />
<strong>Throughout</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Career</strong><br />
A Panel Discussion:<br />
•Katie Richardson, EIT, University <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin, Madison<br />
•James Kerrigan, P.E., Greeley and Hansen<br />
•Judy Moran - Andrews, P.E., Metropolitan Water Reclamation District <strong>of</strong> Greater Chicago<br />
•Andy Richardson, P.E., Greeley and Hansen<br />
Central States Water Environment Association<br />
2 nd Annual <strong>Leadership</strong> Academy<br />
April 2, 2012
Discussion Outline<br />
Introduction / Review<br />
Panel Introductions<br />
Student /YP View<br />
Consulting Engineer View<br />
Municipality View Compared to Consulting<br />
Engineer<br />
Seasoned Pr<strong>of</strong>essional View<br />
Questions and Answers
Student / YP View<br />
Katie Richardson, E.I.T., University <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin,<br />
Madison
Student / YP View<br />
My Objectives:<br />
Start discussion about leadership in different roles<br />
on a team<br />
Define team member and leader characteristics<br />
Share my experiences and observations
Student / YP View<br />
What’s the number one thing leaders need<br />
Followers (a.k.a team members)<br />
My experience joining teams and recruiting<br />
members
Student / YP View<br />
Learn to lead by following<br />
Observing different types <strong>of</strong> leadership styles<br />
Join to eventually lead<br />
Be involved, create opportunity<br />
Take ownership <strong>of</strong> your work
Student / YP View<br />
Select a mentor<br />
Match your style, a style you admire<br />
Learn from different sources<br />
Look outside <strong>of</strong> your organization as well<br />
WEF, AWWA<br />
Someone can be your boss, but not your mentor
Student / YP View<br />
Team success, two sides <strong>of</strong> the same coin:<br />
As leader: Team fails, you fail<br />
As team member: Make the boss look good
Student / YP View - Conclusions<br />
The relationship between leadership and teamwork<br />
is a two way street<br />
Good team members and leaders are not found,<br />
they are made
Consulting Engineering View<br />
James Kerrigan, P.E.,<br />
Greeley and Hansen
Consulting Engineer View 1-3 Years<br />
<strong>Leadership</strong> in first 1-3 years – My thoughts<br />
Get assignments and do them<br />
Do a good job and eventually become a leader<br />
Communicating with team<br />
Taking responsibility and owning my work<br />
Finding out where my work fits in with the<br />
“Big Picture”<br />
Learn by doing and asking questions
Consulting Engineer View 1-3 Years<br />
My portion <strong>of</strong><br />
Project<br />
City <strong>of</strong> North Las Vegas Water Reclamation Facility
Consulting Engineer View 1-3 Years<br />
<strong>Leadership</strong> lessons learned in first 1-3 years<br />
If you demonstrate responsibility, you will be<br />
given opportunities<br />
Leaders have the ability to make decisions<br />
You can be a leader in any task at any level<br />
If something needs a leader – you can step up<br />
Ask for and accept help when given<br />
Sense <strong>of</strong> accomplishment when people ask about<br />
“My Project”
Consulting Engineer View 4-6 Years<br />
<strong>Leadership</strong> in first 4-6 years – My thoughts<br />
More responsibility on projects<br />
Managing other staff, and people ask you for help<br />
Taking responsibility for your work and others on<br />
your team<br />
Working directly with clients<br />
Working on a variety <strong>of</strong> different projects in<br />
different roles
Consulting Engineer View 4-6 Years<br />
My portion <strong>of</strong><br />
Project<br />
City <strong>of</strong> North Las Vegas Water Reclamation Facility
Consulting Engineer View 4-6 Years<br />
City <strong>of</strong> North Las Vegas Water Reclamation Facility
Consulting Engineer View 4-6 Years<br />
<strong>Leadership</strong> lessons learned in first 4-6 years<br />
Everyone has different skills / expertise - Delegate<br />
If you say you will do something, do it<br />
No “yes men” and “no I in team”<br />
Find your comfort zone and work outside <strong>of</strong> it<br />
Lead by example<br />
<strong>Leadership</strong> roles are not defined by age or<br />
experience – manage up<br />
Sense <strong>of</strong> fulfillment with YOUR project
Summary<br />
Same basic leadership principles throughout<br />
career<br />
Find your place in a project and own it<br />
Be responsible for your career and your growth<br />
Help others and ask for help<br />
You will never know everything – you will always<br />
keep learning<br />
There is no playbook to be a leader – more than<br />
one type
Municipality View Compared to<br />
Consulting Engineer<br />
Judy Moran - Andrews, P.E.,<br />
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District <strong>of</strong> Greater<br />
Chicago
Consulting vs Municipality
Consulting Engineer<br />
In the beginning…<br />
Worked primarily with lead civil engineer<br />
Communication and listening very important<br />
Observed, learned, followed<br />
Took responsibility for work<br />
Acted in pr<strong>of</strong>essional manner<br />
Can still be a leader / role model among peers
Consulting Engineer<br />
With some experience…<br />
Increased knowledge<br />
more responsibility<br />
Worked more independently, with other<br />
disciplines, and sub-consultants<br />
Communication and listening still important<br />
Built and maintained relationships<br />
Needed to be organized<br />
Continued learning, asking questions<br />
Was committed
Municipality<br />
With more experience…<br />
Work independently, managing projects, lab<br />
technicians<br />
Communication and listening still very important<br />
Building and maintaining relationships<br />
Responsible for project success and failure<br />
Need to be committed, get others excited<br />
Organization<br />
Delegate and rely on team and their expertise
<strong>Leadership</strong> – My Experience<br />
Communication / listening<br />
Never stop learning<br />
Know when to ask for help<br />
Be organized<br />
Be pr<strong>of</strong>essional, honest, and courteous<br />
Build relationships<br />
Understand the goal<br />
Rely on your team<br />
Step out <strong>of</strong> your comfort zone (practice makes perfect)
Seasoned Pr<strong>of</strong>essional View<br />
Andy Richardson, P.E., CEO,<br />
Greeley and Hansen
<strong>Leadership</strong> Quick Quiz!<br />
There are 5 frogs sitting on a log…<br />
4 decide to jump <strong>of</strong>f…<br />
How many are left
Develop <strong>Your</strong> Vision and Sense <strong>of</strong><br />
Mission<br />
<strong>Career</strong><br />
Opportunities/<br />
Skill Development<br />
Industry<br />
Trends<br />
Personal Mission Statement<br />
<strong>Your</strong> Personal<br />
Vision – <strong>Your</strong><br />
<strong>Career</strong> Peak<br />
<strong>Career</strong><br />
Stallers/<br />
Stoppers<br />
Goals to achieve along the path <strong>of</strong><br />
achieving your career Vision<br />
Distractions<br />
Core Values<br />
The Foundation
Walking the Talk and Decisions<br />
Communicate clearly the vision and mission at<br />
hand – then lead by example<br />
“All your knowledge is about the past and all your<br />
decisions are about the future” – Ian E. Wilson
How Should I Lead<br />
Apply the Platinum Rule to every relationship in<br />
my life, especially the difficult ones:<br />
Golden rule…do unto others, as you would have<br />
them do unto you<br />
Platinum rule…do unto others the way they<br />
would like to be done unto!<br />
Get to know your people and their needs
The <strong>Leadership</strong> Choice<br />
Find opportunities in your<br />
experiences<br />
Summer job – Caisson<br />
Inspector<br />
First project manager<br />
assignment<br />
6 years <strong>of</strong> experience – pipeline<br />
construction<br />
Practice leadership – it can be<br />
habit forming
Management vs. <strong>Leadership</strong><br />
MANAGERS<br />
Administer and cop<br />
Maintain focus on systems & structure<br />
Rely on control<br />
Short-range view – bottom line<br />
Ask how and when<br />
Accept the status quo<br />
Classic good soldier<br />
Do things right<br />
LEADERS<br />
Innovation and originality<br />
Develop/focus on people<br />
Inspire trust<br />
Long-range view – the horizon<br />
Ask what and why<br />
Challenge the status quo<br />
Own person<br />
Do the right things<br />
‘The liberation <strong>of</strong> talent rather than restraint by rule’ – Leaders aim at<br />
'winning hearts and minds'. Mere managers aim at optimizing the use<br />
<strong>of</strong> 'resources'. (Peters & Austin, 1985).
<strong>Leadership</strong> ‘Messages'<br />
Managers have 'subordinates' and communicate<br />
enable others to understand information, instructions or ideas<br />
seek order and control<br />
Leaders have followers. They<br />
envision, influence, inspire<br />
tolerate, promote creativity and imagination<br />
bring order from chaos<br />
influence people towards objectives and desire<br />
to<br />
achieve<br />
gain voluntary commitment over compliance<br />
win hearts and minds
<strong>Leadership</strong> Focus:<br />
Inside-Out vs. Outside-In<br />
Inside-Out:<br />
Outwardly focused – Not ME, but WE<br />
Relies on the primary greatness <strong>of</strong> character to<br />
achieve lasting solutions<br />
Outside -In:<br />
Inwardly focused – It is all about ME, not WE<br />
Victim mentally – Stagnation achieves<br />
unsustainable solutions
Personal Integrity<br />
“Success rests with having the courage and<br />
endurance and, above all, the will to become<br />
the person you are, however peculiar that<br />
may be. Then you will be able to say, - I<br />
have found my hero and he is me.”<br />
---- Dr. George Sheehan
3 Basic Character Traits<br />
Integrity:<br />
It starts with YOU – The value you place on<br />
yourself – Keeping Commitments to you and<br />
others.<br />
Maturity<br />
“Courage and consideration” – Concern for the<br />
long-term welfare <strong>of</strong> others<br />
Abundance Mentality<br />
No “Zero Sum” game – There are always<br />
opportunities
Maturity<br />
“Consider the rights <strong>of</strong> others before your<br />
own feelings, and the feelings <strong>of</strong> others<br />
before your own rights.”<br />
---- John Wooden
Leaders<br />
“Leaders are made, they are not born. They<br />
are made by hard effort, which is the price<br />
which all <strong>of</strong> us must pay to achieve any goal<br />
that is worthwhile.”<br />
---- Vince Lombardi
Books on <strong>Leadership</strong><br />
Principle-Centered <strong>Leadership</strong>, Stephen R. Covey<br />
Wooden on <strong>Leadership</strong>, John Wooden & Steve<br />
Jamison<br />
The Effective Executive, Peter F. Drucker<br />
Good to Great, Jim Collins<br />
<strong>Leadership</strong> Lessons <strong>of</strong> the Navy Seals, Jeff<br />
Cannon & Lt. CMDR. Jon Cannon
Questions and Discussion
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