WEBVTT 00:02.400 --> 00:05.640 Hello and welcome to the course on visible 00:06.140 --> 00:09.440 leadership. Now, if you already 00:09.940 --> 00:13.200 took a big gulp of air, if you want to run and hide, 00:14.080 --> 00:17.640 or you're immediately feeling vulnerable when you 00:18.140 --> 00:21.040 hear the concept visible leadership, you're not alone. 00:23.120 --> 00:26.260 Being visible is often accompanied by by its 00:26.760 --> 00:28.340 close cousin, vulnerability. 00:29.940 --> 00:33.700 And waiting in the next room is often imposter syndrome. 00:34.660 --> 00:37.780 Why would anyone want to learn from you? 00:38.260 --> 00:41.899 Why would anyone follow your suggestions for 00:42.399 --> 00:46.300 improvement or how to solve a problem? Well, guess what? If you're feeling 00:46.800 --> 00:50.460 like this, you're in good company. Being a visible leader has 00:50.960 --> 00:54.390 lots of benefits, but you may also need to 00:54.890 --> 00:58.710 think through how to plan and behave 00:59.190 --> 01:02.630 and also manage when these naughty cousins 01:03.270 --> 01:05.670 want to SAP your confidence and come out to play. 01:07.030 --> 01:10.750 Leadership has traditionally been the purview of the 01:11.250 --> 01:15.430 most senior people in an organisation. But as organisations 01:16.470 --> 01:19.960 feel greater pressure in terms of competition and new industry 01:20.460 --> 01:23.960 entrants, the role of leadership has taken on more and more 01:24.460 --> 01:27.960 prominence and that's broader across the organisation. And in fact, 01:29.000 --> 01:33.280 visible leadership is a really compelling leadership concept that's applicable 01:33.780 --> 01:37.240 to everyone across an organisation. So in 01:37.740 --> 01:41.160 the days of the corner office, leaders were heard but 01:41.660 --> 01:44.440 not seen. In modern organisations, 01:45.350 --> 01:48.550 there's an expectation that leaders are more accessible. 01:49.350 --> 01:52.950 And as organizations become flatter, the need for 01:53.450 --> 01:57.030 more people within larger teams to assume and practice 01:57.110 --> 02:00.710 leadership is growing. So enter 02:01.210 --> 02:04.870 visible leadership. So, given the relentless requirement to 02:05.370 --> 02:09.270 undertake a significant amount of our days in meetings, 02:09.750 --> 02:14.610 often away from our teams, a leader is often challenged to 02:15.110 --> 02:18.450 make time for their people. And being visible can easily become just 02:18.950 --> 02:21.690 another checkbox on leaders growing to do list. 02:23.370 --> 02:26.570 So does this mean then that for teams without visible leaders, 02:26.970 --> 02:30.170 they naturally become more accountable? Because you might think it does. 02:31.290 --> 02:34.370 Well, no, it doesn't actually, you know, when leaders are 02:34.870 --> 02:38.570 not visible, it often means the opposite. It might mean 02:39.070 --> 02:42.490 that teams are confused, that they're not aligned. They might 02:42.990 --> 02:46.690 not be as productive or as psychologically safe as they might be when 02:47.190 --> 02:52.290 working in an environment where leaders as 02:52.790 --> 02:55.650 compared to working in an environment where leaders are visible. 02:57.170 --> 03:00.970 So research by Harvard Business Schools Professor 03:01.470 --> 03:04.890 Amy Edmondson concluded that visible leaders create a 03:05.390 --> 03:09.530 culture of psychological safety. And, and psychological safety helps 03:10.030 --> 03:14.410 you create a culture of a safe 03:14.910 --> 03:19.650 to fail culture. So psychological safety helps develop 03:20.150 --> 03:23.330 a safe to fail culture, which supports creativity and 03:23.830 --> 03:27.810 innovation. So in this course we'll be exploring 03:28.310 --> 03:31.810 visible leadership and how you, irrespective of your 03:32.310 --> 03:36.620 role and your level of seniority, can learn some tools and tactics 03:37.180 --> 03:40.940 to improve your visible leadership. So how's 03:41.440 --> 03:45.300 the course structured? Well, the course comprises an 03:45.800 --> 03:49.420 introduction, three lessons, a conclusion and some homework 03:49.900 --> 03:52.220 and that homework is to consolidate your learning, 03:52.780 --> 03:56.020 so several concepts will be touched on. It's not meant to be an 03:56.520 --> 04:00.420 exhaustive list, but rather to explore several components 04:00.920 --> 04:04.980 of visible leadership, meaning that you can take what you need and undertake 04:05.480 --> 04:08.820 further learning as required. So the purpose of 04:09.320 --> 04:13.020 the course is to help you, to help you learn some 04:13.520 --> 04:18.140 concepts around visible leadership. And to do that we'll discuss why visible 04:18.640 --> 04:22.220 leadership matters, outline how visible leadership is 04:22.720 --> 04:25.500 intertwined with ownership and accountability for your own growth, 04:27.210 --> 04:31.410 highlight how visible leadership works in alignment with an organisation's 04:31.910 --> 04:35.330 purpose and can become part of an organisational 04:35.830 --> 04:38.810 cadence, demonstrate a visible leadership plan, 04:39.690 --> 04:43.770 outline how visible leadership is integral to effective performance 04:43.850 --> 04:47.930 management for you and your teams. And also provide a practical application 04:48.430 --> 04:51.650 of how you can own and be accountable every day for 04:52.150 --> 04:54.770 growing your own visible leadership through a series of actions. 04:55.810 --> 04:58.930 So who will benefit from this course? So, new, 04:59.430 --> 05:03.010 emerging and seasoned leaders looking for ways 05:03.510 --> 05:07.289 to define and cement your own leadership to be more visible 05:07.789 --> 05:11.770 to your people and across the organization. So visible 05:12.270 --> 05:16.130 leadership is really designed for people right across the organisation because 05:16.630 --> 05:20.010 it's how you as an individual learn and behave, 05:20.090 --> 05:23.850 how you interact with your stakeholders, with your leader, 05:24.330 --> 05:28.050 with your clients or customers, and then if you have accountability for a 05:28.550 --> 05:32.090 team, how you interact and improve your team on a day to day 05:32.590 --> 05:36.450 basis. So you'll understand why leadership 05:36.950 --> 05:40.530 is visible leadership is important, you'll understand how to improve your 05:41.030 --> 05:44.570 own visible leadership and we'll explore some everyday experiments to increase 05:45.150 --> 05:49.550 your visible leadership. So who am I? Well, hello, I'm Penelope 05:50.050 --> 05:54.030 Barr. I've had a really long and successful career across 05:54.530 --> 05:57.630 the globe, across technology, transformation, 05:57.790 --> 06:01.230 product change and innovation. But I'm also a 06:01.730 --> 06:05.190 big sister, so I've had lifelong training in how and when to stand 06:05.690 --> 06:07.630 up and be visible. 06:09.070 --> 06:12.630 I'm delighted to share this course with you and I 06:13.130 --> 06:16.630 hope that you'll be able to learn some key concepts as you 06:17.130 --> 06:20.590 go through the course. I currently run a portfolio career which 06:21.090 --> 06:24.910 sees me working in interim exec roles across several organizations 06:25.230 --> 06:29.150 and then spending the rest of my time across my various projects and passions. 06:30.030 --> 06:32.990 And for that I need a lot of visible leadership. 06:33.310 --> 06:36.550 So from a young age I learned that everyone is and can be a 06:37.050 --> 06:40.920 leader. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so. So today 06:41.160 --> 06:42.680 I'm giving that permission to.