Leadership Performance Learning Sprint Group Call #4 – Week 6

Today’s Agenda

• Welcome & Introductions
• Recap: Modules 1-18
• Breakout: Sharing & reflections
• Set up for next week: Case Study and Your Leadership Plan
• Next Steps

1. Leadership Performance
Learning Sprint
Group Call #4 –Week 6
www.shifft.com.au
10 October 2025

2. Today’s Agenda
•Welcome & Introductions
•Recap: Modules 1-18
•Breakout: Sharing & reflections
•Set up for next week: Case Study and Your Leadership Plan
•Next Steps

3. The Leader
Board – Top 5
Week 3 Target should be to have
completed 63% of modules
Name%
Completion
Damien Lau68%
Simon Daley68%
Justin Davies63%
Jayden Pollard63%
Russell Banks58%

4. Your Journal
•Not a daily diary
•A place for you to collect your
reflections, thoughts, plans,
aspirations, goals, ideas and concepts
•All your thoughts in one place
•Use a simple organisation structure

5. THE MODULES
What should you have covered?

6. Module 2:
Leadership
Phases
A key module that maps
out the Leadership
Journey and Foundational
Traits

7. Pre-work:
Personal Brand
Russell Cummings [phone] www.shifft.com.au © Shifft 2025

PERSONAL BRAND Name: Jenny – Manager Date: 5 Sep 2025
Brand Components Elements Description Score

1. Hard-working I’m known for rolling up my sleeves and getting the job done. 8
2. Reliable
My team and customers can count on me to follow through on
promises.
9
3. Fair
I treat people with respect, even when tough calls need to be
made.
7

4. Approachable People feel comfortable walking up and having a chat with me. 8
5. Practical
I focus on simple solutions that actually work, not
overcomplicated ideas.
8
6. Local & trusted
I’m part of the community and want my business to have a good
reputation.
9

7. Supportive of staff I want my team to feel backed and valued. 7
8. Good listener with
customers
I make time to hear what customers really need. 8
9. Connector I introduce people to others who can help them. 6
Key actions to improve brand Who? When?
1. Block out time each week to check in properly with staff (not just quick chats). Me Weekly
2. Ask a couple of trusted customers for honest feedback on how they see me. Me
Next
month
3. Share more positive stories on our business Facebook page to lift visibility. Me/Admin Ongoing

Attributes
Image
Relationships
•Clarifies your
leadership identity &
values
•Supports Module 3
(Vision Mapping)
•Foundation for
reflection and team
conversations

8. Module 3:
Leadership
Vision Mapping
•Can be challenging –
that’s okay!
•Aim: First draft of your
leadership vision
•It will evolve during the
Sprint

9. Module 4
Focus:
Understanding yourself as
a leader
Module 4: Leadership Style
Key Takeaways:
•Flexibility in approach
•You can move the dial
•Use your Personal Brand as a
guide to the changes you need
to make

10. Module 5: Mindset
Focus:
Fixed v Growth Mindset
Module 5: Leadership Mindset
Key Takeaways:
•Build your growth mindset
•Encourage a growth mindset in
your Teams

11. Module 6:
Business Acumen
Focus:
Building acumen
Module 6: Business Acumen
Key Takeaways:
•Understanding and awareness of
environment and self is important
•Reflection is a critical part of a
Leaders Toolkit

12. Module 7: Locus of
Control
Focus:
Self-Awareness and Mindset
Key Takeaways:
•Understand your self – Internal v
External LOC
•Internal LOC builds “choice” into the
system
Module 7: Locus of Control

13. Module 8: The
Importance of
Emotional Intelligence
Focus:
Awareness and Change
Key Takeaways:
•Awareness is key
•Emotional Management – automatic
response v measured response
•As a Leader, you can use this to
build better relationships, manage
difficult situations
Module 8: The Importance of
Emotional Intelligence

14. Module 9: Culture –
Values – Authenticity
Focus:
Leveraging impact of your leadership
Key Takeaways:
•Focus on building culture
•Anchored by strong personal values
•Walk the Talk
Module 9: Culture – Values -
Authenticity

15. Module 10: Building
Trust as a Leader
Focus:
Trust is critical
Key Takeaways:
•Self-Orientation is driver
•Anchored by strong personal values
•What do you need to do to increase
trust?
Module 10: Building Trust as a
Leader

16. Module 11:
Being Strategic
Focus:
Balance between
Operational and Strategic
Key Takeaways:
•Need balance between Short and
Long Term
•Discovery curtain – who steps up?
•As a Manager – are you being
strategic?
Module 11: Being Strategic

17. Module 12:
Setting Goals/Targets
– OKRs and KPIs
Focus:
Setting goals and targets
Key Takeaways:
•Often too many measures
•KPIs for specific targets
•OKRs for strategy and outcomes
•What do you need to measure?
Module 12: Setting
Goals/Targets

18. Module 13: Driving
change effectively
Focus:
Improve the probability of
successful change
Key Takeaways:
•What can you do to improve your
chance of success?
•Use this as a checklist before
embarking on a significant change
Module 13: Driving change
effectively

19. Module 14:
Managing the team
effectively
Focus:
To foster a productive and
successful team
Key Takeaways:
•Delegation – give good instructions
and link to the Coaching Matrix
•Feedback – simple tools are best
•Accountability – simple dashboards
•How do we manage a hybrid team?
Module 14: Managing the
team effectively
DelegationFeedback
AccountabilityHybrid
Workforce

20. Module 15:
Being a great coach
Focus:
To create a supportive and empowering environment for their team members
Key Takeaways:
•“Coach and develop” rather than
“boss and manage”
•The model is task specific not
generic
•Motivation is often the hardest
Module 15: Being a great coach

21. Module 16:
Making tough decisions
Focus:
To navigate tough decisions effectively and to assess the situation from all angles and consider potential outcomes
Key Takeaways:
•A good tool for making decisions
•Weighs subjective and objective
factors
•Spend more time on the Decision
Factors/Criteria and weightingModule 16: Making tough decisions

22. Module 17:
Using intuition as a
leader
Focus:
To understand and cultivate your intuition, providing you with the tools and techniques you need to make informed decisions
Key Takeaways:
•Intuition or “gut feel” is a useful
tool in business
•Gets you in touch with sub-
conscious thinking
•Paradigms stop this connection
•Use it conjunction with logic
Module 17: Using intuition as a leader

23. Module 18:
Delivering results
Focus:
To be able to set goals, make plans and execute on them effectively to achieve success
Key Takeaways:
•Consistent, effective results
•Objectives and Accountability
•Aligned Team – culture
•Under-promise and over-deliverModule 18: Delivering results
Under-
promise
Over-deliver
SMART Goals
AccountabilityAligned Team

24. QUESTIONS?
What insights did you
take out of last
week’s modules?

25. Breakout 1:
Introductions
•Name, Business & Role
•“If you could only measure one thing to know
you’re becoming a better leader—what
would it be, and why?”

26. NEXT WEEK
What will you cover?

27. Looking Ahead:
Week 7 Module
Focus:
Apply the learning &
insights from the course
Module 19: Case Study

28. Bonus Module: Your
Leadership Plan

[phone]
www.shifft.com.au
© Shifft 2025
Annual Operating Plan for ______________________ Period: ______________ Date: __________________
Key Issues Big Rocks Description Key Measures Targets
1.
2.
Where
3.


4.
Overarching Strategy:
Big Rocks Strategies Strategic Actions Who? When? Resources, People,
Capital
1.



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•Pull together the entire course
and create a Leadership Plan for yourself
•There will be a set of
instructions in Mindshop on this
task

29. Next Steps

30. COMING EVENTS
AND RESOURCES

31. Key Dates &
Commitments
•Final Webinar: Fri, 17 Oct @ 12 noon

32. Coming Webinars & Learning Sprints
31 Oct, 12:00 PM
AI for Business Webinar Series
Feb/Mar 2026
Learning Sprint - Time and Priority
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34. 90 Day Productivity
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How to use the Focused Execution Journal:
•Not a diary – it’s a thinking tool
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36. THANK YOU
Russell Cummings
Business Consultant
M: 0414 929 585
W: www.shifft.com.au
E: [email protected]