Do You Want to Make the Senior

Leadership Leap?
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Avi Wiezel

Jerry Eyink

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Session A
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Intro/Setting the Stage

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 Avi Wiezel, PhD, PE

Professor at ASU (DEWSC)

Past President of Engineering Senate
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Past Director of Graduate Studies

Past Chairman of the Del E. Webb School of Constr.

Assistant Dean for Facilities (Engineering)

Career Highlights

Senior VP for planning, scheduling and control in a 5,000 employee
EPC company. (Continuous productivity improvements averaging 15%
per year)

Taught in four languages on three continents (Asia, Europe, and
America) to students of all levels, ranging from bricklayer apprentices to
doctoral students and senior executives.

Constantly ranks among the top 5% of best teachers in the Ira A. Fulton
School of Engineering at ASU; recipient of the Outstanding Faculty
Member Award.

Research Interests

human activities in construction including models for improving the skills
of craftsmen, crews, project managers and company executives

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Jerry Eyink
 Engineering Executive with over 35 years of industry knowledge in engineering
and project management leadership positions and strategic planning.

 Retired Engineering Group Director of Project Management and Planning at

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Anheuser-Busch, Inc.

 He holds an Engineering Degree from Purdue University and a MBA from St.
Louis University. He is a resident of Missouri.

 Active participant of the Construction Industry Institute (CII) for the past 30
years with key industry leadership roles, including advisory role for recently
launched Knowledge Base Program. Prior roles include serving on the Executive
Advisory Panel, Executive Committee, Board of Advisors, Strategic Planning
Committee and other core knowledge process committees.

 13th Recipient of CII’s Richard L. Tucker Leadership & Service Award in

recognition of significant contributions to the advancement of the CII
mission and to the success of CII as an organization.

 Jerry was inducted in the National Academy Of Construction (NAC) in 2011

where he's actively serving the Construction Industry.

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 Safety is Priority #1

Safety Leadership - BE A MOTIVATOR...

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 Positively reinforce employees to encourage safe behavior

 Use a verbal reward system

Employees ranked 65 workplace Putting recognition into

motivators by importance. The
TOP 5 motivators were...
#1 Personal Thanks
#2 Written Thanks
#3 Promotion for Performance
#4 Public Praise
#5 Morale Building Meetings
practice means saying...
“I saw what you did.”
“I appreciate it.”
“Safety is important – YOU are
important.”
“Thank you for working safely.”

Why are you here?

Expand horizon-From PM to Senior Executive
mind set.
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Lead a conscious life - know what you are getting

into and what you need to be successful.

Recognize that your continuing education and

career planning is your responsibility.

Your company expects you to prepare yourself to

be a senior leader.

You are here to receive a banquet of knowledge for

your guided discovery of your future.
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Homework 1
Reference Books

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Homework 2

Best Knowledge Buffet in the World!

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 Taking Notes ~ Gathering your “Nuggets”

Knowledge on the Slides

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Golden Nuggets and your Actionary

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Cues
Notes
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Actionary

I Intuitive C Counterintuitive A Actionable

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Golden Nuggets

Page of Golden Nuggets

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Keep this page for your records

I Intuitive

C Counterintuitive

A Actionable

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 Your Legacy…

Data collection
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Confidentiality

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PM to Senior
Leadership Transition

 500,000’ Senior Executive &

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Society Leader

 100,000’ + Business (P&L) From managing

 ------------ Transition---------- what you know …
 50,000’ PM Large Project (s) to leading what you
don’t know
 10,000’ PM Mid-size Project
 1,000’ PM Small Project What is your calling?
 100’ Project Team Member

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 Seminar Flow

Familiar Ground: From Good PM to GREAT PM

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 [WOYM] Who is On Your Molecule Today? [Individual]

 [PM PFH] “Project from Hell” Card Game [Individual & Team
 [Invest in Thinking Time] Thinking Appetizers (questions) to
start your thinking process

“Uniqueness of You” Self-Assessments

 [EI 2.0] Emotional Intelligence

 [SF 2.0] StrengthsFinder
 [Wheel of Balance] Balanced Life Style/Sustained Strength

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Seminar Flow
New Territory: From GREAT PM to GOOD Senior Executive
 [SEDME] Senior Executive Decision Making Exercise [Team]
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The DNA Leadership Game

 Calculate your Leadership Awareness Factor [Individual]
 Determine your Leadership Implementation Factor [Individual]
 Place the leadership wisdoms in the proper levels and
appreciate as you advance in your career you have to keep
learning new wisdoms

From Good Senior Executive to GREAT Leader, Your Lessons

Learned ~ ”Nuggets” Round Robin

 New Perspectives on Leadership

Is Senior Leadership Your Calling?

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Meta Tool - The Future…

Meta Tool - CII Senior Executive Program

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 To Make Learning “Stick”

Learning through Guided Discovery!

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 70% On-the-Job Training Experiences

& Problem-Solving/Thinking
 20% From Other Relationships
(Coaches, Mentors, Stakeholders)
 10% Formal Classroom Training

Most of the training budget goes

to 10% of the learning

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Management - Leadership Balance

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Management Leadership

Doing things right Doing right things

with right processes with right people

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 Management - Leadership Balance

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Management

Leadership

Doing things right Doing right things

with right processes with right people

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Source of Character & Competence

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Source of Competences Skills

Knowledge

Habits & Instincts

Source of Attitudes & Attributes
Character Personal Vision
Beliefs & Values
Callings & Choices

Development beneath the surface provides the foundation.

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 The Leader-Manager Conundrum

Management Leadership

Brings order &
Coping with “Change”
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consistency

Manage complexity
Setting direction &

Manage to achieve plan vision

Controls & problem
Aligning people
solves

Motivates & Inspires

Purpose - Brings order from Purpose – Effecting change

chaos through Planning, by inspiring team members to
Organizing & Controlling consider new possibilities

2 Distinctive and Complimentary Systems of Actions

Leaders vs Managers …
5 Key Differences

The Manager : The Leader :

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Is an Administrator
Is an innovator

Represents control &
authority

Asks questions about
‘how & when’

Creates policies

Has subordinates

Ensures trust and
results

Asks questions about
‘what & why’

Gives solutions

Makes true followers

Be the kind of Leader

that you would follow

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 Why?
 Management challenges are difficult but leading
people and nurturing relationships is MESSY—people
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want things, disagree, get emotional.

 There are 1000’s of ways to teach intangibles of
Leadership ~ “the most baffling of arts.”
 Difficult to calculate leadership’s direct impact on
bottom line $.

 Field Superintendent research

 Owner Servant Leadership study

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The Bottom Line - Profitability

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Leader

Manager

Technical

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 Leadership Career Progression

The Leadership wisdoms are grouped
into four levels:
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Leadership

Senior Executives Skills

Mid-level Managers
Human
Skills

Leading Teams

Technical

Personal Development Skills

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Be a Constant Giver (Personal Philosophy)

There are three types of Professionals

1. The Givers (10%) They are always
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mentoring, educating, and helping others

2. The Matchers (80%) They will give something,
but expect something in return
3. The Takers (10%) They are always taking, never
having the time to give back
Who are the most successful?
The givers when they developed the philosophy
of limiting the gift Into five-minute increments

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 Participate in Professional Societies
(Build Relationships)
 Associate with other successful professionals within
your career field.
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 Provides networking opportunities and knowledge

providers who will enhance your continuing
education, keep you current, and build your
reputation.
 Join, volunteer, and freely give your time and ideas.
 The more you give the more you will get in return.

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What got you here will not get you There!

You have to continually

reinvent yourself
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