THE AGILE LEADER?
American Hockey Coaches
Association (AHCA)
May 3, 2013
Some Definitions and an Outline
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Agile
Leader
Know Yourself
Know Your People
Employ the Art and Science of Intelligence
Know Yourself
• Personal mastery…Self-Awareness…and ask
and inventory the following:
• What are my strengths?
• How do I perform?
• What are my values?
• What characteristics should I develop and
work on?
Know Your People
So what do we have to
work with? Who are
our future team
members and
employees?
They are….
• Pew Research Center results
• Council on Foreign Relations Report
• Rothkopf’s observations
Know Your People, and Develop,
Communicate and Demand…
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Character and Integrity
Candor
Vision
Mission
The key intelligence questions
A strategy
You Need to Develop an Intelligence
Skill Set
• What is Intelligence and why do leaders need
it?
• Anticipate change and reduce surprise
• Oh no!!
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Motorola, Nokia and Apple
Blockbuster and Netflix
Traditional publishing and Amazon
Newspapers, TV…social media
Traditional Higher Ed and MOOCs
The Problem of Too Much
Information
• Volume
• Velocity
• Variety
Variety Statistics and Prevalence
• As of September, 2012 Facebook had over 1.01
billion people using the site each month, and
604 million people used Facebook monthly on a
mobile device
• In July 2012, Twitter exceeded 500 million users
globally with Tweets written in 25 languages,
and with Arabic showing the largest percentage
increase
• YouTube is also widely accessed, with over four
billion hits occurring per day
But We Can Use It To Our Advantage
• Keyword searches and bing.com/social
• twitter.com/search-advanced to search for a
desired location and users within that
vicinity
• Use tweet.grader.com/go/tweetingsince to
find out how long the user has been active
• Can also use peerindex.com to determine
the credibility of retweeted sources.
Using Social Media to Collect Intell
• Key nodes within that group can be
determined using NodeXL, a software plugin for Microsoft Excel that allows users to
create social network analysis (SNA) charts
of any accessible Twitter account
• The plug-in can be downloaded at
nodexl.codeplex.com and a full tutorial is
located at http://goo.gl/h4O44.
Using Social Media to Collect Intell
And Another Step
• Twitalyzer can be used to retrieve various
trends and patterns within a source’s Twitter
account. Enter the source’s name into
twitalyzer.com and to retrieve personal
information such as:
– location coordinates, occupation, expertise,
percentage of males/females in their network,
average age of followers, users the source has
engaged with recently, other users that have recently
mentioned or retweeted their posts, and recently
discussed topics.
A Metrics Dashboard
And Another Way to Leverage Intell
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Everyone a “sensor”
Recruiting Efforts and Methods
Scouting Methods and Efforts
How do you collate and make sense of this
information?
• How is travel, meeting, and game reporting
captured and disseminated?
• Must build sensor and reporting culture
• Chief sensor is the coach and leader
And Another Way to Leverage Intell
• A system of interpretation and review to
quickly and correctly assess the new
situations
• GE’s Workout Sessions
• The Army’s After Action Reviews
Bottom Line
• Agile Leader = Know Yourself, Know Your
People, Instill Candor and Integrity, Leverage
Intelligence
Questions
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