Marcia Acker shares her career journey, highlighting her focus on facilitation and leading change. She discusses bridging the communication gap between developers and end users, the value of facilitation skills, and how being overly process-focused hindered decision-making.
“Leading change is high stakes, but we don’t spend a great deal of time focusing on conversation and creating space to engage in real conversation."
Marsha Acker is the author of “Build Your Model for Leading Change” and the host of “Defining Moments of Leadership” podcast. In this episode, we discussed building our own model for leadership and leading change. Marsha first started by sharing the concept of a model and some of the common challenges for organizations in making changes. Then we discussed David Kantor’s theories on structural dynamics and functional awareness for understanding behavioral model, which include the concepts of leadership range and communicative competence. Marsha outlined what makes communication so challenging and what we can do to achieve a more effective communication. Towards the end, she shared the three different models that leaders need to think about, i.e. model for leadership, model for living, and model for leading change.
Listen out for:
- Career Journey - [00:03:54]
- Defining Moments of Leadership Podcast - [00:10:14]
- Building Our Model - [00:14:11]
- Challenges for Making Organization Change - [00:19:48]
- Behavioral Model - [00:23:57]
- Structural Dynamics - [00:27:30]
- Functional Awareness - [00:33:01]
- Communication Challenges - [00:38:12]
- Model for Leadership - [00:40:55]
- Model for Living - [00:44:12]
- Model for Leading Change - [00:46:10]
- 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:54:44]
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Marsha Acker’s Bio
Marsha Acker is the founder and CEO of TeamCatapult, an executive & leadership team coach, author, speaker, facilitator, and the host of Defining Moments of Leadership Podcast. Marsha’s unparalleled at helping leaders identify and break through stuck patterns of communication that get in their way of high performance. She is known internationally as a facilitator of meaningful conversations, a host of dialogue and a passionate agilest. She is the author of The Art and Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams and Build Your Model for Leading Change: A guided workbook to catalyze clarity and confidence in leading yourself and others.
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