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Meeting The Leadership Challenge
This live-in program is designed to develop your leadership capabilities to the next level. Over five days, it provides guided time for you to reflect on who you are as a leader, where you want to go, and what you need to do to get there. Specifically, you will develop insights and skills in three critical leadership areas:
- Self-knowledge: define your personal values, assess your leadership strengths and weaknesses, and discover strategies for sustaining your energies over the long term.
- Leading others: learn new ways to inspire and lead others towards top performance.
- Organizational leadership: empower yourself to break down boundaries, forge new visions and lead your company into the future.
High-Impact Learning that Gets Results
Even the deepest learning comes to nothing, if intent is not turned into action. In an interactive learning environment, you will work on projects to solve real-life leadership challenges, using what you are learning to devise appropriate solutions. You will take away a leadership game plan for organizational and personal action.
This course qualifies towards the following certificate(s):
- Sales Leadership
- Public Sector Management
- Strategic Innovation
- Strategic Leadership
- Executive Development
Benefits to You
This course is designed to help you make the shift from manager to leader. You will:
- cultivate new insights and perspectives on what it means to be a leader
- define your personal values and create harmony between your vision, goals and actions
- enhance your capacity to be a clear and present leader who can balance personal and professional roles
- develop the self-confidence and calm, compassionate mind that characterize great leaders
- become more positive and productive by managing stress and emotional toxicity
- find greater meaning in your work, to sustain your energies for the long haul
- envision the next stage of your career and build a clear leadership plan for getting there
- improve essential skills in coaching, communication, creativity, negotiation and leadership influence
- articulate a compelling vision that inspires others to strive for excellence
- build, lead, empower and energize high-performance teams
- facilitate healthy group dynamics and resolve conflict
- influence power structures in constructive ways, and leverage organizational interactions
- lead strategic change initiatives
- multiply your leadership value to your organization
Benefits to Your Organization
Leadership is more than an attitude; it is also about getting results. This program will help participant organizations:
- develop their leadership capacity from within
- capitalize immediately on the deepened leadership insights and skills brought back to the workplace
- reward their best people, and increase company morale and motivation
- fill essential knowledge and performance gaps
- enrich the vision and perspectives being brought to the table, for greater competitive advantage
- see greater levels of confidence throughout the organization, as participants pass on their learning to others
- gain a coherent game plan for organizational development
Program Content
Leading Effectively from a Variety of Perspectives
- leader as planner and organizer
- leader as facilitator and coach
- leader as advocate and alliance-builder
- leader as visionary and innovator
Leading Yourself
- harnessing your strengths, overcoming weaknesses and mobilizing your courage
- handling stress and toxicity through respect and connection
- enhancing intuition by increasing self-confidence and trust
- working with your core values to create a personal vision
Leading Others
- leading others to lead themselves
- leading by example
- coaching and team leadership skills
- communication, presentation and negotiation skills
Understanding and Creating Balance
- defining balance for you
- linking balance to core values and decisions for action
- developing balance between personal and professional roles
- using teams to establish and sustain balance
Enhancing Essential Leadership Skills
- tapping into your creativity and intuition
- using political skills wisely
- skill practice sessions with feedback
Transforming the Organization
- required elements for successful organizational change
- managing the message for full engagement
- leading with awareness of your sources of power
