Leadership is different than authority! Rank and title may be bestowed upon an individual, but that may not reflect an actual ability to lead others. Here's the ultimate leadership test:

• Look behind you.
• If no one's following ... you're not leading!

This workshop draws upon contemporary leadership concepts, research, and anecdotal examples to create a leadership model with the proven capacity to achieve greater results, fully engage a workforce, overcome the challenges inherent in constant change and confidently lead into a purposeful future (the land of opportunity).

Target Audience

Because this workshop focuses on the components of leadership that don't require authority or hierarchical positioning, it is not necessary that attendees be in management (some of your best leaders may not be in a position of management, yet their informal leadership helps direct your culture). This 'expanded' target audience should include:

• Your entire management team
• Informal leaders
• Emerging leaders
• High-potential employees
• Human resource professionals

Key Learning Objectives

Learning objectives specify the new knowledge, skills/abilities and attitudes that a learner should have assimilated during a learning experience. Although the actual competencies incorporated in this workshop will be determined during the initial needs assessment with your organization, here are the foundational learning objectives for this workshop.

• Behavioral leadership
• Business excellence
• Effective communication
• Mission, goal and strategy alignment
• Succession planning and knowledge transfer
• Trust, credibility, integrity and values

Methodology

Adult learning principles are utilized to encourage direct participation and interaction, unleash creativity, open minds to possibility-thinking—and maximize the learning. This workshop includes:

• Multi-media presentations (e.g., projected slides, short video segments, etc.) to introduce topics and provide key foundational information
• Experiential learning exercises to allow participants to make an intellectual and emotional connection to the concept of authentic leadership
• Stimulating and interactive discussions to share thoughts, ideas and experiences
• Individual and small-group breakout sessions
• An implementation timeline and summary exercise (includes facilitated discussion of potential obstacles to implementation)

Format

This one-day workshop includes over 7 hours of instructional material and is delivered in-house only (no public offerings). The maximum class size is limited to 32 participants.

Customization Options

• This workshop can be customized to accommodate your organization's specific training curricula, business/industry terminology and can be tailored to build upon previous training programs.
• A unique customization option for this workshop is embedding short video interviews with your senior leadership team into the program to enhance the learning and reinforce the importance of the message. Interviews can be pre-scripted or free-form and focus on the leader's view of the importance of strong leadership.