The Leadership Challenge Continues® Workshop is an innovative and flexible program that encourages leaders to remain focused on what they learned during their exposure to The Five Practices Model. Participants will be asked to reflect upon the small wins they experienced since their leadership journey began, practice specific skills and behaviors that will prepare them for the next steps in their journey, and move beyond self-development by identifying ways for using the Five Practices to develop their team members and achieve broader spheres of influence within their organizations. Emotional Intelligence (EI), team building, and creativity will be discussed as being critical elements for living the Five Practices. Are you up to the challenge?
Course Methodology
The Leadership Challenge Continues® Workshop will engage you and your leaders through experiential activities, workbook exercises, group problem-solving tasks, video cases, and lectures. Also, you’ll get plenty of hands-on practice applying The Five Practices leadership model to current organizational and personal leadership challenges. With a plan of action in-hand for taking the key learnings from the workshop back to the workplace, leaders will be prepared to implement these new leadership practices back on the job, beginning day 1.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Identify leadership strengths and weaknesses based on the LPI assessment (individual and 360 degrees)
Implement The Five Practices® model to express their image of the future, inspire others to share that common vision, challenge the status quo by experimenting with innovative ideas and enable others to act by building collaboration, teamwork, and trust
Recognize the different creativity personas, and how to deal with each persona to maximize individual output
Apply the seven critical EI behaviors needed for building high performance teams and increase productivity
Develop a powerful team to achieve common goals while demonstrating exceptional commitment for leading self and others
Target Audience
The Leadership Challenge Continues® Workshop is for experienced professionals who are currently or who will be asked to manage teams, to know the actions to take, and to have the confidence to take the actions needed for successful individual and team performance. These managers are responsible for leading other managers and/or professional staff. They are operational, group or department managers who have several management-level direct reports and work with multiple peers, often across functions.
Target Competencies
Set the example for others
Search for opportunities to change and improve
Experiment with innovative ideas
Build collaboration, teamwork, and trust
Leading and inspiring others
Team emotional and social intelligence
Overcoming team dysfunctions
Note
Course Outline
The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)
The LPI Report: an overview
The LPI analysis
The LPI Personal Plan Workbook
An introduction to Posner and Kouzes
An Overview of the Five Leadership Practices®
Practice 1 - Modelling the Way
Finding your voice by clarifying your personal values
Setting the example by aligning actions with shared values
Practice 2 - Inspiring a Shared Vision
Envisioning the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities
Enlisting others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations
Practice 3 - Challenging the Process
Searching for opportunities by seeking innovative ways to change, grow and improve
Experimenting and taking risks by constantly generating small wins and learning from mistakes
Practice 4 - Enabling Others to Act
Fostering collaboration by promoting cooperative goals and building trust
Strengthening others by sharing power and discretion
Practice 5 - Encouraging the Heart
Recognizing contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence
Celebrating the values and victories by creating a spirit of community
The Leader’s Creativity Toolbox
The different aspects of creative thinking
Definition of creativity
The creativity myths
Exploring and working with the different creativity personas
The creativity diagnostic instrument (self-assessment)
Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI®)
Emotional Intelligence Defined
The Emotional Intelligence Framework
The Seven Critical EI Behaviors needed for building high-performance teams: