Seminar Overview:

Over time, there have been different models of leadership fulfilling different needs: authoritarian (financial security), human relations (social-emotional), human relations (recognizing and developing talent), and principle-centered (meaning and purpose). The highest end of this continuum, principle-centered leadership, is where most leaders are focused today. From Jack Welch to Michael Eisner, effective leaders understand the value of this approach. Using a principle-centered style, however, means constantly examining your thinking about why you do what you do. This seminar asks participants to think about their thinking in three leadership areas: effectiveness vs. efficiency, listening to understand, and developing and maintaining "the slight edge."

Seminar concepts are based on thought leaders in the field, specifically, Stephen Covey's Principle-Centered Leadership model, Ken Blanchard's Situational Leadership model, and Noel Tichy's Leader as Teacher model.

Session Outcomes:

• Participants of the session will:
• Understand the difference between leadership and management
• Understand that leaders and managers are both essential roles in an effective organization
• Examine attitudes around several key components of effective leadership.
  • Move from working efficiently to working both efficiently and effectively
  • Move from listening to respond to listening to understand
  • Move from neglecting self to continually enhancing skills and competencies
• Recognize the importance of their role as leader as teacher in the organization

Session Key Topics:

• Transactional vs. Transformational Leadership
• Effectiveness: Balancing the Clock and the Compass
• Empathy: Listening to Reply vs. Listening to Understand
• Renewal: Acquiring the "Slight Edge"
  

Leadership: An Inside Out Approach
Seminar Outline

Introduction
"Thinking About Your Thinking"

• Exercise: Leader Role vs. Manager Role in this Organization
  • Exploring the Differences Between Leadership and Management
  • The Skill and the Art of Leading and Managing
  • Transactional and Transformational Leadership

Leadership Area 1: Effectiveness
"Discipline Without Purpose is Torture

• Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
• Balancing the Clock and the Compass
• The Tyranny of the Urgent
• Demonstration: Big Rocks
• Exercise: Time Management Matrix
• Leader as Teacher Challenge:

Leadership Area 2: Empathy
"Tell Me About It

• EXERCISE: What keeps us from listening?
  • Listening to Reply
  • Listening to Understand: Empathy
  • ...Now It's Your Turn
• Leader as Teacher Challenge:

Leadership Area 3: Renewal
"The Slight Edge"

• EXERCISE: If There Were One Thing...
  (What one thing could I do to be a more effective leader?)
  • Being "Selfish" (Taking Care of Your Yourself)
  • Story: Sharpen the Saw
  • 4 Areas to Sharpen: Physical, Mental, Relationships, Values
  • Obtaining That "Slight Edge"
• EXERCISE: What Will I Do to Gain That Slight Edge?
• Leader as Teacher Challenge:

Conclusion: So What, Now What?
"Moving from Theory to Practice

• EXERCISE: Letter to Self
• (30 day commitment and One-on-One Coaching)