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Who Are You Following?
All great leaders are great followers.
Have you ever stopped to think of the who, what, when, where, why and how you formulated the decisions and opinions you have come about having? Who in your life did you really listen to? What ideas and thoughts that were shared with you did you adopt as your own? Where in your life do you remember the experiences that molded you to what you are today? How have you processed all of the information you have to date and decided to make that your point of view?
Environment has influenced every great leader, through heritage, parents, teachers, pastors, musicians and sports figures. Did you decide to choose the right path to follow? Your leadership skills going forward will be founded on what you believe of the collective amount of information that you have received to date.
Session 1 walks you into the understanding that the decisions you make as a leader are directly proportional to who you follow. The greater the leader, the greater the follower!
Have you ever been awake in bed, unable to sleep because you’re filled with excitement, dreams and ideas so free-flowing you can hardly contain yourself — only to awake the next morning jumping out of bed wide-eyed and full of anticipation? How would you like to lead from that position every day? Find your passion and you will see what happens next.
Here are a few things you will learn by attending:
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Does everyone have a passion?
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Where does passion come from? Are you born with it? Do you develop it?
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What does it look like?
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How do you find it?
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How do you cultivate your passion?
Session 2 is uniquely designed to help you start down that road.
Use them in harmony, and learn how to restore balance when they conflict.
Management vs. Passion vs. Leadership
Each person is designed with certain intrinsic gifts. Putting those gifts to work is the first step in defining your leadership style. Session 3 will help you begin to assess what you are designed to do.
“If we both do the same thing, then one of us is not necessary.” Great leaders understand the importance of surrounding themselves with complementing talents to propel the mission and vision they are trying to fulfill. In order to do this, leaders must be able to determine their own strengths and weaknesses. They need to formulate their thoughts, beliefs and opinions on who they want to be, what they want to stand for. What are you willing to go to the mat for?
Leaders know their greatest strengths — and their weakest attributes.
Identifying Your Leadership Gift
Temptations Of A Leader
Navigating the impulses to stay on course.
You don’t have to look far for evidence of leaders and corporations that have derailed. One day they’re successful, the next they’re making headlines for wrongdoing, loss of market share or shuttering altogether.
What happened? What took them off the path they were on? Every leader will be faced with temptation, slight or significant. Temptation left unchecked has led to the demise of many great leaders.
Session 4 examines temptations in your life and strategies that will help you overcome them.
SESSION FOUR
Leading Through Others
People follow people, not companies; learn to get them to follow you.
“He who thinketh he leadeth and has no one following him is only taking a walk.” —John Maxwell
You have a great idea but you need the help of other people to see it through to the end. How do you get people to follow you? What’s remarkable about you and your idea — remarkable enough to inspire people to bring their best to the project?
Recruiting the right people for your project takes more than a signup sheet. Session 5 uncovers the secrets of enrolling the right people to follow you.
SESSION FIVE
Session 6 works to bridge this experience gap and unite the practical knowledge of everyone in your workplace — no matter their generation.
“Why do I need to come to the office?" … “Where are the people on Saturday? Nobody works hard anymore!” … “Flex time?!”
For the first time in history, the American workplace is home to five generations of people. How does the 65-year-old CEO relate to the 20-year-old IT tech? How does the 30-year-old executive tap into the wisdom of the 50-year-old manager? There are more than 80 years of experience separating entry-level intern from retiring executive. Are these opportunities or obstacles?
Cross-generational leadership, from Millennials to Baby Boomers.
Leading Across Generations
SESSION SIX
Leading Up
Influencing your surroundings.
“Oh, that boss of mine. I could just … !” Have you ever thought you could do your boss’s job better? Maybe at times you can. You might have the next great idea that would make the company more profitable. You have the insight to see employees leaving because of poor leadership from those at the top, but what can you do about it? What should you do about it?
Leading up is the ability to influence those who have influence over you. Leaders, as a general rule, want constructive feedback on how they can be more effective leaders, but employees have a hard time feeling like it’s their job to say so.
Session 7 will teach you how you can make a positive impact on those who you work for and enhance your career by bettering the place you work.
SESSION SEVEN
Have you ever played on a winning team? There is a distinct point in time when all the efforts of your staff align: the training, struggles and hard work come together. As a team, you’re working on instinct, firing on all cylinders. This is the day you’ve been waiting for: the memory of a lifetime. It takes a lot of work to get to this point. It takes time to build teams and vision to discover what the team can accomplish. It’s up to you as a leader to get them there.
In Session 8, we’ll sketch out the game plan to recruit, build into and prepare for that winning day that you'll celebrate as a team.
The least of these will be the greatest?!
Seeing leaders in your team.
Team Building
From the Bottom Up
SESSION EIGHT
As I started to lead, I turned around and no one was there. I asked myself, “Do I stop or do I continue on? Do I believe in my vision enough to move on if no one else comes?” Great leaders are faced with this critical decision — a regularly occurring question that will test you to the core of your being. “Was this just a dream … a fad? Or is this something that you will see through to the end?”
Session 9 asks challenging questions that will put you on a path to a renewed commitment.
Blazing the trail — even when no one else is following.
Leading When
No One Else Will Follow
SESSION NINE
Session 11 looks at the center of your being, because this is the heart of your best leadership, the kind that transcends work and home.
We spend more than 40 percent of our days on the job, and there’s nothing more exhausting than trying to live a double life: the person at work and the person at home. A great leader is able to identify the similarities of work and home and apply those leadership skills to navigate both.
How leadership affects your personal life.
Leadership Skills for Life
SESSION ELEVEN
SESSION TEN
Leading Through Organizational Change
Keeping your vision alive when things get ugly.
Some people just don’t like change. It’s been determined that 65 percent of the people on a project don’t want to go where the leader wants to — and will do everything they can to sink the effort. As a leader looking to implement change in an organization, the odds are stacked against you. But without evolution, a company won’t survive. A good leader will learn to implement change with skill, tact and compassion — without losing sight of the goal.
Session 10 guides you through the steps to successfully navigate change so that, in the end, everyone is on board.
SESSION TWELVE
Giving Your Leadership Away
What happens when I raise up
other leaders to do my job?
Ahh ... you finally made it to the top. You sit back in your chair, hands behind your head, feet up on the desk, contemplating the long journey you successfully navigated to get here. Now, you have to give it all away.
Great leaders understand the secret of success: Give what you’ve learned to another person. By doing this, leaders multiply. When leaders multiply, events take place, change occurs and the world begins to look different.
Session 12 wraps up The Leadership Journey with the best gift ever: The ability to give your leadership away. Sit back now and watch your company grow.
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