Advanced Leadership: Leveraging Leadership Styles Program

"Centered Leadership: leaders seek to inspire and motivate, using their influence to pursue their most deeply felt goals. In this session, participants will explore the characteristics and challenges of leadership as it exists and can exist in various organizational settings. A framework of principles of values-based leadership will help participants make their organizations beacons of enduring value. Learning Objectives:  Develop awareness of the core principles of values-based leadership.​ Identify capabilities in nurturing the growth of self and ​ Demonstrate authenticity, courage, responsibility and a sense of purpose when leading people and projects.​ Construct knowledge and awareness to be able to empower and effectively coach and mentor Relationship Leadership: Explore new ways to connect, communicate, collaborate with your teams, increase overall team engagement, and enhance your Relationship Leadership qualities.  Build a stronger sense of community and lead with passion. Inspire people’s hearts and minds and communicate as your best, most authentic self.  Listen to understand and not to respond.  Experience a few improvisational based exercises to expand Relationship Leadership skills.  In this highly interactive workshop executives will practice leadership skills in a positive, safe, fun environment and gain immediate feedback from peers and instructors.  Create and commit to taking specific actions to build your inner Relationship Leadership characteristics.  Laughter guaranteed. Learning Objectives: •    Identify specific actions to build stronger personal relationships within the organization and with clients/stakeholders •    Increase team participation in meetings to build a stronger sense of community and diversity •    Describe the difference between listening to understand and listening to respond •    Appreciate team members authentically and consistently for organizational contributions Visionary Leadership: When people think of Visionary Leadership, they tend to think of Elon Musk or Mother Teresa. Few of us can even aspire to become the next Mother Teresa, but Vision should be an essential part of any leader's toolset. What roles should vision play for companies? How can we develop this capability and convert it into business-relevant action?  Professor Wolcott will describe three essential roles for vision: Sensing, Foresight, Projection. Using examples from leading enterprises, we'll explore applications of each of these and briefly exercise a tool for translating vision to action Learning Objectives:  Explore the three distinct Vision capabilities and how they apply for business:  Sensing, Foresight, Projection Discover Foresight about where the world is going:  Proximity Introduce tools for Leading with Vision: Proximity, Exploratory Challenges, Solving the Right Problems Recognize that Vision isn't about having all of the answers, but about helping others envision and win the future Results Leadership: During the Results Leadership module, participants will: Locate Results Leadership on the Transformational Leadership Wheel Consider Personal Results Practices  o    Results Mindset o    Task management and Priority practices o    Managing focus, phones, and email o    Renewal for results Identify leadership practices that deliver results o    Establishing commitment – the ladder of accountability o    Contracting for results – the elements of interactions for agreement o    Avoiding breakdowns – broken expectations o    Creating a Results Culture   Learning Objectives:  Describe the “Mindset of a Results leader Distinguish low from high priority activities relative to results Evaluate the quality of current personal productivity practices Identify the elements of a “Contract for Results” to gain increased commitment Apply Ladder of Accountability principles to Results Leadership   Construct a flight plan to instantiate results leadership practices"