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Achieving Leadership Excellence™: Enterprise-Wide

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“A System of Leadership”
“Your Only Sustainable Competitive Edge”

This Booklet Includes:
- Workshop Purposes
- Workshop Agenda
-     Three Day
-     Alternative Two Day
- Workshop Participant Notebook Table of Contents
- Testimonials
- Related Products
- Workshop Policy (registration and cancellation)

Workshop Purposes:

Achieving Leadership Excellence™: Enterprise-Wide

Purposes of Our System

  1. To assist senior decision makers in building a Leadership Development and Succession System for their collective leadership and management team.
  2. To create individual and customized leadership development experiences for senior executives and their collective management teams.
  3. To provide organizations with a set of research based, holistic leadership development skills and competencies tailored to their needs.
  4. To be a confidante, coach and guide to leaders and executive teams on leadership issues and for personal leadership development support.
  5. To provide coaching and training for the executive management team (and key others) in order for them to provide leadership development for the rest of their collective leadership and management team.
  6. To provide knowledgeable, focused and informed referrals on aspects of leadership development which are beyond CSM’s unique competencies.

Benefits

  1. Individual leadership development in specific areas of need.
  2. An ongoing system is in existence for continuous development of new leaders.
  3. Leadership has become your true “competitive edge” – a difficult one for others to attack.
  4. Professional leadership and management practices cascade down and throughout the organization.
  5. Better and better decisions with higher and higher levels of motivation, commitment and alignment to your vision, mission and values.
  6. Less bureaucracy, waste, inefficiencies and costs.
  7. Succession planning and development are tied to your Leadership Development System and to your Strategic Plan.
  8. Increased achievement of your Vision, Mission, and Positioning – i.e., service, growth, revenue, profits and desired market share.
  9. More internal teamwork, collaboration and coherent, desired leadership vision.

In Summary:
And finally, major enhancements to your collective leadership skills and competencies in Creating Customer Value, and achieving and sustaining your competitive business edge.

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Workshop Agenda:

- Day 1 -

8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30

Welcome
• Introduction
• Purposes
• Critical Issues
• Wants
• Case Study
• Agenda
• Logistics

9:45 Break
10:00 I. Overview/Definitions of Leadership:
1. Lecturette Exercise
11:15 II. Systems Thinking Approch™:
2. Lecturette/Seven Levels
   • Properties of Systems
   • Cascade of Planning and Change
   • Links to Strategic Planning
   • Three Core Competencies (Corporate Wide)
   • Enterprise-Wide Change Failure
12:15 Lunch
1:00 III. Bankruptcy of Leadership:
3. Lecturette
   Exercise – Your case: Achieving Leadership Excellence Survey
      • Report Out - Discuss
2:15 Break
2:30 IV. Leadership Roles and Succession:
4. Four Roles
5. Employee Development Board
6. Succession Planning
4:45 7. Sum up the day
5:00 End of Day
6:00-8:00
Dinner together?
Homework: Complete 360° Self-Evaluation (both columns)

- Day 2 -

8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 1. Day one issues – Review Learnings
8:45 V. The Leadership Development System:
2. The Systems Thinking Approach™
3. Five Phases/Exercises-Cases
10:00 Break
10:15 VI. Centering Your Leadership (CYL):
4. Six Natural Rings of Reality Lecturette
5. Discuss 360° Self-Evaluation/scores
6. Total Group Summary
12:00 Lunch
1:00 7. Business Acumen – Self Assessment Taken
   • Score/Discuss
   • Total group
   • Summary
2:30 Break
2:45 8. Executive Development Assessment Program Pyramid
   • Pitfalls
   • Your case – Tailored
9. Building Your Strategic Capabilities
4:00 Break
4:45 10. Sum up the day/Learnings
   • Go around room
11. Gold Mastery Certification
5:00 End of Day
Homework: Read Section VII (case study) – Military Leadership – Answer Exercise Questions

Note: VIII. “Leadership Excellence for Executives” is a separate workshop

- Day 3 -

8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 1. Day two issues – Review Learnings
8:45 2. Set up Board Game that teaches (Centering Your Leadership – CYL)
9:15 3. Play game
10:15 Break
10:30 4. Debrief game
   • Process
   • Learnings (game/self-feedback/leadership questions)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 VI. Military Leadership Case:
5. Leadership Case Reviewed quickly
   • Distill Key Points
6. Review “System” of Leadership Development/Compare to your own situation
2:15 Break
2:30 VII. How to get started?
7. Options
8. Learning/Application to case (presentations by all)
3:45 9. Summary/Evaluation
4:00 End/Celebrate

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Alternative - Two Day

- Day 1 -

8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 1. Welcome
• Introductions
• Purposes
• Critical Issues
• Wants
• Case Study
• Agenda
• Logistics
9:45 Break
10:00 I. Overview/Definitions of Leadership:
2. Lecturette/Exercise
11:15 II. Systems Thinking Approach™:
3. Lecturette/Seven Levels
   • Properties of Systems
   • Cascade of Planning and Change
   • Links to Strategic Planning
   • Three Core Competencies (Corporate Wide)
   • Enterprise-Wide Change Failure
12:15 Lunch
1:00 III. Bankruptcy of Leadership:
4. Lecturette
   Exercise – Your Case Study: Achieving Leadership Excellence Survey
      • Report out – Discuss
2:15 Break
2:30 IV. Leadership Roles and Succession:
5. Four Roles
6. Employee Development Board
7. Succession Planning
4:45 Sum up of the day
5:00 End of day
6:00-8:00 Dinner together?
Homework: Complete 360° Self-Evaluation (both columns)

Alternative - Two Day

- Day 2 -

7:30 Continental Breakfast
8:00 1. Day one issues – Review Learnings
8:45 V. The Leadership Development System:
2. The Systems Thinking Approach™
3. Five Phases/Exercises-Cases
10:00 Break
10:15 VI. Centering Your Leadership (CYL):
4. Six Natural Rings of Reality Lecturette
5. Discuss 360° Self-Evaluation/Scores
6. Total Group Summary
12:00 Lunch
1:00 7. Business Acumen – Self Assessment Taken
   • Score/Discuss
   • Total Group
   • Summary
2:15 Break
2:30 8. Executive Development Assessment Program Pyramid
   • Pitfalls
   • Your Case – Tailored
3:00 VII. How To Get Started?
9. Learning/Application to Case (presentations by all)
10. Summary/Evaluation
4:00 End/Celebrate

Note: VIII. “Leadership Excellence for Executives” is a separate workshop

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Workshop Participant Notebook

Achieving Leadership Excellence™: Enterprise-Wide
Table of Contents

Step #

Topic
I. Overview of Leadership
II. The Systems Thinking Approach™
III. Leadership is Bankrupt
IV. Leadership Roles and Succession Management
V. A System of Leadership Development
VI. Six Natural Levels of Leadership Competencies
VII. Six Leadership Competency Levels: Skills Development
VIII. Case Study – Military Leadership
IX. How To Get Started

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Workshop Participant Testimonials

What did you like in the seminar that should be continued?

Emphasis on the model - Systems Planning
Pace and presentation – interaction of participants.
Openness to challenging questions, solid answers, positive learning environment, variety of presenters.
Dialogue and open discussion, active learning and reinforcement through games and activities.
Great seminar, it sharpened my saw and I learned new things
Good helicopter view of systems approach, strategic people planning and HR integration. Interact
with the other, very high quality participants was very valuable.
Excellent project of using real model (Cable Company).
Wealth of rich, realistic, document examples (i.e. Swan Plan), supplement materials, templates,
models (CSM & outside CSM integrated in), variety of styles of different facilitators (3 is a good number for the number of days)
Gave a great understanding of the complexities and how fundamental concepts really make it doable Pace and presentation – interaction of participants.
Depth of materials, variety of ideas from others.

What would you change about the seminar?

“Nothing. It was great!”

How effective were the facilitators? Why?

Paused to fully explore and answer questions, demonstrated respect for group, incorporated group ideas, knew their stuff, and showed good humor.
Ability to link concepts and draw on experience.
Wealth of information, very generous with time and knowledge, worm and engaging, good facilitator and group dynamics.
Steve did a great job pulling from the experiences of the participants, which made for rich discussion.
10 of 10. Knowledge great…energy…same…flexibility…great job!
Ability to link concepts and draw on experience.

How effective was the seminar in meeting its objectives? Why?

10 of 10. In-dept materials, variety of ways of delivering the content, opportunity for input form participants
Achieved goals along with allowing effective interaction between participators – and questions to facilitators.

General Comments:

Great seminar, it sharpened my saw and I learned new things

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