Leadership Excellence for Executives

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“A Leadership Development Workshop”

“Your Only Sustainable Competitive Edge”

This Booklet Includes:
- Workshop Purposes
- Workshop Benefits
- Workshop Agenda
- Workshop Participant Notebook Table of Contents
- Testimonials
- Related Products
- Workshop Policy (registration and cancellation)
- Workshop Booking Information

Workshop Purposes:

The #1 Corporate-Wide Core Competency Required of Every Organization

Overall Purposes:

  1. To explore a way to increase your revenues, profits and long-term sustainability through better leadership.
  2. To provide a skill development roadmap for Achieving Leadership Excellence for each member of your collective leadership team.
  3. To reinforce the range and depth of Leadership Excellence as the #1 Corporate- wide Core Competency required for value creation in successful organizations.

Specific Outcomes:

  1. To learn what the Systems Thinking Approach™ to Leadership Excellence is and what are its elements.
  2. To understand your personal assessment process on the 21st Century Best Practices in Leadership Excellence.
  3. To learn the details and Best Practices of building a Succession Planning Process, resulting in Individual Development Plans (IDPs) for each leader.
  4. To assess your job and yourself vs. our comprehensive Leadership Model, The Six Natural Levels of Leadership Competencies, synthesized from research on 27 prominent authors.
  5. To provide the specific skill-building exercises and courses your collective leadership team needs for mastery in both basic and advanced leadership concepts:
  6. To reinforce leadership skills interactively throughout the workshop.
  7. To use the Centre’s “ABC Template” to assess your leadership Development status and develop next steps to achieve your ideal Leadership Excellence.

Workshop Benefits:

As a result of this workshop, you will:

  1. Have a clear understanding of your required job Leadership competencies with the knowledge and skills for your specific position
  2. Have a clear understanding of your required job Business Acumen competencies with the knowledge and skills for your specific position
  3. Have clearly articulated and assessed your own current level of job performance vs. these Leadership and Business Acumen competencies
  4. Have significantly improved those required Leadership knowledge and skills over the two-day workshop
  5. Have significantly improved those required Business Acumen knowledge and skills over the two-day workshop
  6. Have developed a practical and specific Individual Development Plan (IDP) to execute after the workshop for both Leadership Development and Business Acumen.
  7. Have a clear methodology on how to involve your supervisor and key peers and direct reports in a 360 degree Leadership Assessment Process to gather further feedback and clarity on both your Leadership and Business Acumen

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Workshop Agenda:

Skill Building
- Day 1 -

8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30

Welcome
• Introduction
• Purposes
• Critical Leadership Issues
• Wants
• Agenda
• Logistics
Overview of Leadership

9:45 Break
10:00 Six Natural Levels of Leadership Competencies
• Take 360° (Self) Evaluation
• Discuss
• Review Leadership Development Pyramid
12:00 Lunch
Six Levels of Leadership Competencies
1:00 Leadership Philosophy Exercise:
• Self-Mastery (Level 1)
• Interpersonal (Level 2)
2:30 Break
2:45 Innovative Project Teams Exercise:
• Teams (Level 3)
4:15 Break
4:30 Sum up the day/Learnings/Applications
• Go around the room
5:00 End of Day
Homework Read Case Study: Military Leadership

 

- Day 2 -

8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Day One Issues – Learnings Revisited
• Advanced Leadership
9:00 Cross Functional Teams (Level 4)
10:15 Break
10:30 Integrated Outcomes (Level 5)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Strategic Positioning (Level 6)
2:45 Break
3:00 How to get started?
• Tie this all together into a system
• Options to get started
4:00 Learning/Application to Case (presentation by all)
4:45 Summary/Evaluation
5:00 End/Celebrate

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Workshop Participant Notebook

Leadership Excellence for Executives
Table of Contents

Step #

Topic
I. Overview of Leadership
II. The Systems Thinking Approach™
III. Leadership is Bankrupt
IV. Six Natural Levels of Leadership Competencies
V. Six Leadership Competency Levels—Skills Development
(Leadership Excellence for Executives)
• Self- Mastery—Level 1
• Interpersonal Skills—Level 2
• Teams—Level 3
• Cross-Functional Teams—Level 4
• Organizational Skills—Level 5
• Strategic Skills—Level 6
VI. How To Get Started

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Workshop Participant Testimonials

Leadership Excellence for Executives

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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Workshop Policy (registration and cancellation)

 

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