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Senior and Executive Leadership Training Course
The Enduring Leader® in Detail:
The Case for Traits Based Leadership Development
The Corporate Leadership Council (CLC) has documented a series of disturbing leadership lapses. And the National Association of Corporate Directors, along with a 2004 CLC survey of 276 large companies, is sounding the alarm:
• More than 80% of those large companies feel they have an ineffective leadership succession process.
• The majority confirm that the greatest long-term threat to their success is a lack of successors to senior leadership positions.
• Too many CEO succession practices don’t work – even in almost half of all American companies with revenues of $500 million or more
Observation: Based on the results, companies are not getting ROI for the expense.
Conclusion: Companies are developing the right group, but with the wrong content. Why? Because the important elements to learn are very difficult to teach. Leadership is a practice.
Solution: Focus on the universal traits-based competencies leaders need to practice in order to be effective.
New technology will get us only so far in addressing, and solving, the critical issues we currently face. The most pressing problems, ultimately, can only be solved by the minds of highly trained, highly effective global leaders.
The Enduring Leader® development process focuses on learning the universal traits of enduring leaders and teaches participants how to develop, retain and use these crucial traits in every day leadership situations.
• Connection – Self-Awareness and Personal Mastery
• Courage –The Confidence to Make a Difference
• Faith and Agility –Comfort with Complexity and Change
• Perspective – Seeing and Influencing Systems Motivation – Passion and Timing
The course guides leaders to assess their current leadership capabilities and challenges and to develop a successful action plan for further development.
Organizational and Individual Benefits
• Increased ability to lead projects, conceptualize and implement value-added initiatives through delegation, inspiration and execution• Improved ability to see and impact systemic change
• Higher departmental, team or group effectiveness
• Enhanced ability to connect with, lead, and develop top talent
• Effective internal coaches and mentors
Course Outline
Preparation:
Pre-Reading
Tuesdays with Morrie (or comparable), Mitch Albom
The Five Insights of Enduring Leaders – Sections One, Three and Five, Jim Morris
“What Makes a Leader”, Daniel Goleman, HBR Article
“Moments of Greatness” – Robert Quinn, HBR Article
Pre-Assessment
Personality Assessment System (Ennegram, Hogan Personality Inventory, Firo-B, etc. (customer choice)
Emotional Competency Inventory 360
Denison Organizational Development Survey (optional)
Day One
The Paradigm Shift from Doing to Leading
Establish Cohorts
Self-Awareness- Personality Assessment Review
The Constructs of “Socially Responsible Leadership”
30% Experiential and simulation learning
40% Cohort discussion and learning
30% presentation of content
Day Two
Advancing best practices from The Five Insights of Enduring Leaders
Managing complexity
Sustainable Problem Solving - Moving from Complicated Problems to Practical Solutions
20% Experiential and simulation learning
25% Sharing best practices/feedback
30% Cohort discussion and learning
25% presentation of content
Day Three
Simulation
Encouraging change through leadership
Developing a broad view and a personal vision
Integrating work and life
Coaching - Grooming the best and brightest successors
Developing Communities of Practice
70% Experiential and simulation learning
20% Sharing best practices/feedback
10% Cohort discussion and learning
Day Four
The elements of culture
Challenging all to do well by doing good
Constructing key elements for a sustainable future
30% Presentation of content
30% Cohort discussion and learning
40% Individual action planning and sharing best practices
Day Five
Synthesizing the Five Insights Into Action
Creating a “Fear-Less” Culture
“Leading for the Future” accountability exercise
Project Presentations
25% Reflection and Action Planning
40% Sharing best practices/feedback
30% Cohort discussion and learning
5% presentation of content
"I attended the September ODN-GDR meeting facilitated by Betsey Upchurch of Bristlecone Learning, and it was superb! The subject matter of Betsey's presentation was "The Link Between Culture and Success!" and it was incredibly enlightening. Betsey provided a look of at how she, as a Subject Matter Expert, uses the mission critical leadership factors of: Adaptability, Mission, Involvement and Consistency in the business culture, how these factors affect the overall success of the business, and how the culture of the business can be changed by whole orders of magnitude affecting the bottom-line for the better.
Robert Holland PMP
Roxytone LLC, www.roxytone.com
PMI Certified Project Manager
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Of Interest
- Read a few of our short case studies. Read More >
- The Book - Five Insights of the Enduring Leader Read More >