Leadership Exchange And Development – Introducing the iLEAD program and training event

By the end of this program, you will have gained awareness of and in many cases a working knowledge and proficiency in the following:

LEAD SELF — Focusing and Shaping Your Evolving and Growing Self

• What does it mean to lead self?
• Leadership is a practice, not a position.
• Building self-awareness
• Building Self-Trust/Confidence
• Assuring Personal Integrity and Ethical Behavior
• Acting from a state of balance in the face of change.
• Clarifying, exploring and sharing your Values, Vision, Mission and definition of leadership.
• Presenting yourself and knowing your audience(s).

LEAD RELATIONSHIPS – Facing and Extending into your network of support and connections

• What does it mean to lead in a relationship?
• Identifying your Network of Relationships and Gaining their Feedback
• Building a self that can confidently connect, extend to others, take action, and stay in your integrity.
• Helping others do same.
• Communicating with others; remaining curious and interested, creating a shared pool of meaning; moving others to promises and actions
• Collaborating, Making and accepting offers, and declining without withdrawing
• Giving and Receiving Feedback on performance
• Building Trust and Accountability

LEAD TEAMS – Broadening and Formalizing Your Offer and Impact

• What does it mean to lead a team?
• Defining and understanding Facilitative Leadership
• Understanding the qualitative difference between Groups and Teams and understanding the stages of team development
• Having a working knowledge of the Principles, Processes and Tools of Meetings
• Setting and running effective meetings – Time, Topic, Process, Person
• Team Selection and Stakeholders
• Clarifying roles and responsibilities – Facilitator, Member, Scribe, Timekeeper
• Supporting and coaching team member development
• Assuring cohesion and team accountability
• Understanding meetings as steps in projects and change initiatives

LEAD ORGANIZATION – Integrating, Aligning, Setting Direction and Influencing Change

• What does it mean to lead organizationally?
• Knowing our Industry, Customers and Business model.
• Knowing our Company Vision, Mission, Values.
• Understanding, valuing and assuring alignment and Integration at all levels
• Setting direction through strategic planning.
• Thinking holistically, dynamically and strategically and acting locally.
• Placing the organization’s work into a larger context – Triple Bottom.
• Understanding governance, making decisions and decision-making options.
• Setting goals and performance expectations.
• Establishing measurements and targets.
• Identifying, designing and improving processes; managing projects as a structure for organizational change and reaching organizational goals.

LEAD CULTURE — Shaping and supporting our Environments

• What does it mean to lead culturally?
• Understanding what culture is and using a model of culture to assess our culture, its strength and fit.
• Understanding and using our Organization-Wide Survey on Engagement, Readiness for Change and Living our Values.
• Designing and shifting Culture.
• Promoting learning and development.
• Using storytelling and symbols to reinforce desired culture.
• Placing our organizational culture into a social and global context.
• Promoting and supporting Corporate Citizenship.
• Assuring Engagement and consistency between our Symbols and Stories, our Stated Values and the Way We Think & Act.