Transformational Leadership Development Program

Creating a Leadership Practice

Most leadership trainings focus on behaviors and skills correlated with the characteristics of a successful leader. What these trainings miss, however, is that leadership effectiveness is a function of who leaders are being in every leadership situation. People are born leaders, with the capacity to successfully realize their vision in the world. This is an essential and foundational training, facilitated as a group coaching. Leaders will look honestly at their own contributions to the results they are producing without shame or judgement, leading to increased effectiveness. They will shift to seeing others as leaders with an innate capacity to create change; and this shift will transform relationships.

Storytelling and Leadership

The stories people tell about themselves, their experiences, and others create patterns of beliefs and habits. These stories either support forward movement or create a sense of limiting beliefs. Our stories frame us as either the subject or object of our own experience. This training helps people to develop powerful stories of self, helping them to reframe old stories and providing them the basis for powerful forward action. The training also helps leaders to identify the stories they tell about others, and how those stories support or derail productive relationships.

Developing Collective Leadership

The most successful change efforts are those characterized by a thriving and empowered team. This training takes the foundation from prior workshops and then applies them to team building. Essential to this training are two features. First, leaders are introduced to the practice of collective leadership, which helps them to recognize their own contribution to productive or unproductive relationships. If leadership is an innate quality, then we must also hold that to be true with others.

This means that conflict is not to be avoided, but to be acknowledged as an opportunity to build powerful relationships. This training reframes conflict as opportunity, and helps teams to plan for and navigate conflict effectively.

Goal Setting, Planning, and Achieving Change

This session brings all the elements of all training together, helping leaders to galvanize their teams into action. The training reframes the project of leading change efforts as a journey of growth and learning. The workshop includes effective goal setting and planning tools, which are made more effective by teams that are prepared to evaluate outcomes and develop an evolving strategy.