The Leadership Challenge Workshop Series
Making a difference in the world is everyone’s opportunity. There are opportunities to restore hope and renew meaning in our lives. Opportunities to rebuild a sense of community and increase understanding among diverse people. Opportunities to apply knowledge to products and services, creating extraordinary value for the customer.
Opportunities to use the tools of technology to weave a web of human connection. Opportunities to find a better balance in our always-on, 24/7/365 lives. Opportunities to provide better direction and support during uncertain times.
More than ever there is a need for people to seize these opportunities and lead us to greatness. More than ever there is a need for leaders to inspire us to dream, to participate, and to persevere.
The Leadership Challenge® Workshop series based on Kouzes and Posner’s extensive research, offers you the chance to take your leadership in your organization to the next level. This workshop series will enable your leadership to take the initiative, to seize the opportunities, and to make a difference.
Leadership is…
- Everyone’s business
- A relationship
- Self-development
- Learned
- An ongoing process
Process
Debbie McKinnon will work with your leadership to facilitate a series of 6 one day sessions spread out over a 6 month period. Each session will represent one of the exemplary leadership practices as outlined by Kouses & Posner in their book The Leadership Challenge®.
Each month Debbie will review what has been accomplished and will revisit and customize any changes for the following workshop based on organization focus and/or need. Each month will build upon the previous session completed with reinforcement exercises.
The 1st workshop in the series will be “Orienteering”. This workshop is scheduled to introduce The Leadership Challenge workbook and the LPI assessment of the participant’s leadership behaviors as they are currently practicing them.
The Leadership Challenge Series Module Objectives
Session 1: Orienteering
- Identify your leadership strengths and opportunities using the LPI.
- Lay the foundation of what leadership is.
- Understand the five exemplary practices of leadership as researched by Kouzes and Posner.
Session 2: Modeling the Way
- Articulate the values that will guide your actions as a leader.
- Present examples of how you can align your stated values with your everyday leadership behavior.
- Explain why credibility is the foundation of leadership.
- Provide a behavioral example of “credible” leadership.
Session 3: Inspiring a Shared Vision
- Detect and articulate your personal vision for your life and work.
- Engage others in conversation about your vision of the future for your organization.
- Show your constituents how their long-term interests can be realized by enlisting in a common vision.
- Explain what actions you will take to enlist others in a common vision.
Session 4: Challenging the Process
- In the context of shared vision and values, question the way things are currently being done in your organization.
- Set up a process for looking for new ideas outside the boundaries of your organization.
- Apply the concept of “small wins” to one of your leadership initiatives.
- Create a climate in which people are willing to take risks.
- State actions you can take to help others learn from mistakes.
Session 5: Enable Others to Act
- Identify actions leaders take to make people feel powerful and those that make them feel powerless.
- Describe several actions you can take to strengthen others in your organization.
- Determine how competent and committed members of your team are in being able to deal with the challenges they now face.
- Design one new method that promotes collaborative behavior in your organization.
- Describe actions that hinder and actions that facilitate collaborative behavior.
Session 6: Encourage the Heart
- Design an event that celebrates the accomplishment of one of your team’s milestones.
- Create a variety of ways you can say “thank you” to the members of your team.
- Tell stories that recognize the contributions of others. Describe behavior that needs to be recognized.
- Given a specific situation, identify the most appropriate way of rewarding and recognizing an individual’s accomplishments.
Situational Leadership™ II
This KenBlanchard Co. class explores the Situational Leadership™ model in depth. In this two-day course:
- Managers will discover the appropriate leadership style to use in different situations as they learn to coach their employees to success
- Participants will learn to diagnose the level of competence and commitment levels of their employees
- Managers will learn the specific needs of employees at all levels of their development
- Participants will learn how to partner for performance with employees to set them up for success
There is also a half-day follow-up course. Managers will have the opportunity to practice their real-life coaching situations using the Situational Leadership model. They will leave the course with an in-depth knowledge of how to demonstrate their commitment in helping employees succeed.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People™
Everyone should take time to assess how successful they are and how much more effective they could be. We all could come up with lists of things that hold us back.
For example, Franklin/Covey's research found these barriers to success in the workplace:
- Individuals - and sometimes entire departments - don't communicate
- There is a lack of trust between management and employees
- Inefficient systems discourage productive work
- In times of dramatic change, people often get confused and distracted
- Crises force fast decisions that are often reactive, not proactive
You could make another list of equally challenging problems to be solved at home. Over time, any one of these can be devastating to your success and career. What if you could gain powerful ammunition against these and other "silent forces" holding you back? Re-create a healthy work environment? Improve your own effectiveness?
Let us introduce you to an extraordinary approach to achieving all of these goals. The 7 Habits Process Promises Nothing Short Of Life-Changing Results. Over the course of three days, you'll build a comprehensive foundation for success at all levels of leadership - personal, interpersonal, managerial, and organizational.
You'll learn how to:
- Develop stronger, more satisfying relationships based on trust
- Communicate more effectively with others in ways that help you accomplish more while making a positive impact on all your interactions
- Become a more influential leader so you can choose the most effective ways to improve productivity and help your employees stay focused on the issues most important to success
- Confront a crisis before it creates chaos
- Be more prepared to deal with difficult times and circumstances than ever before
Based on the best-selling business book of all time, this in-depth, 3-day workshop shows you how to apply Stephen R. Covey's powerful advice in your job, your relationships, and your life in general. Your Company Will Gain Clear-Cut, Bottom-Line Results, Too
- Develop new and future leaders with character and competence
- Improve overall workforce productivity
- Reduce workforce turnover, especially among high-potential employees
- Improve working relationships across functions, teams, and departments
Making Conflict Work
Employees at all levels are confronted every day with learning how to work together and expressing their different personalities to reach common goals for the organization. Preventing and managing conflict is a critical skill in today's work environment. With all the many potential sources for conflict in the workplace, disagreements are inevitable. This course covers the following:
- Viewing conflict as an opportunity rather than an obstacle
- Identify levels of conflict
- Apply appropriate conflict resolution tactics
- Create a conflict-positive environment
In this one-day course, employees will acquire a basic understanding how to prevent and deal with conflicts by learning critical communications skills that result in win-win resolutions and enhance relationships.
The Art of Effective Feedback
Communication is an art not a science. In this half day workshop, the focus will be to gain an understanding of all the aspects of communication between two individuals. One of the biggest breakdowns in productivity comes through not being able to effectively communicate our needs and not effectively listening to others. The following will be covered:
Recognize Feedback as an Art
- Understand the guidelines for feedback
- Learn the principles of giving and receiving feedback
Learn Effective Skills Critical In Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Practice skills of giving and receiving feedback
- Practice active and empathic listening skills
- Learn How to Use Feedback as A Tool for Development
- Know what to do with feedback
- Know how to incorporate the resources available to create development plans
Business Etiquette - Increasing Your Professional Effectiveness
You have been there before...walking into a meeting with a room full of strangers and you don't know what to say or where to sit! People will generally make an impression about you within the first 3 seconds of an interaction. How you interact with them and how you make them feel after having been with you will be the lasting affect. This becomes all the more critical in a competitive business environment.
This workshop is designed to increase the comfort and confidence level of business professionals who find themselves in various professional and social interactions. This session will cover the following:
- Projecting an equal business standing
- Creating a professional image
- Making effective introductions
- Office etiquette
- Dining etiquette
- Business entertaining
- Travel and tipping tips
In this one-day course you will learn how to ask the kinds of questions that promote conversation learn to become far more confident in professional situations; develop effective meeting agendas, learn the do's and don'ts in meeting situations, and learn to reduce anxiety in group settings.
Team Building - Creating and Growing Teams for Success
Building and growing effective teams in today's work environment is critical to any organization's success. Typically, teams have a cycle of development. Leaders and Managers will learn how to build effective work teams and enhance team productivity.
Debbie offers one day to one-week intact team building session or cross-organizational sessions for all size teams. Participants will walk away with:
- A sense of purpose and synergy as work teams develop real-life work processes that will enhance team effectiveness and in turn create value for your organization
- Clarity around team goals and mission
- Unified commitment to sharing the work
- A collaborative climate
- Standards of excellence
Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ or DISC™, Debbie will provide tools for understanding the different personalities of each team member and help the team to understand how to leverage the strengths of the team as a whole.
She offers experiential exercises that may include indoor and outdoor exercises.
Introduction to Diversity - Valuing People
Around the world, managers face the challenge of dealing with an increasingly diverse workforce. Moving people's perspective toward seeing the competitive edge a strong diverse organization provides is critical. The specific skill sets discussed and practiced include:
- Understanding our fears around diversity
- Building respect around individual differences
- Explaining the importance of first impressions
- Describing how stereotypes are formed, applied, maintained and changed
- Explaining how first impressions and stereotyping lead to the perception of in-groups and out-groups
- Describing the impact that in-groups and out-groups have on individual and team performance
- Stimulating involvement and confidence from all people
Managers will learn to encourage behavior changes that will create a harmonious work environment. This half day workshop reveals the benefits of a diverse work force...not just a moral issue, but also a business issue!
Deborah Reeser McKinnon155 John Rolfe Lane
Williamsburg, VA 23185
757.229.9212 (office)
757.719.7075 (cell)