Program Overview
The TOP 5% of LEADERS account for over 30% of the output in a business.
This deep experiential journey into leadership practices consists of 4 phases:
When leaders make The SHIFT and are performing at the highest possible level, then, and only then, can your organization attain the levels of innovation, trust, change agility, customer service, employee engagement you need, and ultimately achieve the organization’s overall performance goals.
Complete Program Duration
8 days in class over a period of 6-8 months
12 month sustainment program
PHASE 1: The Leader WITHIN
No leader has earned the right to lead others before the leader has learned FIRST to lead themselves. Developing The Leader WITHIN is the key to leadership effectiveness. While IQ and technical skills might get you there, no other sets of skills, competencies, or technical expertise can replace this core leadership capability.
Results You Can Expect
- Leaders who are grounded in themselves – and remain calm in the eye of the storm
- Leaders who are clear on their leadership purpose and values and willing to do the right thing, even when uncomfortable
- Leaders who are willing to take risks and be disruptive in the best interests of the organization and its people
- Significant increases in leadership team cohesiveness, collaboration, and accountability
- Leaders with a greater internal locus of control or greater Intrinsic motivation
- The focus of the organization and every employee on serving a noble purpose
- Organizational trust that empowers team members to take risks, innovate, make decisions, and learn
- Significant increases in intrinsic motivation and accountability to perform
- Servant Leadership as a cultural practice – leaders who are there to serve their employees and customers alike
- Significant improvements in organizational communication and collaboration
- An overall higher level of employee engagement and commitment to the business and for one another
- At the end of the program, a clear Accountability Plan and measurements to ensure the learning is applied on the job
- Our Goal is to DOUBLE the number of TOP PERFORMING LEADERS in your business
Key Focus Areas
- From Fear to Flow: The -5 Levels of Unconscious Reactivity to the +5 Levels of Conscious Leadership and how the leader’s Mindset shapes the leader’s capacity to perform
- The 7 Elements of Leadership Wisdom and how to apply them on the job and in life
- The capacity and the skills to know and lead oneself
- The capacity and the skills to lead and influence a wide range of stakeholders
- The capacity, skills, tools and processes to develop the mindset and the capabilities of all employees
- The identification and development of potential leaders within the business
Participants
This program is focused on leaders – starting at the very top of the business.
Program Duration
3 days in class over a period of 2-4 weeks
4 month sustainment program
PHASE 2: The INFLUENTIAL Leader
Program Overview
Key to leadership effectiveness is their capacity and capability to achieve results AND work with and through others. This is what we call 10:10 leadership. To achieve both goals equally effectively requires outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. Leaders need to be able to work with and influence a wide range of stakeholders without the use of positional power (force) but based primarily on the use of personal, relationship, and knowledge power.
Results You Can Expect
- Greater communication, connectivity and collaboration between people at all levels of the business
- Increased empathy, vulnerability, compassion, adaptability, kindness, trust
- Increased teaming, synergy, generosity, and growth
- More use of influence and less use of power (positional power) to get results
- Increased commitment and accountability
- A clear Accountability Plan and measurements to ensure the learning is applied on the job
Key Focus Areas
- Understanding self and others and how different people communicate, listen, process information, influence, make decisions, deal with conflict, deal with stress
- Understand how your mindset influences your interactional and communication style
- Understanding power dynamics in business
- Practice of reflective listening skills
- Practice of questioning skills that develop critical thinking capabilities in self and others
- Persuasiveness and assertiveness skills
Participants
This program is focused on leaders – starting at the very top of the business.
Format
2-3-day workshop based on the needs of the business
4 month sustainment plan
PHASE 3: The GENERATIVE Leader
Program Overview
In this program we learn WHY coaching is the most critical skill that any leader can master in order to ensure their own career success, the success of all those who report to them, and ultimately the success of the business. And we learn the practical skills of HOW to coach, mentor, teach, and provide feedback.
Coaching, Mentoring, Feedback, and Teaching are all Generative tools in that they exponentially grow the capabilities of all employees. It is through effective coaching that employees develop their critical thinking skills; and the intrinsic motivation to try new things, make new discoveries, make decisions, and learn from their decisions.
In this program we develop leaders’ capabilities to apply all the learning that has been acquired in the first two phases of THE SHIFT.
Results You Can Expect
- Higher levels of commitment and engagement from all team members
- Improved performance and accountability to act on commitments
- Development of internal bench strength
- The identification and development of emerging leaders
- Improved employee engagement and retention
- A clear Accountability Plan and measurements to ensure the learning is applied on the job
Key Focus Areas
- The importance of identifying and developing leadership bench strength
- The role of coaching, mentoring, teaching, and feedback as developmental skills
- Setting goals and expectations
- Active listening
- Goal setting and decision making
- Situational leadership
- Building critical thinking
- Giving appreciation
- Giving the gift of feedback
- One-on-one coaching using a Coach Approach
- Group Coaching using THE SHIFT Coaching model
Participants
This program is focused on leaders – starting at the very top of the business, who believe that one of their key roles as a leader and manager is to develop the bench strength and performance of all employees.
Format
2 days in class
4 month sustainment program