BE A MORE INFLUENTIAL LEADER
Be A More Influential Leader is more than a course…it is an intensive personal and professional experience involving both in-house and off-site learning opportunities designed to help you change your leadership. Attitudes are changed through self-awareness; skills are learned and changed through practice and feedback. You improve both by working in small learning groups guided by a professional trainer and by comprehending and analyzing your leadership style and how it affects others' behavior. By the end of the program, you will be more effective in seeing needs, verbalizing solutions and have more confidence to initiate and pursue actions. You will become more effective in being able to influence others to follow.
Register now for the Winter program!
Winter Program
Phase I--Personal Leadership Workshop: January 17-20, 2006
Phase II--In-Company Leadership Project: On the job
Phase III--Positional Leadership Workshop: February 21-24, 2006
Phase I is a Personal Leadership Workshop and begins at noon (with lunch) on Tuesday and ends about 2 p.m. on Friday. Phase II involves a four week leadership demonstration research project back on the job. Phase III is a Positional Leadership Workshop and begins on Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. (with dinner) and ends at about noon on Friday.
LOCATION
Phases I and III of the program will be held at Lake Creek Lodge in Camp Sherman, Oregon. Camp Sherman is located in central Oregon off Hwy. 20, 17 miles northeast of Sisters.
COST
The cost of Be A More Influential Leader is $2995.00 per person and includes lodging and meals for both sessions. Invest in effective leadership and increase your organizational productivity.
REGISTRATION
Sign up or call 541-737-4276 for more information. Be A More Influential Leader will improve your job performance, strengthen your leadership insights and prepare you to initiate and lead improvements in your organization.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
Phase I: Personal Leadership - How to improve your ability to influence others
(32 hours of instruction and workshop - a 3-day retreat)
Day 1
- Looking at Leadership: Myths vs. Realities
- What is your approach to leadership?
- All leadership begins with seeing/sensing a need
- A workshop: Observation, practice in observing, listening and feedback skills
Day 2
- Power vs. Influence - What really works?
- Establishing personal relationships - The foundation for influence
- Establishing helping relationships - the "art" of giving and receiving feedback
- Skills for influence: Congruency and concise communication
Day 3
- Developing confidence to initiate (an understanding of the potential, and barriers, in social risk taking)
- Planning for personal and organizational change
Phase II: Organizational Leadership - An action research project designed to examine the forces within your organization that help and hinder you in facilitating change (done over a 30 day period back in their organization)
Phase III: Positional Leadership - How you can stimulate and facilitate team effectiveness for improving productivity and increasing morale
(28 hours of instruction and workshop - a 3-day retreat)
Day 1
- Report on Phase II projects
- Models of Positional Leadership from the past ("no wonder we are so confused")
- The Transformational Model - A universal guideline for the future
- Defining the specific behaviors we want in a positional leader
- How do you see yourself as a Positional Leader?
- A simulation exercise in choosing a Positional Leader
- Construction Project #1, followed by critique of the Positional Leadership
Day 2
- Redesigning the organization to improve the role and functioning of the Positional Leader (including selection of a new Positional Leader)
- Construction Project #2, followed by critique and comparison of Positional Leadership in #1 vs. #2
- "Team Building" to strengthen the processes of shared leadership, and selection of new Positional Leader
- Project #3 - Reaching consensus, and achieving synergistic results
- Critique of leadership in Project #3 - Positional Leadership vs. member-leadership
- Project #4 - A decision making exercise requiring maximum shared leadership, followed by critique
- Project #5 - Concept to design to execution
Day 3
- Comprehensive Critique of what participants observed worked best in Positional Leadership - review of behavioral checklist
- Comprehensive (written) analysis of your leadership: Strengths and targets for improvement
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