Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
SlideShare a Scribd company logo

Academy Leadership - LEC - Participant Briefing (002)

•Download as PPTX, PDF•
•
D
Dan Ball

The document describes a 9-session leadership development course facilitated by retired military officers that focuses on developing practical leadership skills like goal setting, communication, motivation, and accountability. The course uses assessments, exercises, readings and discussions to help participants reflect on their leadership approach and create plans to strengthen their abilities. It provides an overview of the course content, teaching methods, and feedback from past participants who found it very helpful for advancing their leadership capabilities.

Related slideshows

5 Ways to Build a Better Leadership Development Program | Webinar 02.10.15
5 Ways to Build a Better Leadership Development Program | Webinar 02.10.155 Ways to Build a Better Leadership Development Program | Webinar 02.10.15
5 Ways to Build a Better Leadership Development Program | Webinar 02.10.15
 
ELC 2015 Innovative Leadership Development pre conference workshop slides
ELC 2015 Innovative Leadership Development pre conference workshop slidesELC 2015 Innovative Leadership Development pre conference workshop slides
ELC 2015 Innovative Leadership Development pre conference workshop slides
 
Three Phases of Leadership Development
Three Phases of Leadership DevelopmentThree Phases of Leadership Development
Three Phases of Leadership Development
 
1 of 15
ACADEMY LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course Session 1: Energize2Lead Profile Session 2: My Leader’s Compass Session 3: Aligning & Accomplishing Goals Session 4: Communication / Feedback Session 5: Creating a Motivational Climate Session 6: Leveraging the Power of Conflict Session 7: Setting Leadership Priorities Session 8: Accountability Session 9: Coaching to Develop People
LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course  Program facilitated by Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Nate Sassaman and Colonel (retired) Dan Ball  Combined nearly 50 years of leadership experience; both with private sector experience as consultants and coaches  Academy Leadership delivers the same course for clients as an “in-house” program  Diversity among participants  8 x Public & Private Sector participants  5 x LA County (Office of Assessor / Consumer & Business Affairs), 1 Navy Civilian, 2 Private Sector (Cardno, Kaiser Permanente)  Changes the way you think about leadership . . .  Deep self-reflection coupled with practical leadership lessons and action-oriented outcomes  “Personal Leadership Philosophy”  Energize2Lead Profile (E2L)  Self-evaluations and “what I would do differently” going forward  Application and Action exercises  Journaling on session key “lessons learned”  Interactive breakout discussion opportunities with other participants to enable sharing of knowledge and experience on core leadership topics and principles  Development of a post-program Action Plan intended to sustain and drive additional change
LeadershipTraining Action Plan Exercises & group break-outs to share knowledge and experience on topics Application & Action Exercises Self-assessments & “What I Would Do Differently” Facilitated Workshop Sessions, Readings, Journaling Leadership Excellence Course PRACTICAL & ACTION-ORIENTED
Leadership Model Purpose of the Organization ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION (RESULTS) EXCELLENCE Know Your People Know Your Stuff Organizational Values Know Yourself Clear Vision of the Future
Leadership Definition The process of modeling personal values while influencing and energizing people to embrace change, by providing...  purpose  vision  direction  motivation while operating to accomplish the mission (Goals) and improving the organization.
LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course What I learned:  To be an effective leader I must reflect my most important core values in my daily leadership behaviors and “lead by example”  Outcome: developed and refined my “Personal Leadership Philosophy” to use as a tool to build trust and drive personal accountability  That everyone is “hardwired” differently and that a person’s “leadership style” is often different under stress. How to leverage my personal Energize2LeadTM Profile (E2L), along with my team’s E2L graph to:  Build trust and credibility  Improve individual and team communications  Improve team dynamics  Improve coaching and motivation  Better assess team member fit to tasks and jobs
LeadershipTraining Energize2Lead Profile Energize2Lead reveals a person’s leadership personality traits in 3-dimensions. It provides unique insight, diagnostics, and strategies regarding interpersonal communications, motivation, conflict management, team building, and coaching.
LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course What I learned (continued):  Goals:  Collaborative goal setting is a key motivation tool  Goals must be SMART, aligned both up and down the organization, measurable, tracked, and communicated!  Goal setting best practices  Communication / Feedback:  Leaders cannot succeed without effective communication  Communication is a process that often fails due to many sources of distortion, overload, and incomplete feedback  Communication best practices including knowing your people, E2L – how and what to communicate based on how a person is “hardwired,” using the brief back technique to ensure that the “intent” is truly understood by the receiver, practicing Active Listening, and the importance of soliciting and giving more frequent feedback.  Platinum Rule: Communicate with others, as they want to be communicated with!
LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course What I learned (continued):  Motivation:  Motivation comes from within and it’s the Leader’s job to create the proper climate to foster motivation  Several key theories of motivation were explained and discussion of how to use them in practice  Motivation best practices including cross-generational motivation and how to leverage E2L to enhance motivation leadership  Conflict:  Conflict is a leadership opportunity and effective leader’s leverage conflict to change the organization and drive innovation  There are 5 common conflict resolution strategies (Accommodate, Compete, Avoid, Compromise, Collaboration); each one can be appropriate – depending on the situation
LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course What I learned (continued):  Setting Leadership Priorities:  Many people can gain 2 hours or more back a day through effective time management  Effective leaders identify and focus on their High Payoff Activities (HPAs)  A Leader’s time management can have a significant impact on organizational productivity  Priority setting and time management best practices  Accountability:  High performing teams use After Action Reviews to improve performance and hold each other accountable  Holding people accountable requires trust, regular conflict & debate, and full commitment by all team members  Coaching:  Coaching is one of the most important roles that a Leader performs and a “high payoff activity”  Coaching best practices including performance coaching, mentoring, and how to leverage E2L to enhance coaching performance
LeadershipTraining Sample Comments: End of Course  “This course is transformative. It will provide you with essential insights and tools for leading at any level of an organization.”  “An excellent insight to my instinctive self and an opportunity to own your own style, preference, and needs.”  “If you want the tools to become a leader, this is the place to go. The teachers are extraordinary people who know how to get challenging lessons across in effective ways.”  “This is must have training especially for project managers who are looking to move up to the management level”  Program Participants rated the Program 9.9/10 and Facilitators 5.0/5.0
LeadershipTraining Academy Leadership: Sampling of Programs  Leadership Excellence Course & Executive Coaching 3-day / 36 PDU both open-enrollment and 3 Day / 36 PDU in-house  Energize2LeadTM Profile Workshop ½-day in-house team workshop  Customized, multi-session Leader Development Programs (LDPs) Client-driven mix of topics to address specific team needs; optimal with senior executive teams  Upcoming Programs: www.academyleadership.com/magness 20-22 September 2016 San Diego 18-20 October 2016 San Bernardino 13-15 December 2016 Los Angeles (Fort MacArthur / San Pedro)
LeadershipTraining Conclusion  Academy Leadership’s Leadership Excellence Course is a tightly integrated and excellent Leadership development program  With its focus on core values and leading by example through “principled” leadership, it serves to create a common standard and language for leadership throughout an organization that will lead to higher organizational performance  Unique and highly useful Energize2Lead Profile and Team Dynamics “Team Sheets” that, when applied, are certain to improve interpersonal relationships and facilitate building high performance teams  Recommend Academy Leadership programs be considered for our Executive, Management, and Project Management training
DEVELOPING LEADERS WHO DELIVER RESULTS ACADEMY LEADERSHIP http://www.academyleadership.com

More Related Content

Academy Leadership - LEC - Participant Briefing (002)

  • 2. LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course Session 1: Energize2Lead Profile Session 2: My Leader’s Compass Session 3: Aligning & Accomplishing Goals Session 4: Communication / Feedback Session 5: Creating a Motivational Climate Session 6: Leveraging the Power of Conflict Session 7: Setting Leadership Priorities Session 8: Accountability Session 9: Coaching to Develop People
  • 3. LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course  Program facilitated by Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Nate Sassaman and Colonel (retired) Dan Ball  Combined nearly 50 years of leadership experience; both with private sector experience as consultants and coaches  Academy Leadership delivers the same course for clients as an “in-house” program  Diversity among participants  8 x Public & Private Sector participants  5 x LA County (Office of Assessor / Consumer & Business Affairs), 1 Navy Civilian, 2 Private Sector (Cardno, Kaiser Permanente)  Changes the way you think about leadership . . .  Deep self-reflection coupled with practical leadership lessons and action-oriented outcomes  “Personal Leadership Philosophy”  Energize2Lead Profile (E2L)  Self-evaluations and “what I would do differently” going forward  Application and Action exercises  Journaling on session key “lessons learned”  Interactive breakout discussion opportunities with other participants to enable sharing of knowledge and experience on core leadership topics and principles  Development of a post-program Action Plan intended to sustain and drive additional change
  • 4. LeadershipTraining Action Plan Exercises & group break-outs to share knowledge and experience on topics Application & Action Exercises Self-assessments & “What I Would Do Differently” Facilitated Workshop Sessions, Readings, Journaling Leadership Excellence Course PRACTICAL & ACTION-ORIENTED
  • 5. Leadership Model Purpose of the Organization ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION (RESULTS) EXCELLENCE Know Your People Know Your Stuff Organizational Values Know Yourself Clear Vision of the Future
  • 6. Leadership Definition The process of modeling personal values while influencing and energizing people to embrace change, by providing...  purpose  vision  direction  motivation while operating to accomplish the mission (Goals) and improving the organization.
  • 7. LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course What I learned:  To be an effective leader I must reflect my most important core values in my daily leadership behaviors and “lead by example”  Outcome: developed and refined my “Personal Leadership Philosophy” to use as a tool to build trust and drive personal accountability  That everyone is “hardwired” differently and that a person’s “leadership style” is often different under stress. How to leverage my personal Energize2LeadTM Profile (E2L), along with my team’s E2L graph to:  Build trust and credibility  Improve individual and team communications  Improve team dynamics  Improve coaching and motivation  Better assess team member fit to tasks and jobs
  • 8. LeadershipTraining Energize2Lead Profile Energize2Lead reveals a person’s leadership personality traits in 3-dimensions. It provides unique insight, diagnostics, and strategies regarding interpersonal communications, motivation, conflict management, team building, and coaching.
  • 9. LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course What I learned (continued):  Goals:  Collaborative goal setting is a key motivation tool  Goals must be SMART, aligned both up and down the organization, measurable, tracked, and communicated!  Goal setting best practices  Communication / Feedback:  Leaders cannot succeed without effective communication  Communication is a process that often fails due to many sources of distortion, overload, and incomplete feedback  Communication best practices including knowing your people, E2L – how and what to communicate based on how a person is “hardwired,” using the brief back technique to ensure that the “intent” is truly understood by the receiver, practicing Active Listening, and the importance of soliciting and giving more frequent feedback.  Platinum Rule: Communicate with others, as they want to be communicated with!
  • 10. LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course What I learned (continued):  Motivation:  Motivation comes from within and it’s the Leader’s job to create the proper climate to foster motivation  Several key theories of motivation were explained and discussion of how to use them in practice  Motivation best practices including cross-generational motivation and how to leverage E2L to enhance motivation leadership  Conflict:  Conflict is a leadership opportunity and effective leader’s leverage conflict to change the organization and drive innovation  There are 5 common conflict resolution strategies (Accommodate, Compete, Avoid, Compromise, Collaboration); each one can be appropriate – depending on the situation
  • 11. LeadershipTraining Leadership Excellence Course What I learned (continued):  Setting Leadership Priorities:  Many people can gain 2 hours or more back a day through effective time management  Effective leaders identify and focus on their High Payoff Activities (HPAs)  A Leader’s time management can have a significant impact on organizational productivity  Priority setting and time management best practices  Accountability:  High performing teams use After Action Reviews to improve performance and hold each other accountable  Holding people accountable requires trust, regular conflict & debate, and full commitment by all team members  Coaching:  Coaching is one of the most important roles that a Leader performs and a “high payoff activity”  Coaching best practices including performance coaching, mentoring, and how to leverage E2L to enhance coaching performance
  • 12. LeadershipTraining Sample Comments: End of Course  “This course is transformative. It will provide you with essential insights and tools for leading at any level of an organization.”  “An excellent insight to my instinctive self and an opportunity to own your own style, preference, and needs.”  “If you want the tools to become a leader, this is the place to go. The teachers are extraordinary people who know how to get challenging lessons across in effective ways.”  “This is must have training especially for project managers who are looking to move up to the management level”  Program Participants rated the Program 9.9/10 and Facilitators 5.0/5.0
  • 13. LeadershipTraining Academy Leadership: Sampling of Programs  Leadership Excellence Course & Executive Coaching 3-day / 36 PDU both open-enrollment and 3 Day / 36 PDU in-house  Energize2LeadTM Profile Workshop ½-day in-house team workshop  Customized, multi-session Leader Development Programs (LDPs) Client-driven mix of topics to address specific team needs; optimal with senior executive teams  Upcoming Programs: www.academyleadership.com/magness 20-22 September 2016 San Diego 18-20 October 2016 San Bernardino 13-15 December 2016 Los Angeles (Fort MacArthur / San Pedro)
  • 14. LeadershipTraining Conclusion  Academy Leadership’s Leadership Excellence Course is a tightly integrated and excellent Leadership development program  With its focus on core values and leading by example through “principled” leadership, it serves to create a common standard and language for leadership throughout an organization that will lead to higher organizational performance  Unique and highly useful Energize2Lead Profile and Team Dynamics “Team Sheets” that, when applied, are certain to improve interpersonal relationships and facilitate building high performance teams  Recommend Academy Leadership programs be considered for our Executive, Management, and Project Management training
  • 15. DEVELOPING LEADERS WHO DELIVER RESULTS ACADEMY LEADERSHIP http://www.academyleadership.com