Leadership Learning Journeys

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Program Components

• Pre-Program Assessment
• Kick-off session
• 8 Learning Sessions (20 learning hours in total)
• Self-Paced “Bridge” Learning Assignments
• Capstone Event

Target Audience

This course is designed for individuals in project leadership and oversight roles.

Program Objectives

• Use Effective Communication to Foster Innovation and Facilitate Organizational Change.
• Build and Sustain Trust With Integrity and Respect for Others and Communicate Outside of Your Organization.
• Utilize Your Strategic Leadership Skills to Drive Results from Yourself, Your Direct Reports, and Your Peers.
• Create a Team Culture Focused on Results and Accountability.
• Use Your Enhanced Emotional Intelligence Skills to Better Communicate and Collaborate with Others.
• Develop a Stronger Awareness and Understanding of Unconscious Bias to Manage More Effectively.

Program Topics and Activities

Pre-Program Assessment

Before the program start, participants will take the DiSC^® behavioral assessment.

Session 1: Kickoff

Topics:

• Overall program introduction — expectations/ goals/objectives
• Strategic leadership mindset — understanding the strategic landscape — developing strategic insight
• Interpreting DiSC — leadership insight
• Identifying strategic initiatives to work on throughout the program — tied to your organization mission and culture statement
• Leadership visioning — communicating purpose and collaboration
• Trust and leadership — a vital connection
• Building and sustaining trust with integrity and respect for others and communities outside of your organization
• Being change agent — modeling behaviors and championing a change strategy that challenges the status quo in purposeful and meaning ways
• Leading to innovate and motivate to achieve a strong work ethic linked to continuous improvement
• Proactive and action planning
• Risk management
• Root cause analysis
• Establishing peer coaching partnerships

Session 2 and 3: Your Oversight Footprint: How to Show Up as a Strategic Leader

Topics:

• Define emotional intelligence
  • Compare how emotional intelligence shows up in men versus women
  • Discuss the four components of emotional intelligence
  • Examine why emotional intelligence matters
  • Identify what you can do to increase your emotional intelligence
• Build a strong foundation of skills that will bring out, define, and enhance your inner leader
• Get results through your direct reports and peers
• Continue to evolve yourself and others as the business changes
• Plan and organize with efficiency
• Drive results from yourself, your direct reports, and your peers
• Remaining flexible and adaptable
• Assume accountability for your actions
• Communicate with impact
• Influence rather than command
• Self-disruptive leadership (Korn Ferry)

Bridge Learning Assignment

Session 4 and 5: Creating a Strategic Team: How to Create a Team Culture Focused on Results and Accountability

Topics:

• Evaluate
  • How effectively a project team is working
  • Identify introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts
  • Describe introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts in a non-judgmental manner
  • Describe value introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts to project teams
• Diagnose
  • Obstacles hindering introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts from doing their best work
  • Obstacles hindering introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts from working effectively together
• Design
  • Interventions and procedures to improve introverts’, extroverts’, and ambiverts’ ability to work together
  • Team meetings to be more productive for introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts
• Coach
  • Interventions and procedures to improve introverts’, extroverts’, and ambiverts’ ability to work together
  • Team meetings to be more productive for introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts

Bridge Learning Assignment

Session 6 and 7: Impacting Organizational Success: Working to Embrace Diversity and Create Positive Change within the Organization

Topics:

• Understand the neuroscience behind human dynamics
• Make use of the Emotional Intelligence model and associated competencies
• Understand the core principles of change and how to make it stick
• Explore attributes of a resilient leader leading change
• Increase your knowledge of the business case for diversity and inclusion
• Increase your ability to communicate more effectively with a diverse workforce and client base
• Expand your understanding of skills, tips, and techniques to create, manage, and sustain a more inclusive work environment that supports all dimensions of diversity
• Develop a stronger awareness and understanding of unconscious bias and skills to manage more effectively

Capstone Prep

Session 8: Capstone Session

Topics:

• Review of key elements of the program—you/team/organization
• Tie back to the mission statement and culture statement
• Participant presentations on personal key learning and development, along with organization impact and achievements
• Identifying future development opportunities

For full program details, view the brochure or contact info@corpedgroup.com.