Overview:
The Certificate of Applied Leadership Program is for young professionals and business owners charged with leading others for best results and making a positive impact in their organizations.
Young leaders face the difficult challenge of balancing individual performance (by which they earned their position), with developing the performance of others (a totally new concept).
Our program helps successful young professionals define, develop and apply their natural leadership advantages to have the confidence to perform and lead at their best.
Participants in the program combine the motivation of developing their self-awareness through assessments and analytics with the inspiration of learning new leadership concepts and skills and the confidence of using real work projects and assignments to directly apply what they have learned. The experience creates a lasting and positive change.
Most importantly, our unique, step-by-step program is focused on practical actions linking concepts to results.
Outcomes:
Imitation doesn’t work in leadership. What is needed is the clarity of each participant’s natural advantage for leadership, the focus on developing the key leadership competencies and the following-through on the right actions to lead effectively.
Specifically, the development program would provide the following key results:
- Each participant would clarify their own individual natural advantage for leadership at their best to take charge and perform individually and with others confidently. Statistics show that less than 18% of people have the self-awareness and insights to lead with their natural strengths and those that do achieve more than five times their counterparts.
- Each participant would clarify their unique ability for leadership success and tools that they can implement immediately to stay focused and achieve greater results. We have found leaders who work with their unique abilities report more than a 30% improvement in the use of their time and achievement of results.
- Each participant would develop and work from a personal growth and development plan to define the key leadership competencies for their strategic vision to achieve enduring and meaningful success. Participants have greater confidence and a higher level of independence to think strategically and achieve their best results.
- Each participant would gain tools and templates to integrate collaborative communication and influential leadership into their work to connect and create the greatest value for their stakeholders and clients.
- Each participant would use proven models for strategic decision-making and innovative competitive analysis to think and execute at their best with assessment, reflection and planning.
- Each participant would apply bottom-line tactical techniques to manage time and process effectively for increased overall return on individual and organizational resources.
- Each participant would experience personal growth.
Agenda:
Module 1 – Natural Leadership
- Defining your natural leadership strengths and style
- Clarifying your core leadership values
- Outlining your personal leadership brand and performance filter
- Developing your personal growth and development plan
Module 2 – Visionary Leadership
- Building a bigger future vision
- Communicating a compelling story
- Creating and assessing innovation
- Motivating others
Module 3 – Strategic Leadership
- Thinking, acting and influencing to achieve results
- Setting priorities for focus and action
- Effective decision-making
- Creating competitive advantage
Module 4 – Tactical Leadership
- Managing time, meetings and process effectively
- Creating value from processes
- Executing a plan and monitoring progress
- Dealing with job challenges and opportunities
Module 5 – Influential Leadership
- Building a bigger future network
- Using the rules of influence and developing relationships
- Negotiating effectively
- Selling and promotion skills
Module 6 – Collaborative Leadership
- Delegating effectively
- Building high-performing teams
- Managing change
- Coaching for performance
Module 7 – Profitable Leadership
- Developing results scorecards to achieve profitable results
- Understanding investment implications and return on resources
- Managing cash flow and achieving the largest cheque
Sessions are small and interactive, combining several forms of experience to build the most impacting results:
- Analytical assessments, both self-assessment and multi-rater formats, are used in each model to provide clarity of where participants are currently and connected with a proactive development plan to take action
- Working case studies involve participants in peer-to-peer work to analyze, assess and make decisions in real situations
- Concept presentations give participants direct, bottom-line understanding of key leadership competencies
- Actual work projects and assignments incorporate module learning with real-time performance for experiential learning
- Action commitments and results scorecards focus actions and enable assessment of progress at each session