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The Leader's Journey:

Developing the Influential Leader Within

 


 

"Know Thyself" Socrates

Are you driving the kind of sustainable results your organization needs? As a leader, are you inspiring your team members to achieve collective results, talk openly about potential problems, and fully align around common objectives? Are you achieving the results you desire? At work and in life?

Influential leaders get exceptional results. Without effective leadership, your team and organization will not grow and succeed. Join The Leader's Journey: Developing the Influential Leader Within program and begin the process of transformation.

This leadership development program from Sherpa Higher Performance helps managers tackle some of the greatest challenges on their leadership journey: managing personal style and behavior tendencies for maximum impact; facilitating cohesive, trusting relationships between team members; leading change; building highly effective and productive teams; and developing new leaders throughout their organizations. The journey to influential leadership does not happen without change. This program helps participants build a solid platform on which to begin the change process by: receiving feedback about their leadership styles and strengths, exploring the qualities and behaviors of the most effective leaders, and walking away with an actionable Individual Development Plan.

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"If we did all we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves." Thomas A. Edison

As a Result of The Leader's Journey You Will:

  • Receive an honest and candid appraisal of your leadership style and behavior

  • Improve your personal effectiveness in every aspect of your life

  • Recognize the impact of your style and behavior on others

  • Identify the mental models (assumptions and perceptions) that influence your interpersonal interactions

  • Improve your ability to implement effective change strategies

  • Learn strategies to give and receive constructive feedback

  • Learn strategies for building a cohesive, trusting team, capable of achieving exceptional results

  • Develop an actionable plan for personal development and putting new skills into practice

"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." -- Winston Churchill

The Leader's Journey program is designed for:

  • Mid-level Managers


  • Team Leaders looking for high-impact and fast track results


  • All leaders interested in fully engaging his/her employees - mind and heart - in the work of the team and the organization.


  • All leaders interested in achieving a genuine "espirit de corps" team environment as well as experiencing the high productivity and employee satisfaction to go with it.



  • Participants should be open to constructive feedback, willing to listen to what others say about them, and ready to take positive action back at the work place.

    "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle

    The Leader's Journey program uses self-awareness tools, feedback, and simulation activities to move each individual towards personal mastery. Through personal profile, assessments, group discussions, simulation activities, videotape feedback, self-reflection, and coaching, your experience will be unique to you and your organization

    Day 1: Increase Leadership Influence through Personal Mastery

    • Team building among fellow workshop participants
    • Review Leader's Journal Model
    • Introduction to the DISC Learning Instrument and Model; Review individual reports
    • Engage in a series of experiential activities to explore styles, strengths, behavior patterns, and our impact on others
    • Individual journaling
    Day 2: Lead for Performance: Exploring Situational Leadership
    • Explore the Situational Leadership™ Model, understand the two basic leadership behaviors and the four basic leadership styles
    • Identify your preferred leadership style
    • Learn to analyze your team members's development level for given tasks and situations
    • Gain flexibility at adapting your style to meet the needs of your team members in different situations
    • Learn about the leader's role in fostering a cohesive, productive team climate

    Day 3: The Dynamic Team Environment: Trust, Conflict, and Mental Models

    • Explore the business case for why trust matters
    • Examine mental models (assumptions, perceptions, and pre-conceived ideas)
    • Identify strategies for enhancing personal effectiveness
    • Explore conflict handling styles and build skills to effectively handle interpersonal conflict
    • Build a "take it home" strategy including an Individual Development Plan

    "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
    -- Tao Te Ching

    Follow-up for the Leader's Journey include a 360-degree feedback assessment with one-on-one debrief as well as the options outlined below:

    Option 1:
    Bi-Weekly one-on-one coaching sessions for a period of 3-6 months. Coaching will be designed around individual needs, focused on guiding participant further along the path to personal mastery and influential leadership in practice. These sessions are pertinent to ensure that individuals, in the busyness and pressures of the work environment, will not return to "business as usual," but will make needed adjustments to implement training and learning.

    Option 2:
    Participate in bi-weekly or monthly group coaching sessions with program peers for a period of 3-6 months. The purpose of these sessions is to reinforce training content and discuss application and results. This is an opportunity for group coaching around real-time issues and opportunities. Based on the needs of the group, new concepts to further the learning may be introduced.

    The Leader's Journey program includes:

    • Breakfast
    • Lunch
    • DiSC personal profile
    • Situational Leadership assessment
    • All workshop materials.


    Registration Fee: $2,200

    SPECIAL RATE: When registering in groups of 2 or more, each person will receive a 15% discount!

    REGISTER NOW to embark on the Leader's Journey!