Leadership 3: Vision, Strategy, Execution
- Introduction to Course and Leadership
- Welcome and introductions
- Course objectives and road map
- Discussion: What makes a leader
- Leadership Before, Now, and After
- Leadership throughout the history
- Contemporary leaders: What makes them successful?
- Debrief and discussion: Defining leadership styles
- Are there specific traits and competencies of a successful Leader? What if I don’t fit the “Type”?
- The leader of tomorrow: What will he/she look like?
- Determining my leadership strengths
- Designing a plan for maximizing my leadership capabilities
- Visiting my leadership derailers
- Exercise: Breaking away from ineffectual leadership tendencies
- Leveraging my strengths and overcoming my potential derailers to be the leader of tomorrow
- Setting the Vision and Moving the Organization Forward
- “Futuring” as a task
- Revisiting the mission and vision
- Communicating the future at all levels
- Making it happen: Developing communication strategies to link the vision with an implementation plan
- Case study: Leading vs. following; determining when following is actually the best leadership strategy
- Shifting with a Shifting Culture
- What is corporate culture?
- Group exercise: Understanding values
- How to determine culture shifts
- Is my leadership team out of touch?
- What to do when your team’s style isn’t shifting with the changing tide
- Creating a Tipping Point for Change
- Discussion: Tipping a change
- Discussion: Model for change and anticipated movement through change
- Case study: Reaction to change
- Chaos theory and how humans adapt to change
- Case study: Leading others through difficult change
- Video and discussion: Paradigms and change
- Understanding Work Force Loyalty
- Case study: recapture the flag
- When resignations vortex out of control
- Method for determining the tipping point for mass exits and preventing the tip
- Re-energizing a mistrusting and fatigued work force
- Leading Change
- Make change palatable, even irresistible
- Designing a plan for major changes
- Market new ideas to lead change
- Design and deliver briefings that persuade
- Dissect the leadership team’s current approach to change
- Create a plan for team success: Are we seen as a team that others want to follow?
- Our leadership team’s new image: Making it happen
- Lead Successfully
- Putting it all together
- Action plan for leadership success
- Q & A, evaluations
