The Empowered Leader

10 East Bridge St NE,Rockford MI 49341

02 February, 2022

Description

Today’s world is complex. And it takes a different kind of leader to thrive in this complexity. Today’s world is complex. It takes a different kind of leader to drive the innovation, collaboration, and teamwork required to thrive in this complexity. Today’s leader must be committed to growth and learning – as a lifestyle. The Empowered Leader course is one gigantic step on your way towards that commitment. Empowered Leaders have the agility to meet today’s complex challenges with the thinking that they need. This learning experience is designed to tinker with your thinking – to help you change the way you see things and equip you with the tools you need to become a truly empowered (and empowering) leader. It will equip you to think more powerfully about: your role as a leader, yourself, your organization and team, and how your work gets done. This course isn’t just about giving you tools and skills to better manage your team. It is about changing how you think – seeing things differently – so you can lead your team to the results you and your organization ultimately want. Growth like this isn’t a “once and done” event – it is a way of life. Each of the eight sessions in the Empowered Leader I and II courses are carefully designed to unfold and build, giving you opportunity to apply and practice your new ways of leading in your real life challenges. What You Get: You will participate in robust curriculum that provides experiential learning through lively group sessions, self-directed reflection, hands-on practice, and small group assignments, all designed to help you think differently about your role as leader and support you with strategies to change the behaviors you want to change. Each session will help you think and rethink with more clarity, agility, and purpose in both your professional and personal life. This content is delivered through eight (3-hour) sessions over four months: Foundational Themes: Learn about the non-negotiable, secret ingredients to high performance and healthy culture that every team must have to achieve their goals. Developing Others: Explore the difference between being a multiplier (bringing out the best behaviors and ideas in people) and a diminisher (shutting down intelligence, creativity and energy in people). Reduce the Drama: Learn about the predictable and addictive patterns of communicating and relating that we all fall into, usually without knowing that we’ve done it (again!). We will explore the mindsets and practices that stop unhelpful patterns in their tracks. Complexity: How do leaders navigate the flood of decisions to make and problems to solve in a world where it seems there are less clear and easy answers? Learn about leading in complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty. Communication Superpower: Develop your leadership superpower: curiosity. Learn how to activate and use curiosity to foster learning, connection and innovation. We will explore the neuroscience of curiosity, listening to learn, and the art of juicy questions. Self + Other Awareness – DISC and 12 Driving Forces: Lead yourself with a greater awareness of your superpowers and values, areas where you run into conflict with others, and improve your ability to pick up on the behaviors and values of others. Learn how to adapt your style for improved communication, trust, and relationships. Structures Thinking: Learn how to think about and implement structure thinking to help you identify priorities and get more of the right things done individually and throughout the team, keeping the team’s culture, vision, and goals at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Productive Conflict: Shift the way you think to minimize toxic, unproductive conflict, develop patterns of communicating with candor and support healthy “creative abrasion” that leads to innovation, creativity and trust. This course meets in-person at Thought Design in Rockford, Michigan from 8:30 to 11:30 on the following dates: February 2, 2022 February 16, 2022 March 2, 2022 March 16, 2022 March 30, 2022 April 13, 2022 May 4, 2022 May 18, 2022 Our mission at Thought Design is to help people become better thinkers. For 30+ years, our experts have been designing learning experiences that empower people to look at the ways in which they think and develop better thinking patterns and habits. Through our research on neuroscience, we've integrated the science behind how our brains work, and how that impacts how we relate, work, and do life. Inspirational. Creative. Innovative. Invigorating.These are just some of the words that have been used to describe our space here in Rockford. Each of our workshops, cooking classes and culinary experiences  make full use of our beautiful riverfront facility, including our state-of-the-art kitchen, learning classroom, cozy gym, and outdoor promenade. Thought Design is your destination for ultimate learning, innovation and creation. We're located in Rockford, MI, just 15 short minutes north of downtown Grand Rapids.