The Empowered Leader

10 East Bridge St NE,Rockford MI 49341

05 October, 2022

Description

PLEASE NOTE: This training is an 8 session course. See below for specific dates. The last few years have brought so many changes for all of us. As COVID began its disruptions, we began hearing from our clients that they needed a different way to retain their best people, and to equip people to work and lead through unprecedented levels of change and uncertainty. Because our approach has always been to help people see and understand how they think and learn how to think differently, we knew we had important resources that people need now. We created a new course for people in leadership roles, or preparing to take leadership roles and we call it The Empowered Leader. We’ve been running cohorts of folks from several large organizations through it and its been a powerful experience for them individually and collectively. Participants are telling us it has transformed the way they are thinking, communicating and leading. 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: October 5, 2022 – 9:00 to 1:00 including Culinary Studio event lunchOctober 19, 2022November 2, 2022November 16, 2022November 30, 2022 (adjusting for the holiday season)December 14, 2022January 4, 2023January 18, 2023