Leading @ the Speed of Change

How to Align People, Processes, and Personal Effectiveness for Continuous Success

The first day of the Leading @ the Speed of Change workshop is built around Jim's latest bestselling book, The Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success. Leadership expert, Warren Bennis, enthuses, "If you're looking for a book that illustrates the topic of leadership in a useful, readable, and lively way, this is it." The Leader's Digest: Practical Application Planner provides assessments, practical implementation ideas, priority setting, and action planning.

Much of the second day is built around Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success. This book uses the same format, approach, and Leadership Principles as The Leader's Digest. Participants use the accompanying Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide for self-assessment, practical implementation ideas, priority setting, and action planning to continue what is started in this workshop.

Navigating Change

• The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
• Change Choices: Navigator (capitalizing on changes), Survivor (just getting by), or Victim (living in "Pity City")
• Keys to Navigating "Above the Line" of Cynicism and Negativity

The Performance Balance

• Finding the Right Balance: Technology, Management, Leadership
• Managing Things and Leading People
• Soft Skills, Hard Results: The Power of Emotional Intelligence

Timeless Leadership Principles for Team and Organization Success

Following an overview of each Leadership Principle, participants assess their team/organization. Discussion groups review application exercises and brainstorm potential application ideas. Participants then set their personal action plans.

Focus and Context: Points of Origin

• Where Are We Going?
  • Are we confusing goals and vision?
  • How alive is our vision?
  • How important is it for us to improve this?
• What Do We Believe In?
  • Do we have core values?
  • How alive are our values?
  • How important is it for us to improve this?
• Why Do We Exist?
  • Do we have a powerful purpose statement?
  • How alive is our purpose?
  • How important is it for us to improve this?

Responsibility for Choices: From Victim to Victor

• Identifying and Eliminating "Victim Speak" in Our Team/Organization
• Ten Ways We May Be Disempowering Ourselves
• Strategies for Busting Our Barriers to Peak Performance
• Focusing on Areas of Direct Control and Influence While Letting Go of No Control Areas/Issues

Authenticity: Let's Get Real

• Assessing and Addressing Trust and Credibility Gaps
• Leading by Example: What Behaviors Do We Need to Change to Change Their Behavior?
• Identifying and Dealing with Our Biggest "Moose-on-the-Table" Issues (click here or see pages 102 - 104 of The Leader's Digest)

Passion and Commitment: All Fired Up

• Assessing our Leadership Against the Top 10 Commitment Indicators
• Prioritizing our Key Factors for Engaging Much Stronger Commitment in Our Organization
• Loyalty Leadership: Retaining Our Top People

Spirit and Meaning: Matters of the Heart

• Identifying and Addressing Our Five Biggest Spirit Killers
• Which Stage Are We at on The Hierarchy of Spirit and Meaning?
• Establishing Our Preferred Stage and How to Get There
• Keys to Bringing a Deeper Sense of Pride to Our Team/Organization

Growing and Developing: All That We Can Be

• The "Fish Tank Factor": Measuring the Size of the Environment We've Built
• The Coach's Playbook: Assessing and Strengthening Coaching Effectiveness
• Helping Team Members Get the Most from Training

Mobilizing and Energizing: Inspiring Peak Performance

• Identifying Top Team/Organization Energy Drains and How to Plug the Leaks
• Eight Factors to Build High Performance Teams: Assessing Our Effectiveness
• Meeting Effectiveness Checklist: What Should We Keep, Stop, and Start Doing?
• Steps to Recharging with Recognition, Celebration, and Appreciation
• Information versus Communication: Keys to Inspiration Through Verbal Communications

Timeless Leadership Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success

Following an overview of each Leadership Principle, participants assess their personal effectiveness. Discussion groups review application exercises and brainstorm potential application ideas. Participants then set their personal action plans.

Focus and Context: The Core of My Being

• Defining Success
• Picturing My Preferred Future
• Clarifying My Core Values
• My Personal Purpose

Responsibility for Choices: If it's to Be, It's Up to Me

• Dealing with Adversity: Choosing My Perspective
• Choosing Our Explanations and Our Happiness
• Increasing My Influence

Authenticity: Getting Real

• The Real Me
• Being the Change I Want to See in Others
• Have, Do, or Be?
• Getting Feedback on How Others See Me

Passion and Commitment: Beyond Near-Life Experiences

• Taking My Passion Pulse
• Determining My Strengths
• Checking My Work Alignment
• Deepening My Discipline and Commitment

Spirit and Meaning: With All My Heart and Soul

• Checking My Spirit
• The Meaning of My Work
• Finding the Diamonds in my Own Backyard

Growing and Developing: From Phase of Life to Way of Life

• Measuring My Growth
• Signs of Stagnation
• My Learning Style and Options

Mobilizing and Energizing: Putting Emotions in Motion

• Checking for Energy Leaks
• The Leadership Environment I Have Created
• Inspiring Through Verbal Communications
• Harnessing the Power of Teams

Next Steps: Bringing it All Together

• What do I most need to do (and when) to implement all my action plans?
• Who am I going to get to help me (personal coach/counselor, mentor, network, spouse, trainer, consultant, etc.)?
• How will I ensure I follow-through on my plans?

Special Discounts for Teams!