Introduction to Becoming a Transformational Leader: Lead Yourself First

General topics to be covered

• The connection between personality and leadership
• Overcoming leadership bias through the use of MBTI
• How to lead others by first leading yourself
• The Neuro-psychology of leadership

Outcomes

• Develop a deeper understanding and mastery of yourself, your “autopilot” leadership patterns, and your impact on others
• Recognize the impact of awareness, and especially unawareness, on being an effective leader
• Use Intentional Leadership strategies to create a motivating environment
• Learn to lead on purpose

Topics Covered
Applying active learning strategies, we will explore and apply best practices to create and lead a high-performing work team. Topics covered will include:

1. High-performing teams are RARE in workplaces... why? 
2. What's broken and how do I fix it?
3. What's next? ... developing an action plan

Workshop outcomes from Building and Leading High-performance Teams include:

• Learn the characteristics of high-performance teams
• Understand the leader's role in constructing a high-performance team
• Learn to select team members for the high-performance team
• Create high team cohesiveness, openness and trust
• Brief discussion on high-performance remote teams

Topics covered will include:

1. Learning what the numbers are really telling you
2. Developing financial literacy and strategies
3. Creating a financially intelligent department and organization

Workshop outcomes from this module include:

• Increase your financial intelligence
• Improve your corporate financial performance
• Achieve financial transparency for the organization

Topics covered will include:

1. The challenges to establishing a culture for optimizing operational performance.
2. The identification and applications of different approaches, tools, and techniques to optimizing operational performance.
3. Deep dive into case studies which demonstrate how to apply the different approaches, tools, and techniques to optimizing operational performance.
4. The importance and process of establishing a metrics that accurately measures operational performance over time.

Workshop outcomes from this module include:

• Identification of the critical elements, challenges, and process to creating a culture for optimizing operational performance.
• Understand and apply the different approaches, tools and techniques to optimizing operational performance.
• Alignment of cross-functional responsibilities and roles for optimizing operational performance.
• Establish metrics that accurately measure operational performance optimization over time.

Topics covered will include:

• The complexity of managing and leading: balancing the two
• Leading Change: a framework for success…and how to avoid failure
• Is your organization agile? The role of agility in organizational change
• The importance of strategy in change initiatives

Workshop outcomes from this module include:

• A solid understanding and application of an effective change framework
• An understanding of the role of agility in effective change leadership
• An understanding of the challenge of balancing managing and leading

An understanding of the connection between strategy and change