Lead by Greatness™ is a highly interactive workshop experience that can be customized to address the specific leadership and strategic imperatives of the client organization. It combines cutting-edge proprietary philosophy, methodology, and experiences with industry-specific case-study material. This workshop is typically presented in 2 1/2 days.
Lead by Greatness™ moves participants into new ways of thinking and effectiveness. They are taught how to access the greatness within themselves and use it to unlock the greatness of their teams. Participants learn how to use personal stature rather than rely on positional status to influence people and build lasting trust with others, irrespective of cultural and generational differences.
To begin thinking about leadership, you must first look within and understand what drives human beings to be great. Great leaders are driven by a sense of destiny and purpose. Participants learn real–time tools that help identify and explain a person’s unique purpose and how to align that purpose with the work that they do.
Great leaders are driven by a sense of destiny and purpose.
Once you understand what it is that you are here to do and what you need to do in order to make your unique contribution to the world, you begin to think about the way you make choices and decisions and how you interact with others. Great leaders understand their own value–drivers and make decisions that are authentic and aligned to their purpose.
Participants learn how to probe the value–drivers that differentiate them from others. They map their own Spiritual Fingerprints™ and learn how to use their Spiritual Fingerprints™ to influence others, resolve conflict, have hard conversations, and negotiate winning outcomes.
Great leaders understand their own value-drivers and make decisions that are authentic and aligned to their purpose.
Even when you understand your own purpose and value–drivers, many times you find yourself triggered to react in ways that are not aligned with your own Spiritual Fingerprints™. You become defensive rather than proactive. These are the times you may think to yourself: “I wish I hadn’t said/done that!” Great leaders master their self-control and lead according to their value–drivers.
Participants learn how to proactively choose their responses to situations and avoid the trap of being triggered into defensiveness. They gain mastery in aligning their responses with their own authentic value–drivers and purpose.
Great leaders master their self-control and lead according to their value-drivers.
Now, imbued with a sense of purpose, you understand who you are and what values drive you. But you operate in a greater world, where ego can diminish leadership impact. A great leader has a strong sense of self, but what distinguishes seemingly arrogant leaders from those who are inspirational? Why do some leaders turn people off, while others earn the admiration of their followers? Great leaders display a strong sense of confidence and self-esteem with no trace of ego or arrogance.
Participants learn how to shift their instruments of influence from the authority of their status to the power of their personal leadership stature, commanding the admiration, respect, and loyalty of their teams.
Great leaders display a strong sense of confidence and self-esteem with no trace of ego or arrogance.
Having developed a sense of humility, you recognize that everyone is vulnerable. You are vulnerable enough to accept that you can lose the authority of your status at any time, yet secure enough to know that you can never lose the power of your stature. In this acceptance and security lies the strength of your moral courage and your leadership prowess. Great leaders accept their dependence on others for their own successes. They are quick to apologize and take responsibility when they make mistakes and generously give credit to those who have earned it.
Participants learn the role of moral courage in leadership and how to build it. They learn how to acknowledge vulnerability and accept accountability in ways that make them stronger and more credible than ever before.
Great leaders accept their dependence on others for their own successes.
Everyone feels vulnerable to some degree, whether they have the courage to expose it or not, and those feelings of vulnerability limit people’s capacity to be generous. You need your team to generously give of their time, talent, and energy, and they need to trust that you will never exploit them. Great leaders create an environment in which others feel emotionally safe enough to be generous in their work.
Participants learn how to use appreciativeness and trust to inspire others to heroic gestures and generously add value beyond their job descriptions & expectations.
Great leaders create an environment in which others feel emotionally safe enough to be generous in their work.
Now you know who you are and how to inspire the people around you. Yet consider how differently disparate people can experience the same event, especially when they are from different cultural backgrounds or different generations. Things can look very different depending on the lens through which you see them. You have discovered things about your own lenses, but great leaders also have a heightened awareness of the lenses of others.
Participants will be given a unique tool to understand the cultural lenses responsible for other people experiencing things differently from the way we do. They will learn how to communicate and negotiate in ways that show respect and build trust, irrespective of cultural or generational differences. This section also includes a portion on how to attract, retain, and motivate New Generation talent.
Great leaders have a heightened awareness of the lenses of others.
You have a strong sense of self; you interact successfully with others; you inspire generosity, and you understand where others are coming from. But can you really change other people? You can develop the wisdom to know that you will only change others when you stop trying and, instead, focus on changing yourself. By knowing what to change within yourself, you can change the way other people respond to you. Great leaders access the wisdom within themselves to manage almost any situation with competence. They set direction in ways that inspire others to follow and change others by changing themselves.
Participants learn how to power change in their teams, organizations, and beyond by modifying their own behaviors. They will also learn how this can erase conflict, turf wars, and office politics and help in having hard conversations that result in change.
Great leaders access the wisdom within themselves to manage almost any situation with competence.
Everyone feels vulnerable to some degree, whether they have the courage to expose it or not, and those feelings of vulnerability limit people’s capacity to be generous. You need your team to generously give of their time, talent, and energy, and they need to trust that you will never exploit them. Great leaders create an environment in which others feel emotionally safe enough to be generous in their work.
Participants learn how to use appreciativeness and trust to inspire others to heroic gestures and generously add value beyond their job descriptions and expectations.
