Leading in Uncertain Times – How to stay focused and grounded while leading your organization through rough waters
Forging an Organization of Purpose - Simply telling employees what the purpose of the organization is, won’t make everyone start showing up on time and giving 110%. Every individual is … well, individual. Different things motivate different employees. Yet everyone has a desire to matter, be relevant, and contribute. The challenge is how to connect these passions and needs to the organization’s great and worthy purpose
The Journey of Leadership - From Organization-Making to Meaning-Management, she outlines methods of successfully performing leadership rather than merely acting leadership
Let’s REALLY Talk About Leadership
What if leaders approached success as a journey, not a destination? A successful leader has a great and worthy purpose that is achieved by learning how to perform their role masterfully. Leadership cannot be taught it can only be learned by doing it. That requires performing leadership which takes an ongoing practice of how to think, be and do.
Key takeaways:
• How a leader can use their thinking, being and doing to get where they need to go
• Learn how to create the problems you want and need
• Understand how a successful leader creates a unique set of habits
Composing High-Performance Organizations during Turbulent Times
As a leader there may be nothing more important than understanding that it is not the leader who makes an organization successful, rather it is the organization that makes the leader successful. Learn the 4 primary and ongoing tasks of leadership: self-mastery, organization-making, people-making, and meaning-management.
Key takeaways:
• Understand how to apply the 4 primary and ongoing tasks of leadership
• Learn strategies for composing an organization for its tasks and its mission; its reason for being
• How to eliminate the influence of ‘pop culture’ in the workplace
People-Making: An Essential Task for Successful Leaders
Managing people can be one of the most challenging yet important roles a leader has. There is nothing more rewarding for a leader than to make it possible and necessary for people to become consistently more competent in their life. Understanding that what we permit we promote, learn how to use performance and accomplishments as the only measures of success.
Key takeaways:
• Define the differences between enthusiasm and competence
• Learn how to measure performance by really measuring performance
• Understand how to use the concept of necessity in an employee’s professional development
Building the Right Organizational Habits to Achieve Exceptional Customer Service
Conventional approaches will only result in conventional results. Taking a thoughtful and proven approach, learn how to increase employee engagement by connecting work with purpose. Gain knowledge about building individual and organizational habits that will result in improved customer satisfaction and high employee morale.
Key takeaways:
• Understand how to manage the meaning of customer service
• Learn how habits will take an organization where it needs to go…or not
• Align and connect employees with an organizations cause and purpose
The Good Leader
What does it mean to be a good leader? Why has a ‘leader’ become an all-purpose term? Taking a closer look at the attributes of the leaders we endorse today, there are significant differences between what is considered a good leader by today’s pop culture standards and a good leader as defined in the past.
Key takeaways:
• Understand how we have become a culture that measures a good leader by how much we like and admire them
• A good leader as defined by today’s standards might be doing more harm for the world than good
• How to create a life that you never need a vacation from
