HIGH IMPACT LEADERSHIP
TRAINING COURSE

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Computer or laptop with webcam: This course will involve on-screen interaction with your instructor and classmates, reading/viewing on-screen content like slides or videos, and interacting via typing with questions or responses. For this reason, we recommend that you have a full computer/laptop set-up and don’t recommend using a cell phone or tablet to attend the training.

A quiet space with minimal distractions: plan to be fully engaged in the class and clear your work schedule just as you would for attendance in an in-class program.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1: Orientation & Workshop #1 - Defining Leadership

​- Course Introductions & Program Outline.

- Personal Coaching Sessions: overview, directions for booking calendar.

- Systems Dynamics Primer.

- Who can be a leader?

- What kind of a leader (theory): Transactional vs. Transformational.

- Building a Personal Leadership Foundation: Values, Vision, Mission.

Week 2: Workshop #2 - Emotional Intelligence

​- Understanding our underlying (inter)personal feedback loops.

- Basic neuroanatomy, physiology, emotional structures, and systems.

- What is the purpose of emotions: Anatomy of an Emotional (amygdala) Hijacking.

- Temperament (is not destiny nor our genes) and Empathy.

- Motivation: Intrinsic vs. extrinsic; Pros and cons of extrinsic rewards; Keys to unleashing intrinsic motivation (SDT, Drive).

- Building Rapport: creating positive reinforcing relational feedback loops.

- Triple Focus for Leaders.

Week 3: Workshop #3 - Strategic Communication & Coaching Mindset

​- Defining a Coaching Mindset.

- Strategic Communication: Communicating values, vision, and mission. Communicating deliverables; up and down. Coach-facilitator not dictator-micromanager. Energize! Don’t demoralize!

- Strategic conversations: Individual and team feedback/feedforward; Coffee talk.

- Strategic Negotiations: Employing a coach approach in business and daily negotiations.

Week 4: Workshop #4 - Leadership Strategy

​- Selecting Your Team: What you want, need, have, and what they can do.

- Organizing Your Team: Getting your players into their best positions; Match strengths.

- Embrace a Growth Mindset: Overcoming past perceived weaknesses; How to create stretch goals; Finding flow state; Cascading effects and synergies created.

- Team Dynamics & Dysfunction: Relational feedback loops; Fundamental attribution error; Psychological safety; Conflict; Decision making; Accountability; CLEAR collective goals.

Week 5: Workshop #5 - Building Your Team & Culture

- Concrete diagnostic tools to develop leadership measures.

- Limits to success /growth: Definition/meaning and systems archetype model; Counteracting/action vs. Limits to growth.

- Diagnostic tools: TWOS analysis; GAP analyses; 5 Whys; 1st 2nd & 3rd order impact/influence.

- Providing and receiving feedback: Changing feedback to feedforward.

- Debriefing lessons learned: Seeking constant improvement.

- What is win-win? Reciprocity in the prisoner’s dilemma.

- Transformational leadership strategies.

Week 6: Workshop #6 - Leader’s Road Map

​- Written and verbal expression of each student’s individual values, vision, and mission statements.

- Declaration as to how the student intends to lead.

- Demonstration of the use of diagnostic tools that will promote growth and/or counteract limits to growth archetypes.

- Leadership practices the student intends to implement, including their own personal details, tips, or insights.

- Expression of personal growth or new insight that may have occurred through the course.

THE OPTIMUM DIFFERENCE

- Flexile coaching & learning plans to suit you or your organization.

- Engaging facilitation.

- Real world professional development for both employees and management.

- Programs that empower both your mental and physical strength.