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About the Sessions

1. Communicating Well (aka Finding Your Leadership Voice)
In this first session we focus on the foundations of effective communication: it’s critical to your success as a leader, it’s hard and requires more time, effort and energy than you might want to put in, and it’s not about you or your message but about your audience and what they are hearing and perceiving in you. Finding your leadership voice is about, not only understanding yourself and what you want to say, but more importantly discovering your audience(s) as a leader and communicating in a way that resonates and achieves the results you’re looking for.

2. Embracing our Differences (aka Emotional Intelligence on the Good Days)
This session explores some of the many ways we are unique. The art and discipline of emotional intelligence requires that we become self-aware and learn to self-manage before we can become aware of and manage others. This session offers you some ways to figure out who you are, how you think, and how you interact in a variety of different dimensions. We can’t put people in boxes, but we can interact with people more effectively when we understand and delight in the fact that we’re different, rather than insisting we’re all the same.

3. Inspirational Leadership (aka Setting Expectations and Following Through)
Human nature dictates, we usually want to know what’s expected of us and how we’re doing compared to the expectation. A critical success factor for any people-leader is to articulate expectations clearly, ensure they have been understood, and then provide timely, relevant, meaningful feedback about someone’s performance compared to the expectations. This session will give you the tools you need to do just that.

4. Managing Performance and Feedback (aka Emotional Intelligence on the Tough Days)
This session prepares you for the most difficult conversations: whether that’s providing praise, which has proven to be a challenge for you, giving feedback, even when it runs the risk of making the other person uncomfortable, or simply finding the time in your schedule effective leadership conversations. The purpose of this session is to maximize your own emotional intelligence and self-management in the moment while also being sensitive to the other person in the conversation so you can manage the relationship effectively.

5. Leading Through Change (aka Bringing Yourself and Others Through Change Successfully)
In today’s world, leaders of people must be adept at helping others navigate through periods of change and transition efficiently and effectively. This requires understanding the basic principles of change management and how to listen to, empathize with, connect with, and inspire your team members to greatness at every stage of the transition process. It also requires being aware of your own position in the change journey and being able to separate your own perspective from theirs so that you can help them. This session equips you to lead effectively through any change you encounter.

6. Growing the Bench (aka Developing Potential in Others so You Can Prepare for What’s Next)
Effective people-leadership requires developing others and growing bench strength within our organizations. Growing bench strength makes for more humble leaders and more effective organizations, as they are better able to respond in times of stress. This session focuses on how to help others in their personal and professional development, while also identifying and preparing your successor for the good of the organization.