Strategic Leadership

Moving from an operational role to a strategic leader represents one of the most critical and challenging professional transitions for an executive. To reach strategic leadership, you need to master many leadership components.

• Understanding the nine critical roles needed in the executive suite
• Exhibiting visionary leadership and effectively communicating the vision
• Fully developing in your role as a transformational leader

Creating the Best Culture

Ginni Rometty, IBM Chair, President, & CEO once said: “Culture is your company’s number one asset."

• Culture is a collection of self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing
• Ensuring organizational alignment
• Understanding barriers and resistance to change
• Leading during times of change

Creating and Managing a Results-Driven Culture

"Strategy provides clarity and focus for collective action and decision making...Culture, however, is a more elusive lever because much of it is anchored in unspoken behaviors and mindsets."
- [Adapted from The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture, Harvard Business Review]

• Understanding culture as an indicator of your organizational DNA
• Experiencing a results-oriented culture
• Identifying the symptoms and causes of an ineffective culture
• Learning what can turn around an ineffective culture

Achieving Goals

A critical component of successful executive leadership is ensuring goals are not just set but achieved. Become a master goal achiever and not just a master goal setter for your organization.

• Understanding the various types of goals, their best applications, and their elements can lead to more results more often
• Internalizing the critical components and criteria of the goals achievement process
• Learning when to properly apply the four different types of goals personally and professionally
• Working through our copyrighted goal planning process, your action plans, and necessary action steps

Understanding and Affirming Your SELFS

In reality, you are more than just one self. You are a composite of several different selfs that surface and recede according to your daily circumstances.

• Acquiring a deeper understanding of your three selfs
• Choosing among your three ego states in a professional environment
• Focusing on the positive and affirming yourself
• Developing positive habits can yield positive results

Communications

Communications is a two-way process that involves multiple layers of emotion and frames of reference being understood and successfully managed to get the desired outcomes. The larger the audience, the easier it is to be misunderstood.

• Successfully communicating ideas and reducing miscommunication
• Tying principles of communication and emotions together
• Mastering listening aggressively and enhancing listening via questions
• Building stronger relationships through communication

The Power of Emotional Intelligence

Researchers estimate that as much as 75% of a person’s ability to succeed can be related to understanding and consistently demonstrating high emotional intelligence.

• Understanding Emotional Intelligence and its importance to your organization
• Recognizing behavioral characteristics of high and low emotional intelligence patterns
• Tying together self-awareness and social awareness
• Mastering self-management and relationship management

Understanding Diversity While Creating Inclusion

Almost any conversation and discussion about diversity or inclusivity can trigger an intense emotional response. Considering how prominent this focus is in our everyday environment, we need to know how to handle this subject matter personally and professionally and effectively communicate our thoughts.

• Understanding what diversity means and involves
• Recognizing how unconscious or implicit bias can impact our attitude toward diversity
• Creating the attitudinal change required for course correction
• Making the power of inclusion happen

Motivation and Courage

Success and motivation are interdependent and inseparable. You can’t have one without the other.

• Tapping into both emotion and logic as you lead yourself and others
• Understanding human needs, common methods of motivation, and personal values drivers
• Reducing motivation killers - managing worry and handling frustration
• Sustaining the courage to stay on course

Collaborating for Results

Collaboration is a way of energizing people to work and think together while exploring multiple options and various perspectives.

• Fully capitalizing on the benefits of collaboration
• Implementing an abundance vs scarcity mindset to optimize collaboration
• Developing a common ground for communication, coordination, and cooperation
• Understanding the obstacles to successful collaboration

Building Teams

In light of the increasing speed of change and adaptation, one person can't keep abreast of everything.

• Harnessing the collective intelligence of everyone in your organization
• Actively including multiple types of thinkers on teams
• Increasing team competency by developing technical and interpersonal skills
• Understanding when using a team is appropriate and when it is not

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YOUR ACTION PLAN – Your Tools for Personal and Professional Achievement

Personal Goals Program

• Dream Inventory (Like a "Bucket List")
• Self-Evaluation Sections to Develop Yourself as a Total Person
• >Encompasses Mental, Social, Physical, Financial/Career, Family Life, Ethics and Beliefs Development Areas
• >Each section includes a: Self-Evaluation Questionnaire, listing of Past Achievements/Mental Strengths, narrative to capture Where I Stand Now, place to generate personal Goal Categories and establish Priorities

Goal Planning Sheets with an Example and Instructions

Evaluating Organizational Goals and Opportunities

• Evaluating the 10 areas of Organizational Goals
• Setting categories for future initiatives

Evaluating Yourself on Your Enterprise Level Leadership Role

• Evaluating the 10 areas of Executive Leadership responsibilities
• Setting categories for future initiatives

Evaluating Personal Time Use and Effectiveness

• Time Evaluation Matrix and Analysis
• Time Management Evaluation Questionnaire
• Generating Time Management Categories, establishing Priorities and setting Time Use Goals

Goals Summary & Goals Accomplished Areas