The Leadership Challenge™ - ONE DAY Workshop (Leadership is Everyone's Business)

Tomorrow's most successful companies will adapt to change by you encouraging leadership in everyone. The new global marketplace requires quality, innovation, speed, and enhanced services. Responsive organizations with individuals taking a leadership role in improving processes, collaborating on products, and adapting to ever-changing markets will survive and prosper.

Yet many people expect all leadership to come from above. Rather than taking initiative and working collaboratively to solve problems, they wait for management to provide detailed direction. Managers today know that employee participation in management decisions is crucial. The concerted and enthusiastic efforts of everyone will give organizations the edge they need to develop a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

"Leadership is Everyone's Business" is an intensive one day program that prepares organizations for developing the leadership skills of all employees. The interactive program combines lectures, case studies, individual and team exercises and group discussion.

The Kouzes and Posner Research:

Our workshop content is based on the award winning book, "The Leadership Challenge" by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner and The Two-Day Leadership Challenge Workshop. Kouzes and Posner studied exemplary leaders for over 15 years and identified Five Leadership Practices that are used consistently:

Modeling the Way
Inspiring a Shared Vision
Challenging the Process
Enabling Others to Act
Encouraging the Heart

Participants in Leadership is Everyone's Business gain the confidence and skills needed to increase their leadership effectiveness on the job, presently and in the future.

Lisa Roth, Sales Program Manager for Sun Microsystems says:

"The Leadership is Everyone's Business workshop will change your world, both personally and professionally. Applying the workshop principles not only affects the organization's bottom line but also positively impacts the way we do business with each other. One manager used "Encouraging the Heart" practices with his sales team to attain a first-ever over-achievement of the year's sales goals. This workshop helped us develop a healthy approach to working together and supports our important business objectives".

Organizational Benefits:

Improved teamwork, morale, trust, and communication
Increased employee willingness to take risks, show initiative, and participate in the goal-setting for the organization.
Improved understanding of the meaning and value of leadership.
Increased commitment to the organization.

Individual Benefits:

Identify their leadership strengths and areas needing improvement through our leadership assessment tool, The Leadership Practices Inventory.
Explore opportunities for improvement within their teams.
Understand their unique value to the team.
Realize and appreciate the value of peer-recognition.

Target Audience:

Designed for front-line supervisors and their teams, our program provides valuable opportunities for teams from different levels to work together to develop commitment to the organization's mission, values and leadership culture.

To quote Jim Kouzes, co-author of The Leadership Challenge:

"If we expect people to show initiative in meeting today's serious business challenges, then we must support their efforts to find solutions to those challenges. In short, we must develop the leader in everyone".

Length:

1 day - from 8:00 to 5:00 p.m.

To discuss bringing this workshop into your organization in Canada , please contact Bruna Martinuzzi.

E-contact: info@increaseyoureq.com