If the promise of leadership and business reinvention
is to be fulfilled, this is the kind of course that will make it possible.”

~ Carl Kutzbach, Director, Bayer AG Germany

LEADERSHIP BY DESIGN

A powerful 6-day program for those who are willing to challenge their assumptions and conclusions regarding leadership and are open to thoroughly examining their own effectiveness.

In this program four specific areas are addressed:

INDIVIDUAL REINVENTION
Many people are oblivious both to what holds us back and to the sources of our own effectiveness. By gaining greater awareness of these blind spots you can free yourself and others to discover a new power in learning and leading.

THE MYTHS AND REALITIES OF LEADERSHIP
The current model, or paradigm, of leadership is bankrupt. Leadership is not about qualities, charisma, or special styles of behavior. Leadership occurs in the process of continuously creating and empowering yourself and others to act in the face of existing circumstances and inevitable breakdowns that come with change.

A BREAKTHROUGH IN YOUR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS
This program helps you uncover the personal strategies that you have adopted to succeed in your organization. These strategies actually rob people of the very power needed for real accomplishment. Through video work and personal coaching, you will have a breakthrough in your personal style of leadership and gain new competencies required to create a powerful future for yourself and your organization.

THE POWER OF LANGUAGE AND RELATIONSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS
It is no longer a question of whether an individual or organization must continually transform to meet the intense pace of global change— it is an issue of when, how and how quickly you can reach the next level of agility, flexibility and responsiveness.

Examine any business organization and you will find language and relationship at the core — whether it is enrolling employees in a vision, building teams, or selling a product. Learning to manage what is in the background of language and relationship (the unseen, unspoken, unexamined and inaccessible) is the essential tool for leaders who intend to move themselves and their organizations forward into extraordinary accomplishment. Leading and managing in this new and powerful way takes tremendous focus and clarity of intent. These are the areas directly addressed in Leadership by Design program.

As a participant in the Leadership by Design you will:

And you will come away with:

A New Freedom to Lead...
You will discover what has been driving your actions from your past... where you’ve had to adapt to be successful. A reservoir of possibilities opens up so you are not burdened by demands of leadership, rather, you feel powerful and free to lead.

A Direct Pipeline to the Heart of What’s Important for You and Others...
People get passionate about the future when they are building it for their company and themselves.

An Enhanced Ability to Inspire and Motivate Others Around Your Current Priorities...
After the course, participants report increased effectiveness and unpredictable accomplishment in designing and managing projects and communicating with and managing people.

The current challenges facing the world’s marketplace, business organizations and humanity require people diving deeply into the creation of new systems, ethics, work strategies and balanced living.

InSpirit Consulting generates a safe, consistent and powerful learning environment for a global network of clients facing change. We help to awaken and engage the vast resource that is the Human Spirit.

Leadership By Design - Overview:

Action is what executives and managers of organizations are concerned with. Accomplishments, such as outstanding profits and exemplary service, are always and only a result of action. But actions never just happen. In even a small department, actions must be coordinated. People not yet in action must be moved into action and that requires leadership.

Leadership Gap: There is a growing demand for leadership in business as organizations are beginning to look beyond the more traditional managerial methods of domination and control. But what is leadership? Where does it come from? Are leaders people who are just "born with it"? Are they imbued with some mysterious quality we call charisma? Can people learn to be leaders? By examining the current model or paradigm for leadership, following and power the answers to these questions may be found.

A Bankrupt Model: People typically say that effective leadership is a result of a leader's personal characteristics, like talent. Another part of the model is the belief that leaders are born, not made, and that followers are necessarily weak and lacking in vision. Although not always obvious, this model or paradigm for leadership has tremendous influence. When leadership is really required inside an organization, the current model in which we have all been trained is found to be insufficient. To effectively participate in a rapidly changing, fast-paced and turbulent world a new model for leadership is essential.

A New Possibility For Leadership: What would be possible if managers, supervisors or executives in your organization were providing the kind of leadership that inspires others to take bold, powerful and effective action? What kind of results would be possible if being a follower implied having tremendous vision and strength? What would be available if individuals in your organization viewed power as a function of how much they empowered others, rather than a scarce commodity to be jealously hoarded?

Leadership By Design has been delivered to thousands of people in business, government, and international organizations. The participants have discovered a new access to powerful leadership and as a result their organizations have profited by a substantial increase in the performance and productivity of not only the participants, but also the people they lead. Equally important, participants report a new ability to be leaders in all aspects of their lives.

Objectives:

Outline:

Leadership By Design is designed to dramatically impact the effectiveness of the participants. Each participant is required to bring to the program a project which they are committed to accomplishing that is so challenging that it looks literally impossible to do without a breakthrough in their own leadership. The most significant results of the program are those which happen afterwards in these projects.

Following is an outline of the key elements of Leadership By Design:

Day One

Build a foundation for an inquiry and examination into the areas of leadership, following and power. Discover the issues, challenges and concerns participants are faced with regarding leadership and success in their lives and in their organizations. Engage in an in-depth exploration of leadership, following and power.

Participants examine the myths and principles of leadership which shape and limit their actions and even what they think is possible. Through this exploration, participants free themselves from the grip of these myths and principles.

Videotape each participant speaking of their accomplishments and concerns for their leadership.The video enables the individuals to explore how they present themselves to others as a leader.

Exploration of listening - both pro-active and re-active. Analysis of how this relates to leadership and empowerment.

Day Two & Three

Engage in daily practices and activities that are designed to serve the mind, body and spirit. We will develop deeper skills in healing, compassion and personal balance. Honoring and exploring the depth of our emotions as leaders, as women, and as men...we learn to expand our range of expression, receptivity and our ability to trust our intuition.

In depth work with each participant through video playback and interaction so they can discover their own personal leadership style and adaptation to the current operating paradigm for leadership, following and power.

Practical conversations are held that reveal the strategies we have adopted to get along in our vocation and in our organizations, strategies that may rob us of the very power we need for real accomplishment.

Day Four: The Edge - Outdoors Spiritual Adventure Journey

With this outdoor adventure, participants can step outside their normal boundaries in a safe atmosphere which allows them to see where they have stopped, where they have ceased to grow, where they have compromised the true spirit of life for some concession to convenience, security or ease.

In this process we see that most of us distort our abilities, either overestimating or underestimating, but usually it is underestimating what we are capable of. This event is like a physical and emotional obstacle course which challenges the participants self perception...be it mental, physical or
emotional.
 
In the midst of these challenges we find ourselves reaching past normal
barriers, calling upon deeper strengths and contacting the power which gives
us the ability to accomplish anything.  In discovering and accessing these new
strengths we also tap into a huge reservoir of self confidence, fulfillment,
and love seldom accessible to us.  Through using challenges which require
maximum participation and cooperation from the group members, habitual self-
imposed limitations begin to dissolve into a greater sense of accomplishment.

Day Five

Design and invent a new paradigm for leadership, following and power that allows for a new culture of leadership/ empowerment in the organization.

Build a new foundation of distinctions and vocabulary that makes available to the participants a language of leaders.

Each participant is again videotaped and then coached in bringing forth the qualities in them that allow for great leadership.

Developing a project which is an expression of each participant’s breakthrough in leadership and in their own particular area of accountability.

Day Six

Theme: Integration, Relaxation & Fun

New practices and disciplines are given to empower you to bring forth your new vision and new leadership style

You will be able to return back home and to your organization with more ease, grace and confidence in action that inspires you and others.

We will journey to the Healing Hot Springs to soak (perhaps receive a massage) and relax enjoying some "downtime" reflecting on the breakthroughs and miracles that happened to everyone before departing.

An Example From: Leadership By Design

The following section of Leadership By Design distinguishes the term, "paradigm", for the participants and has them determine the current paradigm for leadership, following and power. They then examine the limitations this paradigm places on leadership and performance in their organization.

The Distinction Paradigm:
Our thinking is shaped by paradigms. A paradigm is a pattern of behavior that stems from a particular way of viewing the world.

Some definitions of paradigms are:
Powers of the Mind, Adam Smith: A shared set of assumptions. The paradigm is the way we perceive the world; like air to the bird and water to the fish. The paradigm explains the world to us and helps us to predict its behavior. When we are in the middle of the paradigm, it is hard to imagine any other paradigm.

Discovering the Future, the Business of Paradigms, Joel Barker: A paradigm is a set of rules and regulations that: 1) describe boundaries; and 2) tells you what to do to be successful within those boundaries. A paradigm tells you that there is a game, what the game is, and how to play it successfully.

The sense of game is a very appropriate metaphor for paradigms because it reflects the need for borders and directions on how to perform in order to "do it right". A paradigm tells you how to play the game according to the rules. With that definition, you can't help but conclude that there are many paradigms in our everyday life.

A paradigm shift, then, is a change to a new game, a new set of rules.

Changes in paradigms are what have been triggering much of society's turbulence for the last twenty years. We had sets of rules we knew well, then someone changed the rules. We understood the old boundaries, then we had to learn new boundaries. And those challenges dramatically upset our world.

What is the paradigm to get ahead in most organizations?

Do what you're told, don't take risks, keep control at the top, numbers are all important.

A paradigm is invisible, it gives what is thought or believed.

A paradigm actually uses you -- it shapes and motivates your actions. It allows for and eliminates certain possibilities.

Paradigms act as physiological filters -- we see the world quite literally through our paradigms.

A paradigm acts as an information filter, and what we actually perceive is determined by our paradigms. What may be perfectly visible, perfectly obvious, to persons with one paradigm may be quite literally invisible to persons with a different paradigm. And this is the paradigm effect.

What is the paradigm for leadership, following and power?
In The Leadership By Design we work our way backwards in dealing with both societal and individual paradigms until we get to ground zero. It is from there that a new possibility for leadership, following and power is invented.

Current Paradigm for Leadership, Following and Power:

The Measurement Of Success In This Paradigm Is Making It,
Surviving And Adapting.


Leadership By Design is a breakthrough in the evolution of leadership training and development which allows participants to renew their commitment to leadership and their vision for their organization while making a new level of effectiveness available to them in their day-to-day productivity.

Leadership By Design is for individuals:

• with large commitments which require them to be responsible for the productivity of others
• whose actions as a leader seem to be restricted by the people they are leading or by the "system" in which they lead
• with a tremendous vision of who they could be for themselves and their organizations and who are not yet fulfilling on that vision
• who are visible, perceived leaders with or without title
• who may be facing problems or new challenges in their leadership and are ready for a breakthrough

Leadership By Design is for organizations:

• who are recognized as leaders in their industry
• who have a commitment to become known as the leaders in their field
• who are committed to accessing leadership as a powerful managerial tool
• who are committed to having their organizational vision become a reality with power and velocity

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