A powerful 5-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 them back and to the sources of their own effectiveness. By gaining greater awareness of these blind spots anyone can free themselves 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 reinventing 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 the Leadership Reinvention program.
As a participant in the Leadership Reinvention you will:
- Discover how you motivate and inspire a work environment that is feeling the fears and pressures of a demanding and accelerating marketplace.
- Learn how to keep yourself and others inspired and on-track. Clearly, leadership cannot continue to imply a life of imbalance and overwhelm.
- Step beyond who you think you are and how you think you can be, beyond what you think you can accomplish.
- Inquire into issues at the heart of being a leader that determine the quality of your life and your organization’s success.
- Produce a breakthrough in thinking and personal ability necessary to lead yourself and your organization through today’s significant rate of change.
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 program, 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 Coaching & 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 Reinvention Intensive - 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 Reinvention 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
- Expose the current paradigm for leadership, following and power as bankrupt.
- Invent a new possibility for leadership, following and power.
- Give participants a new access to power in fulfilling their commitments as leaders.
- Generate a breakthrough for the participants in their ability to realize and fulfill their vision for their organization and for themselves.
- Enable participants with large commitments to fulfill them through their effectively taking responsibility for the productivity of others.
Outline
Leadership Reinvention 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 Reinvention:
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.
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 their true spirit for some concession to convenience, security or ease.
 Day Four - Core Values
In this process of discovering your core values you can see that most of us distort our abilities, either overestimating or underestimating, but usually it is underestimating what we are capable of.
In the midst of this process 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 and fulfillment, accessible to us. Through using exercises 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.
New practices and disciplines are given to empower you to bring forth your new vision and new reinvented 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.
An example from Leadership Reinvention -see here.
 The Measurement Of Success In This Paradigm Is Making It, Surviving And Adapting.
Leadership Reinvention 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 Reinvention 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 Reinvention 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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