GOAL & Rising Stars Program

Learn how high potentials with leadership responsibilities are facilitated through an individual growth process, allowing for reflection, skill-building and engagement in this program.

Organizations who manage the leadership development of their workforce produce greater results with less effort than their competitors. Sometimes, the most difficult aspect of developing leaders is how to formally structure a program that both stretches those with high performance and capability and allows for self-reflection that is necessary for growth. In this program, high potentials with leadership responsibilities are facilitated through an individual growth process, allowing for reflection, skill-building and engagement.

Your organization may need this session if:

• Feedback is infrequent, poorly timed, critical and damaging to motivation.
• The only time individuals get an indication of their own performance is at review time.
• Reward and recognition programs, while costly and far-reaching, don’t seem to have the impact they once did.
• Giving and receiving any feedback is very stressful to all parties involved.
• Performance results are vague and subjective.

Learning Outcomes:

• Define leadership capabilities and competencies as best practices.
• Investigate what constitutes a true breakthrough in your current leadership.
• Increase awareness about and access to personal resources in your role as a leader of change.
• Understand and eliminate self-limiting mental patterns, supporting middle-level leaders in meeting their roles and business objectives.
• Use mindfulness and self-mastery to focus thoughts and actions in difficult and challenging situations associated with leading change.
• Lead yourself and others through the effective use of levels of listening, fields of conversation and inquiry in addressing challenging situations that require change.
• Identify and conduct conversations that matter most.
• Create high levels of engagement by managing motivation in self and others.
• Learn to skillfully identify and consider the concerns and perspectives of stakeholders while effectively achieving results through others.
• Learn to be fully present to motivate, acknowledge and develop yourself and others.
• Observe and hear how the eight dimensions of culture vary by developing cultural maps and analyzing areas of potential difficulties when working with other people of other cultures.
• Discuss and compare why some leaders struggle to adjust and others quickly adapt to the changing needs of their employees and organization.
• Experience and discover how simple interactions between people/parts of an organization lead to an emergence of new order and coherence in a system as a whole.
• List the four main business drivers responsible for the increased complexity occurring within all organizations.
• Learn to identify the Interaction Styles of the people you work with to create effective interactions, influence their behavior and gain their support.
• Identify what is required in taking on an impossible challenge, succeed and continue to learn.
• Prepare a personal development plan to your continue leadership development post-program and apply lessons learned from the program.