The Path of the Evolved Leader: The Year Program

MindSpring has spent a number of years designing a transformational leadership experience that allows individuals to make significant progress in their leadership in a short period of time.

The first program is scheduled for Tuesday — Thursday, January 11-13. The following is a brief description of the Targeted Areas of Growth that make up the year program.

OVERVIEW

1. Costs: $10,545.00 per participant.
2. Number of training days: 15 days over 5 programs / from January, 2011 — July, 2011.
3. Minimum number of participants: 15 / Maximum number of participants: 20.
4. Program includes 11 online assignments.
5. Program includes the 360° leadership evaluation process.
6. Program includes lunches, all materials, and all activities.

PROGRAM ONE / 3 DAYS / JANUARY 11-13, 2011
FLEXIBILITY AND ADAPTABILITY: REFINING YOUR PERSONAL STYLE

Benefits for the individual

• Increase your flexibility while managing conflict, navigating change, and creating your future.
• Enhance awareness of your natural leadership style, communication patterns and stress behaviors.
• Work with a comprehensive and proven leadership model.
• Develop a keen understanding of other styles while improving your ability to provide effective feedback to different styles.
• Become aware of the factors affecting your leadership outcomes, both positive and negative.

Benefits for the organization

• Develop a leader who understands that different styles require different strategies for optimal success.
• Increase appreciation for diversity of styles in the organization.
• Provide a perceptual lens through which to view team development.

Note: Program includes 3 online post-program assignments.

PROGRAM TWO / 2 DAYS / FEBRUARY 2-3, 2011
INTEGRITY: THE FOUNDATION OF INNOVATION AND OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE

Benefits for the individual

• Work with a challenging model to increase individual and organizational integrity.
• Increase your intentionality by developing a behavioral plan for walking a path of integrity in your life and work.
• Explore 10 stages of integrity and the predictable behaviors and outcomes of each.

Benefits for the organization

• Increase trust, dependability, and motivation among employees.
• Increase responsibility and decrease destructive behavior at all levels of operations.
• Implement strategies for moving up the ladder into higher levels of responsibility, performance, and organizational innovation.

Note: Program includes 2 online post-program assignments and the 360? leadership evaluation process.

PROGRAM THREE / 4 DAYS / APRIL 19-22
LEADERSHIP THROUGH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Benefits for the individual

• Profile your current leadership condition through 20 competencies of emotional intelligence.
• Learn to give and receive feedback while remaining calm and focused.
• Understand the link between emotions, thoughts and actions.
• Manage and direct the energy, flow and intention of your emotions.
• Attract and sustain rewarding interpersonal relationships both in and outside of your workplace.

Benefits for the organization

• Develop a leadership bridge that facilitates growth throughout the organization.
• Implement a strategy for dealing with conflict and providing feedback that is "win/win" for leadership and followership.
• Address the three challenges of leadership: Provide a superb product or service / Attract and retain talented people / Think innovatively.

Note: Program includes 3 online post-program assignments.

PROGRAM FOUR / 3 DAYS / JUNE 7-9, 2011
WELLNESS AND HEALTHY CHOICES FOR THE OVERWHELMED LEADER

Benefits for the individual

• Identify precisely the habitual triggers that cause you to upload and live in predictable, stressful conditions.
• Plot your habitual stress processes through the mind, body, emotion, and outcome stages to create new templates of behavior and responses to daily stress.
• Design and implement healthy mental, physical and emotional strategies as response mechanisms to leadership demands.
• Increase awareness of your inner resources to deal productively with stress.

Benefits for the organization

• Increase the leader’s ability to respond effectively to change, pressure, conflict and uncertainty, especially in tough economic times.
• Improve the leader’s behavior modeling for others in the organization.
• Increase clarity and intentionality of the whole group through the leader’s improved clarity and intentionality.

PROGRAM FIVE / 3 DAYS / JULY 12-14, 2011
THE EVOLVING LEADER: EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPING OTHERS

Benefits for the individual

• Identify the path of the evolved LeaderSelf through The Leadership Style Chart which provides you with an extraordinary understanding of your leadership behaviors and outcomes.
• Be willing and able to develop others and serve as a lighthouse for your organization.
• Understand the causes and corrective action needed for employee dis-engagement.
• Present the evolved view of your LeaderSelf and the outcomes you desire.
• Turn wisdom gained in your leadership development process into action and create leadership legacy.

Benefits for the organization

• Identify the path for emerging leaders to follow.
• Creating a culture of employee engagement.
• Implement the process of building and maintaining mentoring relationships.
• Expand the organizational vision in creating the future.

Note: Program includes 2 offline assignments and 1 online assignment.