TRAINING COURSE

The Cycle of Leadership:
Redefining Leaders for the 21st Century

Agenda

Module 1:  Your Challenge

Module 2:  Leadership Journey Lines

Module 3:  The Hand You Have Been Dealt

Module 4:  Ideas

Module 5:  Values

Module 6:  Emotional Energy

Module 7:  Edge

Module 8:  Creating Teaching Opportunities

Key Objectives

• Articulate the business ideas that have made the organization successful in the past
• Assess operating values to determine if current values support or sabotage the business ideas
• Examine the leader's role in creating the Virtuous Teaching Cycle, a self-reinforcing teaching/learning process that keeps everyone energized about teaching and learning
• Understand the need for leaders to make tough, yes-no decisions based on the good of the organization
• Help participants develop their "teachable point of view"

Topics Addressed

• How leaders achieve success through teaching
• The leader's role in creating and instilling a set of values
• The concepts of portfolio edge and people edge
• How leaders squarely face reality
• Frameworks for making tough decisions
• How stories help people implement change
• Delivering the story with passion and creating energy in the organization
• Creating Virtuous Teaching Cycles

Primary Result

Participants learn and practice new leadership skills to engage, align and energize team members while building a Teaching Organization.