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Practicing Leadership Today
Modern organizations have discovered, through necessity, that a leader is someone who creates a context where people can be the best versions of themselves, trusted and supported to do what they need to do in the best way, based on what is known at the time, experimenting and learning along the way, continuously.
In this course, you’ll explore how the problems that today’s organizations are trying to solve have evolved and how that evolution now invites the modern worker (employee, contractor, entrepreneur, manager… no matter the title) to be that kind of leader.
This course guides you on how to begin your shift to lead in this way.
In this course, you'll learn:
- Evolution of the types of problems today's organizations are trying to solve and what this invites from the modern worker (employee, contractor, entrepreneur, manager)
- Key leadership areas linked to creating a context for individuals, teams, and organizations to thrive
- Traditional and modern practices of leadership in those key areas
- How a modern leadership practitioner "shows up"
After successfully completing this course, you'll:
- Understand what leadership is - the critical difference between "leader" as a title and "leader" as who you are and what you do
- Know how you tend to show up as a leader in the key areas linked to creating a context for individuals, teams, and organizations to thrive
- Recognize the leadership practices of those around you so that you can learn from both the effective and ineffective examples
- Hone in on the leadership practices that you would like to strengthen so that you can create a context where people can be the best versions of themselves and do their best work
This course is for:
- Anyone who aspires to create environments where people can be the best version of themselves and do their best work
- Anyone who wants to cultivate leadership skills most effective in today's organizations
- Anyone who wants to explore and identify areas for further leadership development
Course Outline
Understand the meaning of the four terms that are critical to this course – “leader”, “practicing leadership”, “showing up”, and “organization”
Modules
- Exercise: Define the four critical terms
- Defining “Leader”
- Defining “Practicing Leadership”
- Defining “Showing Up”
- Defining “Organization”
Differentiate between traditional and modern practices of leadership that create a context for individuals, teams, and organizations to thrive.
Modules
- Today’s Problems
- Traditional and Modern Leadership Practices
- Key Areas of Leadership
- Exercise: Define the 8 Key Areas of Leadership
- Debrief the 8 Key Areas of Leadership
- Exercise: Establish Your Leadership Baseline
Examine foundational traits found among those who practice modern leadership.
Modules
- Exercise: Paint a Mental Picture
- Traits of a Modern Leader
- Exercise: Adjust Your Mental Picture
- Exercise: Hone Your Leadership Growth
- Why Show Up?
Recognize the inner and outer practices of showing up as a modern leader and their value to your practice of leadership.
Modules
- Introduction to the Leadership Practitioner Framework™
- Shifting Your Mindset
- Enabling Learning and Improvement
- Showing Up with Intention
- Responding vs. Reacting
- Connecting and Empathizing with Others
- Exploring Curiously
- Sharing Information
- Influencing
Understand what “influence” is and is not to modern leaders.
Modules
- Influence Is Not What You Think It Is
- Influence as an Outcome
Modules
- Practice Makes Permanent
- The Learning Boost: Practice with Intention
- Exercise: Reflection