Insights leadership development methodology is underpinned by the major premise that change in the workplace starts with change at the individual level.  And there is no better place to start this personal development work than with an organization’s leaders. 

Our Transformational Leadership Program devotes time to helping leaders understand their own unique style, and how this manifests itself in their relationships with others and in their day-to-day activities.

With a clear knowledge of self and personal impact, we move leaders on to examine their effectiveness in eight critical areas, using a range of diagnostic tools and learning modes to move towards personal action plans. 

The eight elements of the Insights Transformational Leadership model have been placed around the Insights Discovery wheel. 

   -   Leading Change

   -   Compelling Vision

   -   Inspiring Others

   -   Fostering Teamwork

   -   Coaching & Mentoring

   -   Inner Spirit

   -   Thought Leadership

   -   Results Oriented

Each of these elements is underpinned by specific capabilities at the self, team and organizational levels.   Each of these: 

   -   Pulls most strongly on one or, in some cases, two particular colour energies      

   -   Requires all four Insights Discovery colour energies to be used effectively

For example, although ‘Fostering Teamwork – building cohesive, high-performance teams’ draws especially on Sunshine Yellow and Earth Green energy:

   -   it still needs a blend of all four colour energies if it is to be done to a high standard 

   -   it can be mastered by anyone, no matter what their colour energy preferences or their personal wheel position

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Leading Change

This is a rigorous and highly interactive full-day or two-day experience that offers proven best practices in leading change.  Leading Change focuses on initiating and managing personal and organizational transitions.  This program provides participants with practical tools, resource materials, established techniques and an in-depth understanding of the impact of change for themselves, their team and their organization.  

This comprehensive program ensures a world class learning experience for developing a disciplined approach to managing change.   

Participants in this program will:

• Understand the impact that employee commitment has on change success, and learn how to apply a 6-step change process that builds employee commitment
• Develop self-awareness about current leadership skills and initiate personal development strategies to enhance abilities as change leaders
• Gain insight into how personal preferences influence employees’ response to change and how that response relates to change resistance
• Strengthen their own leadership effectiveness by applying a color balanced approach to each step of the change process

Move application of best practices forward by applying the 6-step change process to a current change project and developing concrete strategies for improving the change process.

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Compelling Vision

The best way to accurately predict the future is to create it.  Great leaders have a clear vision through which they inspire and motivate others.  This program equips the leader with the strategic tools to co-create a challenging, stimulating and meaningful vision with their organization. Take your team beyond their perceived possibilities!   

This one-day workshop focuses on creating a personal vision, leading your team and managing from all four quadrants.

Participants in this program will:

• Learn how to create inspiring personal and collective visions
• Clarify the leader’s role in visioning
• Develop clear goals based on the application of the powerful and proven Insights goal-setting framework
• Learn how to effectively communicate a vision and understand and deal with resistance
• Apply involvement principles, and create an active plan to move from vision to reality
   

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Inspiring Others

Transformational leadership requires the ability to engage the hearts and minds of people with different wants, needs and expectations.  A successful leader is one who can genuinely understand what it is like to walk in the shoes of others.  This one-day workshop moves leaders to explore their own inner motivation and create empowering patterns that source their own inspiration. 

Personalized resources and learning guides create awareness of the impacts of different leadership styles and provide the steps necessary to influence, motivate, and inspire others.

Participants in this program will:

• Be able to identify how and when to apply different communication styles
• Fully understand the distinction between externally-led motivation and self-led inspiration
• Have enhanced confidence in dealing with emotions, and apply a practical tool for processing inner talk
• Learn the skills vital for influencing and negotiating
• Develop and apply strategies that generate motivation and inspiration in others
• Explore how to inspire people over time

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Fostering Teamwork

Leadership requires the ability to juggle a number of different balls in the air at a time.  Building high-performance teams is one of those balls.  A successful team combines a range of diverse yet intrinsically linked elements.  The leader’s role is to ensure attention is given to all of these elements, and action is taken to build on strengths, close any gaps, and achieve excellence. 

This is a full-day or two-day program that focuses on understanding team dynamics and taking practical steps to improve teamwork and team effectiveness.   

Participants in this program will:

• Learn key principles of team development
• Consider their own team’s specialized profile to build on the team’s natural strengths and preferences
• Identify how their team is performing against 16 distinct elements of high performing teams (assessment is optional)
• Apply strategies, tools and techniques to enhance the performance of their team
• Take away practical job aids to maximize individual performance every day for the benefit of the team

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Coaching & Mentoring

All great leaders know that truly exceptional results occur when people in their organization take responsibility for making things happen.  This level of empowerment requires leaders to be effective coaches and mentors. 

This is a full-day or two-day, hands-on, practical application workshop that includes ample in-class practice time.  It offers a non-judgmental language for providing feedback and emphasizes how to model a coaching style of leadership in day-to –day operations.  Expect immediate application of skills that have been practiced in a safe environment.

Participants of this program will:

• Understand the importance and benefits of a coaching style of leadership as a means of providing instruction, direction, feedback, and support for performance improvement
• Develop self-awareness for building on one’s own strengths as a high performing coach, and increase effectiveness through guided application of five powerful coaching models
• Be able to recognize and articulate an employee’s strengths, needs, and blind spots to increase employee performance and engagement
• Fine-tune fundamental coaching skills of questioning, listening, and following-up on feedback
• Create concrete strategies for immediate application

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Inner Spirit

Transformational leaders are authentic, saying what they mean and meaning what they say.  This program explores the inner qualities essential for transformational leadership.  Leaders will continue their journey of personal discovery, focusing on understanding possible blind spots, embracing their opposite and setting insightful goals.

This full day workshop helps individuals and teams to identify and appreciate the impact of their beliefs and values.   Creative job aids, powerful story-telling, and interactive exercises, help create an individual’s sense of purpose, and develop leaders who are also self-aware and authentic.

Participants in this program will:

• Understand their core identity and their purpose as a leader

• Explore the impact of their personal beliefs and values and assess how these align with those at the organizational level

• Take charge of their lives with authenticity and courage, and learn to express their true gifts as leaders

• Develop strategies for consciously working through blind spots

• Apply proven techniques for reducing stress and re-energizing with a new perspective

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Thought Leadership

Transformational leaders are aware of their thought processes and the biases of their perceptions.  Truly great leaders need to adapt and apply a variety of cognitive and intuitive processes in order to excel in many different disciplines.   This program is designed to build a leader’s capability to utilize different thinking and processing styles to maximize their effectiveness. 

This one-day workshop focuses on personal creativity and understanding your own learning style.  Leaders will be encouraged to identify their own dominant style, to identify the key aspects of both the content and the process of their thinking, and to make any necessary enhancements.  This involves balancing objective analysis, personal intuition and consultation with others in their decision-making.

Participants in this program will

• Examine their preferred patterns of thought and learning to increase their awareness of the distortions and biases of their perception

• Learn to use an appropriate balance of objective analysis and subjective assessment in forming conclusions

• Look at the impact of conflicting thoughts and learn how to create alignment

• Using the Insights 4-sight model, introduce the Jungian functions of thinking, feeling, sensing and intuition, and learn to apply these different functions in problem solving and decision-making

• Develop strategies to help others learn in ways that best meet their learning needs … and not just those of the leader.

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Results Oriented

Transformational leaders accept personal responsibility for their own and their staff’s results.  They focus on effectiveness and efficiency, investing their time and the organization’s wisely.  Their teams will have clear and meaningful targets to work towards, supported by resourced and prioritized plans. 

This one-day workshop focuses on leading with integrity, commitment and accountability for results. 

Participants in this program will:

• Set clear and meaningful targets in alignment with both vision and values

• Be able to effectively plan and prioritize in order to maintain consistency and reliability

• Learn how to ensure a “delivery mindset” and gain an outstanding reputation for the organization

• Strategize on how to bring discipline to the process of influencing others, while continuing to embrace a “people-focused” style

• Learn how to influence results by claiming your unique gifts while embracing your opposites

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