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Transformational
Leadership
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
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Compelling Vision
- Inspiring
Others
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Fostering Teamwork
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Coaching & Mentoring
- Inner
Spirit
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Thought Leadership
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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
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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:
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Understand the impact that employee commitment has on
change success, and learn how to apply a 6-step change process that
builds employee commitment
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Develop self-awareness about current leadership
skills and initiate personal development strategies to enhance
abilities as change leaders
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Gain insight into how personal preferences influence
employees’ response to change and how that response relates to
change resistance
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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:
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Learn how to create inspiring personal and collective
visions
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Clarify the leader’s role in visioning
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Develop clear goals based on the application of the
powerful and proven Insights goal-setting framework
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Learn how to effectively communicate a vision and
understand and deal with resistance
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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:
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Be able to identify how and when to apply different
communication styles
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Fully understand the distinction between
externally-led motivation and self-led inspiration
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Have enhanced confidence in dealing with emotions,
and apply a practical tool for processing inner talk
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Learn the skills vital for influencing and
negotiating
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Develop and apply strategies that generate motivation
and inspiration in others
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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:
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Learn key principles of team development
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Consider their own team’s specialized profile to
build on the team’s natural strengths and preferences
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Identify how their team is performing against 16
distinct elements of high performing teams (assessment is optional)
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Apply strategies, tools and techniques to enhance the
performance of their team
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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:
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Understand the importance and benefits of a coaching
style of leadership as a means of providing instruction, direction,
feedback, and support for performance improvement
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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
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Be able to recognize and articulate an employee’s
strengths, needs, and blind spots to increase employee performance
and engagement
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Fine-tune fundamental coaching skills of questioning,
listening, and following-up on feedback
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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:
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Understand their core identity and their purpose as a leader
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Explore the impact of their personal beliefs and values and assess
how these align with those at the organizational level
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Take charge of their lives with authenticity and courage, and learn
to express their true gifts as leaders
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Develop strategies for consciously working through blind spots
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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
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Examine their
preferred patterns of thought and learning to increase their
awareness of the distortions and biases of their perception
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Learn to use an
appropriate balance of objective analysis and subjective assessment
in forming conclusions
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Look at the impact of
conflicting thoughts and learn how to create alignment
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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
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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:
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Set clear and meaningful targets in alignment with both vision and
values
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Be able to effectively plan and prioritize in order to maintain
consistency and reliability
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Learn how to ensure a “delivery mindset” and gain an outstanding
reputation for the organization
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Strategize on how to bring discipline to the process of influencing
others, while continuing to embrace a “people-focused” style
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Learn how to influence results by claiming your
unique gifts while embracing your opposites
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E-mail:
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