What Real Leaders Really Do®

Course Description:

The focus of this course is to expose supervisory/managerial personnel to a proven set of leadership paradigms that offer a clear and unambiguous path to understanding the real role and responsibility of a successful leader. Emphasis is placed on discussing and defining what is real leadership and the differences between an effective leader versus an effective manager. Most importantly, each participant will create a new leadership code of conduct that when successfully embraced and practiced will produce a greater level of success and satisfaction in their respective leadership capacities.

Course Topics

• The Essence of Leadership
• Leadership vs. Management — What’s the Difference
• 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Leaders
• A New Day, A New Way — A New Leadership Formula
• A Prescription for ExcellenceSM

Course Training Objectives

Participants will come away with the ability to:

• Recognize both the value and difference that effective personal leadership can make in an organization.
• Identify and discuss the characteristics that differentiate an effective leader from an effective manager.
• Spark a dialogue and new way of thinking about one’s individual role and responsibility as a leader.
• Create a Code of Conduct for new leadership behaviors that will govern and shape a leader’s success and destiny.

Course Topic Summaries

The Essence of Leadership
Leadership may be difficult to define because it can mean different things to different people and it can come in various shapes, sizes, colors and sexes but it certainly isn’t difficult to recognize. In this module, we engage participants in a discussion that helps them develop a clear and unambiguous understanding for what real leadership is and its associated challenges and opportunities for creating and delivering positive change within an organization.

Leadership vs. Management — What’s the Difference
Often leader and manage are terms that are used interchangeably when discussing or describing styles of personal engagement. However, increasingly there is a new way of thinking today that believes there are some very real and distinct differences and expected outcomes when one engages a person identified as either a leader or manager. this module highlights the real differences between the two styles and makes the participant more aware and sensitive to where their individual style of engagement falls and what adjustments might be necessary to be a more effective leader.

7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Leaders
A spirited discussion of attributes and characteristics that when present in either a leader or manger for any organization can sow the seeds of contempt, disengagement, loss of confidence in and towards both the leader/manager and the organization. In this module the participants are sensitized to the types of behaviors that they must guard against taking on themselves as part of their leadership style or challenge if seen or observed in others for the good of the organization.

A New Day, A New Way — A New Leadership Formula
Before a leader can expect anyone to really follow them, he/she must first earn and establish a critical relationship element which we call, “Big C”. Without “Big C” being present, neither a person nor an organization can expect people to follow them and/or deliver exceptional results on a sustainable basis. We define “Big C” and each of the elements of the leadership formula that positions a person for real success as a leader. As part of this module, each participant will develop a personal leadership code of conduct that helps govern their behavior and provides a clear path for achieving real leadership success.