Overview: Assessing & Refining Your Leadership Style

Becoming a more distinctive & effective leader

About the Program

1. Discover Your Current Leadership Style

Learn from Your Successes
Identify the leadership pattern that is your tested recipe for success and: the key steps in your high performance pattern; how to identify specific areas in which you are not yet using your high performance behavior; and how to recognize the situations that best suit your high performance leadership pattern.

Draw Lessons from Your Disappointing Experiences
Learn from leadership experiences that didn’t go well. Find common patterns in your disappointing experiences not yet evident to you, and gain insight into the conditions that distinguish your successes from your disappointments.

Leverage Your Strengths
Pinpoint your distinctive strengths – the combination of needs, talents and skills that constitute your make-up – and explore the implications for managing and enhancing your leadership effectiveness. Understanding your strengths will give you insight into how to leverage them to create successes more often.

Manage Your Limits
Fundamental individual differences affect how people lead and what people expect of leaders. Determine your own limits – the things you don’t do well or don’t like to do – and learn how you can manage those limits in ways that support your strengths.

2. Develop Your Style into a Distinctive Leadership Signature

Manage Your Shadow
What internal barriers prevent you from reaching your potential as a leader and from consistently achieving your high performance leadership pattern?

We’ll help you identify and better manage your “shadow” – the parts of yourself that get in the way of your intentions, either because you are unaware of them or can’t control them. You’ll identify hot buttons that trigger over-reactions, limiting mind sets that block you from realizing aspirations and unconscious biases toward classic leadership dilemmas.

Assess Your Flexibility
Some adjustment to your style may be beneficial, but you can’t be everything to everybody. How do you set realistic expectations for yourself that keep you in the “growth zone?”

3. Become a More Distinctive & Effective Leader: Next Steps

Clarify Your Purpose
What if, instead of asking how you might adapt to fit situations, you selected situations that fit what’s most important to you? This module helps you recognize and clarify the sense of purpose that you bring to leadership, and identify those situations that fit your sense of purpose and those that don’t.

Understand Your Sweet Spot
To integrate the learning from the various modules, you’ll take stock of the opportunities you have identified and choose the ones that offer the highest payoff. You will learn to articulate your signature style in a way that defines you concisely and powerfully to others; make commitments for enhancing your leadership signature; and recognize ways of encouraging ongoing feedback for continuous improvement.