Effective Leadership Seminar Series
Leading With Character
Today's leaders need more than technical expertise and mental aptitude to succeed. They must possess the ability to effectively inspire and direct others. Such capacity is only achieved through the development and maintenance of strong relationships--strong relationships that come from a leader with good character.Goal: Understand the aspects of character-based leadership
Workshop: Participants identify and discuss character qualities that are required in a leader.
Understanding Perspectives
A leadership perspective is the viewpoint from which a leader sees life, analyzes problems, negotiates issues, makes decisions, and interacts with others. Just as a globe appears different from varying vantage points, so circumstances appear different from varying leadership perspectives.Goal: Understand how leadership perspectives affect your outlook on life.
Workshop: Participants evaluate themselves and discover their leadership perspective.
Servant Leadership
Servant leadership is a practical philosophy that supports people who choose to lead. It encourages collaboration, trust, foresight, listening, and the ethical use of power and equipment.Goal: Build strong relationships and lead with authority rather than power.
Workshop: Participants identify specific character qualities they see in a great leader. They then determine ways to build these qualities in their own lives.
Communicating With Sincerity
Communication is investing part of yourself in another person. Whether handling an appeal, recognizing others for demonstrating good character, or restoring a relationship through correction, communication is vital for you as a leader.Goal: Learn how to communicate with clarity regardless of personal differences.
Workshop: Participants identify personal communication problems and steps to remedy them.
Overcoming Anger
Uncontrolled anger is one of the chief factors contributing to the breakdown of families and ultimately the weakening of nations. In the workplace, it causes accidents, high turnover, and low productivity. When employers express anger toward employees, they destroy the desire to achieve.Goal: Learn how to correct the source of the problem and gain lasting control of anger.
Workshop: Participants identify anger, causes of anger, and steps to correct it in their own lives.
Encouraging Morale
A leader's choice of attitude will dramatically affect the mood of those under him or her. The leader that chooses to give energy will find his or her followers enthusiastic and energized. In contrast, a discouraged leader is followed by dispirited troops.Goal: Participants learn how to turn sources of irritation into opportunities for energy-giving.
Workshop: Participants identify irritations and the positive character qualities they can learn through them.