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Leading for Growth
Leading for Growth is a two-day advanced program that challenges managers to rethink their role as leaders, shifting from traditional "heroic" managers to growth leaders who fully develop employees’ potential to achieve business results. Some of the original concepts were based on the work of David L. Bradford and Allan R. Cohen in their books, Post-Heroic Leadership and Managing for Excellence: The Guide to Developing High Performance in Contemporary Organizations
This program teaches leaders how to build a cohesive, shared-responsibility team where differences are valued and disagreements are raised and effectively resolved. It also teaches them how to use the skills of mutual influence to connect capabilities to strategies and the skills of supportive confrontation to eliminate behaviors that impede growth. Finally, Leading for Growth shows leaders how to build a shared vision with their team that guides strategy implementation.
Program Overview
Choosing Growth Leadership
This module presents a fundamental paradigm shift in the role of manager or team leader to build the capability for growth of the organization through growth of individuals.
Building a Collaborative Growth Culture
This module introduces the Collaboration Model, provides skill building in the stages to collaboration and shows decision-making approaches leaders use in sharing responsibility.
Understanding the Growth Leadership Inventory
Results of the Growth Leadership Inventory, which centers on six competencies in three dimensions, provide information from team members to the leader and an opportunity to interpret and discuss the feedback.
Creating a Shared Vision
This module defines and differentiates mission and vision. It delineates the characteristics of a shared vision and shows how the leader, with the team, can develop a meaningful vision that serves as a beacon for directing energy and activities in executing strategies.
Adopting Mutual Influence
In this module, participants learn and practice skills for mutual-influence relationships. Participants also learn the skills of supportive confrontation: how to confront behaviors that interfere with effective strategy implementation in a way that supportively develops individual capability.
Benefits
Upon completion of Leading for Growth, participants will:
Realize how traditional "heroic" management leads to over-responsibility by managers, resulting in others performing below their capacity.
Understand the collaborative mindset, the stages to collaboration, and four decision-making approaches
Empower team members to work more efficiently, produce better quality decisions, and experience commitment and fulfillment in the process.
Have a more progressive and powerful model of leadership that goes beyond "participative management."
Place greater value on diversity and encourage different perspectives from employees that will result in rich solutions.
Gain commitment to a shared vision that brings alignment with the group and with the organization as a whole.
Who Will Benefit
The program assumes basic managerial skills and is directed to middle and upper-middle managers, project managers, and team leaders. It is designed to address the needs of contemporary organizations with one or more of the following configurations:
Fast-paced, rapidly changing organizations that need to get the best from their employees
Enterprises that use highly skilled employees who perform complex tasks
Flat or lean organizations with departments or groups that are horizontally interdependent
Organizations with intact or cross-functional teams
Organizations concerned with morale/performance issues needing empowerment
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