The Vision
- You will understand and practice leadership presence and strategies connected to building connections with self, others, and the community.
- You will explore - and continue to explore - your values and leadership strengths.
- You will set personal leadership goals.
- Michael Bungay Stanier’s book, The Advice Trap, will provide the foundation to examine and apply ‘coach‐likeness’ as a leadership tool. With an emphasis on increasing curiosity and slowing down your advice to others, we will build skills such as deeper listening, more effective questioning, and using a coaching model to shape your leadership impact.
- You will actively apply and practice skills and strategies, particularly those related to being more ‘coach-like’, in Leaders' Coaching Circles.
- Together with the other leaders, you will co-create the plan for meeting and the topics for the Leaders Coaching Circle.
Schedule & Suggested* Content
*Subject to change as we work together and clarify your current leadership needs
In-Person: September 23, 2024 - 8:30am-1:00pm (includes lunch)
- Presence – a core leadership practice
- Setting up our work together – hopes, fears, success
- Leadership strengths
- Levels of listening - practice
- Values and the power of our narratives
- Intro to Michael Bungay Stanier: our “Advice Monster” & being more ‘coach-like’. (Using the book https://www.mbs.works/advice-trap-book/)
- Personal leadership goals – setting the bar
In-Person: October 17, 2024 - 8:30am-1:00pm (includes lunch)
- Leadership presence: stay curious longer – MBS-Section 2 (p.61 – 111)
- Effective questioning – what & how, applying our learning, bringing our leadership challenges
- Intro to coaching
- Coaching – GROW model
- Setting up our Leaders Coaching Circles
Online: October 2024-January 2025 4 x 60-minute Zoom sessions (TBD)
- Leaders Coaching Circles
- 3-4 participants per circle, supported by your coach
- Learning, leadership challenges and practice
In-Person: December 3, 2025 - 8:30am-1:00pm (includes lunch)
- Leadership presence – personal power and social power https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/personal-power-versus-social-amy-cuddy/
- Coaching and feedback – MBS (p.146–161)
- Beliefs and assumptions – the Ladder of Inference, or the stories we tell ourselves
- Engaging our team – check-in
In-Person: January 15, 2025 - 8:30am-1:00pm (includes lunch)
- Leadership presence – focus, creativity, clarity, and compassion
- Check-in (re: Coaching circles, ongoing learning and goals)
- Trust and Psychological Safety ✓
- Inspiring change in culture – hard and easy change – other change theories
- Celebrating and pulling together our learning
- Planning the next steps in our leadership journey