A few words from the presentation…Leaders are power-filled. They make moment by moment decisions on how to lead. Those choices define how they spend their time and show what’s really important to them. The best practices of leaders reveal that building trusting relationships and empowering others goes a long way to helping organizations achieve their mission. And that’s the best practice of all.

Leadership’s Best Practices

General Description:

Leaders have power. How they choose to use it makes all the difference. The most effective leaders use it to build relationships and a positive workplace. Those choices transform power into service as they collaborate to get things done. The result of this transformation is greater trust. And with trust you can inspire, empower and succeed.

This is a practical discussion of how to lead – moment by moment in this transforming, trust-building way. Anchor your supervisory skills by focusing on this human side of leadership using the “Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders” (Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner). These practices are the hard, not soft skills. They directly impact outcomes, productivity, morale and service. You can increase your own satisfaction as you help others realize their full capacity -- making more of a difference in leading into the future and meeting your organization’s mission.

Presented For:

Current or prospective leaders at all levels of organizations who want to increase their own awareness and skill in working with people and creating work environments of trust.

Key Ideas:
  • What people look for and admire in their leaders.
  • The leader qualities, actions and stories that show trust building in action.
  • How credibility creates the foundation for a different, stronger type of leadership power.
  • Leadership effectiveness over time is inside out growth, moment by moment.
  • What research shows about leadership in high performing teams.
  • “The Five Practices of Exemplary Leader."

Practical Skills:
  • Assess your leadership skills using the LPI (Leadership Practices Inventory); chart how to grow.
  • Use “The Five Practices…” to involve people in ways that increase productivity and satisfaction.
  • Turn “The Five Practices…” into your own daily action-plan,
  • Apply the practices to common challenges like: managing change & leading across generations.

This topic uses copyrighted materials for which there is an additional cost.

Kouzes, James M. and Posner, Barry Z. (2002) The Leadership Challenge.
How To Get Extraordinary Things Done In Organizations. Third Edition. San Francisco: Josses-Bass

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