Leaderhood® Series

Workshops for leaders and teams
Our MBTI®-based leadership development portfolio is available as the Leaderhood® Series.

This 7-workshop series consists of 28-35 hours of fun and interactive adult learning.

The Self-Aware Leader – Part 1 and Part 2

These two workshops are designed to challenge you as a leader to reflect and gain greater awareness of your current leadership capability. Self aware leaders recognize their strengths and weaknesses and understand their tendencies toward stress and conflict. The better leaders understand themselves, the more able they are to change leadership attributes. Self-awareness is a critical prerequisite to effective leadership.

Participants learn to:

• Explain difference between each dichotomy of the Myers Briggs Temperament Inventory (MBTI®)
• Determine one’s own temperament based on the MBTI self-assessment
• Connect their MBTI temperament to their leadership behaviors and practices
• Exercise “other awareness” that enables leaders to better build trust
• Recognize the impact of certain temperament filters upon behavior in the workplace

Managing Conflict

For front to mid-level leaders
This workshop addresses one of the most frustrating and complicated aspects of leadership - managing conflict. Despite the fact that conflict is a natural disagreement resulting from individuals or groups that differ in attitudes, beliefs, values or needs, it is often the foundation for many of today’s workplace woes.

• Identify the common ingredients of conflict
• Connect their MBTI® temperaments to how they handle conflict and confrontation
• Describe five conflict resolution modes
• Demonstrate the four-step assertion process
• Deal more effectively with difficult or challenging people

Critical Thinking

Leaders must be able to effectively recognize and assess complex situations. They must be able to make the optimal decisions based on their own situation assessment capabilities. Critical thinking is a necessary competency for all individual leaders and for all successful organizations.

Participants learn to:

• Connect their MBTI® temperaments to how they make decisions
• Explain the stages of the critical thinking model
• Apply the "zig zag” problem solving model
• Demonstrate how to use the models in making sound business decisions

Managing Performance

As leaders strive to effectively navigate the challenging demands of today’s workplaces, it is of particular importance that organizations utilize best practices that will attract and retain the most talented and diverse employees. Effectively managing the performance of an employee is essential to the on-going success of the individual and the organization.

Participants learn to:

• Connect their MBTI® temperaments to how they manage associate performance
• Create strategies to address different levels of associate performance
• Set performance expectations with associates
• Identify leadership biases that influence effective performance management
• Identify behavioral assumptions that influence coaching

Building Effective Teams

A shared sense of purpose and commitment to that purpose are necessary cornerstones for effective teams. This workshop provides leaders with insight into the stages of team development and tools to generate genuine commitment and accountability within their organizations.

Participants learn to:

• Recognize the stages of team development
• Evaluate their team’s current stage of team development
• Connect their MBTI® temperament to their approach to building relationships within the team
• Utilize tools to generate robust dialogue and constructive conflict to achieve commitment

Changivity®

This interactive workshop focuses on the emotional effects of change on individuals, teams, and organizations. It is designed to teach leaders how to effectively lead others as well as themselves through the change process. Leaders learn key strategies for dealing with unproductive reactions to change and how to develop their employee’s resiliency.

Participants learn to:

• Connect their style and MBTI® temperament to how you lead yourself and others through change
• Identify the stages of personal change
• Recognize three types of responses to change and how to manage each of them
• Develop action plans for improving employees’ resilience