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Kickoff Reception Date: January 23
Workshop Dates: January 24, February 28, March 27, April 24, 2020
Retreat Dates: May 28-29, 2020
Kickoff Reception January 23, 2020
Workshop 1: Leadership Roadmap - January 24, 2020
Welcome to the 2018 Sal Leadership program. There are two core areas that any leader must learn how to manage – results and relationships. To make matters more complex, we are all managers and contributors at the same time. Making the transition from producing work to managing people (while still producing work) requires a priority-shifting tap dance. During this series overview, we will learn about the four leadership cornerstones that make that dance more manageable - Building Relationships, Assimilating Information, Providing Direction, and Creating a Vision.
Learning Objectives:
- Discover the four phases of effectively managing people and production and identify how each phase is geared to resolve a specific leadership challenge.
- Learn how to develop Trust as a core element of any successful work team and identify the ways Trust can be unintentionally destroyed.
- Explore common challenges that crop up for any supervisor related to managing results and leading people.
Workshop 2: Being an Emotionally Intelligent Leader - February 28, 2020
Being “emotionally intelligent” is a critical success factor for any stress-tolerant leader that seeks to effectively manage results as well as relationships. The pressure in any workplace is always generated more from managing the relationships. Learn how to handle difficult exchanges by controlling your own reactions and guiding others toward more effective interactions. In this session, we will explore the four cornerstones of Emotional Intelligence; Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management. Participants will have the opportunity to take the EI Instrument before (or during) the session.
Learning Objectives:
- Build Self-Awareness by recognizing their own triggers for stress and identify the source as internal (self-imposed) or external (other-imposed).
- Engage in proactive Self-Management by replacing impulse-driven, counter-productive behaviors with well-reasoned responses.
- Improve Social-Awareness by learning to read (and detach from) the responses of others during any difficult interaction.
Workshop 3: Deal With It! Handling Constant Change - March 27, 2020
The ability to effectively manage change is often identified as a core success competency in a fast-changing business environment. When employees get stuck and appear resistant to embracing any new direction, it is rarely a simple issue of stubborn refusal. A far more likely reason for not moving forward is a lack of basic problem-solving skills. Any new vision or strategy will also create a brand-new set of problems that demand attention. Most of us are comfortable solving the routine problems we have gotten used to. New and unfamiliar problems demand fresh thinking and a creative approach. During this idea lab, attendees will explore the link between successfully adapting to the change cycle and developing creative problem solving strategies.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how embracing change and the ability to solve unexpected problems with a minimum of stress and drama are critically linked.
- Identify the two primary types of problems and the main factors that impede resolution for each.
- Explore practical methods to combat “we’ve always done it this way” thinking and apply new approaches to address professional (and personal) challenges.
Workshop 4: Managing You is Killing Me! - April 24, 2020
One bad apple in a work-group can drag down production by as much as 30-40 percent. This finding by researcher William Phelps and reported by the Wall Street Journal, highlights a serious leadership challenge facing today’s manager – handling employees where performance falls unacceptable short of potential. People aren’t bad but performance and conduct can be! Having the skill to correct destructive behavior is critical - making sure we set the right conditions so that problems don’t happen in the first place is an absolute survival skill. This session in the Sal leadership series that will cover everything you will need to know to set expectations, manage results and address negative behavior.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how your communication style might be leading you Macro or Micro-Manage.
- Identify the 4 hidden reasons behind non-performance and how to avoid them.
- Learn to address a “bad attitude” by identifying behavior and providing corrective feedback that reduces defensiveness and focuses on limit setting.
Leadership Retreat: Visionary Leadership - Inspiring Action - May 28-29, 2020
Great leadership and hard work will only take you so far. You need a Vision to galvanize a team, unleash energy, and inspire collective, coordinated action. A great vision provides a clear, specific, compelling picture of what future success will look like, including those few key metrics that define success. It defines a target to be a lofty target to be achieved (yet to be accomplished) and clarifies the positive impact to employees, customers, and stakeholders. During this session, we will also explore how teams translate vision into actionable strategy to set themselves apart and deliver exceptional results.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore creating a professional (and personal) vision that can lead to successful transformation
- Learn the 4 characteristics of a vision that can inspire higher levels of production and performance
- Understand how strategic planning connects to visioning and learn how to avoid the two most common types of failure for any work team.
Registration Options
Leadership Workshops & Retreat - includes all four workshops and the two day retreat: $700
Leadership Workshops Only - includes all four workshops only: $500
Alumni Leadership Workshops - includes all four workshops only: $400
* No cancellations or refunds accepted within two days of course/event.