ALI Coaching: Authentic Leadership Institute

Coaching

There are many leadership models, each offering a cure-all prescription of skills, competencies, strengths or intelligences. Yet during the last two years over 2600 CEO’s were fired in the U.S.. Existing models of leadership development clearly do not suffice. Our research and practice has shown us that each person has a unique expression of leadership and we show up as a leader when we tap into it. Instead of trying to become a copy of Jack Welch or Larry Bossidy, what would happen if you fully understood and were operating from your unique expression, your genius as a leader? We call this one’s Authentic Leadership or True North.

ALI's mission is to guide our clients to identify and consistently operate from their own unique True North

Few paths are more rewarding or more challenging than operating as an authentic leader. Being authentic is not a license to “just be myself”. It requires knowing one’s True North and being appropriate to the situation at hand. Authentic leadership must express itself differently on the manufacturing floor than in the corporate boardroom. At the same time, if a leader is playing a role that is not his/her authentic self, no one will be fooled.

Our one-on-one coaching program is designed to help leaders deepen their ability to uncover and operate from their authentic leadership, acting within the real-world dynamics of their organizational environment. We have all experienced times when we were able to operate from this basis. All too often, though, our ability to draw upon it when we need to make decisions, set direction, or influence others is fleeting.

Our coaching brings together our extensive experience in the area of authentic leadership. Our approach is grounded in our work with the True North Authentic Leadership program at Harvard Business School, co-designing and delivering the MIT Sloan Distributed Leadership Model coaching program for top executives, work in the area of sports psychology invoke states of high performance, the latest breakthrough research on neuroscience and leadership, as well as strength-based models from the University of Michigan.

Through this coaching program, you will:

Understand who you are as an authentic leader
Learn to invoke your authentic leadership
Shift your key limiting beliefs about your leadership so they become powerful allies
Develop the ability to invoke and operate by choice from your authentic leadership in your day-to-day business context
Develop an individual and organizational leadership roadmap to define the playing field you want to operate from as an authentic leader in the organization

Structure of the Coaching includes

Initial session: two hours

Outline the program
Define the desired outcomes of the program
Define areas/situations that present the biggest challenge to your ability to operate as an authentic leader
Define areas/situations in which you are most effective as an authentic leader
Define the work to be done in preparation for the one-day coaching session
Decide if 360 interviews are needed
Initiate the Reflective Best Self Process

360 Interviews(Optional)

Full one-day one-on-one work session:

Understand who you are as an authentic leader
Learn to invoke your authentic leadership
Shift your key limiting beliefs about your leadership so that they become powerful allies
Develop an individual and organizational leadership roadmap to define the playing field you want to operate from as an authentic leader in the organization
Review the insights from the Reflective Best Self Process

Six Bi-weekly one-hour coaching sessions:

Reinforce your ability to lead when needed
Work to further define your authentic leadership roadmap, for yourself and the organization

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