3-4 Day Management Team Program: Authentic Leadership Institute

Discovering and Accessing Your Authentic Leadership

3-4 Day Management Team Program

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.

This program takes two programs, our introductory (True North) and advanced (Leadership at the Core), and customizes them for an intact management team. We are all influenced by those we work with. What happens when everyone is operating from their Authentic Leadership? In our experience, issues and challenges that previously could not be resolved or even discussed become easy to address. The time needed to make challenging decisions is significantly reduced, and the level of truthful dialogue about what is really happening in the organization increases dramatically.

Through this program, you will:

Discover your own “True North” as an Authentic Leader
Understand the principles that allow us as individuals and the whole team to operate from our Authentic Leadership, changing the way we interact, the level of honest dialogue that can occur, and the types of decisions that can be made.
Learn to invoke your Authentic Leadership more easily, and experience what it looks like when others on the team do so.
Shift a key limiting belief about your leadership into a powerful strength and ally.
As a team, address key issues and challenges that previously could not be resolved or even discussed, significantly improving the bottom-line business results of the organization.
Develop a new contract as a management team, defining how you will operate at much high level of honesty, authenticity and impact.

Example Structure of a 3 day program:

Pre-Workshop Interviews and Program Customization

Conduct in-depth interviews with the participants
Development of customized program based on interviews
Finalize program with client

Day 1:

Overview of the Program
Discovering and sharing our True North crucible stories
Beginning to understand the difference between a high-performance staff group and a team
Defining your own True North and understanding the unique True North of each member of the leadership team

Day 2:

Learning to readily invoke your Authentic Leadership by choice
Shifting a key limiting belief about your leadership into a powerful strength and ally
Dramatically increasing your ability to operate from your Authentic Leadership and seeing how it shows up for each member of the team

Day 3:

Defining, discussing, and addressing a previously intractable issue that has a significant impact on the organization’s success
Developing an approach to address other similar issues
Shifting a key limiting belief that has been keeping the leadership team as a whole from being twice as effective
Developing a new contract as a leadership team defining how you will operate at a much higher level of honesty, authenticity and impact.

Presenter

Nick Craig has a unique ability to help leaders create strong cultures of execution balanced with grace, wisdom, and compassion. Nick brings his experience applying the Distributed Leadership Model at MIT’s Sloan School and his work with colleague Andrew McLean in the area of authentic leadership development at Harvard Business School. He has also worked for many years with Mike Beer, Director Emeritus of Harvard Business School’s Organizational Change practice, helping top teams have honest dialogues about the underlying issues driving competitive advantage. Based on his collaborations, Nick has developed a body of work which assists leaders in operating from their unique state of authentic leadership.

What people have said about the course

"Leadership is hard. It is not a natural state for many of us. Leadership at the Core helps us recognize that there is greatness in us all, and that by discovering the source of our greatness, we can tap into our leadership role whenever we choose to."

- Alan Mond, Vice President, Sales, Vectron International

"Nick Craig’s workshop is at the absolutely cutting edge of thinking about leadership. It’s also run in a way that brings you into deep contact with this cutting edge within yourself. You just can’t get this kind of experience anywhere else."

- Jerry L Fletcher, author Patterns of High Performance

"Elegant and inspirational integration of emerging ideas about the importance of a leader’s consciousness, with powerful exercises to ground these ideas and distill them into usable insights into your own leadership."

— Grady McGonnagill, Director of Learning, Generon (Presence/Theory U
work of Jaworski, Senge, Scharmer)

"Nick Craig is able to awaken leaders to their true purpose and gifts. He has the remarkable capacity to draw out the best in people, and through that to enhance our leadership capacity. After working with Nick, I find myself making better, more fearless business decisions, and engaging and leveraging the leaders on my team more fully. I am truly thankful for the opportunity to do this work, and to bring it to my organization."

Karlin Sloan author Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for
Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership

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