True North Workshop: Authentic Leadership Institute

True North: Discovering Your Authentic Leadership
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October 21-23, 2008 (3-Day Program), Presented by Nick Craig

Special Guest Bill George, Best Selling Author of "True North"

The second public offering by co-authors of the True North Personal Guide authentic leadership development model outside Harvard Business School

True North Leadership: When you tap into your unique expression of leadership, and when you are leading from your “True North” then profound, transformative leadership is the result. Imagine what would happen if you totally understood and were fully operating from your genius as a leader?

Unlike other leadership programs which teach you the latest leadership model, we will help you uncover the untapped model that already lives within you.

There are many leadership models out there that are credibly published in thousands of articles and popular books. Most offer a cure-all prescription of skills, competencies, strengths or intelligences. Yet few work to uncover the buried wisdom and defining stories of the person seeking greater leadership impact. Their insufficiency has led to over 4000 CEOs being fired in the U.S during the last two years. Thus, most current models of leadership development clearly do not suffice.

Become a True North Leader

True North leaders are creative, trustworthy, and focused on discovering innovative strategies to meet company goals. In this course, we offer an opportunity for participants to take responsibility for their own authentic leadership, using tools, exercises and experiential learning.

The True North course provides practical, accessible, field-tested strategies to tap into and develop your authentic leadership. These strategies are documented in “Discover Your Authentic Leadership,” in the February 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestselling True North (Jossey-Bass: March 2007). The course is based on the Authentic Leadership MBA Program at Harvard Business School and the soon to be released True North Field Book by Bill, Andrew and Nick.

Learn how some of today's most successful leaders have styles that flow naturally from their own unique life experiences.

The course is a three day experience. It includes two follow-on experiential web seminars, as well as group work and individual reflection. In the course you will:

Identify Your Story: Through your own crucible stories, you will find who you are as an authentic leader (your True North).
Live Your True North: Find your own guiding principles, and see how to express values, principles, and ethical boundaries in a deeply powerful way on a daily basis.
Empower Others to find Their True North: Discover how, through accessing your authenticity as a leader, you can support those around you to do the same.

Ultimately, the True North course shows participants how to tap into their own powerful, inner resources and become expert practitioners in their own leadership development.

Course Details

Discovering the Key to Your Authentic Leadership

In this course you will deepen your capacity to lead authentically through:

Dialoguing with Bill George and other participating leaders on their journey as an Authentic Leader
Examining the concept of crucible stories
Discovering the story behind your authentic leadership
Making the transition from being the best to creating the best(From “I” to “We”) -- a key element of Authentic Leaders

Live Your True North:

We have found that for each of us there is an authentic, unique and exquisite expression of leadership; our “True North” as a leader. In this course, we learn how to create the conditions to enable us to find the full expression of our True North through:

Uncovering what really motivates you and which situations are perfectly designed to maximize your unique style of authentic leadership
Identifying the core values and principles in your leadership far beyond the values listed on most company walls
Learning a new approach to integrate your life and build a personal support team that encompasses more than your career

Empower Others to Find Their True North:

It is one thing to talk about being an Authentic Leader; it is another to actually take action on a plan to develop ourselves and others as authentic leaders. When we see others finding their True North, it helps us see ours. You will build an action plan for your authentic leadership development for both you and your organization through:

Identifying your purpose as an authentic leader in the context of the business challenges that cross your desk on a daily basis.
Creating a leadership development plan with specific action steps to operationalize what you have learned.
Planning the development of other authentic leaders in your organization.

About the Presenters:

Nick Craig is the President of the Authentic Leadership Institute (ALI), a training and consulting firm specializing in True North-based programs in leadership development, coaching, and executive team alignment. Nick's collaboration with Bill George of Harvard Business School is documented in "Finding Your True North". He has over 20 years of experience helping leaders create a strong culture of execution, balanced with high integrity, congruency, and authenticity. Nick is skilled at delivering programs and interventions for top teams and large groups, as well as at providing individual coaching. His talent lies in his ability to integrate the work of Authentic Leadership with the achievement of sustainable business results. Nick has designed and delivered leadership programs across the globe for many Fortune 500 companies, including BP, GE, and Siemens. Currently he delivers the leadership module for GE and Wharton's Top Executive High Potential Programs.

Beyond his work with Bill George, Nick has been influenced by his work with Russell Eisenstat and Michael Beer, Director Emeritus of Harvard Business School's Organizational Change practice, helping top teams have honest dialogues that drive strategic implementation. He has also worked with MIT Sloan School to develop their Leadership Center and executive coaching program based on the Distributed Leadership Model.

Nick's work is documented in the chapter, "Beyond the Fads: How Leaders Drive Change with Results," by Ron Ashkenas from the book Managing Strategic " Cultural Change in Organizations "and in the book The GE Work-Out. His client work with Russell Eisenstat and Michael Beer is documented in the February 2004 Harvard Business Review article, "How to Have an Honest Conversation About Your Business Strategy."

Bill George was chief executive of Medtronic, the world's leading medical technology company, from 1991 until 2001 and chairman of the board from 1996 to 2002. Under his leadership, Medtronic's market capitalization grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion, averaging 35 percent a year. Currently, he is professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and serves on the board of directors of ExxonMobil, Goldman Sachs, and Novartis. He has also served on the board of Target Corporation.

Bill is the author of best-selling books Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets of Creating Lasting Value (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and True North, Discover Your Authentic Leadership. He has been named one of "Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years" by PBS; "Executive of the Year-2001" by the Academy of Management; and "Director of the Year-2001-02" by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

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