What Great Leaders Do Differently

You know how to manage, but do you know how to lead? In this 2-day workshop you'll develop your Leadership Intelligence. You'll hone your personal leadership style, inspire passionate followers, develop & sell your vision, discover power you didn't know you had, and build trust.

As a result, you will more effectively lead change, retain your best people, motivate employees to go "above and beyond", sell your ideas and build accountability.

“What Great Leaders Do Differently ” is a 2-day leadership development experience that combines the depth of an immersion learning workshop, the cutting-edge science of a top business school and the proven best practices from the most admired leaders.

In just 2-days, you'll experience assessments, coaching, training, case studies and self-exploration to hone your vision, courage, power, influence, charisma and leadership intelligence.

Who Should Attend?
Mid and Senior Leaders who are willing to explore and adapt their personal leadership styles to inspire great performance from their followers.

Why Do These Strategies Work?
They work because they're based on real-life research. We've studied 125,387 leaders from 1500+ companies like Amgen, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, DuPont, Hewlett-Packard and more. And you'll learn the demonstrated best practices from the most successful leaders.

Here's what you'll learn...

• Discover the four major leadership styles
  
• Discover your own leadership style and its origins
  
• Understand what your style means for your career and leadership ambitions
  
• Take the Leadership IQ Inventory and receive a personal score report

• Discover which people and situations respond well to which leadership styles
  
• Tailor your leadership approach to achieve the best results
  
• Play to your strengths and give yourself an advantage
  
• Minimize your exposure in situations that could cause you harm
  
• Diagnose what situations are the riskiest for someone with your leadership style.

• Discover how and why the greatest leaders “shake-up” the status quo
  
• 3 bold moves that every leader can take
  
• Strike the perfect balance between bold and reckless
  
• Assess just how much “shaking up” people can take before they crack
  
• Identify bold moves before anyone else (and get credit for being visionary)

• Cultivate the qualities that create trust from employees and colleagues
  
• 4 steps leaders must take before people will trust them
  
• Eliminate the 5 hidden factors that undermine trust
  
• Employ procedural fairness to create a trusting culture

• 7 sources of power every leader can use, with or without formal authority
  
• Use power without seeming overly aggressive or ambitious
  
• Learn when to use hard vs. soft power
  
• Diagnose the risks of power, and when employee sentiment is turning against you
  
• Leverage power without people knowing that’s what you’re doing

• Discover your individual communication style with the Communication Preference Assessment
  
• Diagnose other peoples' communication styles
  
• Communicate using all four communication styles, whether one-at-a-time or simultaneously
  
• 6 rules to become a world-class communicator
  
• How to communicate when you don't have anything to say and during times of intense stress

• Give constructive criticism and bad news without making people angry
  
• Learn why people get defensive and how to reduce that defensiveness
  
• Resolve disagreements and arguments with candor and respect
  
• Express your ideas in a way that builds acceptance without resistance

• Create a vision that pushes people to look outside themselves and see what they can become.
  
• Develop intuition to gauge the appropriate timing and course of your actions
  
• Create a vision that creates motivating expectations
  
• Balance your unchanging core values and purpose with your ever-changing view of threats in the outside world
  
• Move beyond fuzzy and poorly defined visions

• Develop self awareness and maintain great emotional control
  
• Discover what makes you tick, and what situations set you off (and how to avoid them)
  
• Read other people and learn what others are thinking and feeling
  
• Understand why people act the way they do
  
• Manage and influence others' emotions, defuse and deescalate tense situations and bring people out of their shells

• 6 Fallacies of influencing others (classic mistakes significantly undermine leaders' effectiveness
  
• Identify High Impact People and assess their driving needs
  
• Diagnose whether High Impact People are likely champions or antagonists
  
• Understand and diagnose other peoples' 7 Driving Needs
  
• Reframe your pitches to more effectively influence others

• Spread your leadership across organizational boundaries and down through hierarchies to individual employees
  
• Leverage employees' fundamental psychological motivations
  
• Reveal your weaknesses and fears in a targeted way to encourage greater emotional identification and build stronger bonds
  
• Give your followers what they want: meaning, purpose, community and passion

• Correct the misunderstanding that political-savvy is Machiavellian (or otherwise distasteful)
  
• Assess your political landscape to discover your stakeholders' goals and how your goals will be received
  
• Build coalitions, with politically-mobilized and connected individuals committed to implementing your ideas
  
• Accomplish your goals through coalitions
  
• Discover your greatest political threats and identify the real power-players that you must have on your side

• 7 keys to persuasive presentations (and the biggest mistakes made by mediocre presenters)
  
• Grab the attention of your audience in 30 seconds
  
• Discover your audience's pain (and solve it for them)
  
• Build a physical connection with your audience
  
• Turn PowerPoint from a painful experience to a captivating and engaging partner

• Discover the source of presence and charisma
  
• Discover the unconscious factors that give great leaders personal magnetism
  
• Identify your personal traits that can be leveraged to increase your presence and charisma
  
• 5 tactics that will make people respond more positively to you