OVERVIEW
Leadership Development is something that happens over time.
The Leadership Development Series is designed to accelerate this process.
Each Leadership Day class continues to build on previously introduced skills,
tools and methodologies, while introducing new topics, ideas, and tools to
become a well-rounded, emotionally, socially and systems intelligent leader.
EXPLORING YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE
- Create a more accurate self-understanding
- Identify & establish improvement goals
- Clarifying values and principals
- 360 Degree Assessment
- Systems Intelligence Assessment
- Personality Type
- Conflict Style
- Strengths Finder Assessment
EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Enhance self-awareness
- Improve social awareness
- Boost self management
- Heighten relationship management
- Increase and establish trust and credibility
- Improving accuracy in decisions about others
- How do our expectations affect the way we interpret behavior?
- What is the impact of systematic biases on decision-making?
- How do we acquire and seek out information about others to form impressions?
STRATEGIC PLANNING & ADVANCED DECISION MAKING SKILLS
- Understand the psychology of judgment and decision making processes
- Develop insights on how to make intuitive decisions
- How to focus on the right information
- Drive creativity and flexibility in problem solving
- Create an effective plan to achieve innovation
- Ability and confidence to do the right thing versus doing things right
- Strengthen relationships to bridge differences and build strategic ties
- Explore the elements of team processes for making decisions
- Plan ahead for the unexpected
- Recognizing and avoiding decision traps
ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS INTELLIGENCE
- See the “Big Picture” of organizational patterns
- Leverage obstacles to enhance organizational strategy
- Manage across organizational boundaries
- Identify initiatives that create value
- Uncover conflicting goals, beliefs, and expectations within your organization
- Understand the sources of unintended consequences
- Use “Systems Thinking” to reduce chaos
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- Understanding how individuals and teams move through change
- Implementing a clear vision and direction
- How to intervene and disrupt a system
- Managing expectation
- Build organizational and individual resilience
- Move from competing agendas to alignment
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
- Strengthen relationships to bridge differences and build strategic ties
- Frame problems for optimal solution
- Recognize and manage “natural tensions”
- Use dilemmas to create better strategies and tactics
- Responding to others anger
- Avoiding emotional triggers
- Correcting mixed messages
- How to get to the heart of the matter
- Ways to change the conversation
- Understanding conflict’s four dimensions
COACHING AND MENTORING
- Foster a high-performance environment
- Ready your organization to seize new opportunities
- Motivate people to perform at their best
- Provide feedback that people will accept and put to good use
- Dealing with difficult people
- Guide the development of new skills and behaviors
- Become an effective coach and mentor
COMMUNICATIONS MASTER
- Overcoming barriers to communication
- Develop the art of listening
- Using language effectively
- Understand the different communication styles
- Become a more confident communicator
- Framing decisions and asking the right questions
- Ways to ask for what you want
- How to gracefully say no
FACILITATIVE LEADERSHIP
- Including and engaging others
- Running effective meetings
- The basics of design thinking
- Embracing disruptive innovation
- Enhance relational coordination and trust
- Foster lively participation in groups
- Ensure action & follow-up
NEGOTIATIONS
- Strategies on how to prepare for negotiations
- Essential elements to negotiations
- Understanding the basis of power
- Building trust and credibility
- Keeping calm under pressure
- Common influence tactics and defenses
- Creative problem solving as a negotiation technique
- Ways to move forward
- Things to avoid
TEAM BUILDING
- Understanding team dynamics
- Foster effective team communications
- Planning and organizing for team success
- Addressing common team dysfunctions
- Managing virtual teams
- Strategies for dealing with team challenges
FACILITATED ACTION LEARNING
Action Learning takes place when individuals and teams work with a coach over a longer period to increase leadership competencies and learning agility through the use of inquiry and reflection along with group exercises. The process helps break ineffective and unhealthy patterns, replacing those with behaviors that encourage innovation and collaboration.
Complete 10 Class Series
Typically taught over a 10-month period, this series starts with a
variety of assessments to obtain an accurate self-awareness of participants
strengths and areas for growth.
In-between classes, participants can deepen their learning through
supplemental readings from recommended thought leaders. They will also
have access to Master Coach and Organizational Psychologist,
Meisha Rouser, to help with any challenges or questions.
Customized Classes for Your Organization
Individual topics can be customized for your organization and needs.
Looking for a two-day course that includes self-awareness assessments
and leadership fundamentals? We can design this or any combination of
topics to meet the needs of your organization. Most custom designed
one-day classes are $3000.
Attend a Public Class
Find out if Meisha Rouser will be teaching a class
open to the public in an area by you.
TESTIMONIALS
“Meisha was a wonderfully entertaining instructor. She helped us learn new
management skills we can apply to our jobs and at home. Wonderful!”
Cindy Christensen, Sidney Health Center
“Meisha is very dynamic, knowledgeable, and was excellent in conveying
concepts and providing very useful examples. Great interaction and
we all enjoyed the class immensely!”
Alyce Fritz, N.O.A.A.
“Very relevant, interesting, and useful information.
Real world, real time, good experience.”
Kerwin Pyle, King County Solid Waste
“I thought this class was outstanding. I felt I could relate to every scenario
and I literally thought I was the only one who was dealing with that situation.
Very, very informative!.”
Tejai Larsen, Inland Imaging Inc.
