Leading by example is an easy thing to say, but hard to do in everyday leadership. In this presentation, we ask and answer the question, “Why Should Anyone Follow You?®” This section shows how Admired Leaders® display their character to others and unveil their competence while remaining humble. Behaviors in this unit teach us to recognize common leadership situations as opportunities to display credibility and constantly prove to others that we are worthy of their followership. We will also cover how your leadership style impacts your credibility and explore the different power markers that can help you elevate your executive presence.

Objectives:

• Introduction to Admired Leadership and the behavioral-based approach
• Understanding Admired Leader behaviors that elevate your credibility

At its core, the act of leadership is about coaching and developing talent. When engaging their teams, world-class leaders are artful at balancing developmental conversations with every day, direct feedback that builds competency and confidence. They deliver hard messages with a soft touch to alleviate the anxiety of delivering negative feedback and maximize the motivational effect of positive feedback, while not shying away from the conversation itself. This presentation focuses on the behaviors employed by the best coaches as they develop talent and sharpen the skills of those they lead through feedback and mentoring discussions on effective decision-making, calculated risk-taking, and self-advocacy.  

Objectives:

• Creating understanding in development conversations - how you give feedback matters
• Delivering positive and constructive feedback relationally and on a consistent basis
• Learning and practicing Admired Leader behaviors on providing feedback

The best leaders are experts at managing their time. They are ruthless at prioritizing, delegating, and executing with maximum efficiency to leave time for what is most important: time with their families and for themselves. These behaviors explain how the best leaders design their days, track their team’s deliverables, and limit their media usage to sustainably perform at the highest level.

Objectives:

• Identifying and making progress on your biggest priorities, in the midst of daily work
• Learning unique routines to improve time and energy management

How do you communicate for the greatest impact? There is a strong correlation between leadership effectiveness and communication effectiveness. Intentionality with verbal and nonverbal communication can change the way you lead and enable you to actively influence the tone, topic, and outcome of a discussion. This session will explore how to communicate through challenging conversations with your team and how to craft influential messages for an executive audience.

Objectives:

• Learning and implementing the key frames for strategic communication
• Determining your intentions and goals in key conversations, and crafting your messages around them
• Setting the right context and frame to drive your intended meaning
• Choosing the right channel to convey your message

The best leaders know how to build authentic relationships and own them for life. This presentation challenges our assumptions about how relationships (professional and personal) really work and offers ideas on how to deepen the quality of our relationships with clients and with each other. The behaviors and techniques discussed in this session illustrate how success comes down to how leaders conceive of, create, manage, and nurture relationships in all directions—with office teams, with existing customers, with prospective customers, and with family and friends.

Objectives:

• Adopting Admired Leader behaviors to develop your network and build long-lasting relationships
• Developing a stakeholder map for strategic relationship building

This dialogue will focus on how the best leaders elevate performance and create an environment of accountability.

Objectives:

• Clarifying and calibrating priorities
• Creating an environment of accountability and support
• Identifying models and best practices to elevate performance