Adaptive
Leadership: “Leading Organizational Change through Adaptive
Leadership”
(Presenter:
Karen Porterfield)
Changes in our work and home environments continue at a bewildering
pace. Globalization of business, local community stresses and increasing
demands in the work place require strategic planning and smart managers
to help organizations thrive.
Understanding and leading strategic change requires:
Focus on the Future. Thoughtful organizational change
requires a long term orientation while identifying short term results.
The challenge is leading on a daily bases while leading for the future.
This often includes redefining relationships with existing partners
while creating new constituency relationships.
Interconnections. Leading change effectively requires
thinking about relationships, mission and the internal culture. A strong
manager will think beyond his or her department and include the entire
organization in the planning process.
Creation of Team. No significant and lasting change
occurs without the involvement and support of everyone in the organization.
A key challenge for managers is helping create a process that allows
for wide input while managing the stress the comes with change.
No single style of leadership will fit all situations. Leading strategically
requires finding a connection between personal leadership style, the
internal culture and the demands of the organization. This fast paced
presentation will explore the key concepts that are critical in leading
organizational change from any level within the institution.
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Appreciative
Inquiry: “Leading through the Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
Lens”
(Presenter: Morgan Zantua)
What is great leadership? Is it a role or a function? How do we discover
what style of leadership works in what particular setting? When do we
know what we have done, are doing and want to do will create our desired
outcomes?
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) addresses the challenges and creates opportunities
for leading in today’s our rapidly changing fast paced environments
by offering a strength based process of discovering the best of the
past to co-create the future. During this interactive session, individuals
will experience the impact of using AI as a leadership process and tool
to inspire, engage whole organizations to move into a world of co-created
realities.
During this session we will:
- Participate in an AI interview
- Gain insight into leadership values
- Understand the AI process
- Experience how AI builds leadership and engagement
- Receive the underlying AI assumptions supporting leadership
- Explore the potential for AI as a philosophical framework tool
for leadership, leadership development within all levels of our organization
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Coaching:
"Unleashing Potential - The Promise
of Coaching"
(Presenters: Yvonne Freitas
McGookin, Matt Aspin)
This highly interactive workshop explores coaching -- the hottest topic
in leadership development today. Participants will learn the value and
effectiveness of a true coaching partnership in identifying possibilities,
unleashing potential, and creating forward movement. Because coaching
happens “from the inside-out”, participants will gain self-awareness
and learn to apply coaching as a technique for self-development and
staff development. In addition to simply providing the tools, we will
explore the hurdles that can challenge a manager working to integrate
“coaching” into his or her leadership style.
Whether you already consider yourself a coach, have worked with a coach,
or just wonder what all the buzz is about…you will come away with
a clearer understanding of the concepts that make coaching such an effective
tool for unleashing your potential and the potential of every person
in your organization.
Participants will:
- Develop an understanding of the theoretical framework and value
of coaching (How it works, and why it is such a vital skill for today’s
leaders to possess)
- Gain self-awareness and ideas for self-development
- Observe the power of coaching -- in action
- Learn a 6-step process to guide their own coaching efforts
- Practice coaching skills
- Apply coaching to current workplace opportunities and challenges
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Collaborative
Leadership: "Leading through
Collaboration"
(Presenter: Patricia Hughes)
Collaboration helps us form new relationships across boundaries, open
up to new ways of working together, and release unimagined leadership
and learning capacity.
In today’s challenging and complex work environments, solitary,
hierarchical leadership is usually no longer effective. We must leverage
the skill of collaborative leadership to bring respect into the workplace,
fulfill our purposes and achieve our goals.
The session, Collaborative Leadership, is a lively look at the nature
of collaboration and why it is so difficult. We will explore collaboration
in the context of other ways of working together (such as competition
or accommodation), and learn tools to enhance our collaborative relationships
and work. These tools include Assessing the Territory, Questioning Techniques,
and Increasing Your Comfort with Difference.
This interactive session will help you improve your strategic and collaborative
leadership capacities.
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Dependable Strengths®
: "Motivating Others by Focusing
on Dependable Strengths®"
(Presenters: Allen
Boivin Brown, Jerald R. Forster, Susan Terry)
In this session, participants will learn how to motivate others by
helping them articulate their strengths and then use those strengths
to implement a team project. Participants will learn more about the
importance of focusing on strengths to tap intrinsic motivation.
Part I:
How to focus on Dependable Strengths:
| A. |
Using a small group format, have participants identify
Good Experiences and share them with others in the group. |
| B. |
Group members help each participant articulate possible Dependable
Strengths. |
Part II:
How to use Dependable Strengths to motivate team members
| A. |
Team members plan a project wherein each team member
uses his or her strengths to make the project successful. |
| B. |
Team members articulate the strengths they will use in the project. |
Leadership skills demonstrated in this session:
- How to be a collaborative leader
- Team building
- Engaging staff to be passionate/involved in their work
- Considering principle of diversity
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