A Customized and
Practical "How-to" Half, One, or Two-Day Workshop
Leadership is clearly THE key to success. That’s why it’s such a popular
topic. But despite all the talk about leadership and change, many “change
fatigued” people are still struggling with just how
to strengthen their personal effectiveness and leadership. Many supervisors, managers,
and executives are confused by the multitude of leadership grids, charts, formulas,
jargon, fads, charismatic stories, and buzzwords. Front
Line staff often end up with
a sense of “there they go again on another tangent.” Or “they
are doing it to us again.”
Let’s Get Practical
For over 25 years, Jim Clemmer’s practical leadership
approaches have been inspiring action and achieving results. His 2,000 plus presentations
and workshops/retreats, five best-selling books, columns, and newsletters are helping
hundreds of thousands of people worldwide because they are inspiring, instructive,
and refreshingly fun. And most of all…because they work!
Jim is constantly distilling his exhaustive research, extensive experience, and
collection of best practices into easily understood, highly energizing, and practical
applications. His Leading @ the Speed of Change workshop is so popular
because it inspires action and provides "how-to" steps that
—
when used as directed — dramatically boost results.
Workshop Menu
Each workshop is tailored to the audience and organizational circumstance. Following
is an overview of the main sections that Jim can draw from in customizing a session
for each Client.
Navigating Change
- The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
- Change Choices: Navigator (capitalizing
on changes), Survivor (just getting by), or Victim (living in “ Pity City”)
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Keys to Navigating “Above the Line” of Cynicism and Negativity
Read Jim’s article
“Navigating Change and Adversity” for a deeper look
at the key model/approach in this section.
The Performance Balance
For a brief overview of the material covered in this
section click
here and
here.
- Finding the Right Balance: Technology, Management, Leadership
- Managing Things
and Leading People
- Soft Skills, Hard Results: The Power of Emotional Intelligence
for Me and My Team
Timeless Leadership Principles for Team and Organization Success
This section builds on Jim’s latest best-selling book,
The Leader’s Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success
and its accompanying Practical
Application Planner. Leadership expert, Warren Bennis, enthuses, “If
you’re looking for a book that illustrates the topic of leadership in a useful,
readable and lively way, this is it.”
Depending upon the length and focus of the workshop, the
process typically used starts with an overview of each
of the following Leadership Principles. Participants
then assess their team/organization. From here, small breakout discussion groups
or the whole group (depending upon workshop size and objectives) review application
exercises and brainstorm potential application ideas. The workshop usually finishes
with participants setting practical action plans.
Focus and Context: Points of Origin
- Where Are We Going?
- Are we confusing goals and vision?
- How alive is our vision?
- How important is it for us to improve this?
- What Do We Believe In?
- Do we have core values?
- How alive are our values?
- How important
is it for us to improve this?
- Why Do We Exist?
- Do we have a powerful purpose statement?
- How alive is our purpose?
-
How important is it for us to improve this?
Responsibility for Choices: From Victim to Victor
- Identifying and Eliminating “Victim Speak” in Our Team/Organization
-
Ten Ways We May Be Disempowering Ourselves
- Strategies for Busting Our Barriers
to Peak Performance
- Focusing on Areas of Direct Control and Influence While
Letting Go of No Control Areas/Issues
Authenticity: Let’s Get Real
Passion and Commitment: All Fired Up
- Assessing Our Leadership Against the Top Ten Commitment Indicators
- Prioritizing
Our Key Factors for Engaging Much Stronger Commitment in Our Organization
- Loyalty
Leadership: Retaining Our Top People
Spirit and Meaning: Matters of the Heart
- Identifying and Addressing Our Five Biggest Spirit Killers
- Which Stage Are
We at on the Hierarchy of Spirit and Meaning?
- Establishing Our Preferred Stage
and How to Get There
- Keys to Bringing a Deeper Sense of Pride to Our Team/Organization
Growing and Developing: All That We Can Be
- The “Fish Tank Factor”: Measuring the Size of the Environment We’ve
Built
- The Coach’s Playbook: Assessing and Strengthening Coaching Effectiveness
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Helping Team Members Get the Most from Training
Mobilizing and Energizing: Inspiring Peak Performance
- Identifying Top Team/Organization Energy Drains and How to Plug the Leaks
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Eight Factors to Build High Performance Teams: Assessing Our Effectiveness
- Meeting
Effectiveness Checklist: What Should We Keep, Stop, and Start Doing?
- Steps to
Recharging with Recognition, Celebration, and Appreciation
- Information versus
Communication: Keys to Inspiration through Verbal Communications
Timeless Leadership Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success
This section is built around Growing
the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success
. Participants use the accompanying
Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide for self-assessment,
practical implementation ideas, priority setting, and
action planning to continue what is started in this workshop.
Depending upon the length and focus of the workshop, the process typically used
starts with an overview of each of the following Leadership Principles. Participants
then assess their team/organization. From here, small breakout discussion groups
or the whole group (depending upon workshop size and objectives) review application
exercises and brainstorm potential application ideas. We usually finish with participants
setting personal action plans.
Focus and Context: The Core of My Being
- Defining Success
- Picturing My Preferred Future
- Clarifying My Core
Values
- My Personal Purpose
Responsibility for Choices: If It’s to Be, It’s Up to Me
- Dealing with Adversity: Choosing My Perspective
- Choosing Our Explanations
and Our Happiness
- Increasing My Influence
Authenticity: Getting Real
- The Real Me
- Being the Change I Want to See in Others
- Have, Do, or
Be?
- Getting Feedback on How Others See Me
Passion and Commitment: Beyond Near-Life Experiences
- Taking My Passion Pulse
- Determining My Strengths
- Checking My Work
Alignment
- Deepening My Discipline and Commitment
Spirit and Meaning: With All My Heart and Soul
- Checking My Spirit
- The Meaning of My Work
- Finding the Diamonds in
My Own Backyard
Growing and Developing: From Phase of Life to Way of Life
- Measuring My Growth
- Signs of Stagnation
- My Learning Style and Options
Mobilizing and Energizing: Putting Emotions in Motion
- Checking for Energy Leaks
- The Leadership Environment I Have Created
-
Inspiring through Verbal Communications
- Harnessing the Power of Teams
Next Steps: Bringing It All Together
- What do I most need to do (and when) to implement all my action plans?
- Who am I going to get to help me (personal coach/counselor, mentor, network, spouse,
trainer, consultant, etc.)?
- How will I ensure I follow-through on my plans?
Workshop Options
Focus on Personal Growth, Leading Others, or
Blend of Both
Customizing any Leading @ the Speed of Change workshop starts with defining
the key objectives of the session. This could be a focus on personal growth and
dealing with change or coaching and leading others to be more effective. These two
focal points can be blended together for management participants in strengthening
their ability to lead others by growing their leadership from the inside out.
Half–Day
For Management or Front Line Staff
This is generally an interactive and inspirational session that reinforces or provides
participants with an “edutaining” overview of the keys to leadership
and change. A few assessment and application exercises may be selected on the basis
of pre-workshop discussions and customization.
One–Day
For Management or Frontline Staff
Participants complete a greater number of the assessment and application exercises
from The Leader’s Digest:
Practical Application Planner or
Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide. Participants
assess their overall effectiveness across the seven Timeless Leadership Principles.
This helps determine which Principles they want to complete as a whole group or
in small discussion groups (depending upon the key issues and number of people in
the session). The amount of time and depth in each agenda area is determined by
preworkshop discussions and customization.
Two–Day
For Management Staff Only
Participants typically complete all assessments and application exercises in The Leader’s Digest: Practical
Application Planner and may start selected ones in
Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide. They get deep
into the key leadership issues that need to be addressed and develop detailed action
plans. Key priorities, next steps, and follow-through processes are established.
Confidential Preworkshop Web-Based Assessment (Optional)
This assessment is built around the questions in
The Leader’s Digest: Practical Application Planner. All or selected
assessments (depends upon the half, one or two-day version) are completed confidentially
and anonymously on The CLEMMER Group web site by each participant before the session
begins. Scores are tabulated and a summary report is brought to the workshop for
discussion, prioritization, and action.
This option provides:
- The truest views of how participants really feel about the organization or team’s
strengths and improvement opportunities
- A big savings in the time used at the
workshop for completing and scoring the assessment exercises
- Preworkshop learning that allows for deeper discussions of each leadership and
change concept or principle
- A more balanced discussion based on objective data
of everyone’s perspective rather than a few of the most vocal or powerful
participants
- More thoughtful and authentic assessments since participants don’t
feel rushed or that someone is peeking at their scores over their shoulder
For more information and a look at the assessment tool, please go to
../books/tld_assessment.aspx.
What Participants Gain From This Powerful Workshop
- Extensive "how-to" workbooks (The
Leader’s Digest: Practical Application Planner and
Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide) with hundreds
of practical application ideas (depending upon workshop
option chosen and pricing)
- Ideas and inspiration for personally dealing with
or leading change
- Tools, techniques, and ideas for strengthening their team/organization
- Reflection time to reassess personal and professional priorities
- Discover
how to shift their team’s culture toward much stronger people leadership
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Understand and apply the power of emotional intelligence
- Pinpoint performance
gaps and priorities to be addressed and set action plans
- Strengthened team dynamics
and processes
- Team/organization agreement on leadership strengths and improvement
opportunities
- Establish personal, team, or organization improvement plans
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Reframe and refocus negative changes/adversity
- Recharged, reenergized, and reinspired
- Common languages/approaches for
a more “leaderful” team or organization
- Insights for coaching and
developing others