The Five Leader Functions faculty have broad expertise in leadership, management, strategy, organizational behavior, and applied psychology. Beyond the core Five Leader Functions Training Workshop, the faculty has published and lectured on a breadth of topics, and thus offers numerous other highly effective workshops for your leaders. Brief session summaries are below. All sessions combine learnings with hands-on experiential exercises, group discussions, and practical tools. More detailed descriptions and learning objectives are available upon request via email. The below topic areas and/or the sub-topics listed under each topic can be combined into customizable modules for clients to meet your needs.
High Impact Inspirational Leadership
Inspiring Followers and Teams
Transformational Leadership
Creating Shared Leadership Systems
Effective use of Power and Influence
Leadership vs. Management - Integrating and Synchronizing Both Functions
Practices of Exemplary Leaders – Leadership Self-Assessment
Developing Highly Effective Teams
Team Formation, Structure and Functioning
Decision-Making in Teams
Shared Leadership and Engaging Team Members
Developing Clear and Compelling Team Goals
Building Social Cohesion and Task Cohesion
Building Trust within and between Teams
Overcoming Common Dysfunctions of Teams
Creating a Team Charter
Developing Trust and Leader Credibility
Building the Three Key Components of Trust
Establishing Leader Credibility
Exemplary Leadership and Modelling the Way
Developing Strong Trust Bonds
Restoring Lost Trust Bonds
Leader Development: Developing the Bench of Organizational Leaders
Leader Development Principles
Creating Effective Leadership Development Systems and Processes
Creating a Developmental Culture
Establishing and Monitoring Developmental Goals
Coaching, Mentoring, and Performance Feedback
Incentivizing Development
Building and Leveraging Human, Social, and Psychological Capital in Your Organization
- Creating the Tripartite of Capital in Organizations:
- Human Capital (workers’ knowledge, skills, abilities, and attributes)
- Social Capital (teams, networks, political alignments, and coalitions)
- Psychological Capital (workers psychological health, energy, engagement, and satisfaction)
- Bolstering Psychological Capital: Hope, Optimism, Resiliency, Courage and Confidence
- Leading in the Organization’s Symbolic, Political, Structural and Human Domains
- Synergizing and Leveraging Capital to Fuel Organizational Performance
Executive Psychological Performance
- Building Self-Awareness of your Values, Communication Style, Learning Style, and Goal Preferences.
- Developing your Leadership Philosophy
- Stress Management and Resiliency
- Executive Presence
- Psychological and Physical Well-Being and Work-Life Balance
- Centering on your Core Functions – Leader Time Management and Focus
- Refining Personal and Professional Visions and Goals
Promoting Engagement and Upward-Downward Communications in Organizations
- Promoting Follower Innovation, Creativity, and Voice
- Increasing Intrinsic Motivation and Initiative
- Overcoming Obstacles to Upward and Downward Voice
- Aligning Messages across Organization Levels
- Communicating Visions
Creating a Learning Organization and Leading Change
- Multilevel Approach to Leading Learning Organizations
- Leader Actions to Enhance Knowledge Creation and Diffusion at Individual, Social Network, and Organizational Levels
- Approaching Organizational Learning from a Systems Approach
- Building Learning Oriented Organizational Cultures
Strategic Thinking and Strategy
- Strategic Thinking and Wisdom
- The 3-Component Approach to Strategy: Strategy Formulation, Strategy Implementation, and Strategy Execution
- Nesting the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Levels of the Organization
- Uncovering and Leveraging Core Competencies
- Effectively Communicating Leader’s Vision and Intent
- Processes to Develop and Disseminate Strategic Visions
Adaptive Leadership: Leading in Uncertain and Complex Environments
- Preparing the Organization for VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity)
- Leading in Crisis
- Principles of Adaptive Leadership
- Communicating in Crisis
- Leverage the crisis to recast threats into opportunities and short-term focus into a view ‘over the horizon’ while positioning the team to seize those opportunities
- Manage the psychological well-being of followers in times of crisis
- Conduct periodic reflective exercises with the team to accelerate organizational learning and improve processes and systems in preparation for the next VUCA situation
Building a World-Class Organizational Culture
- Understanding the Layers and Components of Culture
- Embedding Effective Climates within Culture
- Transforming Culture through Leadership, Processes, and Systems
- Advancing your Focal Dimensions of Culture: Performance Oriented, Ethical, Innovation, Engagement, Safety, Diversity, etc.
- Aligning Strategy with the Culture
Ethical/Character-Based Leadership and Building Ethical Organizations
- Ethical Leadership: Getting Results with Integrity
- Authentic Leadership
- Building Ethical Cultures and Climates
- Promoting a Values-Based Organization: Driven by Core Beliefs
- Establishing Effective Ethics Policies and Reporting Systems
- Leading Corporate Social Responsibility
Ethical Leadership and Building Organizational Character
- Increasing Self-Awareness of your Core Values and Beliefs
- Learn and Practice an Effective Ethical Decision Framework
- Bolstering Moral Action: Character and Moral potency
- Navigating Moral Obligations to Multiple Stakeholders
- Communicating Moral Judgments to Others to Gain Support for your Decisions
- Enhancing Corporate Social Responsibility and Performance
- Building an Ethical Culture
Building Your Team as a Noble Profession
- Reinforcing the Tenets of Professions across the Organization
- Building a Professional Culture, Ethos, and Mindset
- Creating a Servant, Fiduciary Mindset
- Building Trust With the Profession’s Stakeholders
- Establishing Development Systems to Build Professionalism
- Developing and Certifying the Character and Competence of Professionals
Application of Military Strategy Principles to Business
- Applying Military Strategic Planning and Decision-Making Processes to your Organization
- War-Gaming/Red-Teaming your Strategies
- Performing Contingency Planning to Maintain Strategic Flexibility
- Tenets of Mission Command – Formulating and Communicating Leader Intent and Creating Horizontal and Vertical Alignment across the Organization
- Applying the Principles of War to Business
- Strategy in VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) Environments
