The Power of Leadership
This Seminar is for all who lead a staff or a group of volunteers — an opportunity to mold your team into a creative, effective, and spirited crew that will reach its highest aspirations. You will learn the critical differences between managing and leadership. How a leader must adapt to change, the willingness to abandon power and control —and inspire others to willingly and fully participate.
The Program
During these two days we will explore the following topics.
Understanding and Accessing Your Leadership Skills
You learn what your greatest strengths are —and what areas need improvement. Your style —what do you do best. You will assess the critical relationships of your team to and learn to dramatically heighten quality and effectiveness. Discover how you can add value. Identify where you are now and where you want to be..
Leading or Managing
Managing is when (A) gets (B) to do something. Leadership is when (A) gets (B) to do what (B) might not have normally done, but is inspired to do so by (A). Leadership qualities are not inherent. They can be learned. In this session you learn the differences and what it takes to be a leader.
Organizational Leader
Napoleon famously said, “The role of the leaders is to define reality and give hope.” What are your particular leadership challenges and what aspects of your own leadership ability do you need to strengthen.
Questions
Questions are often more important than the answers. The truth is, there’s not much you can tell people that will truly motivate them and change their behavior. But there is a lot you can ask. We will explore the importance of power questions that will help you deal with a variety of important professional and personal challenges.
How Does the External Community View You As a Leader
Market leadership is about being a leader in the external world. For many, this means taking the lead in the development and cultivation of donors. This session will explore the mindset you need to exhibit and the skills you need to strengthen in order to create “donors for life.”
Working Effectively with Your Board, Volunteers and Donors
Leadership is helping others to reach their highest aspirations. In this session, we discuss how you help volunteers and board members climb fences they never thought possible. Your job as a leader is not to lead the horse to water. Nor to make it drink. Your job as a leader is to make the horse thirsty.
Building Your Team
We will work though various self-assessment tools and you will learn how to use the results to make necessary course corrections. Or enhance your already strong attributes. There will be real life case studies drawing on all you have learned and discovered. We will discuss how to manage high performers, how to maximize their strengths and yours (staff, senior staff, board members and volunteers).
Ethical Leadership
We will assess the effectiveness of your team. We will discuss strategic leadership, questioning, and listening. You will work through case studies and learn to help your team make the right ethical decisions.
ParkBenching
Through out our two days there will be an opportunity to meet one-on-one with faculty to discuss your particular leadership role and any questions you may have.
Three Distinct Activities During Our Seminar
There are three distinct activities that set the Institute apart from any other coaching experience. The first is what we call ParkBenching. Mark Twain once wrote that the most profound learning experience a person can have is to have a great teacher on one end of a log and a student on the other. Well, we do that, but we skip the log !
In ParkBenching, every registrant at the Institute has the opportunity for a one-on-one conference with a faculty member. The session is open-ended, with no prohibition on the topic.
How to advance in the profession, how to deal with a Chair that's not effective, having a problem with the boss, looking for a new job. You name it— whatever needs to be discussed.
Second is the Buzz Group. It is a small team of six registrants with a faculty member, discussing a topic of significance to their work. There are always two Buzz Groups at a Seminar— and most often four.
These small groups offer an opportunity, under a faculty member's leadership, to explore in depth an important topic. Peel back the layers and get to the very nub of an issue.
The 360 Rap is the third. 360 Rap provides an extraordinary opportunity for registrants to analyze a faculty presentation. Here's how it works.
The faculty member presents a topic. At the tables, following the presentation, in groups of six, registrants examine the material. Turn it inside-out. Review it again. Challenge. Explore. Analyze. Most important, they talk about the take-aways they can put the lesson immediately to use back home.
Attending a Seminar is an extraordinary experience. Many say the most effective and exciting coaching experience they have ever had. These three special activities, added to one of the most outstanding faculties available, provide a remarkable opportunity to learn, explore, and practice.
Seminar Format Agenda VIEW COMPLETE AGENDA:
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Faculty Karen Osborne, Andrew Sobel, Dr. William H. Crouch, Jr., and Jerold Panas
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Registration Fee
$725.00
US. If you attend more than one Seminar, you receive a discount of $50
off each additional Seminar. Please call the ICG office to apply for
this special offer.
Please ask about special rates for more than three registrants from the same organization. There is something quite extraordinary that happens when the CEO or supervisor joins a staff member for a Seminar experience. We are so committed to this important concept that we offer a special fee of $335 for the CEO or Supervisor.
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Dates and Location
Chicago, IL - March 26-27, 2012
The Westin Hotel,
909 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 943-7200
Rate: Special rate of $189 a night, excluding taxes. Cut off date for hotel group rate: March 2, 2011. This special rate extends from February 26 through March 5. Be certain to make your reservations well in advance for these extra days to take advantage of wonderful museums, theatre and great shopping on The Magnificent Mile.
Register today! Attendance is limited so we may offer the best experience for attendees.