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LEADERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONAL GROWTH: A RETREAT (ADVANCE)
Description:
This course provides an exposure to the concepts of
leadership development, personal growth, leading with soul, managing stress
and self-management, working effectively with people, and personal and
organizational change. In a retreat setting, the course helps individuals
develop a renewed sense of self and learn how to foster the development
of confidence, esteem, and leadership effectiveness. Individuals assess
their core values and develop a strategic personal plan including a vision
and mission statement. The course helps participants focus attention on
their creative potentials and how to begin to realize more of them. An
appreciation for and understanding of different strategies and tools for
fostering such development in others is explored within the context of
organizational leadership
During the course individuals will assess themselves with respect to leadership
effectiveness, emotional intelligence (EQ), habits of successful leaders,
self-management and wellness, values, and teamwork. Individuals identify
their current strengths, areas to target for improvement, and receive
feedback from their peers on their leadership behaviors. Drawing from
the latest research on these areas, individuals how to become more flexible
and develop a more creative approach to leading and working with others.
Also, this course includes powerful, interactive simulation exercises
which challenge participants to apply rogram insights to situations modeling
real work-place situations.
The program also includes a team project and presentation which is built
upon an integration of course insights. Lastly, participants develop a
personal development plan for improvements in the future.
Learning Objectives:
- Appreciate the gifts and strengths of yourself and others.
- Learn how to capitalize on your strengths and the strengths of others.
- Understand how to supplement and augment those areas that you may
overlook or those areas that do not come easily to you
- Understand the connection between leadership and spirituality.
- Know how to be better able to lead with soul.
- Understand the principles of leadership development and growth and
how to apply them.
- Assess your values, and develop a personal vision and mission statement
as guides for the future.
- Develop skills in reflection, contemplation and mindfulness.
- Receive feedback on your Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and assess your
personal values.
- Receive feedback from your peers with respect to your strengths, improvement
areas, and development plans.
- Develop skills in strategic planning.
- Formulate a plan for change related to your own personal development
Program Outline:
Day One: Major Theories and Models of
Leadership Development and Personal Growth
Course content:
+ Leadership development and personal growth – principles and dynamics
+ Strategies for fostering personal growth
+Keys to personal growth
+ Characteristics of outstanding people
+ Leadership and soul
+ The role of myth – related to personal growth and development
+ Role of meaning, purpose, and values
+ Personal strategic planning – related to organizational strategic
planning
+ Assessing values
+ Creating and personal vision
+ Developing a mission statement
+ Project team assignment
Day Two: Self-management, wellness, and
life balance
Course content:
+ Core principles of self-management
+ Fostering inner balance – yoga exercises
+ Managing stress
+ Meditation – what, why, and how
+ Mindfulness techniques and practice
+ Maintaining balance and strategy in stress situations
+ Working through emotional situations effectively
+ Problem solving and decision making
+ Role of team work and communication
+ Simulation exercise
+ Project Team Work
Day Three: Developing Habits for Effective
Leadership – Emotional Intelligence
Course content:
+ Habits of highly effective leaders
+ Strategies for linking habits with leadership development and personal
growth
+ The nature of emotional intelligence
+ Forms and types of emotional intelligence
+ Using emotional intelligence at work
+ Assessing emotional intelligence (EQ Inventory)
+ Fostering more effective levels of thinking and understanding
+ Leadership simulation exercises
+ Strategic planning
+ Problem-solving and decision making
+ Communication and team work
+ Fostering team spirit and synergy
+ Project Team Work
Day Three: Feedback and Planning for
Continuous Development and Growth (con’t)
Course content:
+ Project team presentations
+ Developing a strategic plan for MPL
+ Assessing strengths and opportunity areas
+ Peer feedback and coaching
+ Creating a personal development plan
+ Peer feedback on plans
+ Strategies for fostering continuous focus on leadership development
and personal growth
+ Program feedback and assessment
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