Four Week Challenge
to enhance your Leadership Practice
March 25 - April 11 (designed to fit into the flow of your work)
Fee: $99
to enhance your Leadership Practice
March 25 - April 11 (designed to fit into the flow of your work)
Fee: $99
Why focus on leadership practice?
The prevailing stress in organizations narrows our ability to creatively and effectively address the usual steady stream of cultural and relational issues. Also, there is rarely one right answer to rely on in tackling specific challenges. So, it is not surprising that feelings of burnout, demotivation, or disempoewrment are so common.
The best leaders--those who achieve desired outcomes while empowering others--manage these challenges by steady deliberate practice--thinking through challenges to continuously expand compassionate understanding, generate a range of creative options consistent with goals for both outcomes and culture, and learn from actions.
Studies of elite performers in various fields have uncovered the methods for deliberate practice (1) but they are hard to do entirely alone. This challenge is designed to be self-directed with support.
The support you will receive:
The Challenge provides the opportunity to reinvigorate and enhance the power of your practice through a steady series of brief prompts, frameworks, tools, and stories--all designed for integration into the flow of work. During the four weeks you will receive:
Benefits and time requirements:
The key to the benefits is your steady action: committing to about 5 - 15 minutes a day for reviewing resources and at least twice a week for the practice--i.e. thinking about specific situations for at least 15 - 20 minutes. As a result you are likely to:
For:
Registration: email me at neil@njbaker.net to let me know of your interest.
(1) Reference on deliberate practice: Break Through to Your Elite Level of Leadership
For More Background:
The prevailing stress in organizations narrows our ability to creatively and effectively address the usual steady stream of cultural and relational issues. Also, there is rarely one right answer to rely on in tackling specific challenges. So, it is not surprising that feelings of burnout, demotivation, or disempoewrment are so common.
The best leaders--those who achieve desired outcomes while empowering others--manage these challenges by steady deliberate practice--thinking through challenges to continuously expand compassionate understanding, generate a range of creative options consistent with goals for both outcomes and culture, and learn from actions.
Studies of elite performers in various fields have uncovered the methods for deliberate practice (1) but they are hard to do entirely alone. This challenge is designed to be self-directed with support.
The support you will receive:
The Challenge provides the opportunity to reinvigorate and enhance the power of your practice through a steady series of brief prompts, frameworks, tools, and stories--all designed for integration into the flow of work. During the four weeks you will receive:
- An introductory video.
- One video per week on a key topic.
- Readings, tools, and tips sent out by email five days a week on weekdays.
- Two 30 minute individual meetings with me by video webinar.
- Email access to me for Q+A.
Benefits and time requirements:
The key to the benefits is your steady action: committing to about 5 - 15 minutes a day for reviewing resources and at least twice a week for the practice--i.e. thinking about specific situations for at least 15 - 20 minutes. As a result you are likely to:
- gain clarity and confidence about your practice;
- expand compassionate understanding of self, others, and context;
- learn evidence-informed principles for problem solving;
- enhance your abilities to:
- generate multiple options for action;
- assess benefits and risks of options.
For:
- Leaders and managers who supervise others.
- Team and project leaders.
- Quality and technical consultants.
Registration: email me at neil@njbaker.net to let me know of your interest.
(1) Reference on deliberate practice: Break Through to Your Elite Level of Leadership
For More Background:
- See Home Page about Leadership Practice.
- Pay Now or Pay Later: The Value of Taking Time to Shape Culture (Institute for Healthcare Improvement blog post)