Leader’s Workshop

As we prepare our leaders for the future, we must help them understand how important people are, and that they can perform with passion and vigor and inspiration; or they can leave most of themselves at home, in the car, or in the lunchroom and just “make it through the day.” It is no secret which organization outperforms the other. Whether we call this “Spirit in the Workplace,” “Soul Work,” “Building a Passionate Workforce,” “Building High-performance Organizations” or any number of other titles, the bottom line is that great leaders get the most out of their people. AND, they keep their people, building loyalty and deep knowledge of the job, services and customers, and avoiding the high costs of hiring, training and assimilating new people.

In this one-day workshop to support leaders in understanding and moving forward on these concepts, we focus on three main areas.

1. Understand the practical, business side of spirit in the workplace.
   
   o Using examples from industry leaders and successful companies, show how powerful it is when leaders focus on people, values, making a difference, listening, respect and other concepts that demonstrate true caring. For example, The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) found in their research that the single biggest factor that separated the top 25% of the managers they studied from the bottom 25% was “affection.” They got closer to people and were significantly more open in sharing their thoughts and feelings than their lower scoring counterparts. (And, by the way, they also scored high on thinking and taking charge; they were not “soft” or “weak” in any way.)
   
   
2. Personal Reflection and Work
   
   o Carl Jung, the great Swiss psychologist said, “the first step to self-development is self-understanding.” Buddha said, “Your life’s work is to discover your life’s work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” Doing their own soul work is essential for leaders. They need to start thinking about their personal mission, the character and courage they want to emulate, and the legacy they want to leave behind. They need to think about their values and begin to understand that as leaders others see the values they model as the values of the company. They represent the company as they move into senior leadership.
   
   
3. Building and Leading a Soulful, Passionate Organization.
   
   o As our future leaders recognize the power of soulful, passionate organizations (from section one) and the importance and power of aligning with one’s own personal mission and values (from section 2), they face two questions. How do I help others align in a personal and soulful way? And how do I align the individuals with each other and with the overall organization so that we capture the power of true synergy in my organization and ultimately the company? A great first step is case studies and discussion of them with the thinking then shifting to their company and how things are done, and how might they change them.

Benefits You Can Expect:

• Understand the power of soulful, passionate organizations.
• Ground the concepts in real world examples and success.
• Understand the power of personal mission statements, clear focus, and the part values play.
• Develop a personal mission statement.
• Understand the roles of a leader in building a soulful, passionate organization.
• Understand what motivates their employees in a better way.
• Learn key factors in building a soulful, passionate organization.
• Have fun!