Table of Contents Introduction

Part One: Lay the Groundwork, Energize Participants, and Then Close   

1. Get Them Ready! Pre-Workshop Meeting to select and prepare your participants in advance   
Objectives :

To review participant's prior experiences with leadership development
To identify participants' commitment to learning
To identify participants' strengths and skills
To identify the skills each participant needs to develop
To fine-tune the future workshop design

2. Get the Idea? Form IDEA teams   
Objective:
To introduce the IDEA team concept and explain how it will be used during the workshop

3. Leadership Shield   
Objective:
To have each participant share some information about their background,
values, philosophy of life, and leadership experience.

4. Make It Rhyme with "Leader"   
Objectives:
To focus participants on the topic of leadership
To give participants an opportunity to get acquainted and work together
To stimulate creative thinking

5. Meet My Leader-an Orange?   
Objectives:
To use analogy to describe leaders
To encourage participants to use all the human senses

6. Tell a Story and Make Your Point!   
Objectives:
To identify the importance of storytelling as a leadership competency
To demonstrate how to tell a story
To practice telling a story

7. Take Time to "Journal"   
Objectives:
To introduce the practice of writing down one's private thoughts and feelings
To encourage reflection on what was learned
To challenge oneself to learn in new ways

8. The Leadership Puzzle   
Objectives:
To create a symbol for everything participants learn and to understand how it all fits together
To show how ritual and memory joggers can be used to reinforce what has been learned and help make learning an ongoing process
To apply in the workshop what has been learned

9. The Exhibit Hall   
Objectives:
To provide an ice-breaking opportunity to get acquainted and share resources.
To demonstrate that each individual is an expert at something.

10. Walk and Talk   
Objectives:
To review what individuals have learned so far in the workshop
To identify what else needs to be accomplished
To provide physical exercise and an opportunity to re-energize

11. The Koosh Ball Review Game   
Objectives:
To review key concepts or information
To have fun

12. I Learned a Lot!   
Objectives:
To clarify what participants have personally learned and are willing to share with the group
To provide an opportunity to review the day's topics
To summarize thoughts and feelings
To articulate ideas with clarity

13. Word Scramble Closure Game   
Objectives:
To review key concepts learned in the Leadership workshop
To have fun while closing a workshop or program

14. Dear Diary . . .   
Objectives:
To review what participants have learned in the workshop
To provide time to reflect on what has been learned and record important
learnings or observations

15. Let's Meet Soon! Forming professional resource groups   

Objectives:
To review the advantages of forming a professional group of peers
To identify the steps and guidelines used by such groups
To facilitate the creation of a resource group

16. Saying Goodbye
Objective:
To provide an opportunity for workshop participants to express appreciation for the contributions of the other participants and their facilitators

Part Two: To Thine Own Self Be True   

17. Organizational Leadership Assessment   
Objectives:
To introduce the concept of Organizational Leadership
To identify six dimensions of leadership
To demonstrate how the skills in each competency vary according to job role or level of leadership
To assess one's strengths and needs for present or future leadership positions
To develop an action plan for professional development

18. The Leadership Challenge: The Kouzes-Posner Leadership Model   
Objectives:
To provide an overview of the Kouzes and Posner leadership model
To explain how the Leadership Practices Inventory is interpreted and used in professional development
To show how this assessment should be integrated into the leadership program you are conducting
To use the IDEA team process (outlined in Activity 2)

19. Sort-Out Manager-vs.-Leader Competencies   
Objectives:
To clarify the difference between the role of a manager and the role of a leader􀁺 To identify which behaviors are still appropriate or expected as an individual moves from one role to another
To define which tasks and responsibilities can be passed to others as one moves from a manager to a leader
To encourage participants to think through which key competencies they still have to attain, in their shift from manager to leader
To celebrate the skills individuals have developed or improved as manager or as leader

20. Lead Them on an Adventure!   
Objectives:
To identify one's willingness to be flexible and adventuresome and interested in trying something new
To confirm that taking the initiative is an essential skill, possessed by all effective leaders

21. Trust: The Glue of Leadership   
Objectives:   
To develop trust among program participants (this will make their experience mutually rewarding)
To help participants experience the meaning of "leader" versus "follower"
To learn the value of nonverbal communication

22. A Metaphor for Personal Change: From Caterpillars to Butterflies   
Objectives:
To provide a framework for thinking about change as a critical element in your personal and your corporate life
To demonstrate how to use metaphors as part of your thinking process
To gather participant ideas regarding change
To offer options regarding the stages of change
To identify what change stage each participant is currently in as he/she shares a personal change
To understand that risk is part of change

23. Values: The Foundation of Ethics   
Objectives:
To help participants reaffirm their key values
To identify how values become the foundation of our ethical standards, behavior, and decision-making

24. Just Do the Right Thing! How to Make Ethical Decisions   
Objectives:
To present a way to thoroughly think things out before taking action
To demonstrate how to clarify, explore, and examine all options that will lead to ethical decisions.

25. Power!   
Objectives:
To define power
To demonstrate the relationships between power and self concept
To identify positive and negative views we have of ourselves and how this impacts others
To recognize that personal power comes from within
To identify ways we give away power
To identify ways to enhance personal power

26. You be the Judge!   
Objectives:
To develop the ability to identify and use different kinds of power
To reinforce what has been learned about power
To understand how others view power

27. Remember This! A Power Card Affirmation
Objectives:
To creatively explore the use of affirmations
To expand traditional notions of power
To share views on power

28. Balance Balls and Balance Life   
Objectives:
To encourage participants to reflect and talk about what they are doing about "life balance"
To get every participant to share, so the lesson will be memorable
To laugh together and enjoy the dilemma of the moment

29. The Talisman: A Symbol for Balance   
Objectives:
To explore the significance of symbolic objects and their use as reminders
To identify goals that help us achieve balance
To see or reinforce the idea that balance means very different things to different people

30. Grow Like a Garden , A Metaphor   
Objectives:
To help leaders identify ways that their development can be compared to growing a garden
To identify key aspects of leadership they need to nurture and develop

31. Making Connections, Networking   
Objectives.
To help leaders understand the importance of continuous networking
To learn and practice networking skills

Part Three: Set an Example   

32. Flex Your Style   
Objectives:
To practice using the four main leadership styles
To develop an ability to flex one's leadership style and use different styles

33. Claim Conflict   
Objectives:
To identify a variety of ways of speaking that can be used to minimize conflict
To use body language to minimize conflict
To provide practice in handling conflict to develop the ability to communicate clearly and directly.

34. Walk in Another's Shoes, A Diversity exercise   
Objectives:
To increase empathy for those who are different from ourselves
To provide the opportunity to increase understanding of other people's perspectives
To explore the role leaders play in honoring and respecting diversity

35. Where Were You When?, A Timeline   
Objectives:
To encourage participants to take pride in their organization
To remember the contributions of those who came before us
To identify qualities that will be useful for leadership development
To recognize ways that we are similar and ways that we differ from one another
To recognize, by seeing history laid out, what enormous barriers we have overcome (and what we still have left to do)

36. You + Me = A Team   
Objectives:
To develop teamwork
To allow participants to reveal their uniqueness
To help instill and encourage leadership

37. Toot Your Horn!, Sell yourself and your ideas   
Objectives:
To identify the pros and cons of self-promotion
To create a self-promotion plan

38. Presenting with Pizzazz!   
Objectives:
To review proven techniques that will enhance presentations
To provide an opportunity to use these techniques to deliver short    presentations

39. Can We Talk About This?, The Leader as Negotiator   
Objectives:
To identify participants' preferred negotiation styles
To practice using negotiation skills

40. The Agenda: A Leader's Guide To a Great Meeting   
Objectives:
To demonstrate how to create a useful agenda
To identify the value of creating and using agendas
To practice creating an agenda

41. Energize!   
Objectives:
To present ways to re-energize and keep the ideas flowing
To try some of these ideas in an informal setting

Part Four: Bring Out Their Best   

42. Listen up!, The Leader as Coach   
Objectives:
To identify the importance of coaching employees
To review coaching styles

43. Pass It On!, The Leader as Teacher   
Objectives:   
To review participant experiences in learning situations
To demonstrate how a learning plan can be put together
To develop and implement one learning plan with employees

44. Dare to Take Risks   
Objectives:
To engage participants in lively discussion about the kinds and levels of risk
To identify each person's risk profile
To create an awareness that what is risky for one person might be easy for another
To explore the ways that women and men each approach and handle risk

45. Sucessful Leaders Have Mentors   
Objectives:
To understand the roles and responsibilities of mentors and protégés
To clarify the steps necessary to find and work with a mentor

46. Searching for Creativity   
Objectives:
To understand how creativity and innovation impacts leaders
To analyze what makes a company creative
To examine some of the myths about creativity in corporations
To study our own process of coming up with creative ideas
To learn the differences between linear and creative thinking
To try out processes for expanding thinking.

47. The Alphabet Poem, Practice your creativity!   
Objectives:
To stretch one's personal ability to be creative "on the spot"
To share differing points of view
To encourage creativity in a group setting

48. Leadership Stations: Your Final Journey   
Objectives:
To clarify participants' next steps in their personal and strategic career development plan
To use creativity and accelerated learning techniques to achieve what is often a cerebral exercise
To encourage self-inquiry and evaluation in a non-threatening, enjoyable, "celebratory" setting

49. Keep the Flame Burning, Recognizing others   
Objectives:
To identify how people are motivated to work at their best
To explore a variety of ways to reward and recognize others

50. Add Heart To Your Workplace, Celebrations   

Objectives
To identify what kinds of celebrations participants have held or seen in the    workplace
To present the HEART formula
To create a plan to incorporate more celebrations into the workday

Appendix:
Glossary of Training Methods