Table of Contents/Introduction   

Part I. Leaping Into Leadership With Warm-Ups   

    1. Opening Your Leadership Workshop   

        Objectives:

            To introduce trainers

            To re-group participants into teams of 5-7

            To identify participant's expectations

            To review administrative details

            To review workshop guidelines

            To conduct one warm-up activity

    2. People Hunt   

        Objectives:

            To help participants become better acquainted

            To provide a transition from the participants' other activities into this workshop

    3. Name Tag   

        Objectives:

            To help participants become better acquainted

            To stimulate thinking about leadership

    4. What Do You Know About Leadership?   

        Objectives:

            To recognize what participants know about leadership

            To identify resources on leadership

Part II: Leadership Theories and Research    

    5. Common Themes in Leadership Research   

        Objectives:

            To review the current research and literature on leadership.

    6. How Is a Manager Different from a Leader?   

        Objective:

            To identify the qualities and behaviors of both managers and leaders.

Part III: Our Leadership Models and Mentors   

    7.  What Did You Learn From Your Childhood Models?

            Objective:

                To identify what we learned from adults in our childhood.

    8. The Best and Worst Leaders You've Known   

            Objective:

                To identify qualities of both the best and the worst leaders we've known

    9. Mentors and Mentoring   

            Objectives:

                To identify what we learn from mentors

                To identify what a mentor does

                To assess the benefits of mentoring

                To outline guidelines for mentoring

Part IV: Self Assessment - How Do I Stack Up?   

    10. Your Values and Beliefs   

        Objectives:

            To identify one's core values and beliefs

            To assess which values and beliefs are essential in leaders.

    11. Your Personal Traits   

        Objective:

            To compare one's personal traits to the traits possessed by effective leaders.

    12. Leading at Your Best   

        Objectives:

            To reflect on a time when participants let others well

            To assess what they did during this optimal experience of leading others

Part V: Making Changes and Taking Risks   

    13. Trying Something New   

        Objectives:   

            To identify one's willingness to try something new

            To confirm that initiating action is an essential skill found in effective leaders

14. Taking Risks - Your Style and Opportunities   

        Objectives:

            To identify one's style for taking risks

            To recognize the level of each possible risk

            To weigh the pros and cons of each risk

            To identify why risk taking is essential for leaders

    15. How Do You Feel About Change?   

        Objectives:

            To identify one's attitude toward change

            To apply this awareness to helping others face change

    16. Helping Others Face Change   

    Objective:

            To identify how leaders can help others deal with change.

Part VI: Visionary Leadership   

    17. Let's Dream!   

        Objectives:

            To identify the elements and value of daydreaming

            To apply dreaming to the process of creating vision

    18. Tapping Into Creativity   

        Objectives:

            To identify the value of tapping one's creativity

            To stimulate one's creativity as the first step in creating a vision

    19. Look Back to the Future   

        Objectives:

            To identify the value of reflecting on the past before creating a future vision

            To apply this process to creating an individual and group vision

    20. Creating and Organizational or Team Vision Statement   

        Objectives:

            To identify the value of a vision statement

            To define vision and mission

            To apply the steps of writing a vision statement

    21. The Visionary Larder Award   

        Objectives:

            To stimulate an awards night to recognize visionary leaders

            To recognize the importance of holding celebrations

Part VII: Communicating with Followers   

    22. Communication the Benefits of a Vision Statement   

        Objectives:

            To identify the value of gaining commitment for a vision statement

            To list benefits for different groups of people who we want to commit to a vision

            To communicate the benefits to people who will be affected by the vision.

    23. Even Leaders Need to Listen and Paraphrase   

        Objectives:

            To practice attentive listening

            To practice paraphrasing

    24. Giving Feedback   

        Objectives:

            To review guidelines for giving feedback

            To practice giving feedback

    25. Mediating Conflicts Between Followers   

        Objectives:

            To introduce the role of a mediator in resolving an interpersonal conflict

            To demonstrate mediation

    26. Leading the Cheer   

        Objective:

            To demonstrate how enthusiasm helps enlist others in following a leader

Part VIII: Empowering Followers   

    27. Following the Leader   

        Objectives:

            To experience what it is like to be a follower

            To understand follower's feelings in order to lead them better

            To identify characteristics of effective followers

    28. I or We?   

        Objectives:

            To experience the impact of two pronouns: I and We

            To write a statement using only "we"

    29. Motivating Your Followers   

        Objectives:

            To identify what motivates us as individuals in deferent situations

            To review three theories of motivation: McGregor, Herzberg, and Maslow

    30. Empowering Followers Through Delegation   

        Objectives:

            To analyze one's own style of delegation

            To learn and apply the steps of delegating

Part IX: Working with Others in Teams   

    31. What Is a Team?   

        Objectives:

            To identify the elements of an effective team

            To identify what a leader can do when leading a team

    32. Setting Team Guidelines   

        Objectives:

            To discuss the value of written team guidelines

            To practice reaching consensus on team guidelines

    33. Building Commitment and Synergy   

        Objectives:

            To discuss the value of building commitment and synergy

            To review some team-building activities

    34. The Emerging Leader in a Team   

        Objective:

            To examine the role and value of emerging leaders

Part X: Recognition, Rewards, and Celebrations   

    35. Recognizing and Rewarding Employees   

        Objectives:

            To identify reasons for recognizing and rewarding employees

            To learn about the divers methods of recognizing others

            To establish ways to obtain recognition for oneself

    36. Let's Celebrate!   

        Objectives:

            To identify reasons for holding celebrations at work

            To plan a celebration

    37. Creative Rewards   

        Objectives:

            To identify and create some fun rewards to give out during a celebration

            To hold a closing ceremony for this leadership workshop

Part XI: The Leader as a Problem Solver and Decision Maker   

    38. Who Will Make This Decision?

        Objectives:

            To identify three kinds of decisions

            To discuss the criteria fro determining who will be involved in making a decision

             To apply these criteria and decision-making models

    39. The Leader as Facilitator   

        Objectives:

            To review the participants' past experiences with facilitating

            To identify the facilitator role

    40. Brainstorming - An Old but True Tool   

        Objectives:

            To name the goal of brainstorming

            To review the guidelines for using brainstorming

            To apply brainstorming to work situations

    41. The Problem-Solving Cycle and the Compact Problem-Solving Method   

        Objectives:

            To review the problem-solving cycle

            To review the compact problem-solving method

            To apply this method to a simple problem

    42. Reaching Consensus Through Collaboration   

          Objectives:

            To identify when to use consensus as a problem-solving tool

            To discuss the guidelines for reaching consensus

            To practice following these guidelines in order to reach consensus when solving a problem

Part XII: Developing Your Leadership Skills and Staying Renewed   

    43. How Do You Learn Best?   

        Objectives:

            To identify the variables associated with one's best learning

            To recognize one's learning style

    44. Writing a Professional Development Plan   

        Objectives:

            To review the six steps for writing a professional development plan

            To draft a professional development plan

    45. Staying in Balance and in Good Health   

        Objectives:

            To assess one's current state of health and well being

            To identify strategies and tips for enhancing balance and health

            To apply these ideas to one's developmental plan

    46. Tips for Success as a Leader

        Objective:

            To identify guidelines to enhance one's success as a leader.

Part XIII: Ending the Leadership Workshop   

    47. Closing the Leadership Workshop   

        Objectives:

            To provide feedback between participants

            To evaluate effectiveness of the training program

            To celebrate the completion of the workshop

    48. Certificate of Self-Recognition   

        Objective:

            To identify one personal characteristic of leadership that should be recognized by others in this workshop

    49. Stick-On Strokes   

        Objective:

            To recognize members of the group

    50. Closing Cheers   

        Objective:

            To express some final thoughts and feelings

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