About Purpose is about your purpose.
Aim: Identify and articulate your purpose.
Arm: Shape yourself around your purpose.
Act: Achieve your purpose.
Programs:
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Leadership On Purpose©
Starts March 3, 2010!
Participants from the last class are still reporting breakthrough results with their staff and companies!
Leadership - On Purpose©
How do you and your top managers lead – by the seat of your pants, or on purpose?
Leadership– On Purpose© is a focused leadership development program designed around the Aim, Arm and Act Principle.
AIM: Participants clearly articulate both their personal and corporate purpose
ARM: They learn to shape their skills and the organization’s resources to meeting the purpose
ACT: They immediately put those skills into practice – on purpose
- Leadership – On Purpose© is an intensive, hands-on leadership development program designed for leaders with supervisory responsibility
- Leadership– On Purpose© is a proven program used with over 150 participants in the DNR, DOER and several private organizations
- Leadership– On Purpose© uses state-of-the art instrumentation to equip participants to more effectively lead and interact with their direct reports
- Leadership– On Purpose© builds on participants’ strengths and helps them leverage the resources of their employees, their teams and the system
WHEN?
Leadership – On Purpose© meets 5 consecutive Wednesdays beginning March 3, 2009 from 9:30am to 4:30pm
WHERE?
Leadership– On Purpose© meets at Grumpy’s in Roseville on Snelling at County C2
HOW MUCH? $750 Cash or Check, $795 Credit Card
Covers all materials, breaks and lunches. There is also special pricing available during the course on any additional materials to use with anyone else in the organization (33% discount)
Leadership– On Purpose© is based on the Circles of Influence© Model. This model guides participants through knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to effectively influence at the personal, interpersonal, team and system levels.
Content and Learning Objectives:
Leadership– On Purpose© is based on the Circles of Influence© Model. This model guides participants through knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to effectively influence at the personal, interpersonal, team and system levels.
Content and Learning Objectives:
Personal
Objectives: Self-disclosure of personality style and approach to management/supervision
Evaluation of personal motivating and de-motivating factors and environments
Self-disclosure of diversity awareness
Audit personal ethics as a base for leadership growth
Gain personal insights from interaction with coworkers
Articulate personal vision and mission
Set personal priorities
Strategic planning for professional and career development
Interpersonal
(2 days)
Objectives: Learn and practice effective listening, feedback and inquiry skills
Influence effectively in situations marked by conflict, anger, and resistance
Understand rewards, performance management and motivation
Use a schema to plan and implement effective delegation
Learn and practice coaching skills
Learn and practice a problem solving and decision making method
Apply method to an actual problem, developing a plan for implementation
Preview basics of project planning and planning tools
Audit inter-personal ethics as a base for leadership growth
Learn tools for facilitating ethics introspection with co-workers
Strategic planning for professional and career development
Team
Objectives: Assess areas of responsibilities in terms of appropriateness to team action
Critique current team health and lead team through a diagnosis
Learn the four stages of team development and plan for leading team through them
Assess the support system for team operation and develop plan for improvement
Learn and practice group facilitation skills and apply interpersonal skills to team
Apply knowledge of personality styles and diversity awareness to team development
Strategic planning for professional and career development
System
Objectives: Understand the dynamics of change
Learn change agent skills and develop plan to assist others with change
Identify, prioritize and develop plans to improve systems problems
Develop plan for follow-up and professional development
INSTRUCTOR
Leadership– On Purpose© is taught by Bob Ryan of About Purpose, Inc.
Bob Ryan is president of About Purpose, a 25-year old consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses articulate and carry out their purpose. He is founder of SWiM® Starting With Me™, a program to promote business and individual ethics through personal responsibility.
He has a masters degree in hospital and health care administration and a bachelor degree in social welfare. He has been married to Linda for 35 years. He has one daughter, Allison, a son-in-law, Isaac, and two granddaughters, Elizabeth and Amelie.