Boss 2 Leader
Courses In The Series
- Leadership Defined
- Leadership Styles
- Ideas, Vision, Engagement and Purpose
- Leading With Clarity, NOT Certainty
- Employee Engagement
- Transformational Leadership – Creating Lasting Change
The Boss-2-Leader program was designed to help managers continue along the path of leadership attainment by taking their skill sets to the next level. The Boss-2-Leader programs engage aspiring leaders in both learning and project management. By applying their newly acquired, or finely tuned, skills through practical implementation, they are able to ensure the return on investment for the organization. By the time the participants complete the six (6) course series, they will have implemented each phase of their learning into their every day work processes. This makes the results of the learning processes readily visible to all employees at all levels
When seeking change within your organization, it is critical that the employees see the leaders going first. Your teams will replicate what they see happening with the leaders, but they will not initiate the process. By becoming the leaders that they ought to be, you create the followers that you always wanted.
Course Descriptions
It used to be a common belief that all great leaders look alike. They had the same skill set, thought patterns, and behavioral tendencies. Very few people believe that today. In order to become effective as leaders, we must understand what it is that we are trying to become. The practical skills and behaviors of a leader are what make up the perception that others have of them as a leader. The first course in this series defines leadership, its behaviors, attitudes, and practical functions.
Each of brings our own “style” of leadership to the table. Understanding our style, what it means, and how it affects others will give us the foundation necessary to learn to read people, adapt to their needs, and manage our style. There are very distinct style categories that we fit into. These style categories have consistent behavior sets with them. Therefore, once we understand what category style we belong to, we can better manage the results we get from others.
A person’s thoughts lead to their decisions, which lead to their behaviors, which lead to their results. That means that if we can purposefully control how we think, then we will ultimately control how we succeed. In business and in life, strategic thought processes change our outcomes. As we develop our skills in broadening our thinking, we will begin to view the world differently. We will develop the ability to dig deeper and better evaluate all of the possible angles for both problems and opportunities. No challenge is overcome without strategic thought and action.
There are hosts of leaders in this world that are absolutely certain about being right, about the direction they are going, about who they are to the world. There are very few, however, that are truly clear on the right direction. Developing clarity in business enables a leader to make the right decisions for the right reasons. Only having certainty will cloud the judgment of a leader, often keeping them on the wrong path. As our businesses are developed, it is critical to be clear on what is best for all stakeholders.
Approximately half of our workforce is actively disengaged. This means that they are not satisfied, motivated, or committed, and they are certainly not an advocate for our organization. This course establishes the stages that employees must go through and how to transition them through those stages into an engaged and accountable workforce. You will learn what engagement is, what managers and leaders do to create it and what they often do to destroy it. You will also learn how to maintain an engaged workforce once you get them there.
Creating lasting change within organizations is about transformation of people, attitudes, and culture. From understanding who you are as a leader, to recognizing your style, to thinking the right way, to engaging your teams, you have to be able to change the hearts and minds of the people you lead. This course walks you through the transformation process and how to build a better organization, that will produce significantly better results than you could have ever thought possible.
