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Leadership is our ability to influence, inspire, or motivate, and that all starts with connection. Emotions and emotional connections propel us into action.  Creating an environment that makes people feel welcome, comfortable, and important is the first step in successfully leading others.

In this session, your leadership team will learn:

1. 1. The psychology of motivating people.
   2. How to engage in effective one on one meetings to connect with teams on a personal, human level.
   3. How to prepare for and facilitate productive team meetings that bring members closer together; building trust and a sense of purpose within the team’s culture.
   4. How to use ongoing meaningful written communication to convey team goals whether employees are in the office or working from home.

Research has demonstrated that IQ accounts for 20% of a person’s success. Emotional intelligence makes up the other 80%.

In this Learning Experience, we turn successful managers into inspiring leaders committed to achieving the highest levels of personal development and becoming an example to those they lead.

In this session, your leadership team will learn:

1. 1. Actionable steps to improving all four components of emotional intelligence – self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
   2. How acceptance – accepting one’s self, accepting others for who they are, and accepting organizational realities – will reshape their mindset and help them serve their teams.
   3. What empathy really means, why it’s an important leadership skill, and how to leverage it to create a positive team-oriented culture.

People don’t leave their job; they leave their manager.  Various studies reinforce that over half of the people who voluntarily leave their job do so because of their leader. Sometimes it’s because the leader fails to listen with empathy, other times it’s because of a lack of training, growth, or development, and many times it’s simply because of a lack of accountability.

Beyond that, lacking the tools or information to perform the job well also pushes employees to find new places to work in hopes to find more supportive leadership.

Through the L.E.A.D model (Listening, Educating, staying Active and Accountable, and Delivering for their people), leaders will learn how to become a servant leader for their teams.

Through dynamic discussion and immersive activities, participants will develop an understanding of:

1. 1. What Servant Leadership means, why it’s essential, and how to become a servant leader.
   2. Why listening is critical to becoming a great leader as they develop action plans to help them listen more empathetically to key stakeholders – employees, peers, and leaders.
   3. Why and how educating their teams, sharing their knowledge, teaching new skills, and delivering feedback in-the-moment will inspire continuous improvement.
   4. How to stay active and accountable, as leaders, and how to hold others accountable to the same standard.
   5. How to deliver on their leadership promise by consistently providing necessary tools, information, and support to their teams.

Engaged teams work for each other, for the betterment of the greater good, as opposed to only looking out for their own best interests.  Yet according to Gallup’s research, only 33 percent of employees in the United States are actually engaged.

Kindness is contagious and can serve as strong foundation to building the positive team-oriented culture your team needs to thrive.  Through meaningful recognition, kind leaders establish respect among their team by instilling a strong sense of purpose across the entire team.

In this session, your leadership team will learn how to:

1. 1. Create a culture of belonging on their team and in their organization.
   2. Understand the power of genuine kindness and create actionable plans for how they’ll intentionally give their time, talent, and heart to those they lead.
   3. Ensure their team feels significant with daily engagement, creating a sense of purpose, and helping them experience fulfillment in their work.
   4. Utilize the power of encouragement with meaningful recognition, enlightening reminders, and old-fashioned assistance.

Great coaches are as graceful as they are wise, and as driven as they are diligent. The environments they create inspire and motivate people to grow and develop in ways they never knew they needed to grow.

We respond to great coaches because they help us get comfortable getting uncomfortable. They certainly say the right things, at the right times, for the right purpose; but it’s also how they say it which inspires us to dig deep within ourselves to give our best instead of shutting down.

In this session, your leadership team will learn how to:

1. 1. Become an inspiring coach that extends grace, asks for grace, and becomes more graceful in their leadership approach while teaching others to do the same.
   2. Utilize the three physiological human needs – competence, autonomy, and relatedness – to create an environment rich with self-motivation, determination, and grit among their team.
   3. Create a compelling vision, laser-focused SMART goals, and tactical action plans that will lead to new levels of purpose and intention among each member of their team.
   4. Engage in consistent communication, celebrate incremental wins, and engage in tough accountability conversations that drive teams to success.

American psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman’s notable article in Harvard Business Review, “Why Inspiration Matters,” points out just how magical inspiration is by noting that inspired people reported higher levels of the following: a belief in their abilities, self-esteem, optimism, and creativity.

In other words, leaders who put forth the effort first to become inspired themselves, are able to share compelling stories and create memorable, inspiring experiences for those they lead.

In this session, your leadership team will learn:

1. 1. Why inspiration moves people to do more, become more, and deliver more for their organization.
   2. How actionable leadership nutrition plans for how they will actively seek inspiration for themselves – feeding their minds, bodies, and souls – allow them to become an inspiration for those they lead.
   3. The power of storytelling and how to craft and share their own stories while inviting others to share their stories, ultimately creating an inspired sense of community among the team.
   4. The importance of developing and living their own leadership brand as they create their own leadership brand statements for the leadership legacy they want to leave.
   5. How creating inspirational employee experiences will transform seemingly menial jobs into meaningful work for those they lead.