Cohort 12
Action Items Page
This page is your central location for everything related to your program. Here, you’ll find what you need before, during, and between workshops — including resources, links, and action items to complete between sessions. Bookmark this page and return to it regularly to stay on track and prepare for each workshop.
Your participation, reflection, and follow-through will directly support your growth.
Development Process
Your HRD Team
Dr. Ali Atkison
VP, Learning & Development
ali@hrdleadership.com
Questions on logistics, assessments, invitations, communications
HRDPrograms@hrdleadership.com
Materials
Please have your DiSC report accessible at each workshop.
Slide Decks, Handouts, and Recordings
- Kickoff & Developing a Leadership Mindset - Slides, Handout, Discussion Guide
- Building Trust on Your Team - Slides, Handout, Zoom Recording - Passcode: ZdTF80E?, Discussion Guide
- Feedback & Accountability - Slides, Handout, Zoom Recording - Passcode: .8p4&5Jn, Discussion Guide
- Communication in Leadership - Slides, Handout, Discussion Guide, Presentation Skills Guide
- Leading Through Conflict - Slides, Handout, Discussion Guide, Zoom Recording - coming soon
Action Items
- Complete your DiSC and Pre-Competency Assessments
- Meet with your accountability partners. Use the discussion questions below to talk through your thinking, test ideas, and learn from one another’s perspectives.
- Meet with your manager. Use the same questions to explore application, identify barriers, and discuss how our manager can support practice and reinforcement.
- Your discussion questions:
- What are your take-aways from Above the Line?
- What are your values? Why did you choose them, and how will you live them?
- What are your strengths/opportunities from your DiSC report?
- Begin work on your Leadership Mission.
- Plot your team members on the DiSC wheel (in handout), and answer the questions about gaps, strengths, and tensions.
- Complete the Action Plan for Success in your handouts.
- Watch The Golden Rule Goes Platinum (Angela McMillan/TedX)
- Meet with your accountability partner to discuss the following questions:
- What actions are you planning to adapt communication to someone else’s DiSC style?
- What obstacles are you planning ahead for?
- How did insights from Angela McMillan’s TedX talk help inform these choices?
- Continue working on your Leadership Mission.
- Give the feedback you identified you need to give and/or have the accountability conversation you need to have.
- Meet with your accountability partner to discuss both items, using the guided questions:
- Based on The Secret to Giving Great Feedback – Ted Talk, what insights did you gain about how you’ve been giving feedback in the past and how you can improve your approach to offering feedback in the future?
- How did the feedback conversations go?
- What did you learn about how you might approach it differently next time?
- Work on your Leadership Mission.
- Practice using your new brain-based tools: Analogies, Questions, and Enriched Environments.
- Be prepared to share examples of how you have done so next time!
- Listen to Quick Thinks: All Effective Communication Must Start With This (Episode 25 of Think Fast, Talk Smart) and meet with your accountability partner to discuss these questions:
- What connections do you see between the questions Matt Abrahams (the podcast host) suggests you should ask of your audience or listener and the information you’ve learned in our workshop about the importance of connecting to someone’s prior experience to communicate effectively?
- Complete the mid-program survey.
- Practice stepping back (employ the 5-second rule!) and reframing your automatic thoughts. Be prepared to share an example of doing so in our next workshop.
- Choose two productive conflict behaviors to focus on (one you’re already good at, and one you’d like to cultivate).
- Listen to Reframing Your Reality (Part 1): Episode from Hidden Brain podcast.
- Meet with your accountability partners and discuss the following questions:
- What was your favorite example from the podcast about how our mindset (i.e., how we frame our reality) impacts our decisions and interactions with others?
- How can you put this insight to use in your professional role?
- BONUS: Share your Leadership Growth Story for your chance of winning a $50 Amazon Gift card!
- TBD
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