The Leadership Challenge®
A Program for Leaders at All Levels
The Leadership Challenge® -
a growth experience to equip leaders with the skills necessary to enhance their influence within the businesses they serve.
Built on the foundation of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®, The Leadership Challenge answers the question –
"What does exemplary leadership look like?"
– and provides an operating system for participants to use to navigate the challenges they face every day. The program explores the leadership behaviors for each practice area along with practical application for leading.
The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®
Model the Way
Leaders establish principles concerning the way people (constituents, peers, colleagues, and customers alike) should be treated and the way they should pursue goals. Leaders create standards of excellence and set an example for others to follow. They put up signposts when people feel unsure of where to go or how to get there. Leaders create opportunities for victory.
Inspire a Shared Vision
Leaders establish principles concerning the way people (constituents, peers, colleagues, and customers alike) should be treated and the way they should pursue goals. Leaders create standards of excellence and set an example for others to follow. They put up signposts when people feel unsure of where to go or how to get there. Leaders create opportunities for victory.
Challenge the Process
Leaders search for opportunities to change the status quo. They look for innovative ways to improve the organization. In doing so, they experiment and take risks. Since complex change threatens to overwhelm people and stifle action, leaders set interim goals so that people can achieve small wins as they work toward larger objectives. Effective leaders unravel bureaucracy when it impedes action. And, because leaders know that taking risks involves mistakes and failures, they accept occasional disappointments as opportunities to learn.
Enable Others to Act
Leaders search for opportunities to change the status quo. They look for innovative ways to improve the organization. In doing so, they experiment and take risks. Since complex change threatens to overwhelm people and stifle action, leaders set interim goals so that people can achieve small wins as they work toward larger objectives. Effective leaders unravel bureaucracy when it impedes action. And, because leaders know that taking risks involves mistakes and failures, they accept occasional disappointments as opportunities to learn.
Encourage the Heart
Accomplishing extraordinary things in organizations is hard work. To keep hope and determination alive, leaders recognize the contributions that individuals make. In every winning team, the members need to share in the rewards of their efforts, so leaders celebrate accomplishments. They make people feel like heroes.
Why this model?
It's behavioral. It's tangible and allows us to track progress over time.
LPI® 360
Used to measure The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®, the acclaimed leadership development model created by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the LPI® 360 is an observer-based assessment that enables leaders to assess their leadership competencies and act on their discoveries.
This powerful assessment and detailed report will help leaders take the first step toward achieving the extraordinary and reaching their personal leadership best.
Our Results
On average, 95% of leaders demonstrate focused leadership behaviors more now than at the beginning of the program
On average, 97% strongly agree/agree they are confident in their ability to use skills & knowledge taught in the program to be more effective in their role
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