Personal Leadership Development

Leaders are not born, they're made. The qualities and attributes that typically define a good leader are most definitely developed and not inherited. These skills and attitudes can be developed to a high level of effectiveness or left to wilt, unrecognized as well as untapped.

How you choose to develop these skills and channel them into a specific direction will determine your future. You have the responsibility to develop your potential, and it's up to you to realize your full potential.

You can't ask anyone else to do it for you, and you can't blame anyone else for holding you back. The quality of your personal leadership not only determines your future, it helps determine the future of your family, your organization, your community, and potentially the world.


Typical Leadership Development Elements

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Your Leadership Journey

Leadership skills and attributes can be identified and honed to produce a high level of overall effectiveness, or can remain unrecognized, untapped and squandered. How you develop and channel your potential into specific directions can significantly impact your future.

  • Resolving the age-old discussion – are leaders born or made?
  • Unleashing your leadership potential
  • Practicing self-leadership – owning your choices
  • Building on your strengths and always learning from your mistakes

Leadership Success

Effectively leading people and managing tasks is positively influencing the actions and behaviors of others to achieve desired results, outcomes, or goals.

  • Digging deep to discover true success within yourself
  • Understanding authority vs. power – there is a difference
  • Recognizing the three types of formal leadership and taking stock of your own behaviors
  • Examining when you become an enhancer, a neutralizer, or a diminisher of others

The Power of Emotional Intelligence

Researchers estimate that as much as 75% of a person’s ability to succeed can be related to understanding and consistently demonstrating high emotional intelligence.

  • Understanding Emotional Intelligence and its importance to your organization
  • Recognizing behavioral characteristics of high and low emotional intelligence patterns
  • Tying together self-awareness and social awareness
  • Mastering self-management and relationship management

Understanding Diversity While Creating Inclusion

Almost any conversation and discussion about diversity or inclusivity can trigger an intense emotional response. Considering how prominent this focus is in our everyday environment, we need to know how to handle this subject matter personally and professionally and effectively communicate our thoughts.

  • Understanding what diversity means and involves
  • Recognizing how unconscious or implicit bias can impact our attitude toward diversity
  • Creating the attitudinal change required for course correction
  • Making the power of inclusion happen

Achieving Goals for Success

An important component of leadership behavior is ensuring goals are not just set but achieved. Become a master goal achiever and not just a master goal setter.

  • Understanding the various types of goals, their best applications, and their elements can lead to more results more often
  • Internalizing the critical components and criteria of the goals achievement process
  • Learning when to properly apply the four different types of goals personally and professionally
  • Working through our copyrighted goal planning process, your action plans, and necessary action steps

Understanding and Affirming You

In a very real sense, you are more than just one self. You are a composite of several different selfs that surface and recede according to your daily circumstances.

  • Acquiring a deeper understanding of your three selfs
  • Choosing among your three ego states in a professional environment
  • Focusing on the positive and affirming yourself
  • Developing positive habits can yield positive results

Communications

Communications is a two way process that involves multiple layers of emotion and frames of reference being understood and successfully managed to get the desired outcomes.

  • Successfully communicating ideas and reducing miscommunication
  • Tying principles of communication and emotions together
  • Mastering listening aggressively and enhancing listening via questions
  • Building stronger relationships through communication

Managing Your Time

Since you can’t get more time, you have to get more out of the time you’ve got. Often, the more time you invest upfront preventing crises, the less time and money you will be forced to spend scrambling and reacting to crises.

  • Internalizing the concepts of outstanding time management and developing appropriate delegation techniques and attitudes
  • Identifying and eliminating common time wasting habits and traps including procrastination
  • Making the most of your time - planning with a purpose and putting together time plans that work
  • Effectively managing paperwork and accomplishing routine tasks

Making Decisions and Solving Issues

Effective decision making is like a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight. Poor problem solving ability together with indecisiveness is like a dull knife that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind.

  • Understanding the linkage between decision making, issue resolution, and our habits of thought
  • Making prompt but not rash decisions – mastering the elements of a solid decision making process
  • Reaching high quality decisions more often
  • Gathering important information without procrastinating

Motivation and Courage

Success and motivation are interdependent and inseparable. You can’t have one without the other.

  • Tapping into both emotion and logic as you lead yourself and others
  • Understanding human needs, common methods of motivation, and personal values drivers
  • Reducing motivation killers - managing worry and handling frustration
  • Sustaining the courage to stay on course

YOUR ACTION PLAN – Your Tools for Personal and Professional Achievement

Personal Goals Program

  • Dream Inventory (Like a "Bucket List")
  • Self-Evaluation Sections to Develop Yourself as a Total Person
  • >Encompasses Mental, Social, Physical, Financial/Career, Family Life, Ethics and Beliefs Development Areas
  • >Each section includes a: Self-Evaluation Questionnaire, listing of Past Achievements/Mental Strengths, narrative to capture Where I Stand Now, place to generate personal Goal Categories and establish Priorities

Goal Planning Sheets with an Example and Instructions

Organizational Goals Program

  • Capturing overall Organizational Goals
  • Creating Divisional - Departmental - Team Goals
  • Position Description including instructions & Worksheet

Productivity

  • Defining Personal Productivity
  • Productivity Evaluation Questionnaire
  • Generating Productivity Goal Categories, establishing Priorities and setting Goals

Time Management

  • Time Evaluation Matrix and Analysis
  • Time Management Evaluation Questionnaire
  • Generating Time Management Categories, establishing Priorities and setting Time Use Goals

Goals Summary & Goals Accomplished Areas

Components Available to Achieve Results

  • Written Materials - to ensure everyone starts with the same level of knowledge.
  • Audio Materials - to help knowledge become internalized through reinforcement and spaced repetition.
  • Action Planning Workbook - to help distill thought processes and challenges.
  • Participant Interaction - to develop a high level of consensus and commitment.
  • Professional Facilitator - to maximize the beneficial outcome.

Information on Executive & Individual Coaching and Assessment Services

As a direct result of a client request back in 1987, we began working with individuals on a one-to-one basis. Coaching is a direct, highly interactive way for individuals at all levels to take advantage of assistance in developing their own abilities to their fullest potential. It puts action behind the belief that people are the most valuable asset of a business.

After many years of searching, we have found three assessments that are congruent with our people development processes. We were looking for something that without question was quantifiable, valid, reproducible, and objective. They are state-of-the-art versions of the Attribute Index, DISC Index and Values Index.

Paradigm Associates offers the combination of personal assessments along with individual coaching. This can help any individual identify and play to their strengths, identify what land-mines they should avoid, and achieve personal and organizational goals more often.

Contact Us, and let's discuss how we can help you.

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