12-week course
This course represents a “spiral” of learning new skills and mindsets within the Conscious Leader Program. It is embedded in a structured learning process over three (3) months which includes these elements:
Weekly 80-min live, facilitator-led sessions
Structured resources in an online Course Portal and Course Workbook to support learning
Structured practice activities with feedback and coaching in group practice sessions
Mutual peer coaching
A conscious learning community of people learning together and offering mutual support in a multi-level cohort
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum to the women and men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." — Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands French writer and aviator 1900-1944
The primary goal of a Conscious Leader is to build a Conscious Team that is cohesive and effective. Conscious Teams are identified by:
the high-level of autonomy of the team itself and of its members,
clear structures of intrinsic motivation that guide choices and behaviors,
and ongoing feedback and mutual accountability.
In this course, participants will learn how to:
ignite intrinsic motivation within your team
build cohesion and unity
define roles that are both clear and inspiring
supervise through trust and accountability
ensure robust communication within your team
make on-going decisions to build the team of people that you need
match people into the roles that reflect their strengths and competence
ensure team members are moving towards personal excellence and effectiveness
Theme 1: Ignite Intrinsic Motivation: Inspire the way forward in alignment with Shared Purpose & Core Values - What matters to us?
Vision the team's purpose in light of the organization's shared purpose
Where are we going as a team? What will be different in 2 years? ... in 1 year? ... in 3 months?
Interpret the Core Values in terms of behaviors on the team
Ignite intrinsic motivation
Support people in the transition toward the desired change ... what's the purpose?, what's the picture?, what's the plan?, what's my part?
Theme 2: Building Cohesion: Give your team voice to own the present and co-create the desired future
Create structures for feedback and cohesion
Acknowledge and embrace the current reality ... seek clarity, not blame
Invite & value feedback from all stakeholders
Engage team in understanding challenges, prioritizing attention, and choosing next steps
Create clear responsibility and accountability in taking action
Theme 3: Conscious Roles: Define how each person's part contributes to the success of the whole team
Roles are not a list of tasks
Craft role descriptions for clarity and inspiration
Identify competencies needed
Aim - what tangible service or product do I provide for the organization
Domain - what decisions am I responsible to make
Guidelines - what guides my decisions and actions
Measurements - how do you know I am fulfilling my role
Ensure open sharing and understanding of roles within the team
Theme 4: Conscious Supervision: Presence, Seeing, Listening, Coaching, Support
Supervision is being present and bringing presence
See and hear your staff - activating trust
Lead with integrity - what you say and what you do are aligned
Lead by doing - be a role model for how you want staff to show up
Lead by coaching - support them to get the clarity they need to make their own choices
Activate a culture of mutual accountability that calls people into alignment
Theme 5: Conscious Communication: Create the structures and processes to facilitate communication, collaboration & connection
Define the essential meetings we need
Design meetings to fulfill their purpose and objectives
Facilitate meetings for engagement and inclusion
Use technology systems to enhance communication, e.g. phone and video calls, messaging, emails, documents
Theme 6: The People on the Team: The proactive, on-going process of developing and sustaining an effective and cohesive team
Hiring - let the team members evaluate how the candidate performs the real tasks of the job
Onboarding - ensure a supportive experience in the first day, first week, first month
Growth & Development - every person needs a development plan
Termination - acknowledge and take action when the person is clearly not fulfilling the role
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