The Leadership Path™
Published by mart on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 09:20
The Leadership Path™ (TLP™) is the most powerful individual leadership and management development program available. Graduates accelerate their organizations’ achievement of strategy by returning with exceptional and integrated abilities in both leadership and management.
The Leadership Path, Forrest’s flagship development program, dramatically improves the effectiveness of leaders by combining an intense examination of their leadership character with a framework to most effectively lead and manage their teams.
Effectiveness in management or leadership is a multiplier for the other; the two are indivisible parts of a whole. For the greatest impact, development in one must be complemented by development of the other. Graduates of TLP emerge with a profound understanding of themselves as a leader and a manager, and with the means to apply that understanding to best effect at their organizations.
TLP is year-long development experience beginning with a five-day offsite workshop focusing on leadership development. A three-day offsite six months later focuses on developing management ability and integrates the learning from the first workshop.
Over a year, there are five one-on-one coaching sessions that reinforce and broaden the lessons learned in the workshops, and assist the participant in leveraging their personal strengths, overcoming their barriers and applying what they’ve learned to their work at hand.
Benefits
TLP attendees graduate as better leaders and better managers. Their effectiveness in the art of influencing and motivating their team is complemented by their effectiveness at the science of organizing and administering their team. By integrating the two, TLP graduates become powerful managerial leaders.
In addition, participants are like-minded peers, and benefit from sharing experiences and perspectives with other senior managers. Graduates emerge re-energized, reconnected and ready to take on new challenges – they have a new perspective on their work and their lives and how they can more effectively contribute to their team and their organization.
Participants discover their leadership character and how they can best apply it:
- They become conscious of their style of managing and leading and the impact of that style on those around them, including direct reports, peers and managers
- They challenge and reassess their personal and professional vision, contribution and value
- Participants practice, hands-on, the skills and principles of effective leadership and communication
- Personal barriers to success are overcome even while building on personal strengths
- Participants examine and plan ways to increase their contribution to the execution of their organization’s strategy.
Awareness of leadership character is then energized and focused by providing a framework for managing that encompasses all behaviours for effective managerial leadership in any organization, in any sector, at any time and that goes to the very heart of what it means to be a manager:
- Participants develop a solid understanding of the foundations of effective managerial leadership
- They development skill and confidence in the specific list of accountabilities and best practices managers must utilize in order to most effectively and efficiently achieve his or her goals through the work of the people that he or she leads
- Participants are led to understand and navigate the dynamics of organizational interrelationships (managers, peers, direct reports) that result in the output of work
TLP graduates bring to their organizations the power to use the energy of effective managerial leadership to propel their teams toward the achievement of goals while building environments of communication and trust. Their teams will be aligned to strategy, engaged with the work and continually growing in capability.
Purpose and Objective
TLP builds capability and resilience in the leadership and management ability of participants.
Leadership development focuses on the five elements of self-awareness that form the foundation of successful leadership:
- Personal Values – Gain a deeper understanding of the thinking that influences your behaviour, and learn what needs adjusting to achieve your goals.
- Communication & Trust – Learn to communicate effectively and create an environment of trust with the people in your world.
- Purpose – Define your core purpose both professionally and personally.
- Team Building – Are you leveraging or undermining the energy of your team? Learn to build productive relationships.
- Leadership Style – What leadership style is best for you and your role? Consider the impact of your preferred style by means of powerful feedback assessments.
Management development focuses on developing a deep understanding of, and confidence with, the Four Principles and the Four Practices any manager or leader must utilize in order to most effectively and efficiently achieve his or her goals through the work of the people that he or she leads.
The four principles underlying effective managerial leadership are:
- Managerial Accountability
- Judgment and Discretion
- Dialogue and
- Trust
These are fundamental and universal touchstones that energize and clarify the Four Practices.
The Four Practices apply to all managers, at all corporate levels, in all sectors and go to the very heart of what it means to be a manager:
- Align accountabilities
- Build effective teams
- Connect with direct reports, and;
- Delegate successfully, or "ABCD"
The ABCDs are grounded in practical theory and science, and are easy to understand and use. They form a map to guide managers through the job of managing a team to success.
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