Introduction to Leading Today

Introduction to Leading Today

 You are beginning a program that has been
designed to provide you many opportunities to
examine your past, present and future thoughts
about being a successful leader in your profession.

 The program has been designed to cover
several inter-related topics that are highly
important to “leading productively” in today’s
and tomorrow’s workplaces.

 Included among the topics are:

 1. leading and leadership (coordinating)
2. communicating
3. teaming and teamwork (collaborating)
4. creative thinking & problem solving (cre8ng)
5. conflicting (conflict resolution and negotiation)
6. changing
7. connecting w/ employees & other leaders
8. teaming (collaborating)

 In each topic you will be asked to examine
various styles, theories, skills that I will present
and the ideas of the other members of your class
to compare and contrast them with your own that
you have collected and developed since you began
working.

 My goals and objectives are to help you begin to become
a stronger leader than you already are, whether you
currently lead one or two people to hundreds or
a thousand or more people.

 Some of the ideas, theories, skills & thoughts may...

 coincide
compliment
contrast or
contradict

 your own. 

 That is deliberate by design.

 During the program we will explore many sources of
ideas, theories, skills and thoughts related to each of
the general topics. The purpose of the program is to
challenge, add to and strengthen your current style(s)
and knowledge of leading, communicating, teaming
creative thinking and solution generating.

 By the end of the week whether you have changed your
ideas, theories, skills and thoughts or strengthened
your current ones or not the course will still have
been successful because you will have spent several
hours thinking about them in detail.

 It is rare in our working lives that we can take out the
time to simply explore, examine, and challenge our
ideas, theories, skills and thoughts while learning
about other ones: new, old, ancient: used or unused.

 I wish you a great, meaningful and valuable
experience throughout the entire program..

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