Gain understanding of the transition process to leadership and identify common experiences within each stage of the process.

10/22: Plan and Deliver Your Message
10/29: Listening, Questioning and Results
11/5: Meeting Practical and Personal Needs

Identify the intention of your message and the root of miscommunication. Demonstrate non-verbal signals to support your message. Learn to communicate beyond your comfort zone.

Utilize active listening skills. Provide specific feedback. Ask open-ended questions. Limit use of close-ended questions.

Integrate Your Intentions with the Key Principles of Communication. Establish a communication routine for consistent quality. Utilize discussion organization tools for enhanced impact.

Plan, facilitate, and follow up on meetings to ensure that business results are achieved. Learn to use appropriate intervention techniques to keep meetings on track, to ensure that participants contribute effectively and support the meeting’s outcomes. Create and implement strategies for effectively leading virtual meetings. Sample templates provided.

Maximize Your Talents and Develop Your Strengths. Designed to help leaders recognize their own strengths and learn how to invest in the strengths of those they lead. Participants will take the Strengths Finder 2.0 Assessment and be able to inventory the strengths of the team they are on and the team they lead.

Learn the 10 essential elements for creating collaborative working environments. These collaborative leadership skills are proving to be pivotal strengths in creating participatory and high performing work teams.

In this LeaderShift mastermind we will discuss vitally important leader shifts including:

• How to continually learn, unlearn and relearn touchstone leadership principles.
• How to go from pleasing people to challenging people to become better leader and mentor
• How to change your focus from maintaining to creating, unlocking the mental blocks keeping you from reaching your full potential.
• How to move from being goal- oriented to growth oriented while dropping bad habits, changing wrong priorities, and embracing new ways of thinking.

As a result of this training you should be able to:

• Accelerate the process of making change happen. 
• Minimize the potential negative effects change can have on productivity, morale, and collaboration. 
• Turn resistance into commitment and inspire team members to take ownership of change. 
• Clearly communicate the business rationale and benefits of change for the team and the organization.

Improve Relationships and Increase Productivity. An introduction to the principles of Emotional Intelligence (EQ). EQ is the ability to identify and understand your emotions and those of others to guide your behavior and manage relationships. Topics covered include the five competencies of Emotional Intelligence.