Executive Leadership Development System

The Executive Leadership Development System

This All quadrant-All Level program is designed to provide the independent leadership professional with a sound basis for working with leaders in all forms of business and executive roles. Essentially, this program is designed to:

Teach the central pivot points of personal and organizational performance, change and transformation

Identify and construct effective leadership development from a variety of options to manifest efficient leadership development

Create leadership development that guarantees "bench strength" over time even when it requires "priming" the leadership engine!

Whether you work with one person or a hundred people, this system will guarantee you success if you use the formula you will develop in the program. In this program, we answer the following questions:

How do I?

	Efficiently identify a leadership development opportunity
	Surface the issues that are relevant to the client?
	Qualify the leadership development according to the degree of complexity present and required?
	Generate a realistic proposal that wins business?
	Create deliverables that meet the client's needs?
	Guarantee success in leadership development?

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Information and Outline below:

The Executive Leadership Development System

This program is designed for independent professionals who want to deepen their knowledge of how to surface and propose more efficient leadership development solutions to clients. Much of the time, the client doesn't know the cause of the problems nor the way to arrive at the most efficient solution--even though they have identified leadership problems.

In fact, much of the time, the more the client knows the greater chance that the real problem is isolated in their system. In order to become more proficient at identifying the root cause issues in complex adaptive systems, whether they be one person or thousands is to understand Evolutionary Systems Development (ESD) in complex adaptive systems.

In order to use this system effectively for any client system, you must understand ESD. ESD has its foundation in the twin sisters of personal and organizational system development and is informed through Spiral Dynamics Integral or SDi. This discipline is highly regarded as being a micro/macro tool of evolutionary systems development and has been adapted to undergird the development of a leadership engine in the Executive Leadership Development System.

ELDS is a standalone system. It can be used to inform and enhance any and all internal, external, financial or developmental perspectives in business systems.

It is a 13 week program designed to provide significant personal and organizational transformation when applied over time in personal, business and network domains.

It is organized with the EI Theory of Performance informed by leadership styles, organizational alignment, the leadership pipeline and the leadership development profile. This may seem like too much to try to synthesize in one model, however without a clear understanding of the evolutionary waves taking place in this ocean of leadership complexity, one can't navigate the waters of change successfully.

This advanced program will be available beginning in July 2002. There is no prerequisite for this program, but I recommend you purchase the assessment supplement in order to directly correlate the material to your own leadership journey.

This program contains 13 modules held over teleconference calls in so many weeks for 1 hour and 45 minutes for 21 hours of training. Programs begin the first week of each of the following months:

July 8, 2002
Nov 2002
Mar 2003
Additional programs may be added as needed.

Here is a brief outline of each module in the program:

This series of modules reviews assessments in the following areas:

Emotional Intelligence Values Survey

Leadership Style & Challenge

Leadership Development Profile

Strengths Assessment

[If you have taken these assessments, there is no need to take them again and you may credit your registration with those you have taken on the registration form] Upon registration for the program, you'll receive information directing you to the assessment supplement.

Module 1: Emotional Competence Values Inventory
Module 2: Leadership Styles Inventory
Module 3: Leadership Development Profile
Module 4: Spiral Dynamics I
Module 5: Spiral Dynamics II
Module 6: Organizational Climate
Module 7: Alignment Management System
Module 8: Leadership Pipeline
Module 9: Performance Leadership Mechanics
Module 10: Oncken Freedom Scale and RAA
Module 11: Primal Leadership
Module 12: Crafting a leadership development agenda
Module 13: Weaving a fabric of leadership development through strengths

All participants will be able to construct their own leadership development application for one or a thousand leaders using one or all of the components of this system. A free consultation session for up to 2 hours is also included in this program. There is a license fee per person of $100 should you decide to use the generic framework of this system to train others.

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Executive Leadership Development System Outline

Module 1: Emotional Competence Values Inventory

Learning Objectives:

	Identify the 18 competencies of effective leaders from the aspect of all levels
	Illustrate how change is likely to be most efficient and reinforcing
	How to quickly stage a leadership development agenda using this information

In this module we'll cover a NEW approach to understanding emotional competence based on value systems and how to use it quickly to address internal, external, individual and collective concerns efficiently and effectively. You'll also learn why this program is a "Trojan Horse Virus" and how that virus works to develop a leadership engine that performs efficiently..

Module 2: Leadership Styles Inventory

Learning Objectives:

	The six leadership styles
	How to identify the style hierarchy and link it with development issues
	The specific steps to practice developing complementary styles

In this module you'll learn your leadership style profile and what it means to your own reality and level. Understanding this reality is key to designing a leadership approach that is efficient in the short run and effective over time.

Module 3: Leadership Development Profile

Learning Objectives:

	Identify your level of espoused development
	Engage in a process of linking espoused developmental level to level in use
	Bridging the gaps between what is and what is required and your aspiration and your current being.

In this module we'll review the leadership development profile and how it can be used to identify blind spots in leadership development agendas.

Module 4: Spiral Dynamics I

Learning Objectives:

	Overview of the spiral
	Review each level of the spiral
	Distinguish components of each level

In this module you'll learn how to see the spiral in yourself and others, what it means and how it can be used to locate blind spots.

Module 5: Spiral Dynamics II

Learning Objectives:

	Relate the spiral to leadership development profile
	Understanding how the spiral is all quadrant: internal, external, individual and collective
	Overlaying the spiral onto emotional intelligence and leadership development

In this module you'll learn how to see multiple perspectives of leadership development as a way to navigate through complex waters of personal, business and network performance, change and transformation required by leadership development either vertically or horizontally to build future leadership and bench strength over time. The key concept of "meshworks" will be discussed.

Module 6: Organizational Climate

Learning Objectives:

	Six factors of organizational climate
	How climate is affected by style and how climate dictates a significant portion of economic results
	How to affect climate using an all quadrant approach to leadership development

In this module we'll cover the organizational climate survey, how it determines results on six factors of climate and how the factors of climate affect economic results. We will integrate collective climate to individual opportunity through internal and external means.

Module 7: Alignment Management System

Learning Objectives:

	The Alignment Management System
	Why aligning an organization is the most efficient use of energy in all quadrants
	How alignment leverages leadership development

In this module you'll learn how and why to use alignment to capture and use the energy required for change and leadership development. Most organizations can't afford to purchase energy or pay for leadership development, therefore you have to help them capture the energy and costs within the organization.

Module 8: Leadership Pipelines & Complexity

Learning Objectives:

	The criteria for each level of leadership complexity
	How time perspective, leadership development and levels of leadership passage all dictate the leadership inventory in an organization
	How to use the pipeline to develop bench strength on the leadership team

In this module we'll review the leadership pipeline as a guide to identifying the collective leadership inventory in an organization and why managing that inventory is as critical to success as managing product and service inventory. We'll show you how to contrast what is with what is required in order to transcend and anticipate leadership complexity.

Module 9: Performance Leadership Mechanics

Learning Objectives:

	Why performance is at the root of all leadership success
	How to create a simple performance system
	How to use the spiral to design appropriate performance expectations in all quadrants and at all levels.

In this module you'll learn how to use a bulletproof performance design system to improve leadership performance at any level

Module 10: Oncken Freedom Scale and RAA

Learning Objectives:

	Identify the components of the OFS and why it is critical to leadership development and performance management.
	Understanding the difference in RAA [Responsibility, Accountability & Authority] at different levels of the spiral and in the pipeline
	Use RAA as a way to gain power as an external system designer and coach

In this module you'll learn how to use RAA as a way to set up a system of development that has its own system of checks and balances, that over time, models the OFS philosophy and a performance management system.

Module 11: Primal Leadership

Learning Objectives:

	Resonant Leadership
	How to use all the other components of the ELDS to create resonant leadership
	Why the need for every leader to have a self-directed learning agenda is paramount to leadership development in complex times.

In this module we'll cover the key components of PRIMAL LEADERSHIP and why they provide the lynch pins for the ELDS.

Module 12: Crafting a leadership development agenda

Learning Objectives:

	Using 5 discontinuities, craft a self-directed learning agenda using SFDCS.
	Gain context in using the prior information in prior modules to cross-validate the critical path in SFDCS plans.
	Understand how to help others craft plans that leverage the critical path in all quadrants.

In this module you'll learn how to use what you've learned to craft a self-directed learning agenda that appeals to all quadrants and all levels.

Module 13: Weaving a fabric of leadership development through strengths -- A Reality Check!

Learning Objectives:

	Identify your level of espoused development
	Engage in a process of linking espoused developmental level to level in use
	Bridging the gaps between what is and what is required

In this module we'll review the components of leadership development and how it can be used to identify blind spots in leadership development agendas. We'll discuss why sometimes, for the sake of the company, organization or community, you must "prime" the leadership engine!