Program Overview

Collaborative Leadership Immersion (CLI) will equip you with essential tools and techniques for leading teams, facilitating change, running meetings and inspiring others to achieve collective goals. After this program, you’ll look forward to leading and attending meetings. You’ll have the confidence to deal with challenging people and situations and the tools to help teams achieve great results. This program will dramatically increase your leadership self - awareness and ability to leverage the best thinking, creativity and commitment of others when solving problems and making decisions.

Approach

This three-day, applied skills program emphasizes individual practice coupled with in-depth, constructive feedback from the group and session leader. Videotaping of your facilitation practice sessions is a primary learning tool that provides real-time opportunities for coaching, feedback and experiential learning.

Key Topic Areas

• Understand and apply a variety of models for collaborative leadership.
• Improve your ability to “read” group dynamics and identify the most appropriate skills to use.
• Gain knowledge about fostering group decision-making with successful outcomes.
• Understand the elements of planning and designing successful meetings.
• Learn powerful facilitation toolsfor increasing team effectiveness.
• Learn tools and intervention techniques for effectively handling difficult situations.
• Build a productive and open atmosphere of cooperation, trust and high performance.

How This Course Will Benefit You

This program will significantly enhance your leadership influence and impact and enable you to lead more productive meetings and teams. After only three days, you will better understand how to plan and design processes that fully engage teams in solving problems and in making quality decisions with commitment to implementation. Using new process tools and techniques, you will gain increased confidence in framing and facilitating discussions, energizing others, and dealing with difficult situations. In doing so, you will contribute to improving collaboration, communication, decision-making and positive change in your organization. If you lead people, teams or simply are trying to get a group to work together through change, this program is invaluable.

What Participants Are Saying

"This is way beyond my expectations. I have learned so much that will become part of how I lead every day." Merck & Co., Inc. "This is one of the best courses I have attended in years. It can transform anyone who attends." Comcast "Amazing tools & techniques… I didn’t even realize how lacking I was in this area. The tools and concepts have great value in my day-today job" American Automobile Association