Practical Leadership Strategies for Peak Performance:
How to Transform Yourself from a Good Manager to a Great Leader...and have a life too!

Program Content

The Performance Balance

• Managing Things and Leading People
• Making the Most of the Symbiotic Roles of Management and Leadership
• The Soft Skills That Produce Hard Results
• Emotional Intelligence
  • What is it?
  • Why it's central to leadership...and our success and happiness
• Technical, Management, Leadership: How's Your Balance?

Timeless Leadership Principles

The heart of Practical Leadership Strategies for Peak Performance is built around The CLEMMER Group's Leadership Wheel. Leadership is an inside job. Each of the seven principles starts with personal leadership as outlined in Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success. These principles then move out to leading others as outlined in The Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success.

Focus and Context (Hub of the Leadership Wheel)

Personal Leadership: The Core of my Being

• Vision: What We See is What We Get
• Yield of Dreams: How to Tap Into This Powerful Force
• Values: Seeing What We Believe
• Purpose: What it's All About

Leading Others: Points of Origin

• Leading Change from the Core of our Team/Organization
• Vision: Helping Them See the Possibilities
  • Managers set goals, leaders have vision
• Values: Priorities of Principle
  • The steps to bringing values to life

• Purpose: At the Heart of Leadership

Responsibility for Choices

Personal Leadership: If it's to Be, It's Up to Me

• Becoming a Lifelong Navigator Rather Than a Survivor or Victim
• How to Shake Off the Victimitis Virus and Move Out of Pity City
• How Choosing Our Outlook Determines Our Outcomes
• Boosting Our Ability to Influence Others

Leading Others: From Victim to Victor

• No More Excuses
• The Possibilities of Change: Beyond What Is to What Could Be
• Keys to Upward Leadership
• Building a Team of Navigators

Authenticity

Personal Leadership: Getting Real

• The Inside Job: The Real Me
• To Boldly Grow: Exploring Inner Space
• Walking the Walk: Leading By Example
• Following the Leader in Me

Leading Others: Let's Get Real

• Leaders Can't Please Everyone
• "We" and "They": Across the Great Divide
• Perception and Reality: Do I See What They See?
• The "Moose on the Table": Authentic Conversations That Deal With Real Issues

Passion and Commitment

Personal Leadership: Beyond Near-Life Experiences

• The Enemy Within: Uprooting Cynicism and Apathy
• More Than a Job: Never Go to Work Again
• Fixed Purposes: Burning Commitment
• Discipline Can Be Habit Forming

Leading Others: All Fired Up

• Keys to Enriching Jobs for Fun and Profit
• Emotional Empowerment: How to Engage the Heart
• Building Performance Partners That Bridge the We/They Gaps
• Loyalty Leadership: Steps to Retaining Top People

Spirit and Meaning

Personal Leadership: With All My Heart and Soul

• The Hungry Heart: In Search of Meaning
• Running the Race: True to Our Souls
• Leading From the Center: Living Inside Out
• Living Life on Purpose

Leading Others: Matters of the Heart

• Meaning-Full Work: Keys to Rousing the Spirit
• Understanding and Applying the Hierarchy of Spirit and Meaning
• Connecting with Pride: If Something's Worth Doing...
• From Me to We: Leading for the Greater Good

Growing and Developing

Personal Leadership: From Phase of Life to Way of Life

• Onward and Upward: Keeping Myself on the Grow
• Nurture Over Nature: Born to Lead?
• Learned Leadership
• Taking a Break: Harnessing the Power of Reflection and Renewal

Leading Others: All That We Can Be

• The Coach's Playbook: Growing and Developing Team Members
  • Clarifying goals and roles
  • Building on strengths
  • Confronting poor performance
  • Servant-leadership
• Key Elements of Giving Good Feedback

Mobilizing and Energizing

Personal Leadership: Putting Emotions in Motion

• Exorcising the Deadly Motivation Myth
• Measuring Your Own Energy Levels
• Great Expectations: Bringing Rays of Hope and Possibilities

Leading Others: Go, Team, Go

• Servant-Leadership: Serving the Servers
• Harnessing the Power of Teams
• Recharging with Recognition, Celebration, and Appreciation
• Information versus Communication: The Head and the Heart

Acting like a Leader

• How About Starting Now?
• Hands on the Wheel: There is No Shortcut to Real Leadership
• The Leader's Progress: Developing New Habits
• Practiced Excellence: Old Wisdom, New Ways
• Follow Through and Follow Up

Delivery Options

 ‘Practical Leadership:  Inspiring Action, Achieving Results’ is available in both public sessions and in-house. It is a highly customized program. It is most typically delivered in a two-day session however a one-day version is also available. It is appropriate for all levels of leaders but is typically delivered at the senior level prior to delivering it to any other levels.