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Boundary Spanning Leadership

Catalyze collaboration, drive innovation, transform organizations—Boundary Spanning Leadership can turn today's limiting borders into tomorrow's limitless frontiers.

Boundaries exist. What really matters is how leaders collaborate to bridge these divides and transform wide-ranging talents and knowledge to deliver value. Drawing upon landmark, global research on the importance of spanning boundaries, this presentation will guide your organization in developing new insights and skills to think and act beyond current boundaries to achieve inspiring results.

As a participant, you will:

• Diagnose the five types of boundaries that limit personal and organizational effectiveness.
• Learn to apply the six key boundary spanning practices.
• Leverage tools to transfer your learning back to your organization.

View an excerpt from the Boundary Spanning Leadership presentation.

Critical Steps for Successful 360-degree Feedback Programs

Over the past 20 years, the use of 360-degree assessments within organizations has exploded. When used correctly, these feedback tools are a valuable source of self-awareness for managers and executives, and they help employees set a clearer path for development. Yet with this growing usage has come stories of nearly disastrous results.

This presentation focuses on the key reasons why 360-degree initiatives fail and what organizations can do to greatly improve the odds of a successful implementation.

As a participant, you will:

• Discover the five most common reasons why 360-degree feedback initiatives fail.
• Explore the four decisions organizations must make before deploying a 360 initiative.
• Learn to spot warning signs that your 360 vendor may not suit your needs.

Employee Engagement: The Competitive Advantage

Engaged employees are vital to an organization's long-term success. But how do you cultivate an engaged workforce?

This presentation examines three major trends facing businesses today and the steps management must take to foster competitive advantage.

As a participant, you will:

• Understand the case for employee engagement.
• Identify five essential skills for effective leadership.
• Gain insight into the emotional intelligence competencies necessary for good leadership.

Ethical Leadership

We often hear that ethical leadership is in short supply today. Yet whether we know it or not, we all use well established ethical principles to make decisions.

In this interactive presentation, featuring practical examples and relevant case studies, you will learn the implications of various ethical perspectives on leadership.

As a participant, you will:

• Increase your knowledge of classic and contemporary ethical perspectives on leadership.
• Explore the perspectives individuals rely on in day-to-day decision-making.
• Enhance your understanding of the impact of various ethical perspectives on decision outcomes.

Finding Your Influence Voice

Why does Influence matter? Grasping this crucial competency will make you a more effective leader. In fact, Influence plays a role in many complex situations: unprecedented change and complexity; the need for greater collaboration and coordination across functions; decision making and timing issues generated by increased collaboration; and increased complexity of cultural/diversity differences in the global workplace. Influence is defined as "the interpersonal behaviors that we use to have a positive impact on another party's choices."

As a participant, you will:

• Gain insight into your own Influence style.
• Understand how to take action even when you do not have the authority over resources.
• Learn best practices about how to use your Influence Voice, an empowering skill for driving success and strengthening relationships, both professionally and personally.

Future Trends in Leadership Development

The work environment is rapidly changing, and the challenges facing today's leaders are growing more complex. To succeed, your organization needs greater insight into the future of leadership training.

This research-based session focuses on the question, "What will the future of leadership development look like?"

As a participant, you will:

• Learn about the emerging challenges for leaders in the workplace and the skills and capacities you need to meet these challenges.
• Explore the most effective methods currently used to develop leaders and the four trends that will shape the future of leadership development.
• Discover the key principals for the design of future leadership programs.

Globally Responsible Leadership

Increasingly, society demands that organizations create globally responsible cultures. Yet moving in this direction is not easy: it requires new strategies, new mindsets and new ways of leading.

This session showcases the eight domains of globally responsible leadership. And will give your organization insight into the best practices for building and maintaining a culture that supports financial integrity, care for the environment and socially responsible behavior.

As a participant, you will:

• Understand the role of mindset, practice and culture in globally responsible leadership.
• Analyze the existing beliefs and globally responsible practices in your organization.
• Create an organizational action plan to improve globally responsible leadership practices.

For deeper study, participants have the option of taking CCL's Globally Responsible Leadership Assessment. A debrief of organizational results, with action planning, will then be included in the session.

Ignite Your Thinking

Surprisingly, the tenets of improvisational comedy have much to offer your organization. Improv actors are trained to trust one another, go with their gut, and quickly produce ideas and creativity on the spot. Imagine the power these simple concepts can have on employees, teams, and working groups.

This interactive experience will get your group laughing together while training them to use the concepts of improv comedy to improve team contribution, communication, and collaboration.

As a participant, you will:

• Understand the three main drivers for great improv: Contribution, Communication, and Collaboration.
• Learn to apply simple principles and concepts of improv to daily work situations.
• Inspire groups and individuals to think and respond differently to create a more positive working environment.

To learn more, visit IgniteYourThinking.

Innovation Leadership: Working with Others to Create New Solutions

Driving organizational growth and implementing solutions that add value require a culture that nurtures creative thinking and innovation. To achieve this, the leaders in your organization need to focus daily on "what's next," rather than "what's working now."

This interactive presentation helps you see what limits your thinking and gives you tools to break the habits that quash innovation.

As a participant, you will:

• Understand the skills and mindset essential to bring new solutions to your organization.
• Apply new tools for evaluating innovative ideas that foster productive risk-taking.
• Create new ideas that expand the concept of innovation and how it happens.

Keys to Peak Performance

By applying the mental models used by elite athletes, leaders can positively and purposefully enhance performance.

This presentation offers a variety of cognitive and behavioral techniques that you can use to cultivate confidence, mental toughness and resilience.

As a participant, you will:

• Learn about "flow" states.
• Develop a mental filter and learn to control self-talk.
• Explore the impact of empowering affirmations.

Keys to Successful Mentoring

Mentoring is a fundamental leadership skill. Good mentors are good leaders because they practice the value of understanding others.

Using an interactive, case study-based approach, this presentation will give you an understanding of the importance of mentoring and the keys to developing successful mentoring relationships.

As a participant, you will:

• Discuss the seven keys to effective mentoring.
• Uncover your mentoring strengths and challenges.
• Outline a successful mentoring process.

Leading Individuals through Change

The current view of change is the same across many organizations: employees see it as inevitable and constant. And not surprisingly, as explored in CCL's guidebook, Responses to Change: Helping People Manage Transition, people often resist it.

In this presentation, you will gain insight to help your organization successfully embrace, understand and navigate change.

As a participant, you will:

• Identify potential reactions to change and examine the underlying causes for resistant behavior.
• Learn to lessen (or avoid) negative responses to change and productively manage negative reactions if they do occur.
• Leverage the "formula" for successful organizational change.

Positive Group Dynamics: The Key to Effective Teams

Interpersonal needs and preferences have a direct effect on our behavior and, in turn, our behavior can enhance or detract from our ability to work successfully with others.

Through the use of behavioral assessment, this presentation arms you with information about your needs and preferences — equipping you with knowledge to strengthen your interpersonal, team member and leadership capabilities.

As a participant, you will:

• Complete an assessment of your interpersonal needs.
• Learn how your interpersonal needs can affect others.
• Relate interpersonal needs to leadership and teamwork behaviors.

Preventing Career Derailment

For more than two decades, CCL has studied executive derailment across the globe. By comparing successful managers to those who derail, CCL has identified five specific factors that increase a leader's odds for derailment.

This presentation will introduce you to CCL's findings outlined in the guidebook, Preventing Derailment: What to Do Before It's Too Late, and give you insight on how to keep your career on track.

As a participant, you will:

• Learn about the five derailment factors and CCL's research.
• Assess your risk for derailment and start a plan to prevent derailment during your career.
• Understand how to assist your staff to help keep their careers on tracks, too.

Productive Conflict Resolution

Conflict is inevitable. It can be destructive or constructive. Most of us are uncomfortable in conflict situations. Yet we all know that avoiding conflict rarely leads to the best long-term outcome. Therefore, adding to your conflict resolution skill set will help you better manage competitive and collaborative conflicts.

This session will take both an analytical and interpersonal approach to increase your conflict resolution competency.

As a participant, you will:

• Learn and apply a root cause analysis of conflict.
• Explore a productive and interactive conflict resolution model.
• Identify your "natural" conflict resolution style and increase your style flexibility.

Retiring the Generation Gap

How different are the generations, really? Everybody knows that the "generation gap" between younger and older people causes stress and frustration at work. Are the differences people complain about just a big misunderstanding, or are they real? And most importantly, how can you use similarities and differences among the generations to be more effective in your organization?

Drawing upon seven years of research showcased in the book, Retiring the Generation Gap, this presentation reveals the truth about generational conflicts at work — and what you can do about them to work with, work for, attract, manage, retain, and develop leaders of all generations.

As a participant, you will:

• Understand the impact of demographics in the workplace.
• Learn to distinguish between real generational differences and stereotypes.
• Gain insight into how to work more effectively with people of different generations.

CCL's Jennifer Deal discusses the Generation Gap with BigThink.com.

The Art of Empowerment

Empowerment begins with trust. The "trust variable" determines the degree to which you can and should empower others. When trust is high, you feel comfortable delegating, with little need for involvement in day-to-day tasks. Conversely, when trust is low, you may hesitate to put responsibility in the hands of others, attempting to do more of the work yourself.

This presentation will help you understand where you fall on this continuum and where you ought to be.

As a participant, you will:

• Examine the link between trust and empowerment.
• Learn techniques for clear communication of roles and responsibilities.
• Inspire commitment and foster ongoing motivation among staff.

Work Life Balance

In a world of constant access and busy lives, everyone struggles to manage time and energy. We have more options than ever before in how we work, when we work and where we work. Yet, many of us still crave knowledge about how to move towards a more productive and sustainable way of managing the boundaries between work and family.

As a participant, you will:

• Explore how you currently manage the boundaries between work and family and become aware of other approaches for managing boundaries.
• Identify choices in managing the boundaries between work and family.
• Understand how strongly you identify with work and family roles.

To drive deeper discovery, participants have the option of taking CCL's newest self-assessment, WorkLife Indicator. This assessment will help you articulate how much control you feel in choosing how to manage the boundaries between work and family and will give you the tools to develop a plan to increase effectiveness on and off the job.