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Leadership
Stories
Leadership Stories: Leveraging Your Life Experiences
"The journey to authentic leadership begins with understanding the story of your life."
Harvard Business Review, February 2007
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Course Synopsis:
This 6-day program explores the stories, or mythology, that informs a leader's life and style, including family legacies, cultural influences, and personal beliefs and predispositions. Throughout the program, participants will build a graphic leadership profile that includes a leadership plan. Grounded in psychology, mythology and writing, this unique experience occurs within the framework of stories - writing them, telling them, and using one-of-a-kind tools and processes. Leadership Stories not only enhances leadership styles; it also changes lives.
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"Our lives teach us who we are."
Salmon Rushdie
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Register Now!
Program Topics:
- Unique leadership traits, predispositions and patterns
- Family roles, legacies and messaging that shape a leadership style
- Cultural legacies that inform personal leadership beliefs
- Emotional intelligence (or "how to change what isn't working'")
Course Outline:
Part 1: You! - June 26, 2008
Your leadership stories revolve around you. Here, you'll identify your intrinsic leadership traits and uncover family legacies. You'll also:
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Identify the competencies of the authentic leader
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Describe your specific orientation and challenges
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Draft a present-day picture of you as a leader
Part 2: Your Story - July 11, 2008
Map your leadership stories to identify your unique patterns, catalog learnings and make sense of life experiences that impact your leadership style. Specifically, you'll:
- Identify clues embedded in your life story that reveal your path
- Get a sense of the landscape and stages of authentic leadership
- Summarize your "story up to now" to make meaning and move on
Part 3: Cultural Stories that Shaped Your Leadership Style - July 25, 2008
Are the beliefs that direct your leadership style authentic or are they shaped, unknowingly, by the larger cultural story? You'll find out in this workshop. You'll also:
- Describe the two major social models and related leadership competencies
- Show how the stories of gender, race, class, religion, geography and family teach social models and competencies
- Identify the social model that informs your style and beliefs
Part 4: Personal Experiences that Shaped Your Leadership Style - August 8, 2008
All too often, leadership behaviors are organized around outdated beliefs developed early in life. Here, you'll surface one belief and its related behavior. You'll also:
- Assess the messages you've received over time about the "right" way to lead
- Identify the origin of a current issue that blocks authentic leadership behavior
- Sketch a formative experience and related belief that impacts a current behavior
Part 5: Rewriting Inauthentic "Rules" of Leadership - August 22, 2008
Internal "shoulds" hamper genuine leadership styles. But change the rule and you change the story - and your behaviors - as a leader. You'll do that here. You'll also:
- Identify one "rule" that doesn't serve you as a leader
- Access tools and processes for changing the story
- Practice transforming an outdated and inauthentic "rule"
Part 6: Your Leadership Stories - September 5, 2008
What beliefs and behaviors best serve you? How do you enliven those beliefs in your everyday life as a leader? You'll learn how to do that here. You'll also:
- Complete your profile and draft an action plan for more authentic behaviors
- Identify how to overcome roadblocks to authentic leadership
- List the resources to support a more authentic leadership style
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About the Facilitator
M. Carolyn Miller, M.A., sees the world through the lens of stories. She then uses that perspective to guide others in leveraging their own stories for personal and professional leadership. An author, educator and speaker, Carolyn is also a working writer, published in industries as diverse as employee development, education, entrepreneurship and personal growth. This program grew out of Carolyn's graduate work and a personal need to live, and lead, more authentically.
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Outcomes Expressed by Participants:
Authentic Leadership
I felt validated for my unique beliefs and ways of leading. I began to trust myself more. I began to appreciate, too, the roles others have which, while valid, are not necessarily my leadership style. I'm less afraid of my power now, and more willing to speak up for myself and my unique perspective.
Communication
I now listen and hear others' stories differently. I also react differently when a co-worker or employee reacts inappropriately. Instead of getting enrolled in their story, I'm able to step back, keep my own issues out of the equation, and coach in a way that produces positive outcomes. This process has also given me an enormous amount of compassion for others.
Emotional Intelligence
In the past, I'd always taken on others' issues as my own. But now, I can identify when it's my issue and when it belongs to someone else; I can act more emotionally mature, even with my boss. If he gets upset, I think, "Wow, I hope that works out for you," rather than feeling personally attacked or thinking I have to resolve or get enrolled in his issue.
Learning Outcomes:
Once this workshop series is complete, participants will be able to:
- Make decisions based on objective information rather than stories they make-up about "what is"
- "Think outside the box" when it comes to organizational challenges
- Remove personal issues from work tasks to maximize productivity
- Communicate more effectively - and compassionately
- Use personal strengths and perspectives to drive bottom-line results
- Clearly see, and navigate, the political landscape at work
- Discharge personal triggers that get in the way of organizational goals
- Use personal narrative to influence coaching opportunities
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As a leader, you've amassed a lifetime of experiences. Isn't it time you leveraged them?
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For more information:
Carolyn Miller
carolyn@mythiclives.com
303.883.4606
Register Today!
Member Cost: $1,795.00
Non-Member: $1,895.00
Cost includes: 6 one-day workshops - 10:00 am to 4:00 pm - Workbook - Lunch
Please have someone contact me.
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