Leadership: Influence, Focus, and Transformation
This nine-month group coaching program is intended to provide accelerated leadership development experienced leaders from a variety of functional areas. In a small peer cohort of 4-8 participants with an executive coach facilitating, the program will provide a safe and confidential environment to explore and reflect on:
- One’s personal leadership style, including:
- Developing deeper self-awareness to leverage own strengths, identify any gap areas and triggers, and employ effective self-management approaches to achieve desired outcomes.
- Increasing one’s influence in relation to the Holy Cross professional community.
- Collaborating and connecting among peers and beyond for feedback and advising, to brainstorm ideas/generate options, and to build community of learning and mutuality.
- Transformational leadership strategies that empower others to act, including:
- Understanding and developing the capabilities of diverse team members.
- Applying approaches, mindset, and tools to more effectively influence, delegate to, and empower others.
- Practicing approaches and sharing experiences, best practices, and ideas to increase capacity for managing uncertainty and change.
Meeting Schedule, Topics and Duration
Meetings will be held beginning in October 2024, primarily on Wednesdays from 9:00-10:30AM (see the full schedule below).
Self-transformation - 10/9/24
- Articles: Change Leader, Change Thyself; Three Cultures of Management
- Activities: Change Style Indicator
Ground Change Practices in Meaning - 11/6/24
- Article: Seven Transformations of Leadership; Leading Transitions: A New Model for Change
- Activities: Visioning and Values Exercises
Scan and Engage the Internal and External Environment - 12/4/24
- Article: Build Your Own Board of Directors
- Activity: Quantitative (LPI) 360 Assessment
Create developmental conditions - 1/15/25
- Articles: The Real Reason People Won’t Change; Is Yours a Learning Organization?
- Activity: Immunity to Change Map
Hold space - 2/5/25
- Article: The Leader as Coach
- Activity: Introduction to Peer Coaching
Go with the Energy - 3/5/25
- Article: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
- Activity: Appreciative Inquiry
Diagnose and Dialogue with the system - 4/2/25
- Articles: Story Telling the Drives Bold Change; The Hard Side of Change Management
- Activity: Public Narrative/Storytelling
Embrace uncertainty - 5/7/25
- Articles: Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis; Managing with the Brain in Mind
- Activities: Everest Case Study
Decision-making and harvesting - 6/4/25
- Article: Choosing Strategies for Change
- Activity: Seven Thinking Hats; SWOT and PESTLE Analysis
Appreciating multiple perspectives - 6/25/25
- Articles: Curiosity: The Gateway Competency; Differences at Work: The Leadership Challenge
- Activity: Cultural Competence
Program Components
- Alignment Meeting: Meet each other, learn about the program, expectations for participation, Q&A
- Readings/reference/exercise materials on topics
- Pre-and Post-Program self-ratings and program evaluation
- Optional one-on-one coaching for each participant
General agenda:
o Debrief on prior period (15 min)
o Presentation on topic (60 min)
o Discuss topic, share challenges, exchange ideas (30 min)
o Mini-coaching and share thoughts (15 min)