Empowering the next generation of leaders to thrive in the human value era*.
Awakened Leadership focuses on creating the conditions for teams to thrive in our complex and adaptive world, empowering organizations and teams and engaging employees in the human value era.
(*The human value era is one that puts people at the center, where they are empowered to participate fully in the organizations and where the organization nurtures its human resources as an investment in its own operational and economic success.)
Next cohort kicks off 13th March 2024
By 2015, more than 85% of corporate value was already attributed to human created, intangible value.
Therefore, an engaged and empowered workforce needs to be the cornerstone of every thriving business. With Gallup surveys showing that engagement is at an all time low across the globe, it is critical for leaders to adapt from encouraging individual execution of tasks in isolation, to a more collaborative, engaging approach. There are now four generations actively participating in today's workforce, empowering and empathetic leadership is critical to deliver excellent business outcomes.
The Awakened Leadership program focuses on enabling leaders to create the conditions for teams to thrive in our complex and adaptive world, empower organizations and engage employees in this new human value era.
Why should you attend?:
You will walk away from this course with the tools and mindsets required to lead your team to ‘team excellence’ and to deliver high performing outcomes:
Define and build confidence in your authentic leadership approach
Build the foundation of any high performing team – psychological safety
Understand systems thinking and how to adapt across the 4 key system types
Get comfortable with your own & your teams failure, all in order to drive innovation & improvement
Develop your coaching skills centered on intrinsic motivation
Explore self-leadership techniques to build team excellence
Adapt to a more adaptable leadership stance and mindset
What is covered in this course:
Module 1 : How to leverage Leadership 4.0 in the Human Value era.
Module 2: Build your Authentic leadership model and leverage a Growth Mindset.
Module 3: How building Psychological safe teams is the foundation for high performance.
Module 4: Get comfortable with failure to drive innovation and improvement.
Module 5: Understand systems thinking and how best to lead across 4 common systems types.
Module 6: How to be a curious, listening leader.
Module 7: How to Coach for engagement and outcomes.
Module 8: Balancing accountability and team engagement as a leader.
Module 9: The importance of Self leadership to build team excellence.
Module 10: The Awakened Leader, leveraging your new system of leadership.
A more detailed breakdown of each module is below
Next cohort kicks off 13th March 2024
What is included in this course:
Over 150 hours of self-paced content, curated over 10 weeks (approx. 90mins per week)
An online community for your cohort to engage, discuss and explore new leadership capabilities throughout the course
8 online cohort workshops focused on helping you execute the key learnings from each module, through sharing of insights from your cohort
A personal Authentic Leadership Alignment model to guide your leadership
Clifton Strengths Assessment
90 minutes of 1:1 coaching with Matt to help you solve your most pressing leadership challenges
Networking opportunities with like minded leaders
The Learning approach:
This premium program, with small cohorts, is designed to generate significant personal and professional growth, what we call ‘deep work’. Multiple learning styles are used to help you meet your growth edge with confidence through:
Group and personal insights and shared learnings
Self-paced learning,
Facilitated discussions and group work,
Individual coaching and
Personal reflection.
What’s inside the weekly modules?
Module 1 - How to leverage Leadership 4.0 in the Human Value era
The 4th industrial revolution is full of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, leaders must adapt to get the best out of teams.
Understand the current leadership landscape, what VUCA is, the countermeasures to VUCA and how the human value era is fundamentally changing business dynamics
Review the 4 industrial revolutions and how leadership has changed to adapt to the new environments
Review engagement data to understand the impact and opportunity that highly engaged teams have
Clarify your motivations for this program
Module 2: Build your Authentic leadership model and leverage a Growth Mindset
Authentic leadership fosters trust; a growth mindset enables adaptability. Together, they empower modern leaders to inspire, innovate, and thrive.
Get clear on your strengths and leadership values to develop your Authentic Leadership Alignment model
Dive deep into what a growth mindset is, how to build one personally and how to lead your teams towards a growth mindset
Module 3: How building Psychological safe teams is the foundation for high performance
Psychological safety and trust are foundational in order for teams to innovate, and perform to a high level—essential for leaders navigating challenges and fostering a thriving, adaptive culture.
Understand what Psych safety is, how critical it is for high performing and innovative teams and how trust feeds it
Explore the key leadership behaviours and structures that drive Psych safety in teams
Get clear on the value of diversity of thoughts in teams and how to leverage it through Psychological safety
Module 4: Get comfortable with failure to drive innovation and improvement
Failure is uncomfortable for us all, we want to avoid it at all costs. But failure is critical element to enable innovation. Leaders who take a new view f failure will accelerate innovation and business improvement.
Understand the failure landscape and get comfortable with the 3 types of failure
Explore the leadership mindset and behaviours to encourage 'failing well'
Understand the design thinking process and key skills to leverage to enhance innovation
Module 5: Understand systems thinking and how best to lead across 4 common systems types
Complex systems are interconnected, unpredictable entities requiring adaptive, holistic thinking. Leaders must embrace new ways of thinking to enable teams to thrive and leverage the opportunities within complexity.
What is systems thinking and how to leverage it to deliver better business outcomes
Learn to identify complicated, complex and chaotic systems and the leadership behaviours to thrive in complexity
How to leverage Agile ways of working to embrace complexity, managing priorities and scarcity to deliver better outcomes
Module 6: How to be a curious, listening leader
Listening is your leadership superpower. Curiosity fuels innovation and helps us navigate complexity—opening doors to new perspectives, solutions, and adaptive leadership. Listening is the critical skill and is much harder than it seems which is one reason why a lot of people don't do it very well.
Understand why being more curious as leader is key to navigating complexity
Understand the 4 levels of listening available to leaders to drive innovation
Experience clean questions to help coach teams towards developing new insights
Module 7: How to Coach for engagement and outcomes
Highly engaged teams deliver up to 21% higher performance, increase quality and have reduced safety events. And with Leaders responsible for 70% of the variance in team engagement, if you want to differentiate your team results, it is critical for all leaders to build coaching capabilities to build engagement.
Understand What engagement actually is (hint it is NOT all about cup cakes and coffee)
·Develop coaching skills using a proven coaching process
Build your Coaching questioning skills
Understand how 'intrinsic motivation' is a key enabler for effective coaching
Module 8: Balancing accountability and team engagement as a leader
Leadership is complex and leaders who solely focus on engagement or on leveraging high accountability actually dis-engaged and alienate their teams over time. A balance, in constant review is required.
Explore the link between Accountability and engagement and how to maximize team performance leveraging both
Dive deep into Objectives and key results as a key enabler for accountable teams.
Module 9: The importance of Self leadership to build team excellence
Leading self, is critical to enable you to prioritize and ensure you are leading example. Simple personal accountability system will super charge you own leadership performance and act as a guide for your teams.
Build your own Agile model to enable prioritization and self accountability
Explore the key elements of a mindful leader and understand how to leverage the latest brain science
Understand your emotional intelligence (EQ) and how you can build yours and your teams level of EQ
Module 10: The Awakened Leader, leveraging your new system of leadership
Review the key elements of the awakened leadership system and explore which areas to focus on in your specific business and team context.
Next cohort kicks off 13th March 2024