FIVE MINUTE LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP™
An investment in Higher Achievement
PREPAREDNESS
• We realize that each of these begins the same way. Why? Because it works. Try it!
• Prepare and take action to be uninterrupted for at least five minutes
• Close your eyes. Pause. Take three, deep, slow breathes, while you clear your mind of everything else. (Really…it makes a difference!)
• Ask yourself: “What’s in it for me? (WIFM), if I improve my leadership?” List three answers.
ACTIVITY
Read the following slowly, really thinking about what it could mean to you. It’s less important that you agree, than that you understand and explore the concept FULLY.
A leader without a team is a lone wolf. Leadership is a team sport. Synergy requires community. Leadership is one part leader and nine parts team.
World-class leaders are less star musicians and much more conductors of a fine orchestra playing in exquisite harmony. Less big, dramatic actions than constant small “tweaks.”
If there ever was a time for the model of leadership where one individual gives orders to a bunch of mute, blind “followers”, it is not THIS time! Current conditions necessitate that we focus the leadership capacities of EVERYONE on the team toward a common vision of success, about which they’re all passionate.
Indeed, we can’t afford not to. As Peter Senge says "The fundamental characteristic of the relatively unaligned team is wasted energy"
Organizational excellence virtually always involves collaboration and synergy. Intrinsic motivation trumps extrinsic orders, incentives, and direction.
Arguably, the prime function of leadership is to create synergy from the disparate interests of individuals.
Do you have a team? Or a bunch of talented individuals?
REFLECTION
What is your initial, knee-jerk reaction to this concept?
Now, dig deeper. To what extent are leadership and team development connected?
SELF-ASSESSMENT
Honestly, how do you rate yourself in developing the capacities and synergy of your team?
PREPARING FOR ACTION
What can you do today to:
• Support your weaker players to learn more?
• Encourage your timid ones to speak up & become leaders?
• Urge your stars to share “best practices” with the team?
• Push for your veterans to help teach the rookies?
• Increase communication and collaboration throughout the team?
• Help the entire team become enthusiastic advocates for the same, shared vision of success?
ACTION PLAN
Identify one action you can take today (preferably right now!) to move toward implementation.
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List two things you can do within a week to bring the power of ACTION to the words and concept!
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Who else might you enlist to help you?
Who can you tell about your action plan, to help insure accountability?
What potential roadblocks to implementation might pop up? How can you circumvent them?
For a free, no-obligation assessment of your team’s strengths & vulnerabilities AND free recommendations for their improvement, email: info@peaktraining.com, or visit http://www.peaktraining.com/corp/Corporate-Retreats.html
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I hear and I forget...I see and I remember...I do and I understand.
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Mark Rowland specializes in helping individuals and organizations reach peak performance by increasing the effectiveness of their personal and professional interactions, knowing and valuing themselves and their contributions, and exceeding self-perceived barriers.
His programs bring the power of adventure to the learning process. Not just a speaker, Mark facilitates exciting activity-based sessions that really get people involved. When participants are actively engaged in the process, the training endures. People have fun. Creativity, productivity and achievement peak. Learning is enhanced.
He's received rave reviews from large and small companies, both for-profit and non-profit. Clients find teambuilding programs for their companies to be wise investments with immediate paybacks. Teambuilding by playing "games". It may not sound like science, but it works like magic!
Mark is the CEO of Peak Performance!(tm) with headquarters in Texas Creek, CO, and offices in CA, AZ, and NV. In that role his work inteambuilding and community formation positively impacts over 6,000 participants a year across the continent and internationally. He and his staff remain on the cutting edge of experience-based training and development through active participation in trade associations. He has developed highly effective programs to complement the works of many major management authors, including Peters, Johnson, Senge, Pozner/Kouzes, Jones, etc.
Mark's undergraduate work was in Youth Services Administration at Coe College, in Cedar Rapids, IA and his graduate program was in Experiential Education at Mankato State University in Mankato, MN. He served multiple terms on the Board of Directors of the Association for Experiential Education, is a Lead Reviewer in the Association's Accreditation program, and has presented to acclaim at numerous international conferences for several industry associations. He and his programs are listed in the Faculty Directory for the Young President's Organization (YPO).
He's currently the (volunteer) Ambulance Director for Arkansas Valley Ambulance, Operations Section Chief for the Fremont County Sheriff's Office all-hazard Incident Management Team, and an IMT instructor for Fremont Search and Rescue. Past Commander for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Bear Valley Search and Rescue Team, Mark is a fifteen-year rescuer and Training Officer for the Bear Mountain Professional Ski Patrol, and an instructor & instructor-trainer for the National Ski Patrol System. Mark has been a faculty member or field instructor at four major universities, a law enforcement special tactics instructor, a Red Cross disaster specialist, a paramedic, and a U.S. Forest Service fire lookout. He brings this diverse and exciting rescue background to life in his high-energy presentations.
Mark lives on the Arkansas River, in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of central CO, with his wife Marcia and chocolate Labrador Retriever Molly. His hobbies include whitewater canoeing, acoustic guitar, and sustainable technologies.