INSPIRE

Most senior managers want to be seen as leaders within their organization but struggle to elevate their mindsets, teams,  and communications.  INSPIRE is a six-month executive leadership program that will help managers adopt a leadership mindset, inspire richer interactions between teams and leaders, and create more influential communication across the organization.

This program is for organizations that want to:

1

Transition their senior managers into senior leaders

2

Increase the impact of team and leadership connections

3

Grow the influence of their future leaders.
PARTICIPANTS
Senior Managers seeking to deepen their connection with their direct reports and broaden their influence across the organization
DURATION
6 months
TIME
Group meets bi-monthly for a  2-day learning session - in the in-between months, leaders meet as a peer coaching trio
​COHORT SIZE 
​12

​Program Overview:

In this program, participants will:
  • Discuss what it means to be a senior leader right now within your organization
  • Increase self-awareness around individual strengths & challenges ​​
  • Experience coaching and being coached in a real-time coaching session
  • Prepare for an impactful feedback conversation using the SBIQ feedback model
  • Learn how to manage the emotions of self & others like a senior leader
  • Learn how to use empathy to deescalate conversations involving emotion
  • Practice delivering an impactful change message
  • Adjust your presence so it aligns with your desired leadership impact
  • Build a peer coaching relationships and a strong leadership network

​Cohort Journey:

LEADING SELF & OTHERS
​PRE-WORK
  • Complete a Monkey Survey to determine goals for the leadership program.
  • Complete your WorkPlace Big Five Assessment.
  • Determine three core challenges to your leadership journey
​
DAY ONE
MODULE 1
(3 Hours)
Leading Self
  • Discuss the difference between managing & leading
  • Determine what is changing in your world and how you will have to adjust to be successful 
  • Discuss your values and how you want to leverage them in your leadership

​MODULE 2
(3 Hours)
Leading Others
  • Review the results of your WorkPlace Big Five
  • Discuss the impact of your personality on others
  • Meet your peer-coach and create a plan to leverage your individual strengths to better lead others
DAY TWO
​MODULE 3
(3 Hours)
Coaching in Leadership
  • Introduce the language of the leadership continuum, question what it means to coach
  • Learn the three key elements of a coaching conversation
  • Practice coach-like listening in a real-life coaching session with a colleague

​MODULE 4
(3 Hours)
Leader as Coach
  • Adopt the right mindset to better coach you team
  • Use key questions to guide a real-life coaching session with a colleague
  • Determine your commitment to being a more coach-like leader
LEADING WITH EMPATHY
​PRE-WORK
  • Think back over your career and note three emotional highs and three emotional lows from your career.   What were the lessons learned?
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DAY THREE
MODULE 5
(3 Hours)
Emotion in the Workplace
  • Share your key leadership stories with one another 
  • Discuss the important of recognizing and relating to our emotions in the workplace
  • Explore a framework for spotting our own emotions

​MODULE 6
(3 Hours)
Self-Regulation
  • Learn how to manage your own emotions in the workplace
  • Practice tools for self-regulation​
DAY FOUR
​MODULE 7
(3 Hours)
The Empathetic Leader - part 1
  • Discuss the history and evolution of empathy in the workplace
  • Practice calibration to spot the emotions in others
  • Learn how to listen with empathy​

​MODULE 8
(3 Hours)
The Empathetic Leader - part II
  • Learn tools for building trust through empathy
  • Assess current trust level on your team
  • Create a plan to leverage your newfound empathy to better build trust with current members of your team
LEADING THROUGH COMMUNICATION
​PRE-WORK
  • Create a short presentation on a current change you wish to see within your team or organization (No more than five minutes, no notes or PowerPoint)
DAY FIVE
MODULE 9
(3 Hours)
Leading a Change
  • Discuss your role as a leader in change transformation
  • Think through the challenges to effective leadership communication
  • Pitch your change ideas to your colleagues

​MODULE 10
(3 Hours)
Generating Influence
  • Learn nine key tactics for influencing stakeholders
  • Add key tactics to your change presentation to make it more engaging, compelling and moving
  • Create a plan for communicating your change and creating buy-in
DAY SIX
MODULE 11
(3 Hours)
Storytelling
  • Share a leadership story with the group and discuss what makes for a great story
  • Craft a story arc from photos
  • Create a story to introduce you & your change initiative and get live feedback from colleagues
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MODULE 12
(3 Hours)
Executive Presence
  • Learn the essentials of leadership presence
  • Watch your change presentation video and notice the stories your presence tells
  • Work with your peer coach to create a plan for pulling together all your learning and tackling your leadership goals
Ingrid and her team have been amazing to work with.  They are experts and great partners in developing leadership training for our team.  I lost count as to how many participants have said the training they delivered was the best they have ever taken.  My organization identified a need to build strong leaders.  We worked with Ingrid to develop a Compelling Leader program to address areas such as influencing, compelling conversations, and executive presence, but she brought additional areas to consider which were very complimentary to the original format.  Despite participants having to get out of their comfort zone, they were completely engaged, embraced the learnings, and had fun during the training.  I have nothing but high regards for Ingrid and her team!
- Willie Lee, VP of Marketing Operations, ORACLE

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN