ADVANCED LEADERSHIP TRAINING

In many ways this offering is the personalized version of Person Centered Leadership. Therefore, we repeat some of what we said in describing it.

The program is called Person-Centered Leadership because it is built on the assumption that each person brings a distinctive personality to the task of leading. Therefore, our initial concern is to develop awareness of one's natural gifts; only at that point do we move on to developing additional leadership skills.

When we are asked to work with a single individual on her or his leadership skills, we begin with a shared process of identifying gifts and special challenges. Then we set a strategy for addressing the challenges. The strategy generally involves classic executive coaching, regular feedback from some selected individuals (selected fundamentally for their trustworthiness), setting performance goals and determining benchmarks in the pursuit of those goals.

The other aspect of our approach to this is that it is almost always time-limited. We are given the challenge of developing a person and we discipline ourselves to meet that challenge in a reasonable amount of time - most often just six sessions.