Leadership Development: LD 200 – Learning to Lead  

Overview

This session prepares you to more effectively lead and manage those you work with.  Through the administration of the MBTI and FIRO-B, you gain person insight, learn about what motivates others, and how to adapt your leadership style to the situation.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, participants will:

• Increase their self-knowledge: leadership strengths, weaknesses, behavioral preferences and leadership tendencies.

• Understand the impact their “leadership style” has on those around them.

• Know how to apply the D-A-C model and understand stakeholders.

• Know why and how our differences can be strengths.

• Know how to adapt to their environment and the people around them to be more effective.

Course Topics

     An Introduction to Knowing Self

• Why it’s important.

• Strength in diversity of thought and leadership style.

     Direction – Alignment – Commitment Model (D-A-C)

• What leaders do.

     Self-awareness Assessments

• MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator Step 1)

  • Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving

• FIRO-B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation – Behavior)

  • Expressed versus Wanted; Inclusion, Control, Affection

• The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) assesses an individual’s behavior in conflict situations—that is, situations in which the concerns of two people appear to be incompatible through providing insight into the 5 methods of dealing with conflict (competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, accommodating).

     Stakeholder analysis and mapping.