Leadership Development: LD 300 – Getting it Done Through Others  

Overview

This session continues the learning journey to understanding interactions in the workplace, highlighting the competencies essential for leading at the operational and strategic levels.

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 through a battery of assessments, including a 360/multirater tool.

• Be more effective leading their people and mission requirements.

• Increase collaboration and cooperation across the workforce.

Course Topics

     An Introduction to Knowing Self

     Leading self, leading others

     Rising above the action officer level

    Getting work done through subordinate leaders/managers/supervisors

Self-awareness Assessments

• MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator Step 2) – Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving and corresponding facets

• DiSC – Dominance – Person places emphasis on accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence; Influence – Person places emphasis on influencing or persuading others, openness, relationships; Steadiness – Person places emphasis on cooperation, sincerity, dependability; Conscientiousness – Person places emphasis on quality and accuracy, expertise, competency.

• Change Style Indicator – The Three Styles – Conservers, Pragmatists, and Originators

• Benchmarks – 360-degree feedback is a method of systematically collecting opinions about an individual’s performance from a wide range of coworkers. This data allows a person to see others’ perceptions compared to how they see themselves.