While some may say that the ability to inspire others into focused action is a natural talent some are born with, we know different.
What real leaders have to say about the struggles of leading and coaching their teams:
- “We start with a strong plan and then it becomes easy to get off-track.”
- “I can’t seem to motivate my team, especially the younger generation.”
- “Holding people accountable is sometimes tough for me.”
- “Getting my team to ‘own it’ is a struggle.”
- “I know I need to develop leaders around me so that I can evolve. I just can’t seem to find that time.”
- “I sometimes feel like I am the only carrying this whole thing.”
4MAT 4Leadership is a 2-day transformative learning experience that delivers a powerful model for facilitating, thinking, acting and communicating vision that gives leaders the ability to inspire great results.
- Define your core leadership and management strengths with the 4MAT Leadership Behavior Inventory® (LBI)
- Identify strategies for maximizing your leadership strengths and shoring up weak areas that may hold you back
- Implement a plan to apply strategies to maximize personal leadership impact
- Use a common language within your team to constantly refine, coach and improve overall performance
- Recognize the dominant leadership and management strengths of others and their areas of opportunity
- Identify where your organization is in its “lifecycle” and choose the right leadership focus to move to the next level
of evolution
- Leverage the collective strengths of your team by aligning thinking and functional strengths to the task at hand
- Know how to quickly identify and address what’s missing when results aren’t showing up
- Make your “plan” by connecting daily action to long-term strategy
- Build an action plan that leverages your strengths through leveraging others
Your Inner Leader Wants Out
Date: July 9-10, 2012
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Day One Content: Leverage Your Leadership Strengths
- Define your core leadership and management strengths with the 4MAT Leadership Behavior Inventory® (LBI)
- Recognize the four distinct 4MAT leading and managing approaches in action within your team
- Identify strategies for maximizing your strengths and shoring up weak areas that may hold you back
- Implement a plan to apply strategies to maximize personal leadership impact
- Use the 4MAT model as a common language within your team to constantly refine, coach and improve overall performance
- Recognize the dominant leadership and management strengths of others and their areas of opportunity
- Address the 8 critical leadership competencies that must be present in an effective leadership team
- Identify where your organization is in its “lifecycle” and choose the right leadership focus to move to the next level of evolution
- Leverage the collective strengths of your team by aligning thinking and functional strengths to the task at hand
- Know how to quickly identify and address what’s missing when results aren’t showing up
- Link performance focus to meetings and one-on-one communication
- Build an action plan that leverages your strengths through leveraging others
Day Two Content: Increase Coaching Skill to Improve Performance
- Discover the one area of influence you have in shifting team attitude and performance
- Use the 4MAT 4-step model to raise issues confidently and positively
- Script out coaching conversations for common performance issues
- Create a culture that invites peer-to-peer coaching
- Look for the right things when observing team members in action
- Create mutual agreement that improvement is needed by asking the right questions
- Cultivate your team’s skill in giving constructive peer: peer coaching
- Gain commitment on future action using proven strategies in each step of the 4MAT cycle
- Set up effective follow-up strategies to ensure improvement happens after coaching
- Generate solutions for common coaching scenarios you deal with frequently
- Use an inventory of over 20 Coaching Questions for initiating and guiding a coaching conversation
- Self-assess your coaching impact along the way using the 4MAT Coaching Assessment Tool
- Structure an on-the-job coaching team including front-line team members to ensure consistent feedback
Charnie Hemmerly, Director of Education Douglas J Aveda Institutes
 |
“I believe that the information received throughout this training is a wonderful foundation for how
leading others and delivering information should be approached. It gives the person who is working on
their leadership development skills the necessary tools to adjust conversations, look at the work that
they have before them and plan the best way to approach it to get the results that they are hoping for.
I would highly recommend this experience to anyone who is any sort of leadership or mentor role
educators, team leaders, coaches, directors of any department.” |
4MAT equips and energizes a team to take action:
"This class exceeded my expectations. I am looking forward to using the tools I have to implement my leadership skills."
"Coaching isn’t about me or what I need to have happen in order to reach goals. It’s about recognizing the strengths of my team and helping them develop to reach goals."
"Excited to take a trip down a long road leading to success that will have a few bumps and will never end and I will drive with no fear."
"Inspired as I continue to grow with 4MAT Coaching with a better and clearer understanding."
"Better idea about what the company is expecting from someone in a management position."
"Energized! Think this training will make me a more effective and dynamic leader."
"Much more connected to all types (1,2,3,4) learner and staff members."
"Very excited to get in my location and use this! Brain is busting."
"Excited! Definitely more confident on how to coach effectively."
"Proud to have the team I do and proud to have completed this."
"Value that all styles are equally great and all 4 are needed."
"So excited to use all of the skill I have learned in this class."
"Very good and better able to handle coachable moments."
"Loved all of the ideas! – I LOVED creating a real life plan."
"Ability to coach my teammates more effectively."
"Very inspired and motivated me to inspire others."
