Tapping the power of participation

Today's successful leaders empower employees to high achievement while engaging them in the organization's strategy. Facilitative Leaders inspire commitment and the personal involvement of their teams, leading to greater employee satisfaction and effectiveness.

Research by The Conference Board, an independent source of business research and analysis, has shown tomorrow's leader must be a master strategist, change leader, relationship builder, and talent developer. The Facilitative Leader is all of these.

The Facilitative Leadership workshop helps develop skills to improve productivity, decision-making, cross-functional collaboration, and employee responsiveness.

In this course you will:

• Learn the Seven Practices of effective leaders, a simple but powerful framework employed by thousands of leaders all over the world
• Design powerful Pathways to Action that turn good ideas into great results
• Develop an inspiring vision to guide your team to higher productivity
• Learn to appropriately involve employees in decision-making to cultivate ownership
• Master the key skills for coaching conversations, to inspire better performance and deeper commitment
• Learn simple techniques to attract and retain top employees by creating a better work environment

Who should attend:

Formal and informal leaders, including frontline supervisors, middle managers, and team leaders.

Agenda:

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3
Introduction to Facilitative Leadership® Focus on Results, Process and Relationship Seek Maximum Appropriate Involvement	Review of Day 1 Share an Inspiring Vision Design Pathways to Action	Team Challenge Focus on Results, Process, and Relationship Design Pathways to Action Facilitate Agreement
LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
Facilitate Agreement Share an Inspiring Vision Evaluate the Day Evening Assignment	Coach for Performance Evaluate the Day Celebrate Accomplishments Evaluation of the Day Evening Assignment	Facilitate Agreement (cont.) Coach for Performance Celebrate Accomplishments Action Planning Graduation

Fee: 3 Days/$2195

Date	Location	Availability
October 21 - 23, 2008	San Francisco
November 11 - 13, 2008	San Francisco
January 27 - 29, 2009	San Francisco
February 10 - 12, 2009	San Francisco
March 17 - 19, 2009	Boston
May 19 - 21, 2009	Boston
June 23 - 25, 2009	San Francisco
July 21 - 23, 2009	San Francisco
August 18 - 20, 2009	Boston
September 15 - 17, 2009	Chicago
October 27 - 29, 2009	San Francisco
November 17 - 19, 2009	San Francisco
December 15 - 17, 2009	Boston