Leading Out Loud™
Uncertain Times Call for Inspiring Leaders
Inspiring leaders look inward. They connect what they care about personally with their business messages. They create shared purpose by engaging the hearts and minds of others. They earn employees’ trust and provide the meaning that fuels maximum contribution and commitment to action. Leading Out Loud™ develops leaders who can drive business results through authentic communication. This intense workshop provides real-time application of key leadership concepts and communication tools for inspiring action.
The Leading Out Loud Methodology
Leading Out Loud provides not only the “what to do” but the “how to” of leadership that inspires change. Leading Out Loud equips leaders to:
- Inspire others to greater engagement, ownership and action to create positive change.
- Create a culture of authenticity, openness, and candor.
- Connect their personal convictions to organizational strategy.
- Effectively lead change with or without positional authority.
- Apply a framework for communicating inspirationally in all situations, venues and media.
- Answer the questions: Who are you and what are you here to do?
Discover what matters This experience is organized around Core Principles that apply broadly to all aspects of a leader’s behavior: To inspire others, leaders must know where they stand and be clear on the source of their convictions.
Deepening emotional awareness Inspiring others requires the leader to recognize their own emotions during times of change, regulate emotions and thinking to move forward, and resonate with the emotions and perspectives of others. They must learn to respond — instead of react — when facing resistance to change. Empathy and impulse control are key when impulse wants to speak.
Connecting with others Touching the minds, the hearts and the imaginations of others takes communicating in a way that builds trust, involves others, and expresses personal motivation and empathy. Leaders create the imagery and stories that draw people closer to the leader and to the purpose.
Disciplining your voice: the communication Guide Finding one’s voice is often hard. Disciplining it is even tougher. Leaders develop this discipline of inspirational communication through reflection, writing and communication “practices” with coaching. The Leading Out Loud Communication Guide allows the leader to be thorough and complete in expressing “the math” behind any change. Discipline brings success.
To inspire others, leaders must know where they stand and be clear on the source of their convictions Throughout the session participants will be applying these principles to a change they must lead. The Personal Leadership Communication Guide brings the concepts and framework to life, allowing a thoughtful approach to all business situations and leadership decisions. It can be used in all forms of communication and media including presentations, meetings, town halls, social media and informal interactions.
The four elements of the Guide are:
- Establishing Competence and Building Trustworthiness
- Creating Shared Context
- Declaring and Describing the Future
- Committing to Action / Creating Engagement
To move your organization forward, your top leaders and executives need to gain true commitment versus mere compliance. Leading Out Loud will help them focus energy and sustain morale through volatile business cycles and achieve lasting results. Leaders leave the workshop with a specific message to deliver to a specific audience on a relevant leadership challenge. The organization benefits from leaders who can inspire employee engagement, trust, loyalty and action. Participants in the workshop leave with:
- A consistent leadership communication point of view across the organization.
- A conceptual model for authentic communication and the tools to apply it.
- Significant progress on a current business challenge due to reflection, writing and focused coaching on the clarity and meaning of the leadership’s communication on the issue.
- A new standard for candid conversation and constructive feedback.
- Based on the best-selling book Leading Out Loud
- A flexible workshop design incorporates rigorous coaching sessions
- The Personal Leadership Communication Guide which brings the concepts and framework to life.
- Can be combined with the Leadership Assessments™ and Leadership Coaching
- Post-workshop executive coaching available