Leading Others

Effective Strategies for Purpose-Driven Leadership

Created by: Jan Rutherford
Founder of Self-Reliant Leadership®

What Will I Learn?

• Discover a simple framework to create and sustain a positive and energized work environment that is aligned and focused.
• Make it easy to follow you, by reducing complexity, embracing simplicity, and setting clear expectations.
• Establish accountability, purpose, and a sense of duty among your team to gain authentic commitment over mere compliance.
• Cultivate grit so the team can embrace adversity and conflict as a path for learning, innovation, collaboration and growth.
• Use the four leadership levers as practical tools to enhance your leadership effectiveness, and create an environment where teammates thrive.

Requirements

• If your aim is to influence others - and there aren't many jobs where that isn't true, this course is for you.
• Leadership is not about you – it’s to bring forth the best in others to accomplish what can’t be done alone (or what only can be done together).
• If you agree that Leadership is about getting people to do what they otherwise wouldn't do - WILLINGLY - this course is for you.
• This course is not for you if you think leadership is about you.

Target audience

• Leaders looking for a new approach.
• Mid-level managers, team leaders, and aspiring leaders who want to excel in their current roles, but also want to envision a path forward for their own career. These leaders desire an adventurous and fulfilling work experience in which a collaborative team environment—and not just top-down demand—is the default leadership maxim.
• Managing Directors of mid-size-to-large for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations looking for innovative, novel approaches to tackle ever-growing leadership issues involving time management, people development, and strategic and design thinking. Poor time management, insufficient people skills, and a lack of grit and resilience have left such leaders facing employee disengagement, turnover, sub-par communication, ambiguous decision-making, sullied customer experiences, and missed business goals and financial objectives.