Seminars are important processes for intellectual and emotional growth. For the alert person, seminars can be an experience that ignites curiosity and leads to professional growth as well as social network expansion. Seminars are also an excellent venue for resolving some nagging questions about the unusual components of a continuous problem back on the job. —RLN

Leadership and Leader & Follower Fundamentals

An effective Leader has mastered the Fundamentals of the Leadership Profession. This is no small feat because Leadership has matured into a promising profession that has assisted, and will continue to assist, people from every walk of life imaginable, even people who themselves work as Leaders in one or more of the continually emerging number of Leadership Specializations. However, as diverse as these specializations may be, probably every Leader will be expected to master the Fundamentals common to all coaches. These Fundamentals include:

  1. Defining the Leadership Mission

  2. Preparing the Leadership Proposal

  3. Leadership in Work Groups, Teams, and Organizations

  4. Leadership in Support of Organization Development and Organization Design Projects

  5. Mastering the Barriers and Success Factors to High Performance Leadership

    Attaining the requisite level of mastery requires Leaders to become familiar with the follow Six Leadership Prerequisite:

Leadership Applications

  1. Consulting on Team Member Selection

  2. Changing the Behaviors of Followers

  3. Leading for Goodness-of-Fit

  4. Determining Leadership Potential

  5. Troubleshooting Leadership Problems

  6. Supercharging Leadership Performance

  7. Leading for Team Development

  8. Leadership and the Leader

  9. Executive Leadership 

Developing Leadership Capabilities

  1. The Seven Different Leadership Capabilities

  2. The Four Step Leadership Process and 34 Supporting Techniques

  3. Executive Leadership Development and Mastery

  4. Leadership Development,

  5. Development of High Potential Leadership

  6. Development of Leadership Professionals

  7. How to Develop the Executive Leadership Proposal

  8. How to Market Yourself as a Leader

  9. Step-by-Step Guide for Delivering Leadership Capabilities

  10. How to Deliver Leadership Services in Fix-It Projects

  11. An 18 Step Process for Rescuing Leaders and Key Contributors

  12. Guidelines for Leading the Leader

  13. The Four-Skill Process of Developing Your Leadership Practice

  14. The 17 Leadership Applications

  15. 48 Leadership Techniques for Delivering Behavioral Change

Developing Leadership Capabilities

  1. Motivation in Building Your Leadership Success

  2. A Powerful Leadership Philosophy

  3. Key to Moving from Employee Role to Leadership Role

  4. 15 Core Competencies for Leadership Success

  5. The Critical Success Factors for Leadership Success

  6. The Nine Fundamentals of High Impact Leadership and How to Use Them

  7. Six Keys to Forging Leadership Relationships

  8. The Eight Models of Organization Performance

  9. The Eleven Phase Leadership Process

  10. The Leader’s Mission : Enhancing Human Performance

  11. Using Testing to Accelerate Performance Improvement

  12. High-Powered Interviewing Techniques

  13. Writing High-Impact Reports

  14. Leading in Assessment and Selection

  15. Ten Step Action Planning Process for Leaders

  16. Evaluation and Development Services in Different Contexts

  17. The Eight Most Effective Predictors of Executive and Leadership Potential

  18. The Succession Development Process

  19. 18 Barriers to High Performance

  20. Six Critical Success Factors for High Performance and Using Them

  21. 18 High-Powered Leadership Tools

  22. The Art of Strategic Leadership

  23. Surveys and Audits

  24. Group Development

  25. Supercharging Leadership and Organization Performance

  26. High Performance People Practices

Leadership Tools & Techniques

  1. Testing in Leadership

  2. High-Powered Interviewing Techniques for Leaders

  3. High-Powered Tools for Strategic Leadership

  4. Surveys and Audits

    Exceeding the Follower’s Expectations

    1. Exceeding the expectations of the Leader and the team.

    2. Remaining Candid with Leaders and followers.

    3. Maintaining a Sense of Realism about My Capabilities

    4. Making My Capabilities Fully Available to Managers.

    5. Preparing Leaders for Different Kinds of Outcomes

    6. Optimizing Not Maximize My Involvement With Teams

    7. Using the Questioning Process to Overcome Poor Judgment

    8. Questioning the Followers to Illuminate Ill-Rational and Other Self-Defeating Behaviors

    9. Consistently Overcoming the Shortcomings of Followers

    10. Ensuring That Leaders are Doing the Right Things

    11. Ensuring That My Leadership Approach Offers a Win-Win Solution

    12. Determining if I Am Consistently Behaving Fairly

    13. Remaining Consistent in Thought and Action

Mastering the Critical Success Factor Models for Effective Leadership

  1. Mastering the Five Specific Critical Success Factors Models of Coaching & Consulting Effectiveness

  2. Mastering the Generic Critical Success Factor Models for Effective Leadership

  3. Distinguishing these Models from Each Other

  4. Mastering the Turner Model as My Leadership Approach

  5. Mastering the Kuber Model of the International Labor Office, Geneva

  6. Employing the Kuber Model to Better Understand Leadership Clients and Work with Them

  7. Employing the Kuber Model to Refine My Intellectual Capacities

  8. Employing the Kuber Model to Refine My Reasoning Capacities

  9. Employing the Kuber Model to Enhance My Workplace Relationship Skills

  10. Employing the Kuber Model to Enhance My Ability to Mobilize Innovation and Change

  11. Employing the Kuber Model to Enhance My Ability to Understand People and Work with Them

  12. Employing the Kuber Model to Enhance My Ability to Communicate, Persuade, and Motivate

  13. Employing the Kuber Model to Deepen My Intellectual and Emotional Maturity

  14. Employing the Kuber Model to Enhance My Personal Drive and Initiative

  15. Employing the Kuber Model to Build an Appropriate Level of Ethics and Integrity

  16. Employing the Kuber Model to Increase Physical and Mental Health

  17. Employing the Brenner Model to Enhance My Leadership Capabilities

  18. Employing the Brenner Model to Build My Cognitive Capabilities

  19. Employing the Brenner Model to Enhance the Effectiveness of My Communication Skills

  20. Employing the Brenner Model to Build My Personality Characteristics

  21. Employing the Brenner Model to Enhance My Influence Skills

  22. Employing the Brenner Model to Enhance My Ability to Focus on Results

  23. Developing a Personal Approach to Lead Using the Brenner Model as a Baseline

  24. Developing a Personal Approach to Solve Personal Leadership Problems Using the Brenner Model as a Baseline

  25. Employing the Association of Management Consulting Firms Model to Enhance My Leadership Success

  26. Mastering the Behavioral Skills of the Association of Management Consulting Firms Model to Achieve Leadership Success

  27. Mastering the Behavioral Skills of the Association of Management Consulting Firms Model to Practice and Display Integrity

  28. Mastering the Behavioral Skills of the Association of Management Consulting Firms Model to Become Courageous and Act with Courage

  29. Mastering the Behavioral Skills of the Association of Management Consulting Firms Model to Develop a Sense of Objectivity

  30. Mastering the Behavioral Skills of the Association of Management Consulting Firms Model to Nurture the Ambition to Assist Your Clients

  31. Mastering the Behavioral Skills of the Association of Management Consulting Firms Model to Develop a Potent Problem-Solving Ability

  32. Mastering the Behavioral Skills of the Association of Management Consulting Firms Model to Develop a Deeper Capacity for Sound Judgment

  33. Mastering the Behavioral Skills of the Association of Management Consulting Firms Model to Develop a More Profound Experience of Psychological Maturity

  34. Better Understanding the People and Human Relationships in the Leader’s Organization

  35. Better Exercising Integrity in the Leader’s Organization

  36. Better Exercising Courage in the Leader’s Organization

  37. Better Exercising Objectivity when Assisting the Team

  38. Better Leadership Ambition when Assisting the Team

  39. Better Exercising My Problem-Solving Ability in the Leader’s Organization

  40. Better Exercising Judgment in the Leader’s Organization

  41. Better Exercising My Communication Ability in the Organization 

  42. Better Exercising Psychological Maturity in the Leader’s and Team’s Organization

  43. Employing the Bellman Model to Enhance My Leadership and Consulting Success

  44. Employing the Bellman Model to Display Expertise in the Leader’s Organization

  45. Employing the Bellman Model to Enhance My Perspective to Better Assist My Team

  46. Employing the Bellman Model to Enhance Leadership Authenticity

  47. Employing the Bellman Model to Forge a Friendship with the Followers

  48. Employing the Bellman Model to Protect My Friendship with Teams

  49. Employing the Bellman Model to Enhance My Accomplishments and Better Assist Teams

  50. Better Understanding the Bellman Model to Deliver the Core Benefits of Leadership

“Success always comes down to the fundamentals at sometime or other in the coaching process. The first skill that the client must learn to master: The Art of Communications. Everything else comes in second. Success stands or falls on communications.” — Ray Newkirk