Management and Leadership

Your Leadership Footprint

• Traditional Classroom: 1/2-day
• Virtual Instructor-led: One 3-hour session or Two 90-minute sessions

What is your unique footprint as a leader? In this interactive session we begin with the character strengths and qualities that differentiate you from others, and we use these as a springboard for discovering ways to bring your singular skills to life. After translating your strengths into concrete behaviors, we connect and align these behaviors with your governing values. The session culminates in an activity that integrates what you have learned from others with what sets you apart from everyone else. In creating a personal leadership coat of arms, you’ll gain insight into how to “do who you are” as a leader in a way that inspires and motivates others.

Target Audience

This course is designed for new leaders or those currently in leadership roles who want to discover and articulate their unique value proposition as a leader.

Learning Objectives

• Identify unique character strengths you bring to leadership.
• Translate character strengths into leadership behaviors in four domains.
• Clarify key values that drive your day-to-day interactions.
• Create a personal leadership “coat of arms.”
• Describe a personal blind spot with regard to working with others and action you can take to mitigate it.

Pre-Course Work

• Take the free VIA Character Strengths Assessment (15 min.)

Course Outline

Leaders Who Inspire You

• Leaders and Leadership Qualities
• Activity: What/Who Inspires You?

Character Strengths and Credibility

• Your VIA Character Strengths Profile
• Activity: Your Top 5 Strengths
• Credibility = Character + Competence

Leadership Behaviors

• Activity: Translating Character Strengths into Behaviors
• Aligning Behaviors with Values

Your Personal Coat of Arms

Leadership Challenges: Looking back and Looking Forward

• Activity: Identify Your Challenges and Blind Spots

Course Summary and Next Steps

MDV2011a Course Code