SELF:

Successful Executives' Leadership Forum

Coactive Consultants is pleased to announce the SELF: Successful Executives’ Leadership Forum. Designed to propel both seasoned leaders and rising stars to their full potential as leaders, SELF is an open-enrollment leadership development program starting in September.

What sets great companies apart? They create better leaders!

According to the latest leadership survey from the Hay Group, Best-in-Class organizations develop leadership talent from within by

Offering leadership development programs that prepare employees to deliver on organizational goals and strategies, and
Giving those employees opportunities to develop and practice leadership skills.

Importantly, what Best-in-Class organizations value in leaders sets them apart from mediocre ones. Leaders at top organizations are valued less for technical expertise and more for interpersonal skills that promote influence, teamwork, and inspiring others.

Supporting this critical transition from content ‘Expert’ to influential ‘Leader’ is precisely the goal of SELF: the Successful Executive’s Leadership Forum. SELF is an extended leadership development program designed to propel raising stars toward their full potential as leaders.

“Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves-their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.” - Peter Drucker

Taught by practitioners and executive coaches, SELF delivers a uniquely practical and substantial leadership development opportunity. Academic programs teach tactics and strategy: the “what” of leadership. SELF immerses participants in the “how” of leadership: how to

Take responsibility for one’s impact, learning and maturation,
Build interpersonal and collaboration skills,
Navigate power dynamics with integrity, and
Discover the consequences to the larger organization when initiating change.

SELF is formatted to achieve customized and applied learning. Participants meet for ten session days over nine months, to engage in learning, facilitated dialogue, leadership projects, and peer-group coaching. Sessions are augmented by a 360° leadership assessment, six individual executive coaching sessions and an organizational consultation.

“Leaders grow; they are not made.” - Peter Drucker

Participants will learn the "how" of leadership by applying concepts, creating a leadership development plan, implementing a leadership project, and building both the skills and capacity to rise to their unique professional challenges. Focused learning produces tangible outcomes!

"Leaders grow, they are not made." To engender growth and maturity, SELF approaches leadership development from three perspectives:

Heightening awareness of one's subjective experience of leading,
Building interpersonal skills, and
Learning to navigate well in one's organizational power structure.

Participants will learn ideal practices and assess how leadership is practiced in their own organization. They will discover how colleagues perceive them as leaders. Each will receive 360° feedback from respondents chosen from their own organization and professional network. Six individual coaching sessions will be provided to prepare for and receive feedback, as well as to construct and implement an individual leadership development plan. Participants' plans will be designed to build on their strengths and help them meet current challenges effectively.

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Each participant, acting individually or teaming with others (both within and outside the program), will implement a leadership project in her or his organization. The project will practice and stretch the participant's leadership skill, provide visibility, encourage mentoring relationships in her or his organizations, and produce organizational learning.

“If you limit your choices, you lower your odds.” - Kurt Vonnegut

The SELF facilitator to participant ratio (1:12) balances the benefits of group sharing and experiential learning with a focus on individual and real-life issues.