Developing Resilience Skills for Work and for Life

  Dr. Andrew Shatté

Dr. Andrew Shatté is the founder & President of Phoenix Life Academy, a company that specializes in measuring and training in resilience. Dr. Shatté is in high demand as a speaker. He has delivered over 1,000 keynote speeches and addresses to large corporate audiences over the last decade. Dr. Shatté is coauthor of The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles.

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Time Allocation - Topics

5% Nailing Down the Concept - What Makes an Excellent & Resilient Leader?

5% Your Leadership Strengths & Weaknesses Participants complete the Leadership Excellence Inventory (LEI) before coming to the workshop Review of your highs and lows on the 5 ingredients that make for excellent and resilient leadership - Integrity, Mentoring, Values, Results, Connection

5% Skill 1 - Coaching your Strength Participants form into 5 groups based on their greatest Resilient Leadership strength and offers them to the group as a whole

5% Skill 2 - Reworking your Leadership Priorities Centers on information gathered in the prework on how you prioritize the 5 strengths of a great leader and how much time you spend on each

15% Skill 3 - Effective Mentoring The effect of the thinking style, Explanatory Style, on Problem Solving How to lead across that Optimism Gap

15% Skill 4 - Showing Integrity Creating an even playing field, not playing favorites, being fair Empathy – how to feel it, how to express it

15% Skill 5 - Aligning Values The 4 types of employees and values The critical nature of aligning values 

15% Skill 6 - Boosting Results How to boost results through greater Mentoring, Integrity, and aligned Values

15% Skill 7 - Leaders as Connectors 3 levels of connection to a job

 5% Your Resilient Leadership Action Plan

Seminar Description

In this session you will learn 7 skills to boost your leadership abilities and to foster an atmosphere of your resilience for and in those you lead. You will receive a personal profile of your strengths and weaknesses across the 5 strengths that make an excellent and resilient leader – Integrity, Mentoring, Aligned Values, Results, & Connection to the job. This profile will direct your customized learning as you practice the leadership skills. In this fun and interactive session, what you learn about yourself as a leader will be revealing. We will evaluate your top leadership priorities and learn if the time allocated to each is a match. We will assess your self rating of your leadership abilities and determine whether you tend to overestimate those abilities. And then we’ll delve into 5 concrete skills to boost each of the 5 strengths of resilient leadership. Participants will learn: how to convey your integrity to your reports; about the Optimism Gap that exists between you and your employees and how to bridge it; how to align personal values with the values of your organization for optimal performance in you and your team; and about the 3 levels of connection to a job and how to foster that in yourself and your reports for greater productivity, job satisfaction, and resilience.

 

Guide to Participant Selection

Department Admin Distrib Engr Finc H.R. Legal Mktng IT Opr Plng Pchsg R&D Sales
Senior Executive 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3  
General Manager 2 2 3 2 1 3 1 3 3 2 2 2 1  
Middle Manager 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  
Managers
& Leaders
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

APPLICABILITY
"1" indicates primary target audience.
"2" indicates a good fit if the level of material is appropriate.
"3" indicates (in the opinion of the institute and the faculty) very limited applicability.

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Last Updated 11/11/13