Event Date: 03/31/2020 (2:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT)
Courageous leadership — does your organization have it? Courage is the first virtue of organizational performance because it’s the lifeblood of leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation. But in times of change and uncertainty too many workers become safety-seekers, often to the detriment of their organizations. We have high and often conflicting expectations of leaders. We want leaders to be reasonable but passionate, decisive but inclusive, visionary but explicit, and powerful but humble. On top of all that, also be emotionally intelligent, caring, impartial, people-oriented, and of course, financially astute. The list is so long that it often leaves leaders scratching their heads, thinking: where on earth do I start? The answer is courage. It’s the backbone leaders need to forge the future, face fierce challenges, inspire others, and drive the bottom line. Important organizational concepts like leadership, innovation, change management, sales, and employee engagement all require strong doses of courage.
Join us for Courageous Leadership: How to Build Backbone, Boost Performance, and Get Results, presented by Bill Treasurer. The Courageous Leadership webinar will provide practical strategies for building workforce courage so workers can become opportunity-seekers. A proven approach for using courage to improve performance and counteract the negative impacts of workplace fear will be introduced. When everyone is working with more courage, the entire organization is transformed for the better. Research shows that courageous workers seek out leadership opportunities, step up to challenges, offer innovative ideas, passionately embrace change, and are more productive. In short, courageous workers get work done!
This webinar is based upon research from Courageous Leadership, a training program for HRDQ that gives both newly emerging and experienced leaders and managers the tools and techniques for developing and refining their skills. This learning resource will help your organization retain employees and clients, make better decisions, and improve performance.
This webinar is sponsored by HRDQ Consulting, which offers virtual, instructor-led training courses that allow your learners to keep the training, team work, and communication going — from a distance.
Participants Will Learn:
- Why courage is the premier personal and professional virtue
- To be versed in the distinct types of courage (TRY, TRUST, and TELL) and how to differentiate among them
- How to empower and engage people by modulating comfort and discomfort
- To clearly differentiate between two different leadership dispositions, Fillers (encouragement) and Spillers (discouragement)
- To understand how to create an environment that supports ongoing courageous behavior
- Tips on how to increase your own courage while inspiring more workplace courage
- Specific individual actions and commitments to leading, teaming, and interacting with more courage
Who Should Attend:
- A training or HR professional who delivers training
- An independent training consultant
- A manager who delivers or purchases training as part of their role
Presented By: Bill Treasurer
Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting (GLC), a courage-building company that exists to help people and organizations live more courageously.
Bill is considered the originator of the new organizational development practice of “courage-building.” Bill is the author of the internationally bestselling book, Courage Goes to Work. The book provides practical strategies for inspiring more courageous behavior in workplace settings. In 2009, the book became the 6th bestselling management book … in China.
Bill is also the author of Courageous Leadership: Using Courage to Transform the Workplace. As a comprehensive off-the-shelf training program, the material is designed to help organizational development practitioners and training professionals inspire more courageous behavior in their organizations. The program has been taught to thousands of leaders in 11 countries on 5 continents.
For over two decades Bill has designed and delivered leadership and succession planning programs for experienced and emerging leaders for clients such as NASA, Accenture, CNN, Saks Fifth Avenue, Hugo Boss, UBS Bank, Lenovo, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the CDC, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Learn more at www.giantleapconsulting.com.
As you go farther down what is the tendency of courage to develop overtime?
Any risk situation has a grand continuum: You are either moving in the direction of your courage or moving in the direction of your cowardice. When you face your fears, your “Courage Capability” expands, enlarging your capacity for dealing with future fears. In this way, demonstrating courage is itself a form of encouragement in that it fills you with greater levels of courage.
Of course, the opposite is also true. In situations where you allow fear to prevent yourself from having something you want, you enlarge your “Cowardice Capability.” And the more cowardice you exhibit, the more it grows because cowardice feeds on the diminishment of courage.
When it comes to courage, you must believe it to be it. It also helps to teach it. You can learn by teaching Courageous Leadership to other employees, friends, students, or relatives.
So we suggest face your lack of courage, believe in your courage, and teach it to others to really thoroughly learn it.
If your boss quells your courage, should you consider moving on in your career?
Any risk situation has a grand continuum: You are either moving in the direction of your courage or moving in the direction of your cowardice. When you face your fears, your “Courage Capability” expands, enlarging your capacity for dealing with future fears. In this way, demonstrating courage is itself a form of encouragement in that it fills you with greater levels of courage.
Of course the opposite is also true. In situations where you allow fear to prevent yourself from having something you want, you enlarge your “Cowardice Capability.” And the more cowardice you exhibit, the more it grows because cowardice feeds on the diminishment of courage.
When it comes to courage, you must believe it to be it. It also helps to teach it. You can learn by teaching Courageous Leadership to other employees, friends, students, or relatives.
So we suggest face your lack of courage, believe in your courage, and teach it to others to really thoroughly learn it. Not easy, but you gain.
George Herbert wrote “Living well is the best revenge.” “Living well” to him meant being moral and pious, doing the right thing and striving for goodness to the best of our ability.
After having an unsuccessful leader, our team is presently undergoing hiring a new director. This has been a learning experience and I think we’ve all learned more about our own courage and speaking up when we notice things aren’t working.
What a great example of Courageous Leadership. You saw the Courage Lesson #3 that Courage is found in discomfort (not in comfort). We say “necessity is the mother of invention” but necessity is also the mother learning.” Even though we do not like it the school of hard knocks is sometimes the best educational institution.
When it comes to courage, you must believe it to be it. It also helps to teach it. You can learn by teaching Courageous Leadership to other employees, friends, students, or relatives.
Talk about the importance of courageous leaders asking for help?
You have brought up a great question. There is such a natural desire by the age of 2 to “do it by our self.” Kids say, “I want to do it my way and by myself.” This natural desire seems to increase once we become the leader.
The Leadership Laws on slide 35 and 36 show “it’s not about you” and “deputize an ego checker.” We are not an island and need other people. Many of us have had an experience in our life where we were afraid to ask for help but when we did it serendipitously created bonding, synergy, and a future relationship. Dare we say that the best leaders are the best at asking for help if they do it without “using” other people.
When it comes to courage, you must believe it to be it. It also helps to teach it. You can learn by teaching Courageous Leadership to other employees, friends, students, or relatives.
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