What Makes Grow to Lead Unique

You might be wondering whether Grow to Lead is the right choice for you. With all the great leadership development content available, what makes Grow to Lead unique?

• Grow to Lead emphasizes people skills because that’s the bedrock of high performance.  No matter what business you're in, you can't succeed without engaging, coordinating, and mobilizing your people.
• Grow to Lead enhances your ability to be an effective change leader. Because most organizations, especially these days, are striving to thrive in the midst of constant change.
• Grow to Lead offers a roadmap for development with accomplishments and action steps clearly spelled out to track progress over the course of the program.
• Grow to Lead provides tools, templates, protocols, and scripts to practice skills until they become second nature. 
• All our tools draw from current theory and practice in leadership development. They've been used and refined by hundreds of leaders.

Kick-Off

Meet Your Colleagues

The program starts with this live 60-minute Zoom session that provides an overview of Grow to Lead and answers your questions. Most importantly, it will be a chance to meet other participants. You also be able to attend a live Q & A to answer any of your questions after working through the first 3 on-demand modules.

Module 1

The Foundation

The goal of Module 1 is to share my vision of Grow to Lead and let you know what you can expect as you progress throughout this site. You’ll have a good idea of how to use the site most effectively. And most importantly, you’ll have a good idea of where you’d like to grow in your leadership by completing the Grow to Lead self-assessment.

Module 2

Setting Powerful Goals & Choosing Your Path

The goal of Module 2 is to share all that I’ve learned about effective goal setting in order to set you up for success. You’ll also be working with the companion worksheet to identify areas for growth and do a deep dive around what success would look like.  

Module 3

The Power of a Growth Mindset

Successfully achieving goals is all about learning, and cultivating a Growth Mindset in oneself and others is an essential capacity for learning.  The goal of Module 3 is to help you reliably cultivate a Growth Mindset even in the most challenging situations and to use what you learn to bring out a Growth Mindset in others.  You’ll also become more aware of the ways organizational culture and practices can promote or discourage a Growth Mindset and what you, as a leader, can do to contribute.

Module 4

The Science of Positivity

An essential task of leadership is being able to balance building a high-performing team while also fostering a positive team culture. Many leaders struggle with that balance, and the result can be poor performance, lack of engagement or both. The goal of Module 4 is to introduce you to a scientifically proven approach to fostering positive team culture that can easily be incorporated into supervision, team meetings, and other team activities that you’re already doing.

Module 5

Motivational Accountability

Many leaders dread having to hold their people accountable and find that the least enjoyable part of their work. And yet it's a critical part of leadership and contributes not only to getting the work done but also to promoting positive team culture. The goal of Module 5 is to provide you with practical tools that can engage and motivate your people to want to deliver on their commitments. 

Module 6

Leading on Purpose

Communication is the medium of leadership. Effective communication requires clarity about the results you want to achieve, whether it’s a project or a conversation. While achieving that clarity does call for preparation, it needn’t be time-consuming. The goal of Module 6 is to introduce you to a framework for gaining clarity of purpose that will dramatically improve your impact with minimal effort.

Module 7

The Inner Work of Leadership

Your effectiveness and resilience as a leader are directly related to inner qualities such as confidence, comfort with ambiguity, and flexibility. Many leaders find that their inner confidence is not always matched by how they’re perceived by others. This can result in self-doubt, tentativeness, and uneven performance. The goal of Module 7 is to increase your awareness of the obstacles to inner confidence and to develop a game plan for removing them (or at least minimizing their impact.)

Module 8

Systems Thinking: An Approach for Thinking Strategically

This module focuses on making systems thinking easy to understand, accessible, and directly applicable to organizational life.  Systems thinking provides a framework for identifying and addressing the underlying causes of complex problems. A systems thinking approach lends itself to exploring complex issues such as equity, public health, and our current economic crisis. For most complex problems, there are systems in the background that, when seen and understood, suggest leverage for getting desired outcomes.  Systems Thinking provides you with powerful tools to help individuals and teams think critically and strategically together.

Module 9

Having Awkward Conversations with Ease 

Many people avoid having conversations they fear will be awkward. This module will help you get clearer about what makes a conversation awkward and why it might be worth tackling anyway. It will also share a proven sequence to prepare for a potentially awkward conversation and give you a chance to practice.

Module 10

Personal Influence for Positive Change 

Wouldn't it be great if people would just do what we ask them to do?  Whether it's our boss, our co-workers, subordinates or family members, we often find it challenging to achieve the results we want when we have to work through other people. And the reality is that even when we manage others, success isn’t achieved just by telling people what to do. This module  will teach you core strategies for exerting personal influence, defined as "making your ideas powerful from another person's point of view."

Plus These Bonus Offerings

• Downloadable worksheets for each lesson
• Specially designed Leadership Development Assessment pinpoints where you are on your leadership journey and where you need to grow
• Learn, share and support one another by engaging with other participants
• A live Q & A following the on-demand modules. All your questions answered, live!
• For organizational sponsors: A special session just for you on how to get the best ROI & support your participants