The LAP Opportunity

PROGRAM PROMISE

At the end of the Leadership Development Program you will have:

• A vision for yourself and for your organization that engages you and your coworkers
• Greater presence, authority, and competence as a leader
• Skills to influence, coach, and enable other team members
• Ample practice at forming partnerships, alliances, and teams so that the conditions are created to identify and make possible what was not possible before
• The ability to build trust among coworkers and influence the mood of the organization
• The ability to coordinate effective action to enable your team to design, plan, and implement strategic change

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

At the end of the Leadership Alchemy Program you will:

• You will have greater insight into the learning process itself, both in terms of what interferes with and what supports learning, so that you can define your commitment to lifelong learning
• You will develop greater presence, authority, and confidence as a leader, so that you exceed the expectations of those you will be leading
• You will know your own capabilities, so that you can call on multiple inner resources and therefore, also know when and how to call on the capabilities of others
• You will have ample opportunity to clarify or revise notions about yourself, in order to develop your vision about where you want to go as a leader
• You will be capable of setting new leadership standards for yourself, demonstrating progress in achieving those standards, and capable of declaring what you have learned
• You will be able to design conversations for leadership, make alliances, and put vision into action
• You will understand the importance to committing to wellness and creating an intentional balance in your life

• You will have a vision for yourself in the organization that positively captures the passion of people to carry you into the future
• You will know how to influence, coach, and enable others so that you can easily create partnerships, alliances, and teams
• You will know how to become more resilient and able to create the conditions to initiate and sustain change
• You will understand how organizational culture plays out in multiple settings
• You will be able to build trust and, when necessary, shift the context and mood, so that all members in the culture thrive
• You will understand the impact of organizational culture in order to successfully navigate the world of written and unwritten organizational rules
• You will be able appreciate the richness of diversity and know how to utilize the full range of contributions of others
• You will be capable of influencing others and building trust through coherent narratives and stories of great impact

• You will gain knowledge, skill, and wisdom to make effective choices from a wide array of possibilities for your and the organization’s mutual benefit
• You will understand the power of appreciative inquiry and be capable of analyzing and doing more of "what works"
• You will be able to coordinate effective action by applying your learning and leadership skills to actual organizational challenges