Leadership Challenge

Leadership challenge is designed to help managers reflect on his or her leadership practices and create plans to improve current behavior to facilitate self-awareness.

Best Leadership Practices

  • Fundamental practices of exemplary leadership
  • Myths, Traditions, and Realities of Leadership

Challenge the Process

  • Search out opportunities to confront, challenge, and improve the status quo
  • Experiment, take risks, and learn from the accompanying mistakes

Inspiring a Shared Vision

  • Envision the future and commit to the challenge of change
  • Enlist others to work toward a common purpose and organizational goals

Enabling Others to Act

  • Foster collaboration by promoting cooperative goals and building trust
  • Strengthen people by giving power away, providing choice, developing competence, assigning critical tasks, and offering visible support

Modeling the Way

  • Set the example by behaving in ways that are consistent with shared values
  • Achieve small wins that promote consistent progress and build commitment

Encouraging the Heart

  • Linking rewards to performance
  • Celebrate team accomplishments regularly

Individual Action Planning for Improved Leadership

  • Participants create plans for change based in their feedback
  • Prepare presentations to be given to their respective departments based on analysis and action plans