THE COMPASS PROGRAM – Year Two
As you attend the Compass series you will develop knowledge and skills that will significantly increase your personal effectiveness and ability to successfully lead others. You will develop habits of success that will make you a more capable person as well as a valuable employee.
Each workshop lasts three to four hours and consists of a mixture of lecture and, more importantly, high energy and interactive exercises to help you internalize the principles and apply the lessons to your workplace experience. Meeting monthly will give you the opportunity to practice the concepts before moving on to the next workshop.
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JANUARY
I’ll Be Back!
CONFRONTING HARMFUL BEHAVIOR
In this session you will:
- Learn to confront behavior that does not meet expectations
- Understand the importanct of discipline and conformity in building high performance
- Develop a set of non-negotiables for those whom you lead
- Practice the skill of harnessing harmful behavior
- Apply the skill to back-home situations
FEBRUARY
Ordinary People
EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS
In this session you will learn:
- Empowering leaders have a driving passion to realize their vision
- Empowering leaders are egoless
- Empowering leaders build and sustain trust with their followers
- Empowering leaders unleash the commitment and motivation of their followers
- Empowering leaders are social and organizational architects
- Empowering leaders act from positive beliefs about people and situations
MARCH
Who Called This Meeting Anyway?
EFFECTIVE MEETINGS
In this session you will learn:
- The characteristics of effective meetings
- How efficient and effective your meetings are
- Guidelines to improve the effectiveness of your meetings
- How to establish and run a meeting from an agenda
- A format for meeting minutes
- The three leadership roles required for sucessful meetings
- Discussion skills to improve the quality of team meetings
APRIL
Don’t Beat Around the Bush
GIVING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK
In this session you will:
- Learn what feedback is
- Discover how open or closed you are to giving and receiving feedback
- Learn to give effective feedback to others
- Practice giving and receiving feedback to others
- Make a personal improvement plan to respond to team feedback
MAY
I See Dead People
CONQUERING KEY MOMENTS
In this session you will learn:
- How you respond to challenging or upsetting events (key moments)
- To explore and understand the patterns in your responses to key moments
- A process for exploring the consequences of your behavior
- To choose positive behaviors and feelings during your key moments
- To identify and challenge the distortions in your interpretations
- A method for changing weakening beliefs to empowering beliefs
JUNE
Find the Joy and Meaning in Work
STRENGTHING OUR RELATIONSHIPS
In this session you will:
- Understand the characteristics and consequences of co-dependency
- Know the difference between responsibility for and responsibility to another
- Learn a credo for your relationships
- Understand what you do that weakens others when you intend to help
- Learn the valuing process as a skill to strengthen others
- Evaluate what you do to strengthen others in your relationships
JULY
Assuming There is Enough Time
PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
In this session you will learn:
- An understanding of personal productivity and the difference between time management and time leadership
- How you currently use your time
- The barriers that keep you from managing your time more effectively
- The difference between the important and urgent and how to schedule time for the important
- How to improve our time leadership
- To better use your time to take advantage of all five leaderships roles
AUGUST
Who is to Blame?
GROUP DYNAMICS
In this session you will:
- Learn what group dynamics is
- Experience and discuss group dynamics in action
- Learn about group process and shared leadership
- Determine what you can do personally to improve group process skills
- Rate your team’s group process
- Identify how your team will improve its group process
SEPTEMBER
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
EMBRACING REALITY
In this session you will:
- Understand the nature of reality
- Learn the importance of aigning your life to reality
- Accept some of the "difficult"
realities of your life
- Explore and "let go" of resentments, complaints, and blame
- Learn to live in the "here and now"
OCTOBER
Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing
TEAM DEVELOPMENT
In this session you will learn:
- The definition of a High Performance team and how it differs from traditional work groups
- The three elements of High Performance Teams
- Four types of teams
- The stages of team development
NOVEMBER
Why Problems Do Not Get Solved
TEAM PROBLEM SOLVING
In this session you will learn:
- The challenges of group problem solving
- A working definition of problem solving
- A model for group problem solving and how to use it
- How to do creative brainstorming
- How to use case and effect diagrams to analyze problems
- How well your team is up for effective problem solving
DECEMBER
Beating the Competition Hands Down
EMPOWERING OTHERS FOR SUCCESS
In this session you will learn:
- The difference between commitment and compliance motivation
- How leadership changes to create commitment
- The four principles of empowerment
- The elements of empowerment
- A matrix for identifying what people need in order to be empowered
- A dialogue to transfer power to others
- A model of situational leadership
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• The Compass Program - Year One
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