Building Leadership Institute (BLI)

Description

12 monthly 3-hour seminars build the understanding and skills to improve your leadership and communications performance and accelerate your career development.  Small, mixed- AEC group ensures individual focus and comfortable, full engagement.

Why Participate
Participate because you have to. Without strong leadership and communications skills, even the most intelligent people struggle to lead effectively. The BLI program gives you the in-depth understanding, skills and strategies you need to add maximum value in your organization.

Participate because you want to. Perhaps you’re already skilled at leadership and communications, but you want to improve further. The BLI program will both challenge and support your efforts. The program provides new skills and tools, fresh ideas, advanced levels of performance and out-of-the box thinking.

Participate because it’s challenging. Working in a small group from a strategic mix of businesses, you’ll learn how people outside your usual frame of reference think. You’ll work closely with people who share your interests, support and challenge you.

Participate because it pays. With new skills and focus, it's only natural that you'll advance to higher levels in your organization and the building industry. The BLI program is one of the best investments you can make not only in your job performance and career development but also in your ability to help and challenge others, and to add greater value in your organization.

How You’ll Participate

• Begin Startup Coaching Now. You begin the program immediately when you enroll with individual Coaching to clarify and working to achieve your most important goals.
• Small Groups. Usual group size of 4-7 participants ensures in-depth focus on your individual interests and natural relationship building with fellow participants
• Group Workshops. Group workshops build essential understanding and skills in key building leadership competencies.
• Pre-Work. To get the most from each workshop, we provide brief readings and assignments before the session.
• Active Participation. In the workshops you participate comfortably, actively in discussing concepts, trying new skills and planning how to integrate the skills in your everyday work.
• Homework. Assigned work at the end of each session to apply session concepts and skills and track your progress
• Convenient Scheduling. For participants' convenience, group members schedule the sessions, usually monthly at times that work for all participants.

What You’ll Learn
1. Improving awareness. Are others listening, accepting your ideas? Knowing how others perceive you is essential for effective leadership. You’ll learn strategies and skills to know in depth how others perceive you, and to respond effectively.
2. Using 360 surveys and personality profiles skillfully. You’ve done a 360 Survey and somewhat understand your Personality Type. You’ll learn and apply tools to translate your insights into effective everyday leadership practices.
3. Clarifying goals. What is your Vision? What do you really want for your team, your organization, yourself? Can you communicate your Vision so others fully understand? You’ll learn methods to express your Vision and goals in a form that inspires, motivates and clearly explains your most important ideas.
4. Developing and using a strategic plan. Can you use your Vision to develop an effective strategic plan for your organization? Do you understand what strategic planning is and why it’s essential for every organization? You’ll learn strategic planning methods and develop a strategic plan that meets your organization’s needs.
5. Understanding business intelligence data. Revenue and profit, manpower and staffing, regional and global economy numbers - data really meets your needs? You’ll learn what a “balanced scorecard” is and develop one for your own leadership uses. You’ll master intelligent survey design and valid analysis.
6. Improving one-on-one communications. Negotiating, informal influencing, giving and receiving feedback. Your one-on-one communications skills can advance or undermine your best thinking. You’ll learn strategies and skills to consistently perform at high levels in the one-on-one situations that matter most for your work.
7. Presentation skills. Do your presentation skills fully do justice to the quality ideas you’re presenting? Can you do better than “walking people through your slides” and tell a compelling story? The LCC program will take your confidence, comfort and impact on others to the higher levels your role requires.
8. Leading productive meetings. Groups make so many key decisions and try to solve so many pressing problems. But groups too often make poor decisions and underperform. You’ll learn to run meetings that fully engage participants, tap into their best thinking and achieve optimal results.
9. Interviewing skills. Your new hires provide the foundations of your organization. Will your interviewing skills identify “fools gold” candidates and lead you to the real thing. You’ll learn behavioral interviewing methods that enable you to distinguish between people who “look good on paper” and those will truly perform.
10. Building your team. Are your people a group, or do they really function like a team? Hiring great individuals in no way ensures great team performance. You’ll learn skills to shape your people into a team that consistently performs at the highest levels.
11. Building a high performing organization. Positioning groups and departments Vision, Aware-ness, People, Communications,
Numbers. Can you put the pieces together to build a thriving organization? Leaders Circle delivers that strategies, skills, book smarts and street smarts you need to breathe life into your best ideas.