Emerging Leaders Learning Journey

Pre-Program Assessment

Before the program start, participants will take the DiSC®behavioral assessment.

Session 1: Intentional Communications

Communication is the foundation skillset from which all other interpersonal skills build. In this session, we will use the DiSC®framework to explore how your personality impacts your communication preferences. We’ll investigate the priorities, stressors, and motivators that map to various DiSC styles, giving you insight into how to better communicate and connect with others.

Topics:

• The Goal of Communication
• Tailoring and Targeting Your Message
• Exploring Your DiSC®Report
• The Four Basic DiSC®Styles
• Personalizing Your Report

Key Takeaway:

At the end of this session, you will be able to identify priorities, stressors, and motivators that map to various DiSC styles, enabling you to communicate more effectively with others.

Bridge Learning Assignment

Session 2: Your Leadership Footprint

What is your unique footprint as a leader? In this interactive session we begin with the character strengths and qualities that differentiate you from others, and we use these as a springboard for discovering ways to bring your singular skills to life. After translating your strengths into concrete behaviors, we connect and align these behaviors with your governing values. The session culminates in an activity that integrates what you have learned from others with what sets you apart from everyone else. In creating a personal leadership coat of arms, you’ll gain insight into how to “do who you are” as a leader in a way that inspires and motivates others.

Topics:

• Leadership SWOT Analysis
• Identifying Core Values
• Connecting Values to Behaviors
• Completing the Sculpture — Uncovering Your Unique Brand

Key Takeaway:

At the end of this session, you will be able to better articulate your value proposition as a leader.

Bridge Learning Assignment

Session 3: Building Trust and Connection

Being a valued team member involves more than just growing your skills and knowledge. Building strong relationships is also a key part of team success. In this session, we’ll explore how to earn — and extend — “smart” trust to contribute to a team culture of psychological safety. You’ll also learn how increasing your emotional intelligence will enhance your credibility as well as your team’s performance.

Topics:

• Psychological Safety and Performance
• Verbal and Non-Verbal Active Listening
• Cultivating a Coaching Mindset
• Asking Powerful Questions

Key Takeaway:

At the end of this session, you will be able to optimize team performance by building strong relationships that contribute to a team culture of psychological safety.

Bridge Learning Assignment

Session 4: Growing Your Influence

In this highly interactive session, we will use a trusted framework to explore a five-step model for influencing others. We will examine the importance of planning, asking, and listening in the end-to-end process of influencing. Working through real-life scenarios in role-plays, you will practice applying these new skills to positively influence others up, down, and across levels of power and authority.

Topics:

• Power and Authority
• Reading Your “Audience”
• Eliciting Unmet Needs
• Enhancing Your Credibility
• Role Play and Skill Practice

Key Takeaway:

At the end of this session, you will be able to select and practice influencing skills to positively influence others up, down, and across levels of power and authority.

Bridge Learning Assignment

Session 5: Giving High Impact Feedback

In this session we will explore the connection between effective feedback and employee engagement and performance. We will learn what constitutes a high-impact conversation, delivering feedback in a way that increases someone’s motivation and resources for change. Investigating several models and techniques for giving feedback, the session will culminate in small group role-play scenarios. Each person will have the opportunity to rotate through the roles of feedback giver, receiver, and observer.

Topics:

• Exploring the Feedback Process
• The Connection Between Feedback and Engagement
• A Neuroscience Perspective on Feedback
• Engaged Feedback Using the STAR Model
• Role Play and Skill Practice

Key Takeaway:

At the end of this session, you will be able to leverage a proven model to prepare and deliver feedback with confidence and competence.