Our minds naturally look to simplify our complex world and the challenges leaders face today have changed in such a way that our human instincts mislead us. Leadership strategies from the past may not be working anymore. Leaders may be having problems with over-simplifying situations, being too risk-averse, delegating appropriately, navigating conflict and micromanaging teams, while putting extreme pressure on oneself to be everything to everyone. What if there was a way to lean into the complexities of life and the workplace for our own leadership growth and development? This session will introduce participants to the Five Leadership Mindtraps by Jennifer Garvey Berger to offer actionable, albeit seemingly counterintuitive ideas that help us to evolve, grow and lead in a complex world.
Course Overview
Course Outcomes
- Learn the five leadership mindtraps
- Examine our individual patters of leadership behavior
- Determine actions that will shift us away from behaviors that do not serve us and our teams
Business Need
The world is a complex place and leading within it can be challenging. How do we know we’re moving in the right direction? How do we get our teams onboard and create buy-in? The ability to recognize the patterns that don’t serve us and then change to make things better, more productive, and effective can be difficult, but it is possible! Unbeknownst to ourselves, we are falling into leadership mindtraps that hold our teams and ourselves back.
Course Topics
What is Complexity?
- In a complex world with constant change, uncertainty, and demanding workforce needs, your systematic and logical problem- solving of the past may no longer work. Complexity adds a dimension of uncertainty to leaders trying to be everything to everyone.
- Self-reflection: Patterns of behavior that do not serve me well.
The Five Mindtraps
- The Simple Story: What are the stories you tell yourselves about others that aren’t true or the full story?
- Rightness: Examine the emotional responses to being right and wrong and how that impacts decision making in an uncertain future.
- Agreement: Consider the role of inclusion and belonging in your efforts to have harmony. Explore the challenges and benefits of disagreement in the workplace.
- Control: Explore our desire to control for failure and instead discover what one can influence.
- Ego: How do our ego’s get in the way of leading others? Examine ways to continue to grow, learn and develop.
Mindfulness and Personal Growth
- Connections: Recognize how connections provide direction.
- Navigating uncertainty: How to connect to your purpose as inspiration to avoid the mindtraps leaders find themselves in.
- Key questions to help us grow and lead.
Course Schedule
Typical Course Duration
Virtual: 2 hours
In-person: 4 hours
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Delivery Methods
Number of participants
- in-person: 30
- virtual: 30
Course Details
Course Level:
- Leaders at all levels
Learning Methods:
- Facilitated Large Group Discussion
- Facilitated Small Group Discussion
- Lecture
- Personal Reflection
- Polls
Equipment:
- easel/markers
- LCD projector and screen