|
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q. What is 21st Century Leadership?
A. 21st Century Leadership promotes leadership as a mindset, and helps participants develop behaviors and skills associated with having a leadership mindset. Having a strengthened leadership mindset results in participating in ways that inspire and motivate others to invest themselves in ways that inspire and motivate others to create the results you want.
When people and companies get stuck, they usually focus on becoming more competent at doing what led them to being stuck in the first place. They work harder, try harder, add more of the same or similar results and get more stuck.
Moving forward and making progress requires thinking about and doing things differently. It requires, in particular:
- Developing a different way of being intelligent. This includes developing more effective ways of thinking, working, communicating, honoring what you value connecting with people, learning and dealing with the expectations and feelings that accompany change.
- Learning more about you. Understanding your purpose as an individual, how you drive meaning in your life and what drives you. What people and businesses don't know about themselves controls them. The more they know, the more choices they have and the better choices they make.
Q. What results may I expect to create through my participation at 21st Century Leadership?
A. Expect monumental professional and personal growth when you attend this unique course. You will develop and strengthen yourself in the following ways:
- By clarifying who you are at your core and what your unique contributions are. This knowledge is at the heart of leadership.
- By creating a personal Definition of Success - a statement of the experiences you are driven to create for yourself to feel fulfilled in life. The most effective leaders experience a high level of fulfillment.
- By enlarging your vision - what do you really want for yourself, your work, your family, your friends and your community?
- By taking even more ownership of your results without fault and blame of yourself and others. It is through embracing a position of ownership of results that people are empowered and internally motivated to action.
- By becoming more influential through improved communication, including
- Conflict resolution
- Creating agreement with others
- Delivering and receiving feedback and difficult messages
- Confident and skillful presentations that capture your audiences
- By identifying and eliminating ineffective patterned mindsets, behaviors and emotional responses.
- By heightening your level of self-compassion, resulting in more self-honesty and greater compassion for others. People who are overly self-critical tend not to find real solutions to what is not working.
- By taking action steps during and after the course which produce significant tangible and measurable results above and beyond your present expectations.
Q. Who attends 21st Century Leadership?
A. People interested in being more effective at producing the results they want in their careers, with their family, with friends and within their communities, attend 21st Century Leadership.
21st Century Leadership participants have participated while in transition from one department at work to another, from home to the workplace or from the workplace to retirement.
Again, people on top of their game, or looking for a boost, those who want to enhance their results at work, in their community and/or at home attend 21st Century Leadership. People who think they are on track benefit from their experience at 21st Century Leadership, as well as those who think they want to make significant change.
Participants include senior business and government leaders, mid-level managers, professionals from all disciplines, entrepreneurs, stay-at-home moms and dads, students and people (in general) in transition attend.
Q. What differentiates 21st Century Leadership from other leadership courses?
A. People learn best what they discover for themselves. This type of learning has more meaning to a person and is more likely to be put to use over the long term. We are experts in experiential education. We assist people in discovering through their participation how to be even stronger leaders.
Built on a wealth of experience, 21st Century Leadership is practical, fun, and produces a lifetime of better results. With over forty years of combined training and coaching experience, we have designed and delivered professional and personal effectiveness courses for businesses, government, organizations and the general public throughout the world.
Central to our teaching approach is our firm belief in people's ability to achieve the results that they want. That is to say, people and organizations are not constrained by a lack of ability. Rather, they are constrained by what they don't know about themselves. 21st Century Leadership has distinguished and differentiated itself from other leadership courses in primarily three ways:
First, by being the leader in the field of experiential leadership education.
Second, by maintaining focus on assisting people to develop and strengthen their knowledge of themselves.
Third, by teaching the leadership competencies that are not taught elsewhere and that go beyond intellectual expertise and traditional management techniques.
Q. Where is 21st Century Leadership held?
A. 21st Century Leadership is held at Dumas Bay Center, 20 minutes south of the Sea-Tac Airport. The course begins at 6:00 PM on a Monday and ends at 4:00 PM the following Sunday.
Q. How many participants are in 21st Century Leadership at any given time?
A. There are a maximum of 10 participants registered per Course.
Q. How much is tuition for 21st Century Leadership?
A. Tuition for 21st Century Leadership is $5900.
Q. What else is different about 21st Century Leadership from other leadership courses?
A. Progress comes through clarity, ground and direction. Participating in a unique structure at 21st Century Leadership people learn more about themselves than they ever imagined.
We believe leadership is congruent self-expression that creates value. People take advantage of their time at 21st Century Leadership to experiment and get clear about what this means to them.
In 21st Century Leadership you will:
- 21st Century Leadership is an immersion experience in leadership.
- We help you shape your own learning based on your life experience and what is most important to you.
- We teach leadership competencies that are not taught elsewhere and that go beyond intellectual expertise.
- Courses are limited in size. Everyone receives a lot of personal attention.
- Our focus in the course is firmly fixed on assisting you in developing and strengthening your knowledge of yourself. With this knowledge you become more effective and a better leader.
- The challenges of the course are balanced with belly-laughing fun.
- What you learn is transferable and adaptable to all areas of interest in your life.
- What you learn will stick. You will use it for the rest of your life.
The authors of 21st Century Leadership have a combined 80 years of experience designing and delivering leading-edge courses for business, government, organizations and people around the world. We are the experts in experiential adult education.
Q. Are there other "take-aways" from 21st Century Leadership?
A. On top of the core learning that comes from your experience of 21st Century Leadership, you will leave with:
- 11 principles that govern effective leadership
- 7 rules to guide your daily participation in life as a leader
- More skill and confidence to make difficult communications
Q. What do graduates say?
“This course is designed to produce results. No other program I know of brings you so "up close and personal" with your self and provides insight into how to use your unique talents, skills and contribution.”
Caroline Haskell, Director
Counseling & Psychological Services
California State University, Monterey Bay
“I obtained the powerful tools and leadership principles I needed for advancement in my career and even in my family life.”
Tom McMail, Lead Product Planner
Microsoft
“I believe leadership is an attitude, not a position. I knew I was a leader, I just wasn't clear on how leadership should look for me. Today, I know!”
Shannon Bowen, President & Partner
Bowen Personnel Ltd.
“I am now a much more effective communicator, and I was no slouch before attending this course. I addressed and resolved what I allow to get in my way when things aren’t working.”
Lea Miller, District Sales Manager
Avon Products
“Why should a business/corporation put out all this dough for employees to take the course? The answer is obvious--participation is key to learning. Most of us don't have the discipline to teach ourselves well without help. The teaching approach is novel and has been honed over many years. I use their techniques at my hospital.”
Bill Taeusch, MD, Chief of Pediatrics
San Francisco General Hospital
Leadership is primarily an emotional, rather than an intellectual, craft. We Teach Leadership.
Call 1-800-891-2956 For Additional Information And To Register
|
