Presents:

Living Leadership, Discover the leader you were meant to be

A program designed to transform you and your organization

This unique six-month certificate program, Living Leadership, is designed specifically for leaders at all levels of the organization who want to using learning as a strategic business practice. You will acquire models, frameworks, tools, and skills to deepen authenticity and embed continuous learning as part of the everyday culture. Our initial focus will be at the personal leadership level, closely followed with a focus on creating an intentional cascading effect of living leadership in your organization.

With over 50 hours of study this program enables you to:

· Improve your organization’s triple bottom line: employee well-being, a positive social and environmental impact, and financial success,

· Become a more successful leader through improved emotional intelligence

· Reduce the substantial hidden costs associated with employee retention and customer dissatisfaction

· Through attunement with self and others enhance adaptability with customers and create passion and commitment in employees

· Establish a high-performance culture that enhances revenues, stock-price health, and net-income growth

The program is rooted in contemporary research that includes the power of emotional and physical intelligence, collaborative relationships, and the philosophy and generative nature of language, . An integrated awareness of how intelligence is expressed enables you to become an insightful observer of yourself and your learning processes, as well as the learning processes of others. By exploring existing personal and organizational assumptions and belief systems that either expand or limit human potential, you will be open to more opportunities for effective action, use resources more wisely, and execute decisions with clear accountability.

Program Outcomes

Ø Apply leadership practices that strengthen relationships, enhance organizational awareness, build esprit de corps, and inspire innovation and productivity

Ø Articulate an integrated awareness of the key domains of learning (language, emotions, and behaviors) in service to your effectiveness as a leader

Ø Become a keen observer of yourself and your organization

Ø “Lead from the Crow’s Nest” vantage point – observe, track, and align the organization’s architecture, infrastructure and culture

Ø Build compelling stories about you and your organization that focus and develop the capacity of people and makes them feel a part of something bigger

Ø Evolve skills to promote a daily culture of commitment, personal mastery, emotional intelligence, and teamwork

Ø Improve the ability to achieve productive, coordinated action as stewards for goals that matter to stakeholders today and generations to come

Ø Build and enhance constructive relationships and strengthen trust

Ø Create an environment that protects and supports safe conditions for telling the truth sensitively and with courage

Ø Apply action learning to organizational challenges

Ø Expand options to include a set of flexible leadership styles proven appropriate and effective for diverse situations

After attending you will be able to:

· Integrate and align the power of generative language, the full range of human emotions, and the body’s wisdom – as core elements of living leadership

· Grow from intentional practices strategically aimed at personal and organizational transformations

· Learn models, frameworks, tools, and skills that support a collaborative stewardship culture in your organization

· By working with real-life organizational issues Apply the theory and practice of coaching and organizational learning

Program Structure and Content

Three courses over six months - accompanied by reading and writing assignments, learning groups, one-on-one coaching with certified and seasoned coaches, and opportunities to address real-time organizational issues. The program includes classic and current breakthrough research and aims to create a focused environment for both personal and organizational enhancement through action learning. As an accelerated learning program, you must be able to commit to regular experiments and practices in leadership development between sessions to embody your learning.

Program Calendar

First Semester	Second Semester	Third Semester
September October 11-12 ……….. 2 days Assessment Learning & Inquiry Journey Reading, action learning, and leadership experiments & practices	December 6-7 2 days Organizational Renewal Reading, action learning, and leadership experiments & practices	February 7-8 2 days Learning into Action Reading, action learning, and leadership experiments & practices

Course events and topics:

Assessment and Inquiry

· Discussion with each participant of the program content, structure, hopes and expectations

· Probing questions about participant goals

· Inquiry into what they most want to learn

Learning Journey

· Looking at great leaders

· Building stories for generative change

· How our history shapes our thinking

· Practicing distinctions through language

· Generative and integrative language

· Feedback for learning, service, and growth

Organizational Renewal and Cultural Transformation

· Exploring the assumptions, dynamics, and outcomes from three organizational processes

· Trust and its impact

· Insiders vs. outsiders, being in or out of the loop

· Feedback for learning and growth

Putting the Learning into Action

· Exploring three more organizational processes

· Exploring and applying three domains of intelligence

· Reports of action learning

· Feedback for learning and growth

The course faculty includes:

· Beverly Kimble, Principal, BK & Associates and GMU Adjunct Faculty

· Lloyd Raines, Principal, Center for Collaborative Learning, and Georgetown Leadership Coaching Program Faculty

Web addresses for the Dragonfly Institute

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ENROLLMENT

BY MAIL: To register for the Living Leadership Program complete the registration form below and return it with your check to The Dragon Institute, PO Box XXX, Great Falls, VA 22066

BY FAX OR TELEPHONE: If you have a VISA or Mastercard you may register by fax or telephone. Please complete all of the information on the enrollment card and fax to 703-733-2820 or telephone 703-733-2800.

PROGRAM FEES through

Participants $3500

A registration fee of $1,000 will hold a place in the upcoming program. Fees include all course handbooks, and program materials.

CANCELLATION POLICY: Registered participants who provide written cancellation notice to GMU five days prior to the Program beginning (DATE HERE) will be refunded their paid fees less $200 for administrative costs. Registered participants who cancel by the last day of the opening workshop of the first course will be charged a fee of $1,000. Registered participants who withdraw from the program after DATE HERE will forfeit their paid fees. Substitutions may be made prior to the beginning of the program.

WANT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM? Call Bev Kimble at 703-757-7591.

Dragonfly Institute REGISTRATION FORM

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