Leadership Development

Leaders are found at every level of an organization and have the power to choose alternative ways of thinking, acting, and behaving in the leadership activities for which they are responsible. The challenge is to develop their talents and make them more effective.

The Leeward Team offers two types of leadership development programs: Enhanced Thinking Skills and Leadership Style Assessment. These programs can be offered as stand alone or combined training solutions. For a greater return on investment, opting for the combined training solution is ideal. The Enhanced Thinking Skills approach teaches participants how to separate emotion from facts, the positive from the negative, and critical thinking from creative thinking. The Leadership Style Assessment approach helps identify existing behaviors and cultivate preferred behaviors that are based on context-specific best practices to develop leadership skills.

The Leeward Team’s leadership development programs are fast-paced, practical and interactive.

Enhanced Thinking Skills Program

In an ever-changing business environment, it is important for issues to be identified and solutions generated in a timely manner. With the pressure of work and life commitments, it is not easy to consider all aspects of an issue or proposed solution. As a result, more often than not management is essentially patching the problem, but not fixing it.

The Six Thinking Hats® promotes effective “Leadership Development” by aligning the thought generation process into six lateral thinking areas referred to as the Six Thinking Hats. The Six Thinking Hats approach to thought generation allows for issues to be fully considered. It ensures that full focus is placed on a thought by following a logical flow: purpose and focus, information, ideas, intuitive response, positive evaluation, and negative evaluation.

It is also a tool to ensure that management is in the right frame of mind during change and that all energies are collectively focused on particular aspects of the thought.

Who Needs The Six Thinking Hats®?

Leaders who want:

A meeting facilitation tool that surfaces hidden agendas and achieves objectives without conflict
A way to make sure that all sides of an issue are addressed
A tool that works well in different cultures around the world
A sharpened ability to think clearly, objectively, systematically, and creatively

Such individuals include:

HR Professionals
Project Managers
Meeting Facilitators
Engineers
New Product Developers

Team Leaders & Members
Trainers & Consultants
Sales & Marketing Professionals
Advertising & PR Professionals
Patent Attorneys

How Might You Use The Six Thinking Hats®?

Six Thinking Hats® is a simple, effective technique your team may use in a variety of applications.

Facilitation of meetings
Preparing for discussions
Continuous process improvement
New products/new designs
Conflict resolution
Ethical decision making

Problem solving
Customer focus groups/interviews
Leadership development
Presentations
Virtual meetings
Individual thinking

Leadership Style Assessment Program

Using the framework of Vision, Alignment, and Execution, our assessments encourage leaders to understand their own leadership behaviors and how they impact their effectiveness. Our assessments approach leadership as a one-to-many relationship as opposed to one-to-one. It focuses on tangible steps directed at leading a group or organization toward desired outcomes.

Vision

The assessments include crafting a vision of new possibilities for the future through exploration, boldness, and testing assumptions.

Alignment

Leaders build alignment by communicating with clarity, engaging in dialogue, and providing inspiration, so everyone is moving in the same direction.

Execution

Finally, leaders need to champion execution through momentum, structure, and feedback, to enable the group to capitalize on its talents while making the vision a reality.

Our Assessments Process Will:

Stimulate conversations

Provide new perspectives (regardless of the leader’s knowledge or experience)

Create opportunities for leaders at all levels of learning to reflect on how they approach each step of their work

Encourage reflection and discussion about the team and the organization

Motivate leaders to take action with personalized tips and strategies that give clear direction and are easy to apply

Our assessments approach focuses on understanding how your tendencies influence your effectiveness in specific leadership situations. It also provides leaders with personal insights, a model to increase their flexibility in leadership behaviors, and resources to which they can return as they gain more experiences and become more multidimensional leaders.

The Leeward Team can help you capture maximum value on your next project!

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