Leadership Series
From individuals to teams to entire companies,
we have a Leadership series that suits your needs
Facilitated workshops for leadership and management
We provide a broad array of facilitated workshops and leadership series that develop leaders, build workforce skills and generate improved team dynamics and overall performance. All in-house programs are designed and customized to meet a specific client need; starting with an assessment of your organization.
- Our series and programs employ accelerated learning techniques, based on known adult learning styles. Our training programs are interactive and experiential. The learning is all applied.
- Participants practice new skills and do action planning, committing to make practical workplace application of what they have learned. As a result, participants deepen their learning, improve, change and grow.
- Our leadership series include individual coaching between sessions. Single workshops can also be combined with follow-up coaching sessions to assure the learning is applied and incorporated as new behaviors.
To see our expert workshop facilitators in action, click on the video to the left.
Athena can address participants at all levels of leadership development. We have divided workshop topics by level, but can design or adapt content to meet the level of the intended participants. Samples of leadership series, divided by level, are:
Example 1: “Leadership for the 21st Century” (4 sessions)
Session 1: The Case for Change
- Why Leadership Needs to Change: Meeting the Needs of Today’s Workforce
- Leading Change
- Personal Vision
Session 2: Leading to Leverage Differences
- Gender Assets: Leveraging Differences for Workplace Results
- Generations at Work
- Other ‘Isms’
Session 3: Emotional Intelligence: The Most Important Way to Be Smart
- Our Brains and Our Emotions
- Practicing Emotional Self Awareness
- Using EQ at Work
- Review of Individual EQ-i® Reports
- Practicing Empathy
- Practicing Interpersonal Relationships
Session 4: Power and Politics
- What Is Power? Six Stages of Power
- Individual Power Assessment
- Identifying Power ‘Real Time’
- Where Does Each Gender Tend to Get Stuck
- The Relationship of Power to Vision
Example 2: “Leading: Claiming Your Leadership Power” (2 sessions)
Leaders who are aware of how they lead, are able to model leadership distinction and to cultivate and inspire excellence in others. In this two day program, participants are guided through a series of interactive exercises, goal setting sessions and personal evaluations, to assist them in setting and achieving their leadership goals.
Session 1:
- Distinguishing leading from managing
- Myers Briggs Leadership Style; leading from your strengths
- Four temperaments that drive leaders
- Leveraging both genders’ perspectives in eight areas
- The Six Stages of Power
Session 2:
- A tool for decision-making
- Creating a personal leadership vision
- The points of empowerment
- Action plans for 5 leadership goals
Example 3: “Practical Innovation and Creativity” (3 sessions)
Outcomes: Participants will increase idea fluency—and develop high-impact, flexible choices to execute creative strategies. They will gain confidence in their own creative abilities. Participants will practice identifying alternative creative approaches that can engage their own teams.
Session 1:
- Discovering the thinking strategies that are successful in breakthrough solutions to vexing problems
- The differences between productive and reproductive thinking–two approaches to problem solving
- The values of expanding your thinking and your creativity quotient
- Techniques and tools to expand the “idea pool”
- Coaching sessions follow Session 1
Session 2:
- Successes, challenges, solutions and strategies from the first session and coaching
- The use of metaphor
- Digging deeper for ideas; more tools
- “Six Thinking Hats” (by Edward de Bono) for creative meetings and evaluating ideas
Session 3:
- More “thinking” tools and visualization techniques
- How the brain works, how it gets in your way and how to assure that it doesn’t stop you from seeing possibilities
- Breaking from self-limiting beliefs to expand your curiosity
- Paradigm shifts
- Self-guided committed action plan for creativity and innovation
