A Results-Oriented Leadership Retreat: What is it REALLY going to take?
This retreat is designed to attain specific, desired organizational results. I will take the concepts from my successful IHI Forum all-day seminar “From Bolt-on to Built-in: Quality as Cultural DNA” and apply them directly to the executive and middle management teams’ organizational culture and its daily management.
Together we will honestly assess the current culture to develop the needed alternative cultural beliefs. We will then explore how to create them through a day-to-day culture of coaching.
Healthy organizations must expect their people, especially those in management roles, to:
- Become increasingly aware of their underlying current organizational belief system and how it affects attaining desired results—what is tolerated creates culture.
- Take responsibility for discovering, then insulating, their own “hot buttons” in reaction to resistance.
- Motivate themselves and coworkers to “own” current circumstances and talk about them truthfully including the demotivation climate of the organization
- Develop zero tolerance for “blame” and “victim” (“It’s not my fault!”) mentalities.
Retreat participants will discover for themselves the power of a results-based communication style that is honest, constructive, non-defensive, non-dumping, non-hysterical, and motivating towards individual responsibility and action.
The team will develop a leadership “belief system” to drive desired results and be the basis for post-retreat coaching. Any focus on personal growth and subsequent cultural coaching is strictly through a context of attaining desired organizational results.