Inspirational Leadership at Kylemore is a transformational experience for the experienced, successful leader seeking development and a new perspective on how to embrace the challenges of a highly competitive and complex environment and create sustained competitive value for their organization. In taking this holistic, integral approach to leadership, you will find multiple opportunities for personal and professional growth via feedback and reflection on your own values, competencies, and even your limiting strengths. We offer a developmental approach to leadership that allows you to increase your capacity and impact as a leader in a dynamic, complex, and uncertain environment.
The week inspires you to expand your leadership capacity with:
- New perspectives about the complexities and connections of leadership
- Individual executive coaching to maximize your takeaway from a robust 360° feedback survey tool that goes beyond strengths and weaknesses
- Finding deep insight into your values and motivations that drive behaviors and decisions
- New tools and practices to build leadership capacity and lead effective change in an unstable and complex environment
- Tools for personal reflection and critical thinking to enhance self-awareness
- Lifestyle practices that optimize your good health
- Hands-on application of key tools to a business or leadership challenge you will bring to the programme
- The opportunity to step away, think, and reflect on the leader you want to become in a unique, reflective, and iconic location in the west of Ireland
Core Learnings
Integral Leadership Development
Our unique approaches focus on your development as a leader – developing competencies and, most importantly, capacity. Authentic, values-based leadership starts from within. Our integrated, developmental approach to leadership takes an inside to outside approach that will help you understand your core values and your personal leadership style to positively impact your teams, organizations, and the greater business community.
The program introduces an integrated leadership model to help you understand and appreciate the complexities of leadership. It considers you, as a leader, in relation to complex business challenges, and focuses on an inside-out developmental approach. Effective leaders learn to account for themselves, those around them, and the systems and culture in place within their organizations.
Increased Executive Capacity
Through the introduction of powerful tools and new perspectives, including Immunity to Change and Polarity Management, you will get a better handle on effective ways to diagnose issues, develop change initiatives, and evaluate strategic options for your everyday business needs. This signature Notre Dame program for established executives helps you find creative solutions to pressing business issues and drive change.
Leadership Assessment and One-on-One Coaching
The week includes executive coaching based on a robust 360° feedback instrument, The Leadership Circle Profile™. This tool accurately measures skills in high-achievement leadership that correlate strongly with output and creating results.
Applying the learning – Strategic business issue
To apply new perspectives gained during the week at Kylemore, participants will identify a complex problem in which they are directly involved, have a large stake, and are responsible for resolving. An ideal Strategic Business Issue is a current, relevant, strategic, or leadership question, issue, challenge, problem or opportunity. These Strategic Business Issues are complex and not easy to solve, plus they require time and thought to resolve. The concepts, tools, and perspectives introduced during the program will assist in exploring and resolving this issue. During the week, participants will have time to share their issues with a small group and refine their approach for a solution, incorporating new concepts as they are introduced. Sharing the issue in small groups is designed to allow you to benefit from specific insights and new perspectives provided by fellow participants.
Key Programme Modules
The programme modules listed below will challenge your current assumptions about leadership, provide you with new tools and perspectives, and allow you the time needed to reflect and develop a plan moving forward to ensure your learning objectives are accomplished.
- Vertical Development
- Leadership Assessment (The Leadership Circle Profile 360 assessment)
- Values in Leadership
- Addressing Your Own Individual Strategic Business Issue
- One-on-One Personal Executive Coaching
- Immunity to Change
- Resilience and Coherence
- Team Productivity: Getting fantastic results from your people by changing your perspective (utilizing the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Instrument)
- Making Sense of Complexity (utilizing Polarity Management)
Extending the learning
INTEGRATION AND TRANSITION BACK TO WORK
The Faculty Facilitator will provide a structured time to synthesize key learnings, assist the participants in thinking about how to apply what they have learned on the job, discuss the difficulty in going back to an “unchanged” environment, plan to meet the challenge of catching up on all that awaits them upon their return, while staying committed to their individual development.
REFLECTIVE JOURNAL AND INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Each participant will receive a Journal to assist them reflect on the content and application during the programme. It also serves as the basis of an Individual Develop Plan which provides a longer-term strategy for their continued development as a leader.