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The focus of team and organizational leadership moves beyond the individual. It concentrates on leadership with respect to groups and the organization. A core component of this curriculum is the 4 Roles of Leadership, an internationally acclaimed two-day workshop offered by the FranklinCovey Company and used worldwide by Fortune 500 companies. It presents four leadership roles for leading an organization effectively and is a logical next step building upon the Seven Habits.
The Adaptive Leader©: A six-week online course that provides a foundation for thinking about adaptive issues requiring leadership to resolve them and technical issues requiring management. Adaptive issues are often hard to identify clearly and involves helping individuals to make difficult value choices. It connects to the human spirit and reconnects people to what they care deeply about. Adaptive leaders recognize that they, too, are part of the problem because they are a member of the agency. And, finally, leadership is not about charisma, but about a set of skills that anyone can learn and practice. Readings will focus heavily on two critically acclaimed books on leadership: Harvard University’s Ronald Heifetz, Leadership without Easy Answers, and Leadership on the Line by Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky.
Emotional Intelligence©: An in-class workshop that helps participants recognize that a leader’s intelligence (IQ) is not as important as their emotional skills (EQ). He/she has to have high levels of self-awareness, maturity, and self-control. They must be able to withstand the heat, handle setbacks, and when those lucky moments arise, enjoy success with equal parts of joy and humility. More and more of us are thinking emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but perhaps more important in the making of a leader. So says Jack Welch speaking to the Wall Street Journal.
The Four Roles of Leadership©: This foundational course is strongly recommended for the Level II program which is the internationally recognized FranklinCovey Company’s The Four Roles of Leadership©. This highly interactive course introduces the mindset and skill set leaders use in four key roles: Pathfinding, Aligning, Empowering, and Modeling.
Pathfinding helps connect what our stakeholders are passionate to get with what the agency is passionate to give. Aligning helps create a balanced workplace, where systems and people work in better harmony for maximum performance. Empowering gives the know-how to release the talent, energy and contribution of people. Modeling helps refine abilities to become a leader others want to follow for the long term.
Course materials are copyrighted and must be purchased for use from FranklinCovey. Facilitators within each agency may become certified with special discounts we have arranged with the Franklin Covey Company. MAT’s certified facilitators are available to help with this process.
Team Leader Skills©: The role of team leader may be an expected one, but often we “fall” into it without much notice. This interactive workshop offers some ways of thinking about the role of team leader and some tools and ideas for you to be successful at it. It can also help to raise the effectiveness of being a team member.
Working for a fish and wildlife agency requires for the most part working with groups of people. Whether the group is informal, an institutionalized team, small or large, the challenge to effectively lead them can be daunting. To do this, the team leader must be able to pull from both supervision and leadership skill sets.
To help build these leadership skill sets, Team Leader Skills addresses team profiling, group/team development process, the five dysfunctions of a team, group think, leading “aliens from outer space” with your personality type, the role of emotional intelligence, lessons from cognitive science, problem-solving, delegating and coaching, leveraging diversity, trust, and conflict management.
Secrets of Agency Assessment and Development©: Leaders are able to see their organization broadly and in its systems. This on-line course focuses on helping the participant to see the fish and wildlife agency in general as an organization from a “helicopter” perspective. The participant is guided through eight, “high altitude perches” from which to view the agency, ultimately creating a broad, holistic view of their agency “ecosystem”. Tampering or a misalignment at any of the perches can interfere with the entire ecosystem.
Mastering Agency Change©: The pressures on fish and wildlife agencies to change will most likely not slow down. The need for leadership to make change happen is paramount. A management approach alone will not sufficiently alter the behavior which a successful change initiative requires. This in-class course presents an eight step process which an agency must go through to achieve its change goal. Much of the content is based on Harvard Business School leadership professor, John Kotter’s work.
Publics, Problems, and Politics©: Working with the public’s natural resources as a government agency means that trying to meet various public’s needs and desires is part of everyday life. The process for publics to express and attain needs and desires is called politics. Thus political savvy is critical for success in leading a public agency. The naïve approach of trying to keep politics separate from the management of a government agency is not practical or even desirable for long-term success. This in-class course will draw upon the lessons from conservation leaders and develop a perspective for how to fit politics into management of a fish and wildlife agency.
Part of the process of dealing with publics involves direct public involvement in addition to working with political representatives. The techniques for effectively involving publics while avoiding pitfalls are a key part of this program.
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