Igniting Values-Driven Leadership Deep Dive: Leading Self

Program Overview

Great leadership necessarily begins and ends with the authentic self. People won’t trust the message until they ultimately trust the messenger. Greatness is often defined by the trials one faces—the many “crucibles” that challenge each individual and allow them to become bigger, stronger, and more capable as leaders. It is during such personal challenges that exceptional leaders emerge. The Center for Values-Driven Leadership is founded on the belief that all individuals can rise to the challenges placed before them and that leadership can be taught to anyone and learned by everyone.

In this transformation program, leaders will be provided an opportunity to dive deeply into the underlying values, behaviors, experiences and skills that have made them who they are today. This transformational series of experiential activities and opportunities for reflection and action not only builds individual capability, but develops a greater sense of responsibility to their team, their organization and their community. Each participant will come away equipped with an improved capacity to adapt to change, identify and act upon high-leverage opportunities; and, most importantly, an increased ability to produce significant and sustainable results in all areas of life results.

Bring This Program On-Site to Your Organization

Bring this program on-site to ensure a customized approach that clearly and intentionally aligns with and reinforces your business imperatives and core values. Please contact us at (630) 829-6225 or via email at info@cvdl.org for more information.

Unique Features

  • Experiential 3-day immersion learning program that accelerates leadership growth and provides the opportunity for personal leadership transformation
  • Opportunity for peer learning with executives from multiple sectors
  • Customized self-assessment and peer coaching process proven to drive behavior change
  • Personalized roadmap / purpose tree for each of your major life roles:

  • Customized and comprehensive action plan for increasing leadership effectiveness in each of your core life leadership areas (with built-in accountability mechanisms):
    • Personal Growth /Action Plan
    • Family Growth / Action Plan
    • Work Growth / Action Plan
    • Community Growth / Action Plan
  • Compelling, comprehensive and clearly articulated leadership point of view
  • (Optional) opportunity for ongoing coaching and development in the context of your personal leadership goals

For More Information

To find out more about the Igniting Values-Driven Leadership Deep Dive: Leading Self workshop or VDL Certificate Program, please contact us at (630) 829-6225 or via email at info@cvdl.org.

Values-Driven Leadership Certificate Option:

This program can be taken individually or as an integrated part of a four-course series, leading to a Certificate in Values-Driven Leadership from Benedictine University’s College of Business. Although there are no formal prerequisites for this workshop, it is strongly recommended that you take the Igniting Values-Driven Leadership Overview Program first, entitled Leading Self + Leading Others + Leading the Business.

The Values-Driven Leadership Certificate program offers an integrated curriculum that helps leaders master the following five key leadership roles that are fundamental to developing increased leadership capability and capacity in yourself, your team and your organization, while producing significant and sustainable results:

Authentic Self Visionary & Strategist Driver of Results Builder of Relationships Teacher & Learner

Leader as Authentic Self

Values-Driven Leadership first and foremost recognizes that leadership starts and ends with the individual. The idea of self-reflection is central to the way in which a leader gains new insights and key learning, thus allowing for positive change and growth to take place from within. Values-Driven Leaders have a distinct teachable leadership point-of-view, are models of integrity and hold themselves accountable to extraordinarily high standards.

Leader as Teacher & Learner

Values-Driven Leadership invites individuals to teach others both by informing them and by bringing out the best in what they have to offer. A Values-Driven Leader is both a world-class teacher and a world-class learner that authentically models their personal values as well as those of the organizations in which they lead and serve. VDLs embrace the teaching-learning model as a way-of-life that becomes a life-long journey.

Leader as Builder of Relationships

Relationship building is a foundational component to the Values-Driven Leader at all four levels: (1) self, (2) one-to-one, (3) one-to-team and (4) organizational. VDLs recognize and demonstrate that a significant investment in interaction with others helps to build trust and a sense of “team-as-community” so that creativity and commitment can be maximized. Leaders are empathic listeners that truly value and learn from what others have to say.

Leader as Visionary & Strategist

Values-Driven Leaders have almost an uncanny ability to see a preferred future and enlist others in co-creating that future with a sense of urgency. Two of the key characteristics inherent in the Values-Driven Leader are foresight and conceptualization. Conceptual skills allow them to see the big picture – the “where we want to go” -- while foresight enables them to map out how we are going to get there by anticipating the various consequences of the individual and collective actions of the organization, and then selecting the actions that will best serve all of the stakeholders.

Leader as Driver of Results

Effective Values-Driven Leaders are relentlessly focused on their personal and organizational vision and are consequently high performers and significant drivers of results. They are true stewards of the business they are involved with and are equally as concerned with the process of how the results are achieved as in the results themselves. VDLs recognize and understand that in order for success to be sustainable over time, they need to continually raise the bar while coaching and developing others for personal and professional growth.

Certificate Course Requirements

To earn the VDL Certificate, candidates must complete all four courses in the integrated curriculum:

This rigorous curriculum provides both breadth and depth in the skills necessary to lead in today's changing business environment from a values-based perspective. It is recommended that courses be completed within eighteen months, although candidates may take up to three years.

Coaching, Community and Practice

Beyond the four core courses, coaching and a community of colleagues anchor the certificate curriculum to the candidate's work life. Working collaboratively with the Center for Values-Driven Leadership, candidates customize the program to fit their career aspirations as well as their organization's needs. At each public workshop, certificate candidates participate in special candidate-only sessions designed to build community, as well as to customize, integrate and apply key learnings to their own organizational experiences.

VDL Certificate Program Candidates will have special access to the Center’s publications and to faculty members (via phone or e-mail) to share experiences and discuss work-place applications. Opportunities for co-publishing case studies, sharing best practices, and co-presenting conferences may also be explored.

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Gandhi

Summary Statement

This program uses accelerated competency-based learning and self-awareness tools and activities to enhance your leadership capabilities. You will learn strategies for continuous development through extensive assessment, group discussions, exemplar examples, self-reflection, small group activities and personal coaching. And because of our relentless focus on development planning, which ties program experiences to the context of your workplace, your program will provide you with the ongoing tools and accountability mechanisms for you to truly be the values-driven leader you wish to be.

Faculty

Candidates benefit from being taught by founders in the field of Values-Driven Leadership who stimulate participants' thinking with relevant company cases and best practices drawn from extensive work with organizations across all sectors. Participants will be provided with practical tools, frameworks and applications to apply these learnings to their own work environment.

Bring This Program On-Site to Your Organization

Bring this program on-site to ensure a customized approach that clearly and intentionally aligns with and reinforces your business imperatives and core values. Please contact us at (630) 829-6225 or via email at info@cvdl.org for more information.

About CVDL

The Center for Values-Driven Leadership offers research, education and outreach opportunities to help business leaders forge new paths to profitability. It is a gathering place where top executives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders come together to innovate at the forefront of values-driven business practice.

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Exemplars

  • Boston Common Asset Management made a proposal to Aflac CEO, Dan Amos, to make himself the first U.S. CEO to have his pay voted on by shareholders. As part of the company's commitment to transparency, the decision was made to do it. See Aflac CEO's commitment.
  • Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus, dreams of eradicating poverty as we know it and rethinking the relationship between the rich and the poor. Here he discusses The Social Business Model and how it is a radical departure from the modern profit-maximizing entity. See it here.
  • How does an established company open itself up to allow for new innovation - especially in areas of sustainability? Stu Hart, author of Capitalism at the Crossroads and an expert in business sustainability, shares his thoughts on how successful companies can make space for dynamic innovation, leading to a healthier company AND planet. This video was recorded as part of the Center for Values-Driven Leadership's Senior Executive Roundtable series. For more on the CVDL and this series, visit www.cvdl.org. Sustainability and Innovation
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