5 Keys to Mastery (Personal Leadership)

CATEGORY: Personal Leadership
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE: All staff
METHODOLOGY: Lecture, video, discussion, in-class activities, group work
LANGUAGE: Chinese, English or bilingual
DURATION: 3 Days

Purpose: The focus of this course is effectiveness: causing what you want to come into being and creating a self-owned life based on what truly matters. In the process, you will develop more effective relationships and achieve greater satisfaction and productivity at work. The intention is to help you find freedom to create the results you want. It is not about problem solving, finding the “correct” way of thinking, getting the “right” answer, learning to change yourself, change others or manipulate yourself into “positive thinking”. This course is about reinventing the way you relate to yourself and your organization, based upon a vision of who you wish to be. Through this process of reinvention, you will expand your ability to positively influence the lives of others, and consistently create desired results.

Process: Based on psychological principles of human performance, 5 Keys to Mastery develops the personal leadership skills you need to create positive change and achieve meaningful goals.

Payoff: What can people learn from this course?

• How to identify and overcome self-imposed barriers to personal effectiveness
• How to define success and create a framework for achieving desired results
• How to Visioneer a compelling future that motivates and inspires
• What is your communication style and how to style-switch to grow your sphere of influence among team members
• Techniques to engage and empower staff

Process: 5 Keys focuses on identifying values and ideals and revealing hidden capabilities. It creates a future focus that inspires and motivates from within, combined with personal effectiveness tools and techniques to guide future ascent. The 5 Keys allow participants to consistently create desired results through:

Key #1: Courage to look at where your fail and why – Identifying self-imposed
barriers to success
Key #2: Ownership of your interpretations, emotions and beliefs
Key #3: Accountability for results without blame
Key #4: Choice to create a self-owned vision of a compelling future
Key #5: Freedom to resourcefully respond to your circumstances in new ways

Course Agenda

Day 1 Morning

• Welcome, Introduction
• Intended Results, Outcomes, Managing Expectations
• The 3 Promises: to be Present, to be Coachable and to Have Something at Stake
• Icebreaker: Why You Should Get to Know Me
• Opening Inquiry: Who Are You?
• Be, Do, Have
• The World of Knowledge: Experiencing a Breakthrough
• 5 Keys Success Cycle: Courage, Ownership, Accountability, Choice, Freedom -> Success
• Key #1: COURAGE to look at self-imposed barriers to success
• Defining Success
• Measuring Success
• What is Preventing You from Reaching It?
• A Simple Story: Introduction Story: The Frog in the Well
• Frog in the Well Learnings: Safety, Comfort, Complacency and Fear and Self-Doubt
• Our Self-Limiting Psyche: The Well, The Bricks, The Sky and The East Sea
• Climbing Out of the Well: Costs & Payoffs

SidebarIt is not about problem solving, finding the “correct” way of thinking, getting the “right” answer, learning to change yourself, change others or manipulate yourself into “positive thinking”. This course is about reinventing the way you relate to yourself and your organization

Day I Afternoon

• The Money Game: 900% Profit
• Your Excuses for Not Taking Action
• Self-Talk: Internal vs. External Communication
• Handout: Give Yourself a Chance—Sabotaging Self-Talk That Keeps You in the Well
• Game: Build Your Well - What Are the Barriers to Your Success?
• My Story of Limitation: ‘I can’t get what I want because…’
• Ambrose Redmoon Quote: What is Courage?
• How to Generate Courage
• Key #2: OWNERSHIP of your interpretations, emotions and behaviors
• Ownership for Our Story: How to Interrupt the Cycle of Negative Self-Talk
• Statement of Commitment: I am…I choose to give up
• Letting Go of the Old Story
• Building Ownership Through AQ

END DAY 1

Day 2 Morning

• Review of Day 1
• “The Biggest Obstacle to My Success Is…”
• Key #3: ACCOUNTABILITY for results without blame
• Accountability for Results: You are Your Own CEO
• Defining Personal Accountability
• Somebody, Everybody, Nobody and Anybody
• Video Clip: Life is Beautiful
• Discussion: Applying Courage, Ownership and Accountability
• Outdoor Activity: Blind Leadership
• Avoiding The Blame Game
• Activity: Silent Message
• Practicing the Language of Accountability
• How Our communication Influences Others
• Being Accountable in Communication
• Key #4: CHOICE to purposefully create a self-owned vision of your future.
• Your Legacy: What Will be Your greatest Contribution in This Life?
• What is Vision?
• Video Clip: Joel Barker’s “The Power of Vision”
• Distinguishing Vision, Objectives and Daydreams
• Discussion: What is Most Important to Me?
• Visioneering Process
• Imagination + Commitment = Reality

Day 2 Afternoon

• Visioneering Work
• My Core Values
• My Dream
• My Vision
• My Be, Do and Have Goals
• My Action Plan
• My Next Steps
• Group Sharing and Awards

END DAY 2

Day 3 Morning

• Key #5: FREEDOM to act on that vision by responding resourcefully to our
• circumstances
• NLP Part 1
  • Defining Freedom
  • A Summary of Key NLP Presuppositions
  • Freedom and State
  • Freedom to Act As If

Day 3 Afternoon NLP Part 2

• • Ability to Change States
  • Anchoring
  • Six-Step Reframing
  • Exercises to elicit changing states
  • Ability to Change State – Switching States / Collapsing Anchors
• Summary
• Conclusion
• Awarding of Certificates & Photo

“ENGAGING THE DRAGON WITHIN”
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