What is Running Start?

Running Start is precisely what its name implies. It's a full-day fast-paced seminar that introduces you to the main ideas taught by The LeaderMaker Group. It can stand alone as a "news headline" version of our core program, and will give you a set of practical lessons you can take back to work or take to a new job. The content is suitable for front-line and mid-level leaders who aspire to promotion and is also timely for senior leaders who are vulnerable to forgetting how the company looks through the eyes of the senior leader's subordinates.

What will I learn in Running Start?

The Running Start uses a combination of lectures and guided interactive questioning. It moves fast. Bring your mind. Bring your energy. Topics include:

• The fear of failure
• The perils of changes that only create an illusion of improvement
• An examination of a leader's own doubts about being able to lead
• The waste of excessive haste and how leaders contribute to it
• The dangers when leaders create an elite environment for themselves
• The risks of bad results when a leader assumes all followers are just like the leader
• Harm done when a mid-level leader fails to give support to front-line supervisors
• How to lead without seeming to intimidate or be viewed as an "inspector"
• The ethical dilemmas a leader is likely to encounter, many of them ambiguous
• Problems that occur when employee evaluations are always exaggerated
• Fear created when a boss is a bully
• The obstacles to having your people embrace innovation as part of their work
• How to lead the new generation of 20-something Millennials
• What do do when the media come calling
• The definition of a Leader of Character and why becoming one is not easy

The seminar runs from 8 a.m. to about 4 p.m. and includes a mid-day meal break.

Running Start offers you an action-packed, information-filled day to sample The LeaderMaker Group's lesson catalog, while learning practical lessons that you can put to work the very next day!