XCOA-934 - Mastering Your Leadership Presence
Course Description
Today's complex and ever-changing environment requires more of our leaders than ever before. What defines leadership isn’t just our ideas or words, it’s our actions and how people assess our presence as we move through the world, have leadership conversations and take leadership actions.
We experience leaders as self-masterful when they skillfully and consistently demonstrate emotional intelligence, continuous learning, and embodied presence. As leaders we must be able to direct our emotional responses toward positive outcomes, seek and apply feedback and cutting edge skills for ourselves and our projects, and recenter and realign ourselves with our values and goals in times of stress and conflict. We more easily and effectively mobilize others; we walk our talk and inspire followers through our integrity, dignity and ability to make connections with them and the future or outcomes we seek.
These qualities also increase our capacity to think more clearly and take more effective action. We coordinate our bodies, thoughts and actions to create and translate a vision into powerful reality.
Designed For
Mid-level and senior managers in leadership positions or preparing for a leadership position.
Course Objectives
Students will increase their ability to:
- Effectively lead a team or organization toward a common vision
- Stay centered in the midst of chaos or adversity
- Be adaptable while staying the course toward broader goals
- Increase your resilience under stress; respond rather than react
- Turn feedback into learning opportunities that generate results
- Take a stand for what matters in the face of conflict
Notes
Faculty: Jennifer Sinek
Jennifer Sinek is a Master Certified Coach (International Coach Federation) and management consultant. She has two decades of experience working with individuals, teams and organizations, helping them see and be excited by the possibilities open to them — and then make them happen. Utilizing both conversational and somatic practices, she helps her clients step into their power as leaders – and authors of – their professional and personal lives. Ms. Sinek works with leaders in the public and private sectors, specializing in executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational assessment and intervention.
Jennifer believes that real progress and growth come from helping leaders clarify what they are truly trying to achieve, offering them new ways to see both their particular situation and life in general, and helping them develop skills and practices that will allow them to make the changes necessary both to attain their professional goals and have a fulfilling, healthy life. It is an important part of Jennifer’s work to leave her clients with the skills to continue to grow on their own and face new challenges as they arise.
In her previous experience as manager, strategic initiatives for Coopers & Lybrand, Jennifer was responsible for developing and implementing programs in the areas of coaching, organizational learning and change, and leadership development. Prior to this, as a strategy consultant with Coopers & Lybrand, Jennifer worked with Fortune 500 and Service 500 companies, not-forprofits and government agencies to develop innovative approaches to meet emerging market opportunities and create the organizational capabilities needed to achieve them.
Jennifer earned a master’s degree in public and private management from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Colgate University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has earned the designations of Master Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation, Certified Somatic Coach from Strozzi Institute, and Certified Professional Effectiveness Coach from New Ventures West.
Furloughed Employees Professional Development Program
This course is part of the Furloughed Employees Professional Development Program at Georgetown University. Please visit our website for more information.