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Premise
In studying leadership over the years, I’ve become convinced that the same traits that define a great leader also define a great designer. This premise is explored in depth in an article I wrote for the Design Management Review (Fall 2006) entitled, “Disruptive Cycles, Adaptive Strategies, and Principles of Leadership.”
Content
The content of this seminar has been formulated to ignite your ability to influence and lead. In our two full-days together, we will explore the latest in leadership principles from a variety of resources, including the writings of leadership guru’s Warren Bennis, Jim Collins, John Kotter, and Ronald Heifetz, and their colleagues from Harvard, London, Rotman and Weatherhead business schools.
My overarching goal however, is to create tangible connections between theory and actual practice. Therefore, multiple hands-on exercises will be conducted over both days to help you build a compendium of knowledge that is relevant to your situation.
Pre-Assignment
In preparation please read: Disruptive Cycles, Adaptive Strategies, and Principles of Leadership: Tantalizing Connections, Design Management Review, Fall 2006. Prepare two or three leadership challenges that you currently face and email them to me three days prior to the seminar.
Daily Agenda
Day One:
1. Welcome and Course Overview
Understanding the Context
2. Deciphering the Myths and Mystique of Leadership
Shifting Mindsets
3. Leadership Inside the Organization
Becoming ‘Authorized’
4. Leader = Designer
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Mastering the tools of influence to communicate, collaborate, cohere
Challenges facing design, the designer, the design leader
Day Two:
Reinventing the Focus
5. Adapting Leadership Attributes
Direct, align, motivate Why & How
Composition of Collaboration
6. Creating an Argument for Change
The art and architecture of conversation Shaping compelling futures Influencing/achieving a noble purpose
Constructs for the Future
7. A Systemic Culture of Leadership
8. From Theory to Practice… 1+1 = 3
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