Blanchard’s Self Leadership

Duration

2 days

Group size

7 - 12 people

Blanchard’s Self Leadership is a combination of skills and attitude that make employees “take matters into their own hands”, i.e. develop autonomy and assume responsibility for their goals and tasks. Self leaders are aware of their needs, goals, competences, and engagement. They act in a planned and targeted manner. They question their own limiting convictions about their work and role in the enterprise, which hamper their activities and development. They identify sources of influence and use them in a conscious manner achieve goals successfully.

Businesses more and more often realize that in order to meet challenges they must rely on the employees who proactively take matters into their own hands, have the autonomy and expand it, initiate changes, take over the responsibility for performance, their own professional career, and development. Organizations need to build the capital of self leadership: empower self leaders, who are aware of their needs, competences, and influence.

Program assumptions

Blanchard’s Self Leadership is The Ken Blanchard Companies’ original development program adapted to the Polish cultural environment by House of Skills consultants.
It shapes both the attitudes and the skills that are necessary for influencing one’s development actively and achieving strong performance. It supports the development of an employee’s self-reliance, self-confidence, proactivity, and willingness to assume responsibility for their successes or failures at work.
The program is based on the assumption that employees are the best leaders for themselves and, in many instances, know more about the work they perform than their managers; the leaders’ role is to be a partner for employees and provide the opportunities and resources to enable the employees to release their energy and extend the scope of their independent action.
The program is based on Blanchard’s SLII^®leadership concept from the employee’s perspective. It teaches how to diagnose one’s stage of development in the context of a given goal or task, communicate the related needs, and actively obtain the needed instructions and support.

Participant profile:

The program is addressed to employees of all organizational levels regardless of the role, position, or function in the enterprise.

The Self Leadership development process is composed of four stages:

Launch – rich prework that will introduce the participants into the fundamentals of the model before the workshop begins. It consists in individual work, during which the Participant:

Becomes familiar with the video material being an introduction to the challenges of Self Leadership
Specifies the real professional goal, which will be the object of the work during the workshops
Completes a self-diagnosis questionnaire: “Perception of self leadership”
Encourages the leader to complete a corresponding questionnaire from their perspective to receive feedback

Learn & Practice – an intensive classroom or online workshop composed of 3 interactive 3.5-hour workshop sessions. At the Learn & Practice stage, the Participant learns and practices the skills and attitude that develop self leadership.

Master – implementation tasks oriented towards the practice of Self Leadership in everyday work after the workshop ends. The Participant:

Plans and holds the first one-on-one conversation with their manager about the goal
Implements the practice of regular one-on-one meetings
Deepens the analysis of individual influence
Analyzes the questionnaire results from their own and the manager’s perspectives using the result interpretation tool to discuss them with the manager
Uses the aids and tools available on the Blanchard Exchange portal

Program results

The program will teach the participants to:

Employed methods:

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The Blanchard’s Self Leadership model has been developed by Kenneth Blanchard, an undisputed authority in the field of management, a co-author of the book titled One Minute Manager. Blanchard’s SLII^® Leadership has been verified by more than a million managers worldwide.

Blanchard’s Self Leadership is divided into three 3.5-hour workshop sessions (online) or 1.5-day workshop sessions (classroom) in a group of up to 12 participants.

Session One

Introduction to Blanchard’s Self Leadership

What is self leadership? – Maria’s Story video
Self leader’s attitude and skills that are necessary to achieve goals and satisfaction at work
Proactivity and questioning of limiting convictions

Goal setting

Why is it worth setting goals?
Blanchard’s SMART goals
Self leader’s personal influence on the definition of goals and the methods of their pursuit – specification, negotiation, reformulation
Planning of the course of the conversation with the manager about the individual goals (pair practice)
Self leader’s attitude supporting conversations about goals

Session Two

Diagnosis of the stage of development

Stages of development against a given goal or task – a case study
Blanchard’s SLII® Model. Practice of the skill of diagnosing the stage of development. Use of the SLII® application.
My stage of development in relation to a real goal or task

Arrival at the adequate leadership style

From learning to acting independently – what scope of instructions and support do I need from my manager or colleague?
Communication of needs and arrival at the leadership style that is tailored to needs (analysis of a video material: Maria’s conversations with the leader at individual stages of development)
Planning of a conversation with the manager related to a real goal and stages of the participants’ development – pair practice

My sources of influence

Discovery of the sources of personal influence: exercise titled My Individual Star of Influence
Proactive use of one’s own sources of influence – practice in groups of three

One-on-one conversations with the manager

What is a one-on-one conversation?
One-on-one conversation from the perspective of employee needs – analysis of a video material: Maria’s One on One Conversation
Preparation for a one-on-one conversation with the manager – needs, sources of influence, useful expressions
Conversation exercise – pair practice

Implementation

Perception of self leadership. How to use the following tools:
- self leader’s self-diagnosis questionnaire
- manager’s feedback questionnaire.
Implementation tasks
Change plan – my personal self leader’s action plan.

End of the workshop

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Cost of participation:

3900 PLN

The above amount is a net amount and will be increased by VAT