I have found that the most important part of any executive leadership training program is the opportunity to bring your team together and create an environment that breeds trust. When you bring any team together into ~ learning environment, whether they are executives or not, there will be a bonding process provided the training is spread out over time. Taping into this will pay your organization back exponentially.
Taking part in a characteristic executive leadership training program the leaders must be pushed outside their comfort zone to experience new-found methods of doing business, but of further importance they must ascertain how to take advantage of one another's talents. In place of butting heads with one another the leaders should connect on a level that will develop a higher level of trust. For them to be able to accomplish this, the facilitator must push the participants to their extreme limits way beyond the leader's comfort zone. Participants are normally inclined to be more honest whenever fear is involved, and that is the challenge for the trainer.
Fear is a powerful motivator for almost everything, including bonding with individuals you would not normally think about that with. When men go into battle and face possible death, they create a bond with those around them like no other. When you have to trust your life to that person fighting beside you, you gain respect and a bond that will stay with you forever! If some type of fearful experience can be introduced into your executive leadership training program, those participants are going to bond. How you do that will depend on your executive team!
I introducing an element of fear into your executive leadership training program could come in the form of a budget* crises so tight that it may cost individuals their jobs! It could come in the form of making them face a fear they have battled with their entire life, such as, insects, swimming, heights, flying, etc. It is amazing how the person with a very tough exterior will begin to open up quickly when facing their fears!
Once this executive leadership team begins to open up you will see the difference it will make in accomplishing things that have never been able to get done in the past. That trust, that each will have with one another will break down and eliminate the barriers that have been present in the past. Without those barriers a team will be formed along with a bond that not be broken. Instead of back biting, there will be support for one another.
Trust must be a part of your executive leadership training program. Without making it a part of it, you are wasting your time. I am not advocating that you not introduce other pieces into the training; however, an executive team that trusts each other will accomplish so much more. Don't give them another one of those lame programs that come and go. Take time to build your team the right way and everything else will fall into place. - 31963
Taking part in a characteristic executive leadership training program the leaders must be pushed outside their comfort zone to experience new-found methods of doing business, but of further importance they must ascertain how to take advantage of one another's talents. In place of butting heads with one another the leaders should connect on a level that will develop a higher level of trust. For them to be able to accomplish this, the facilitator must push the participants to their extreme limits way beyond the leader's comfort zone. Participants are normally inclined to be more honest whenever fear is involved, and that is the challenge for the trainer.
Fear is a powerful motivator for almost everything, including bonding with individuals you would not normally think about that with. When men go into battle and face possible death, they create a bond with those around them like no other. When you have to trust your life to that person fighting beside you, you gain respect and a bond that will stay with you forever! If some type of fearful experience can be introduced into your executive leadership training program, those participants are going to bond. How you do that will depend on your executive team!
I introducing an element of fear into your executive leadership training program could come in the form of a budget* crises so tight that it may cost individuals their jobs! It could come in the form of making them face a fear they have battled with their entire life, such as, insects, swimming, heights, flying, etc. It is amazing how the person with a very tough exterior will begin to open up quickly when facing their fears!
Once this executive leadership team begins to open up you will see the difference it will make in accomplishing things that have never been able to get done in the past. That trust, that each will have with one another will break down and eliminate the barriers that have been present in the past. Without those barriers a team will be formed along with a bond that not be broken. Instead of back biting, there will be support for one another.
Trust must be a part of your executive leadership training program. Without making it a part of it, you are wasting your time. I am not advocating that you not introduce other pieces into the training; however, an executive team that trusts each other will accomplish so much more. Don't give them another one of those lame programs that come and go. Take time to build your team the right way and everything else will fall into place. - 31963
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