Why Should Anyone Be Led By YOU?™
What It Takes To Be An Authentic Leader

When London Business School Professors Goffee and Jones first posed this question to top business leaders they were often met with silence. Now, after a best selling book and infamous Harvard Business Review article their years of research have been developed into a professional learning experience available through The Human Enterprise. This breakthrough development experience is designed to help managers at all levels answer this challenging question with authenticity, conviction and confidence. Enquire Now >>

This is not a typical skills-based leadership program

In fact, you don’t even need to replace your existing leadership development programmes. It's more of a "turbo-booster" to your existing initiatives. Besides, your leaders are probably full to the brim with models, methods, techniques and role models. They know what ‘good’ leadership is supposed to look like but are they:

“Exciting Their People to Exceptional Performance”

Leadership is not a one way street

Most programmes focus on what leaders do TO others (their followers). Why Should Anyone Be Led By YOU?™ is different. It focuses on how your leaders can meet the critical needs of their followers. It’s about developing what your leaders do WITH followers – the relationship.

Successful leaders modify their behaviour to respond to the needs of their followers and the circumstances they encounter – while simultaneously remaining true to who they are.

ARTICLE: Rob Goffee, co-author of ‘Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?’ gets real about leadership on the CEO Forum

Outcomes For Your Organisation

This workshop helps your leaders develop a laser-focused CASE for their followers. When this happens you can expect:

• Leaders who set out to truly engage their followers and excite them to exceptional performance. Without followers your leaders are just going on a good walk. Uniting the collective effort of followers can’t be done by the CEO alone. It rests in the ability of leaders all over your organisation to craft meaningful/inspiring relationships with their followers. This programme reaffirms to your leaders that the power to do this rests in their hands.
• Leaders who deploy their personal values, strengths and weaknesses to maximise their effectiveness. People don’t follow titles they follow other people. Why Should Anyone Be Led By YOU?™ provides your organisation with authentic leaders who are able to use their personal, as opposed to positional, power to lead without title.
• Leaders who size up the situation and adapt their behaviour to suit it. Your leaders don’t operate in a bubble. The complexities of today’s business world require leaders who can adapt seamlessly to suit different situations, generations and cultures. The unique approach of this programme shows your leaders that one leadership ‘skill’ is not going to fit all situations.
• Leaders who truly develop community and extend their influence way beyond their own teams. This programme gets your leaders to start thinking BIG and giving their people a vision that lifts their imagination and effort beyond the daily grind. Not only this, they'll begin to build the leadership talent around them and truly leave a legacy to be proud of.

And it's a process your people will buy into

Leaders are tired of trying to be like the heroes and heroines of leadership and management. What works for one leader will not necessarily work for another. And why should it? Not everyone is Richard Branson, Gerry Harvey or a carbon copy of the MD.

The good news with Why Should Anyone Be Led By YOU? is that your leaders are encouraged to be more of themselves – with skill. Ah. What a relief!

After all, if your leaders are not tapping into their authentic best then they will fail. And if they fail, your organisation fails too. People don’t follow titles they follow human beings. People who are real and authentic. In our post GFC world we’re yearning for some leaders with substance.

Watch Gareth Jones take you through the importance of authentic leadership for your people and your organisation:

Here are 5 reasons your leaders will LOVE this programme:

1. They’ll discover exactly what their followers need (CASE) and whether they are fulfilling these needs. No more guess work, no more reading between the lines. Through a unique pre-workshop feedback process they’ll know exactly where they stand and where they need to further excite their followers to exceptional performance.
2. They’ll get to really look at their own personal values and how they can best align these to their role as a leader. How often to do we get to think about what we value and how we can meet our needs through our job? Well, this is their chance to do just that and get so much more engaged and enthused with their role as a leader.
3. They’ll get totally comfortable in their own 'leadership skin'. This process will show them that they don’t have to be like someone else to be a great leader – just more of themselves. That’s what their people want and it sure is music to most participants’ ears.
4. They’ll develop their own CASE for their followers. Imagine knowing exactly how to adapt your leadership style to suit the needs of followers and witness their excitement and performance grow leaps and bounds before your eyes. Participants emerge from this programme with a game plan to get the best from their people.
5. They’ll start developing a network of fellow 'leadership peers' who share a common language. No one makes it one their own. Why Should Anyone Be Led By YOU?™ gives your leaders the means and skills to start partnering with leaders who face similar challenges and hurdles.

Ok So What’s the Process?

You may not be able to send all of your leaders to the London Business School (recently named the number one global business school in Financial Times’ “Global MBA Rankings for 2010) to hear Professors Goffee and Jones, but their research and teachings can come to you. Global consulting firm BlessingWhite has worked closely with the pair to dovetail their research on authentic leadership into a relevant, engaging and effective executive learning experience.

Throughout Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? your leaders work on their own strategic business challenges. At the end of the working session they will have a detailed strategy for “being themselves -- more -- with skill” to excite exceptional performance of their teams and colleagues. Since they will have practiced and fine-tuned the application of that strategy to their business challenges, the impact on the job is immediate.

There are 3 key phases that ensure this leadership development experience is more than a 'one hit wonder' for your organisation:

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