subject: What It Takes To Be An Olympic Leader - Webinar By Trainhr [print this page] What it Takes to be an Olympic Leader - Personal Practices, Coaching, Experimenting, and Risk Taking
Overview : What it takes to be an Olympic leader: During this summer's exciting Olympic games we heard and saw the results of years of practice on the part of uniquely gifted athletes. Just like the athletes we watched spellbound as they swung from one uneven bar to another, or swam their seventh event and achieved their fourth gold, or fell heartbreakingly on the first hurdle, leaders need to practice - every day and for years.
In addition, aspiring leaders need to have a coach tailored just for their needs, just as Olympic athletes keep or change coaches depending on their next level of competition. Olympic leaders need to experiment. Missy Franklin changed her stroke less than a year before this summer's games. It made her faster. Leaders need to be flexible enough to learn new ways of thinking about situations, and new ways of experimenting or "prototyping" into solutions. Finally, Olympic leaders, just like athletes, need to take risks. Women cyclists raced in some of the worst weather for bike racing. Still the smart ones had to pull out around the curves, even though common wisdom says this is dangerous. Founder John Bogle started the first index fund at Vanguard Mutual Funds. His peers told him he was crazy. Why would an investor want to buy a fund that would do no better than the market. He proved prescient though. Now every major mutual funds company has an index fund. Attend this webinar to learn how to enable leaders to practice effectively, find the right coach, experiment with new learning, and take appropriate risks - or attend as the budding leader that you are.
Why should you attend:
Remove doubt as to the four imperative practices necessary to be an Olympic level leader.
Bring clarity to the most important things to practice and with whom.
Practice and coaching remove fear of many leadership abilities-including public speaking, managing conflict and enabling organizational vision.
Areas Covered in the Session: What makes an effective leader?
Personal practice
Effective coaching and mentoring
Experimenting on a small scale (prototyping)
Risk taking
Who Will Benefit:
HR Professionals
Organization Development Directors and Consultants
High Potential and Emerging Leaders
Dr. Sara Orem knows the perils of multi-tasking. As a core faculty member in leadership at an online university, Dr. Orem uses her laptop computer more than 8 hours a day, sometimes while talking on the phone or checking email on her Blackberry or iPad. Her doctoral dissertation topic was listening to learn in disagreements, perhaps the hardest emotional situation in which to listen to learn. Her interest in neuroscience and listening is part of her curiosity about positive psychology. She regularly presents topics about leadership and coaching to faculty and business partners of her university, and has been the featured speaker at coaching conferences. She is the lead author of Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change, published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley in 2007 and co-author of The Coachs Guide to Asset-Based Thinking and Appreciative Coaching published by the Cramer Institute in 2009.
