Connect with the hearts and minds of your colleagues in order to strengthen the culture of your SCHOOL OR community and create OPTIMAL learning ENVIRONMENTS for students
Program Overview
“This was an amazing way to build authentic connections with a team and build leadership presence. Concrete, useful tools that I will carry with me!”
“This experience was one of the best professional developments I’ve ever been involved in. I walked away with connections with the people in my room and confidence in not only myself, but my peers.”
Leading With Presence (LWP) is IE’s flagship program designed to promote inspiring, emotionally intelligent, action-oriented leadership. This program is designed for teams to build community while building important adaptive leadership, presence and communication skills.
This program can be offered to cohorts of principals or school leadership teams.
Core Objectives:
“This was one of the most engaging sessions I have ever participated in. I really enjoyed it and feel that I learned a lot that I can take back and apply.”
Build sense of community and trust
Hone ability to present self and ideas with power and passion
Develop flexibility and spontaneity
Enhance relationship building skills
Apply the art and skills of storytelling to their work context
Program Components:
Introduction to presence skills
Becoming more expressive
Connecting and communicating with authenticity
Leveraging storytelling for compelling professional communication
Skill application discussion and practice
Expected Benefits
Improved staff morale associated with feeling heard and seen by leaders with enhanced communication and relationship skills.
A positive culture among staff where leaders model and practice openness, vulnerability and trust.
Individualized coaching to participants on specific behaviors and messages that can inspire and engage their own team members, with specific focus on listening and relationship building.
New skills and comfort with spontaneity, flexibility, and other creative ways of connecting staff-to-mission that inspire and motivate staff relationship and success.
Logistics
Group Size: Small (max 10 participants, for both virtual and in person programs)
Duration: 8 or 16 hours
Virtual (8-hour only): Two 4-hour sessions, done over two consecutive half-days
In-Person: One or two 8-hour full day session(s)
This program can be offered virtually. Our virtual programming is delivered through Zoom and includes:
An expert IE facilitator, trained for virtual program delivery
A comprehensive slide deck developed for the virtual context
Opportunities for whole group, small group, and 1-on-1 discussion
Option for IE tech host to facilitate smooth implementation
“This session was amazing and truly powerful for me. The modeling in real time was amazing to see. We were able to see improvement and growth with the practice and guidance from my facilitator throughout the session. I also learned tremendously from seeing my peers receive coaching in real time. I am so full of gratitude and feel honored to have attended this session.”
“This session was very meaningful. It really was engaging and held me accountable to my growth and goals. I can honestly say that I can apply action steps and my growth to this upcoming school year in how I show up as a leader at my school.”
“I like that it approaches leadership from non-traditional angles and focuses on the humanity of the leader and those being led. Emotional intelligence, emotional resilience and identity were a clear emphasis during this session.”
“This was the best, most unconventional training I’ve ever had in becoming a leader. I’ve learned more about myself in 2 days than I ever have in a traditional work environment— both personally and professionally.
I built essential skills around emotional intelligence, presence/expression, communication, self-evaluation, empathy in different contexts, intent, leadership styles, and implicit bias. I will use these skills in setting up meetings, running sessions, interpersonal relationships, managing down/up, and creating buy-in.
Our facilitator not only taught me about myself and my own expectations, but also fostered a sense of FAMILY within our group in only a short time. I feel closer to these people than some of my daily coworkers.”
