Be Courageous
An Enterprise Intensive
Courage comes from the heart and leading with courage means leading from the heart. Courageous leaders have the ability to change themselves while transforming their organizations and world.
Be Courageous is a call to leadership. This intensive workshop is for your key team members to learn and apply the three core components of courageous leadership:
Strength of heart
Valuing others
Valuing community
Day 1
This day you will reflect on who you really are, your “Authentic Self”. The Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence assessment is used to help you uncover what strengths you should harness to develop your “Authentic Leadership”. You will also identify how to integrate your values and mission to bring harmony between your work and personal aspirations. The afternoon will focus more on Authentic Leadership and how you can be a leader you would want to follow. During this day, you provide the content based on your real-life situations and we will lead you through an experience that will help you navigate these real-life situations more courageously going forward.
Objectives for Day 1:
- Assess your personal strengths and areas of development as a leader.
- Identify your personal leadership values.
- Learn and apply leadership model
- Prepare for day two of intensive
Day 2
Learn in community about the strengths of your team as you build a house for a family caught in the cycle of poverty. That’s right - You will build a home for a family in need, changing their life forever. The results of this training have real-world consequences. You will walk away having learned more about how to work together than ever before. Your team will board a bus in the morning and take a short trip across the border into Mexico. With the full support of the Center for Courageous
Enterprise staff, you will build a house for a family caught in the cycle of poverty.
This family is currently living in a shack, most likely made of old garage doors pieced together with used lumber. Maybe there is a door, but more likely there is a piece of rope holding a strip of cloth indicating the front door. The dirt floor is smooth and hard from persistent sweeping. There is an 11′ x 22′ cement slab and a pile of lumber waiting for your team to begin.
Before lunch, your team will have assembled and stood the walls to form the exterior walls and divide the house into two rooms. You watch as two windows and a sturdy door are installed complete with a lock. After lunch, your group begins the roof laying down the rolled roofing and sealing it with cold tar to prevent leaks. The primed siding goes in as a team comes behind them painting it the color the family has chosen.
By late afternoon, the trim is installed and you stand back in awe. At the end of the day, you hand a set of keys to the family for a house that represents new hope.
In eight short hours your team has changed the world, at least the world for this one family. You have done something together that you can take pride in. You have seen people step up to lead in unexpected ways.
Objectives for Day 2:
- Experience leadership through service
- Change the world - build a house for a family in need
- Increase awareness of cause/effect of leadership
- Apply strengths and values learned in day one
Day 3
Building on the transformational experience from day two, your team debriefs the previous day’s experience and how it can apply to their work. You will define leadership expectations for your team. Your team will learn key steps to apply learning to leading their direct reports.
Objectives for Day 3:
- Discuss experience regarding your leadership during day two.
- Define what makes a leader courageous at your work place.
- Develop a leadership development strategy for direct reports.
- Celebrate your success and the tangible difference you have made in one family’s life.
Changing the world is simple. Are you ready to change your team into leaders?
Contact the Center for Courageous Enterprise to get started.
