Series 1: Foundations for Adaptive Leadership
Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Leadership
Knowing how to manage oneself and effectively engage with others is a hallmark of great leadership. In this session, you’ll explore the practical concept of emotional intelligence, the common roadblocks around it and how to increase it to improve your effectiveness as a leader.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize and discuss the core components of EI
- Develop habits and practices to improve EI for yourself and others
- Make improving EI a part of your team’s norms
Coaching for Growth
In this session, you’ll learn the fundamental skills of coaching and how to use questions to help guide your direct reports to be more self-sufficient, problem-solve and contribute to their team and the company.
You’ll learn how to:
- Motivate and empower your reports
- Help your reports become proactive and independent
- Listen and communicate more effectively
Courageous Conversations
Conflict. It’s one of the most avoided topics at work, to the detriment of teams everywhere. In this session, you’ll learn how to have ‘healthy conflict,’ and how to engage in tough conversations with your team, coworkers and supervisors.
You’ll learn how to:
- Stop avoiding conflict and see these tensions as opportunities for improvement
- Use practical tools to approach the conversation
- Create shared team dialogue and behaviors around conflict that people appreciate
Series 2: Building Adaptive and Effective Teams
Leading Adaptive Teams
Too much focus on leadership is about the qualities of ‘being a leader,’ while forgetting the fundamental job of a leader: to help a team achieve results. In this session, you’ll learn core practices of effective teamwork and how to lead a team to achieve its goals.
You’ll learn how to:
- Align a team around a shared mission, vision and goals
- Set shared norms for collaboration, communication and conflict
- Motivate the team to achieve results
Leading Results: Personal and Team Productivity
Leaders work to achieve results, but it’s hard to make that happen well when you or your teams get distracted, are putting out fires or don’t have a system for getting things done. In this session, you’ll learn the common issues that everyone in a management position faces, how to overcome them and how to empower your team’s productivity.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize common barriers and challenges to productivity for you and your team
- Develop a practical system for reviewing your productivity and how to improve it
- Create team practices that encourage time awareness and productivity
Leading Teams: Managing Remote and Hybrid Staff
Managing remote or hybrid teams requires different approaches, but too many leaders simply do what they would in person and expect the same results. In this session, you’ll learn the shifts you need to make to help the remote/hybrid staff connect and engage as a team.
You’ll learn how to:
- Structure your weekly team meetings/communications to support goal alignment
- Foster connections as a remote/hybrid team to support collaboration and accountability
- Develop best practices for internal communication to avoid misunderstandings and support productivity
Instructor
Reuben Rail is the CEO at Drayton Archaeology and the founder and principal consultant at Culture 47, a business consultancy that helps leaders become great at learning, leadership and change.
Over the past 15+ years, Reuben has helped leaders and organizations to develop adaptive strategies, healthy cultures and drive meaningful performance. He has worked across a variety of industries such as finance, professional services, healthcare, nonprofits, education, software, real estate, B2B tech and small business.
In his spare time, Reuben enjoys reading (Village Books is a weekly hangout), weightlifting and going on adventures with his wife, two kids and their dog Nemo.
