Speed Leadership Workshop

Last week, in association with Heiko Xplore, we held the first two-day Speed Leadership Workshop in Milan, Italy.

The workshop participants were comprised of leaders from a variety of industries and included several entrepreneurs seeking to learn new ways to lead their organization into the future. The entrepreneurs, in particular, recognize they cannot endure repetitive problems and the chaos and complexity of traditional leadership. They know they need to evolve and improve. Instead of destroying employees’ new ideas, they want to lead in a better way so that new ideas are continuously generated.

Speed Leadership is a different kind of workshop. Most workshops have too much lecture, focused on theory, or breakout sessions that do not challenge participants to think. Speed Leadership is unique because the content is clearly seen as practical and over 85 percent of the workshop is hands-on. But more importantly, it is also brain-on. It strongly challenges leaders to move beyond their current paradigms and practices to strengthen their ability to achieve better business results.

Massimo Torinesi gave a wonderful introduction to the workshop in which the described why the models and methods of leadership used for the last 100 years no longer apply. He compared them to using strategies and tactics of a bygone era that are wrong for the times that we now work in. Instead, Speed Leadership is the next step in the evolution in leadership mindset and methods.

I led the participants through the practical elements of the workshop. There were several break-out sessions focused on the following topics:

• Leadership Processes
• Leadership Process Errors
• Rightsizing Leadership
• Standards for Leadership Processes
• Improving Leadership Processes
• Visual Controls for Leaders
• Standard Work

Participants commented that they recognized the workshop as deeply practical, which they said was unusual. And, it was impactful because they had never considered a process view of leadership, nor did they recognize how common it was for leaders to make errors and how they affect followers. They were also impressed by how the workshop deconstructed and simplified leadership (an otherwise abstract concept), and practical methods for improvement that were simple to understand and implement.

Massimo gave a wonderful closing talk with fantastic illustrations that had a great emotional impact on everyone and which will be long-remembered. The workshop was a success, but like any activity, we came away with dozens of ideas for improvement, as well as much useful feedback from workshop participants.

If you are located in Europe and interested the Speed Leadership Workshop, please contact Massimo Torinesi and we will arrange to deliver it at your company or at an offsite location near you.

If you are located in North America, please contact me.

« The Evolution of Leadership: Speed Leadership »

from Bob Emiliani http://www.bobemiliani.com/speed-leadership-workshop/