Empowering leaders to cultivate teams and grow healthy organisations.
The Xpand Leadership Development Process is a series of seminars, workshops, and coaching initiatives that focus on four areas of human capital development: individual, team, organizational, and societal.
The process is designed to help leaders develop the skills and knowledge needed to effectively lead in today‘s complex world.
- Blueprint – Discover your true core identity through the articulation of personal “I AM” statements;
- Authentic Leadership – Unpacking the various dimensions of who an authentic leader is and how their calling, character, and competencies relate to both people and the task at hand;
- Creative Life Planning – Taking stock of my life and articulating a clear strategy towards a preferred life vision;
- Mastering Complexity – Learn how to deal with one of the greatest modern day leadership challenges of navigating the VUCA world in light of the 4th Industrial Revolution, by becoming a Human Capital investment expert;
- Personal Resilience – Dealing with the challenges of stress and burnout in a productive and meaningful way through some of the latest neuroscientific research;
- Work-Life Integration – Shifting from a work-life balance mentality to an understanding of integration… The only way in which the brain can truly function successfully;
- Emotional Agility – Understanding and utilising the neurological miracle of applied emotional capacity within all social constructs of life;
- Propensity Towards Success – Articulate your pattern for growth towards success through the five “I” considerations.
- Spiritual Intelligence – Authentically exploring the personal dimensions of identity, calling and purpose within a pluralistic world;
- Cultural Intelligence – Optimising interactions and engagements within a multi-divers world through mindfulness training;
- Innovative Problem Solving – Applying the principles of thought- and neuro-leadership in order to master complexity.
Raising Individuals in Mastery
Healthy organisations will always be the result of healthy individuals. Therefore, ensuring that every member of the team is fulfilled and engaged in their work becomes a critical aspect in every successful organisation. CCI Professional can assist with the growth and development of employees through the following, but not limited interventions:
Authentic Leadership
Have you ever considered extensive personal development? How about a holistic and long term personal future plan? If any of these ideas appeal to you then we wish to encourage you to consider the Authentic Leadership Seminar developed by Xpand International. This two day seminar is ideally suited for any working professional or student whose desire is to discover their latent potential and map the way forward.
The outcomes of the seminar are to:
- Understand your history, potential and values;
- Discover your passion and develop a challenging, yet realistic perspective of your career;
- Integrate work and life in a healthy and inspiring way;
- Ensure long term success by building a support team.
The seminar consists of:
- Two intensive, full day, training sessions;
- Using the Xpand Value-Centred Leadership Scan®. The VCL Scan is the backbone tool in most of the Xpand training initiatives, having been developed and perfected during the past 25 years by Xpand International;
- Designing a long term personal development strategy;
- Growing into personal mastery by understanding your past, present and future.
A Breakdown of the 3 day seminar program:
1. Authentic leadership
- Leadership in the 21st century
- Developing character and competence
- How to handle power in a serving way
2. Discovering potential
- Learning from your own history
- Understanding your own 4 areas of intrinsic motivation
- Doing the value centred leadership scan
3. Growing into mastery
- How to define your passion
- Ensure mastering of your talents by designing your career path
- Building a realistic and challenging development program
4. Work-life integration
- Building a healthy lifestyle
- Constructing your integrated house
- Understanding your resilience profile
5. Mentoring in a professional setting
- How to build a strong support team
- 3 levels of mentoring
- Building a mentor structure in your organization
Personal Resilience
Resilience is the ability of a person to deal with challenges, change and setbacks in a healthy manner.
The outcomes of the seminar are to:
- Stay healthy, fit and motivated in times of constant change;
- Ensure that employees stay motivated, energised and get less sick;
- Prevent a burn-out;
- Get a clear picture of my strengths and weaknesses regarding my personal resilience level;
- Learn the lessons of my personal history;
- Build up self-trust and realistic optimism;
- Building a life and work style of resilience;
- Develop effective time-management;
- Develop discipline for a healthy lifestyle;
- Decide how to build motivating relationships.
The seminar consists of:
- One intensive, full day training;
- Completing the resilience scan that will assist you to discover what aspects of resilience need more development;
- Developing a personal training program to develop your most important resilience factor;
- Acquiring concrete “tools” in order to develop your personal as well as your team’s resilience.
A Breakdown of the 2 day seminar program:
- Understanding the 5 phases of burnout;
- Stop the hyperactivity, rethink my lifestyle;
- Conducting the resilience scan;
- Insight in the 7 resilience factors;
- Design my healthy training program.
What are the advantages of resilience in your life?
- Living healthy in times of constant change and challenges.
- Your emotions do not get the upper-hand in difficult situations which will help you to see things more clearly.
- Resilience has a strong and positive impact on your:
- health
- productivity
- private life and balance
- relationships
- Creative and integrated solutions come more naturally instead of only seeing the problem.
- Resilience supports you in dealing with:
- rejection
- criticism
- negative influences
- It enables you to develop the ability to work on various tasks at the same time and to take responsibility for different areas.
- Resilience increases the joint productivity of a team
- Resilience develops your ability to deal with changes and ensure personal growth.
Blueprint
“Everyone of us longs to have someone believe in us. We passionately long for someone who is willing to invest their life into ours. The problem is that we live in a culture that is possessed and controlled by its own self-created schedules. Most of us are just trying to figure out how to live our own lives much less having the time to become an influence in someone else’s life.” Ron DePriest
The Blueprint is a holistic coaching process that is based on an integrated Trinitarian worldview approach. Consequently, a person is taken on a journey of self-exploration, seeking greater clarity as to how they would describe their personal eternal, internal and external realities. From this point of view a person will have a meaningful basis of engaging various relevant life questions, which include among others career, family, and social environments. The ultimate aim of the PDP is to empower an individual in order to fulfil their life calling through clarity of vision and continuous personal growth and development.
The Blueprint process is divided into five main phases or sessions. These sessions are typically spread over 10 weeks. Sessions 1 to 4 usually requires 45 minutes to an hour, while the final session requires a two hour slot.
- Eternal Reality – Concerning personal spirituality
- Internal Reality – Focussing on your unique SHAPE
- External Reality – Listening to the voices around you
- Integration – The mixing bowl
- Application – Understanding the balances of life and how to response to its call
Definition of Worldview
A commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true, or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic construction of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being.
(Sire, 2004. The universe next door)
Each phase has a unique set of questions (individual homework), followed by a discussion with a qualified coach (contact session). The questions found within the Blueprint is by no means some wonder formula, but rather allowing the person to become more MIND-FULL of who they are through contemplation and reflection. The Blueprint process also utilises both hemispheres of the brain, in effect ensuring that the best of your life’s aspects are considered. This is achieved through left brain reasoning and critical thinking, as well as right brain creativity through the Artistic Development Plan included in the process.
- Constructing Recruitment Networks;
- Person-Organisational Culture Alignment;
- Person-Job Fit;
- Building Performance;
- Coaching and Mentoring;
- Optimising Engagements;
Cultivate Effective Teams
There are always two sides to the coin when optimising a team’s effectiveness. The first focus is set on the leader, or as John Maxwell stated “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” Consequently, if we want high performing teams amidst the current global complexities, we requires extraordinary leaders. The second focus is on the entire team – first ensuring that each individual is growing in their personal mastery, followed by synergistic team functioning.
Focusing not only on getting the right people on board, but also how to get each person in the right seat. This empowerment program equips leaders with the necessary skills and tools to effectively coach and mentor employees; leading them to greater levels of competence.
The outcomes of this programme will assist you / and your team in the following:
- Develop a strategy on how to win, select and integrate the talents you need to grow as a team and organisation;
- Develop a strategy as to select new employees on calling, character and competence;
- Design an integration programme for new employees;
- Develop your employees towards their full potential;
- Assist leaders in developing self-responsibility within their employees to take ownership for their own development;
- Learn how to challenge and excite your employees to grow into their next performance level;
- Develop a culture of appreciation and feedback with employees;
- Provide critical feedback in a constructive way;
- Develop a culture of passion and performance;
- Facilitate regular employee engagements in a constructive way;
- Stimulate your employees to reflect on their own progress.
The programme consists of:
- Three intensive, full day training (or as agreed upon within the proposal);
- Developing a personal training programme on the Performance Mastery model together with key focus areas for yourself and your team;
- Acquiring concrete “tools” in order to develop your employees with greater effectiveness;
- Explore meta-tools such as Shadowmatch.
A breakdown of this programme:
- Constructing Recruitment Networks
- Understanding the dynamics of the talent war;
- Building your talent pool;
- Getting the right people on my bus;
- The right seat for the right person.
- Person-Organisation Culture Alignment
- Exploring your current culture;
- Establishing cultural benchmarks;
- Transitioning organisational culture;
- Strategies for dealing with cultural misfits.
- Person-Job Fit
- What really matters in the job-specs;
- Crafting top-performance benchmarks;
- Align skill and qualification with cultural behaviour;
- Creating a culture of continuous learning & development.
- Building Performance
- Stimulating challenging goal setting;
- Moving from manager to leader;
- Appreciation and encouragement to grow;
- Providing critique in a constructive manner.
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Coaching that transforms;
- Mentoring like the sage;
- Dealing with character and competency;
- Challenging concretely.
- Optimising Appointments
- Preparation for engagements;
- Reflecting and analysing progress;
- Defining realistic collective goals;
- Facilitating interaction.
- Multi-Generational Succesion
- Understand generational theory;
- Bridging generational gaps;
- DNA and values means the most;
- From success to significance.
- Organisational Culture & Values;
- Understanding Team Members;
- Strategic Communication;
- Conflict Resolution;
- Collaborative Innovation;
- Joint Goal Setting;
- Team Building and Engagement.
Cultivate Effective Teams
There are always two sides to the coin when optimising a team’s effectiveness. The first focus is set on the leader, or as John Maxwell stated “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” Consequently, if we want high performing teams amidst the current global complexities, we requires extraordinary leaders. The second focus is on the entire team – first ensuring that each individual is growing in their personal mastery, followed by synergistic team functioning.
Focusing not only on getting the right people on board, but also how to get each person in the right seat. This empowerment program equips leaders with the necessary skills and tools to effectively coach and mentor employees; leading them to greater levels of competence.
The outcomes of the seminar are to:
- Build up an innovative, effective and motivated team
- Train your team members to build up a trustworthy and respectful communication style
- Find the unique contribution of each team member and encouraging them to complete their responsibility with confidence
- Understanding the anatomy of a conflict, and how to act fast, open and fair to ensure a win-win solution
- Understanding my own strengths and pitfalls within a conflict situation
- Build an effective feedback culture within your team
- Understanding the basic laws of communication
- Read and implement body language to avoid misunderstandings
- Take a stand and negotiate in a positive and convincing style
- Prepare your presentation in such a way that you will resonate with your audience
- Give a presentation in an inspiring way
The seminar consists of:
- Three intensive, full day training (or as agreed upon within proposal)
- Lecture, workshops and practical team building events
- Acquiring concrete “tools” in order to develop and lead your team with greater effectiveness
A Breakdown of the 3 day seminar program:
- Building effective teams
- Secrets of successful teams
- Building bridges of communication
- Growing maturity as a team
- Defining and implementing roles within your team
- Teambuilding rituals
- Handling conflicts
- The anatomy of a conflict
- Levels of conflict development
- Understanding my conflict style
- Mediating to win-win solutions
- Developing a feedback culture
- Interpersonal communication
- The essence of communication
- Reading body language
- The 5 steps of a good dialog
- Debating constructively
- Ensuring clear understanding within communication
- Presentation and moderation
- Understanding your audience
- Designing inspiring presentations
- Messages that nobody will forget
- Resonating with and winning your audience
- How to ensure that people will implement your message
- Healthy Organisations;
- Organisational Purpose;
- Market Positioning;
- Achieving Objectives;
- Governance and Strategy;
- Multi-generational Succession;
- Leading Transition.
Growing Healthy Organisations
With the progression of the industrial revolutions, it became apparent that equating man to the machine is no longer a viable option. Our people are more than mere resources – they represent the life and breath of our organisations. This is the shift from the cold, systems driven organisation to a warm, relationally structured organism, where each members becomes a cell to this organisational body. Growing a healthy organisation requires that each person is optimally engaged, while the cancer of modern day workplace – stress, is intentionally being managed. Healthy organisations seeks to create environments where members can experience wholeness, are self-managed, has space for an evolving purpose, true empowerment takes place and culture is honours above strategy, to name but a few.
Building an organization, while ensuring constant growth and performance of employees, requires superior strategic leadership. Becoming such a strategic leader implies that you will have to be able to formulate an inspiring and outcomes orientated vision, design a goals and values based strategic plan, provide context for effective operational processes and ensure that you are able to manage change and transition.
The outcomes of the seminar are to:
- Combine your company history, mission statement and critical trends into an inspiring vision
- Find and explain your core competencies as an organization
- Develop the skill of designing multiple future scenario’s
- Combine the most applicable needs of your customers with your most relevant products/services
- Use a SWOT analyses
- Decide on your strategic market position and strategic goals
- Understand how growing organizations need to handle crisis as part of the process
- Design the structure that serves your strategy and that will also empower your employees to deliver excellent work
- Build a culture that inspires your staff and customers
- Become a change agent and a transition leader
- Grow in your ability as leaders within unpredictable times
- Adapt your leadership style to the success of your organization
The seminar consists of:
- Three intensive, full day training (or as agreed upon within the proposal)
- Lecture, workshops and practical team events
- Acquiring concrete “tools” in order to develop and lead your organization with greater effectiveness
A Breakdown of the 3 day seminar program:
- Designing an inspiring vision
- Analysing your history, current situation and challenges
- Defining your mission
- Developing scenario’s
- Designing a challenging vision
- Communicating your vision/mission in an inspiring way
- Strategy development
- Investigating the desires and needs of your clients
- Analysing your service quality
- Building your product portfolio
- Defining the consequences of your SWOT analyses
- Defining your desired market position
- Developing your strategic goals and projects
- Building effective organisations
- Growth will lead to crisis and change
- Finding the structure that serves your strategy
- Building a effective and motivating organization
- Ensuring growth possibilities for your staff
- Creating an inspiring communication culture
- Transition management
- The process of change and transition
- Change with respect and using the time of insecurity
- Getting the team on board
- Leading your team into the new phase
- Adapting your leadership style
