ASUMH Workforce and Community Education

Leadership is not about personality; it is about behavior—an observable set of skills and abilities.  This session will include an overview of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® and a copy of The Leadership Challenge® book and pocket card.  When co-authors, Kouzes & Posner, set out to discover what effective leaders do, they asked people to think of a peak leadership experience.  Despite differences in culture, gender and age these responses revealed similar patterns of behavior.  The authors discovered The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®: Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act and Encourage the Heart.

OBJECTIVES for this Session:

• Identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses
• Set the exampleple for others
• Identify your vision of the future and inspire others to share
• Search of opportunities to improve your organization
• Experiment with innovative ideas and learn from mistakes
• Build collaboration, teamwork and trust
• Strengthen the abilities of others to excel
• Recognize the accomplishments of others
• Apply the lessons learned to a current organizational challenge

The Leadership Challenge, Copyright © 2017 by James M Kouzes and Barry Posner

Your Presenter: Kim Worlow is a certified Leadership Development Coach and Trainer. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois. Kim spent over 10 years with the University of Arkansas as a leadership trainer.  More recently, she served as the Director of Education at Baxter Regional Medical Center, where she focused on leadership development across the organization.  She specializes in helping professionals accelerate their growth and mastery in all things leadership!  She currently lives in Mountain Home, AR and her company is called InspireMe.