Shape: Set Foundational Concepts, Theories, and Maxims

During this phase, students are provided essential concepts, theories, and maxims creating a solid baseline of leadership knowledge and an important reference point for follow-on phases. Topics in this phase are designed to educate the student on the pathway to great leadership, components of a leader’s character, and the key differences between leading and managing.

• The Hero’s Journey: The Path to a Heroic Life demonstrates the metaphorical path that all leaders must traverse to fully develop self-leadership, individual mastery, heroic aspirations, and then a personal commitment to share wisdom with others.
• A Leader’s Bias describes the necessary worldview, attitude, and actions distinguishing heroic lives and great leaders.
• The Virtue Constellation:  Maxims Defining Great Leaders provides the student with the key virtues leaders should exhibit to consistently provide exemplary, resonant, and inspiring leadership.
• Are Great Leaders Born or Made?  Addresses the key questions about leadership, management, and organizational development.
• Ariadne’s Thread:  7 Clues to a Leader’s Development charts a fresh and innovative approach to leadership development and describes the key signposts to guide the leader’s path.
• The Ultimate Boon:  Understanding Success & Significance defines success as resulting from personal reflection, practice, and preparation and explains why significance is the ultimate end state of a leader’s journey.
• The Archer’s Stance:  How Self-Discipline Leads to Self-Mastery describes the criticality of self-discipline to achieving authenticity, deep and lasting impact, and enduring influence as a leader.
• The Danger of Living a Present-Tense Life explains why leaders must learn to develop a sense of “deep time,” master the art of the long view, and develop a broad arc of perspective.
• Callan’s Law of Expanding Frontage:  Managing the TQ-EQ Transition demonstrates how the leader must evolve from technical knowledge to emotional intelligence as they progress as a leader.

Learning Objectives – Having completed the Shape Phase, students will possess a solid grounding in cornerstone leadership concepts, principles, virtues, maxims, and paradigms that, together, will acclimatize them for further leadership development and guide their ascent as leaders. The student is now prepared to move to Phase 2… Accelerate.

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