Accelerate: Develop Leaders and Managers

During this phase, students are taught the significant roles, habits, responsibilities, and styles of leaders and managers and how to implement leadership and managerial skills. Topics are designed to educate students on leading people, managing processes and existing systems, and creating team environments.

Creating Resonance: The Generative Roles of Authentic Leaders showcases the key roles that every successful leader must master, and then model, to generate superior performance.
Are You a Catalyst or Alchemist? The Difference between Leading & Managing provides an effective explanation of the core differences between a leader and a manager, to include roles, responsibilities, and outcomes.
The Iron Triangle: Roles of a Great Manager identifies the key roles of a manager that transform talent into peak performance.
The Rubicon Crossing: Transforming People from Subordinates to Members provides the student with the key tools and techniques to develop cohesive, resilient, and winning teams.
Lessons from a 3-Star Michelin Chef: The Leader as Master Craftsman discusses how leadership, like all forms of mastery, requires constant attention to minute details and the ability to execute consistently with exacting precision.
A Mountain Laboratory: How Leaders Create Habit Patterns describes the art and science of creating habits that produce enduring mental toughness, hardiness, dependability, and repeatability.
Doing Your Road Work explains why champions are built daily through disciplined preparation and introduces the “90-10” rule describing how leaders invite perfection through practice, performance, and repetition.
The Leader’s Capital displays the various forms of capital available to leaders, both “top line” and “bottom line,” to influence positive behavior and leverage top performance.
A Place to Stand and a Lever describes the ways chief executives can, and should, bring unique value to their organizations.
Creating an Adaptive Mindset teaches the student the necessity of adaptation as an organizational virtue and how leaders themselves can master an adaptive mindset.
Of Letter and Spirit: The Timeless Laws of Great Leadership describes how the immutable truths of leadership have both structural and philosophical components and why leaders must understand, and master, both.

Learning Objectives – At the conclusion of the Accelerate Phase the student will possess in-depth knowledge and understanding of, and practical application in, the skills and mindset of great leadership and effective management. The student is now prepared to move to Phase 3… Elevate.

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