Leadership Edge WorkshopGetting to and Staying at the Top of Your Game, with Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates
Thank you to our sponsors:
DLA Piper
In today’s demanding and competitive workplace, leaders need every possible advantage to achieve success – for themselves and their teams – and perform at the top of their game. Join leadership and career consultant, and multiple Ironman finisher Bobbie LaPorte, to explore the proven relationship between physical fitness and career success, discuss the implications for your sustained performance as a corporate leader and discover what "Getting to the Top of Your Game " means for you.
For this month's workshop, we will bring together leadership concepts from our previous sessions and focus on how being fit and feeling your best help will help you address the challenges and opportunities that leadership presents and how the important practices of self-leadership and personal accountability can help leaders more effectively leverage their leadership style and inspire others to also lead with power, influence and integrity.
The workshop is designed to not only present you with the information and tools to more effectively lead, but also to address your current leadership challenges and honor your leadership successes in an interactive session beneficial to all, without the employment of calisthenics. Whether or not you were able to participate in previous sessions, we hope you will join us in what promises to be an engaging and energizing conversation.
Our June 1 Leadership Edge Workshop was on Getting to and Staying at the Top of Your Game
with Roberta LaPorte, RAL & Associates
In today’s demanding and competitive workplace, leaders need every possible advantage to achieve success – for themselves and their teams – and perform at the top of their game. Leadership and career consultant, and multiple Ironman finisher Bobbie LaPorte led us as we explored the proven relationship between physical fitness and career success, discussed the implications for your sustained performance as a corporate leader and discovered what "Getting to the Top of Your Game" means for you.
For this session, we brought together leadership concepts from our previous sessions and focused on how being fit and feeling your best help would help you address the challenges and opportunities that leadership presents and how the important practices of self-leadership and personal accountability can help leaders more effectively leverage their leadership style and inspire others to also lead with power, influence and integrity.
The workshop provided the information and tools to help us more effectively lead, but also addressed our current leadership challenges and honored our leadership successes in an interactive session beneficial to all, without the employment of calisthenics. Below are notes from our thought-provoking discussion.
Define what it means to be "At The Top of Your Game"
Bringing out the best in yourself
Energy to do all you need to do
Ability to create, innovate, be strategic
Feel "in charge" of your work and career
Have a high level of personal effectiveness (from objectives to follow-through, to results, with little self-doubt)
Play to your strength
Self-confidence/self-awareness and self-esteem, assertiveness, with humility
Emotional and physical stamina
See things more clearly
Persistence/stick-to-it-ness
See higher potential, vision
Leading from any chair, even if organization's leadership is flawed
Prepared to address and deal with day-to-day challenges, leveraging strengths, skills, tools, resources; responding vs. reacting
Good personal stewardship (of your body, of your potential)
Disciplined
Using sports to find balance - to give you a mental and physical break
Yourself in relation to others
Other-centeredness, confidence without arrogance
Seeing, realizing, empowering potential in others
Influencing others
Setting boundaries between self and others and work
Working with Coaches and mentors, also supporting others
Building a community of support
A role model which epitomizes someone at the top of their profession - like Michael Jordan for basketball
Understand the proven relationship between fitness and career success
University of Massachusetts (2004) and Virginia Tech (2003) with Cooper Clinic with several hundred executives in a multi-year study found that leaders are better able to handle demands of today’s workplace
University of Georgia (2007) study found that Managers at all fitness levels experienced sharper focus, greater confidence, stronger will
Bobbie, can you help finding URLs for these articles and others? Thanks!
Learn how self-leadership and fitness can increase your effectiveness
Self-leadership – the process of influencing yourself to achieve your personal goals; personal accountability
Achieving "fitness" helps you feel your best and is an essential component of personal effectiveness
What are the benefits of using self-leadership to "get fit"?
Discipline and drive
Stamina & endurance
Increased self-knowledge
Persistence
Perseverance
Risk-taking; courage to fail/lose
Taking the "long view"
Patience
Endurance
Pushing self; realizing your potential
Doing more than you think you can
Seeing the best in others
Mental toughness
Longer-term benefits might include:
Building confidence, mental toughness
Achieving more than you think you can do ("crossing the finish line")
Demonstrating commitment and purpose
Role modeling behavior for others
Leveraging leadership style – making it your own
Making the connection between fitness training and discipline and corporate performance:
Goal setting - specific, challenging yet achievable
Managing your Self-talk
Consciously providing Self-reward/positive reinforcements
Leveraging Mental imagery (picturing success)
Support and coaching
Develop a personal development plan for success:
What are Your Business & Leadership Challenges? - List your Top 3
Consider how the benefits of getting fit help you address these?
Review your goals and benefits; Choose top 2; define outcomes – how will you make the connection?
Develop plan for "first steps"
Connect with Bobbie LaPorte or your coach or accountability partner for a 30/60 day check in
Information and Registration:
Sponsor and Location:
FountainBlue is grateful to our sponsors DLA Piper http://www.dlapiper.com for generously sponsoring our Leadership, Creativity and Diversity Workshops for 2007! The workshops will be held at their offices at 2000 University Avenue in East Palo Alto.
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