Leadership is the most powerful force known to humankind.

Results Achieved Through Leadership Accelerator...

• 32% to 84% improvement in leadership effectiveness
• 64% to 341% improved decision quality
• 18% to 74% more trusting relationships
• 44% to 89% improved team performance

These are the composite results that other participants in Leadership Accelerator for Experienced Managers have achieved as a result of their investment in this program.

We, at LeadFirst, have dedicated our careers to advancing the practice of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. We're defined by…

• A 25-year record of success
• 27,400 experienced senior leaders developed
• 2,242,000 corporate employees profiled worldwide
• 9,018 independent organizations or operating units profiled worldwide
• A client list of corporations that includes several "Most Admired" companies, including Turner Broadcasting, Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, American Airlines, Bank of America and The Hartford.

Few things are more important to human activity than leadership. Effective leadership helps our nation through times of peril. It makes a business organization successful. It enables a not-for-profit organization to fulfill its mission. The effective leadership of parents enables children to grow strong and healthy and become productive adults. Leadership is correlated highly with financial wealth, health, and social influence.

The absence of leadership is equally dramatic in its effects. Without leadership, organizations move too slowly, stagnate, and lose their way. Much of the literature about organizations stresses decision-making and implies that if decision-making is timely, complete, and correct, then things will go well. Yet a decision by itself changes nothing. After a decision is made, an organization faces the problem of implementation-how to get things done in a timely and effective way. Problems of implementation are really issues about how leaders influence behavior, change the course of events, and overcome resistance. Leadership is crucial in implementing decisions successfully.

Do you want to be a leader? Or, if you're already a leader, do you want to improve your leadership?

Do you want to affect what other people do-to help them accomplish important goals?

Do you want to point the way in your organization?

Do you want to climb the promotion ladder to positions of higher authority and greater pay?

Leadership will make these things possible.

Leadership is the most powerful force known to humankind, yet few understand the essential factors of leadership and how to bring them together to transform one's leadership presence and effectiveness.

LE = P + S + N + MLS + OE

Knowing these factors specifically for you and generally for those you interact with most frequently, will dramatically accelerate your leadership presence.

Leadership Accelerator for Experienced Managers package includes:

• An objective and confidential Leadership Styles Inventory (LSI), which is a 360-degree assessment of leadership styles that involves up to five of your associates;
• A comparison report that profiles your leadership effectiveness across seven leadership dimensions vs. the top 5% of all leaders in our database (the "Ideal" leader).
• A two hour dial-in leader development session with a LeadFirst executive consultant during which your LSI will be interpreted for you and a precision improvement plan developed with you.
• Up to three follow-up leadership coaching sessions to ensure your leader development precision plan is working for you.
• Six-month LSI re-measure, which will reveal the progress you have made vs. your baseline measure at the commencement of the program.

You should enroll in Leadership Accelerator for Experienced Managers if:

• You are interested in leadership and how it affects you, those close to you, your finances and health.
• You plan to lead an organization or are already in a leadership position.
• You are interested in developing yourself to meet the challenges you will confront in a leadership role.
• You wish to make a difference in the world through leadership.

The Meaning of Leadership

What is leadership? It is a process by which one person influences the thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors of others. Leaders set a direction for the rest of us; they help us see what lies ahead; they help us visualize what we might achieve; they encourage us and inspire us. Without leadership a group of human beings quickly degenerates into argument and conflict, because we see things in different ways and lean toward different solutions. Leadership helps to point us in the same direction and harness our efforts jointly. Leadership is the ability to get other people to do something significant that they might not otherwise do. It's energizing people toward a goal.