Adventures with ThirdRiver Partners
The Shared Goal achievement™ experience—a Workshop for Creating Greater Goals In this powerful day and a half experience where teams take a deep dive into the concepts, tools, and methods that drive engagement and build capability for strategy execution, you’ll see results by
• Aligning individuals and teams to Greater Goals
• Growing skills in strategy execution and change management
• Building successes on breakthrough innovations
• Getting everybody connected and engaged
• Building bridges to key stakeholders
The Shared Goal Achievement™ Experience brings leaders and their teams into an intensive, interactive learning environment that accelerates the development of their capability to execute critical strategies. To increase organizational effectiveness, you will learn to
• Clarify what matters most and affirm critical team strategies
• Identify untapped strengths and possibilities to advance
• Confirm commitments and refresh specific action plans
• Recognize progress, new opportunities, and contributions to success
Enterprise success requires coordinated action toward Greater Goals. The critical strategies of multiple teams and individuals must intersect and align effectively. We will help you achieve this goal.
Shared Goal Achievement™ is a strategy-execution framework that translates critical strategic goals into powerful breakthroughs at every level of the organization. This framework
• Produces strategies that enable people to achieve Greater Goals
• Creates clear, coherent action plans that align and leverage multiple strategies, goals, and tactics
• Assigns the best talent to breakthrough opportunities
• Builds wholehearted commitment from individuals and teams whose goals and strengths are aligned with those of the organization
• Creates an environment of authentic service and value for all stakeholders
Organizations aligned in this way consistently outperform those that are not.
Ken Jennings will challenge your team with leading-edge ideas, strategies, and practical actions. Get ready for a unique and exciting experience!
—William Sterling, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Trilogy Global Advisors
Serving Leader Certification—a Shared Leadership Approach
The Serving Leader Certification process enables your organization to build internal capacity and to put servant leadership to work in your organization by offering a comprehensive whole-systems change approach focused on evidence-based research and best practices. These practices include
• Facilitating shared leadership through creative dialogue
• Enhancing accountability and coordination of effort through commitment management
• Engaging in continuous improvement and practical innovation through after-action reviews
• Developing outstanding coaching capability
• Creating breakthroughs by helping employees close the gap between desired outcomes and current reality
The Certification process is focused around the Serving Leader Toolkit™, an integrated development suite of practices that allows internal coaches, facilitators, and business partners to custom design interventions for leader, team, and organizational development by mixing and matching worksheets while enabling a consistent message, language, and set of practices to proliferate throughout the organization.
Certification is delivered through an action-learning process that focuses on direct application both individually and collectively and enables participants to start to cascade and integrate Serving Leader practices throughout the organization while learning the material. Peer and expert feedback, intervention coaching, and observation are integrated into the certification process.
Greater Goal Coaching™—a
Uniquely Powerful Discipline to Achieve Shared Goals
Every interaction a leader has offers an opportunity to positively influence the performance of the organization. ThirdRiver Partners’ Greater Goal Coaching™ approach uniquely equips your leaders to coach and collaborate with others to achieve the Greater Goals of your organization.
Those who experience Greater Goal Coaching™ will
• Capitalize on successful breakthroughs as they occur, building bridges to key stakeholders and fearlessly confronting barriers that arise
• Create powerful teams that employ the deep strengths of their members by leveraging key organizational assets and successes
• Build dynamic learning teams who proactively diagnose the reasons for success and failure, make critical adjustments, and continually innovate to create new competitive advantages
Also by Ken Jennings, with John Stahl-Wert
The Serving Leader
5 Powerful Actions That Will Transform Your
Team, Your Business, and Your Community
Foreword by Ken Blanchard
The Serving Leader makes the case for a new kind of business leadership, based on a moral code, more effective than the traditional approach. Serving leaders are qualified to be first by putting other people first. Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert explain this paradox, outlining the basics of servant leadership in this business fable. Telling the story about an estranged son, his dying father, and a remarkable group of innovative leaders, the authors illustrate five key principles of servant leadership. This is the most practical servant leadership guide available, as well as a tale about the personal journey of growth that real leadership requires.
Paperback, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-57675-308-8
PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-60994-205-2
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