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The Leadership Challenge

Does leadership make a difference? Is leadership an inborn trait or can leadership be taught?

Backed by 30 years of original research and data from millions of leaders around the world, The Leadership Challenge model - put together by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner - offers a set of leadership practices based on the real-world experiences of thousands of people in leadership roles.

What it reveals is that leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others. What it has also shown dramatically over the years is that people make extraordinary things happen by liberating the leader within everyone.


The promise that The Leadership Challenge holds forth and the lessons it teaches is that: Leaders do exhibit certain distinct practices when they are doing their best. This process varies little from industry to industry, profession to profession, community to community, country to country. Good leadership is an understandable and a universal process. Though each leader is a unique individual, there are patterns to the practice of leadership that are shared. And that can be learned.

The key learning from The Leadership Challenge is that when getting extraordinary things done in organizations, leaders engage in these Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership:

• Model the Way.
• Inspire a Shared Vision.
• Challenge the Process.
• Enable Others to Act.
• Encourage the Heart.

Through an immersive workshop experience that involves a mixture of introspection, discussion, debate, sharing of experiences, stories from around the world and experiential activities, FOCUS Adventure (with Facilitators certified by Jim Kouzes himself) brings to life this powerful paradigm - to make a difference to all participants who embark on this enthralling journey.

The outcomes that the workshop seeks to achieve with the participants are:

• Identify their leadership strengths and weaknesses.
• Clarify and communicate their fundamental values and beliefs.
• Set the example for others by aligning their actions with shared values.
• Express their images of the future.
• Inspire others to share a common vision.
• Search for opportunities to change and improve.
• Experiment with innovative ideas and learn from accompanying mistakes.
• Build collaboration, teamwork, and trust.
• Strengthen the ability of others to excel.
• Recognize the accomplishments of others.
• Apply the lessons learned in the workshop to a current organizational challenge.

If you are looking at putting your team through a leadership workshop, that is very practical and meaningful to each one of them - with a methodology that is highly experiential, FOCUS Adventure invites you to take The Leadership Challenge!

Contact Us today - we will be glad to meet up and discuss the possibilities for your team!