Inclusive Leadership

Inclusive Leadership Lab

After 6 weeks walk away with improved habits that foster heightened feelings of inclusion and belonging among diverse groups of peers, direct reports, supervisors, and other colleagues.

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About this Lab

Schools and life experiences rarely present us with adequate knowledge and experience to effectively and consistently appreciate, honor, and celebrate our fellow workers diverse backgrounds, choices, and ways of being. This course provides such knowledge along with exercises that elevate awareness of self, others, and situations. Led by Al Adamsen, this 5 week experience considers relevant research on the brain and interpersonal intelligence and, in turn, offers experiences that help understand how one shows up to others and how they can create environments and situations, even virtually, that can be safe physically, emotionally, and psychologically. This approach is rooted in Growth Mindset and Situational Leadership principles. In the end, the learner will walk away with knowledge, tools, and techniques to go beyond safety to create environments and situations where people feel seen, heard, and empowered — that is, they feel included and feel that they truly belong.

Next Lab starts Tuesday, Feb 16th, 2021

Weekly Online Live Sessions:

Each Tuesday from 1:00 to 3:00pm Pacific US

Course starts February 16th, 2021 and runs through March 16th, 2021

Office hours will be available weekly for personal feedback and coaching. Between sessions, plan on 1 to 3 hours of reading, reflections, and practices.

If interested you’re interested in this lab but the times don’t work for you, then please let us know via the form below. Similarly, if you’re interested in this course for a group within your organization, please let us know through the form as well.

Thanks for your interest in this critically important topic.

Indicative Course Outline

Week 1:

The first week of the course will be a lot of share and explore around prominent leadership frameworks. This will help define your own “structure of interpretation” and also give you visibility into the concepts that are influencing others in the cohort. This will be a bit of head-centered launch into the experience.

Week 2:

Week two will involve auditing how you show up in the world now versus how you want to show up. What do you believe you’re really good at? Where do you believe you need to improve the most? Where do you believe you will, in fact, improve the most? This awareness will set the stage for week three.

Week 3:

Week three will be among the most challenging. You’ll work in a pod observing others be coached/directed. You’ll practice leading, being led, and observing others do this. Obviously, this will be a bit challenging in a virtual setting, yet it’ll reflect the reality of today. Openness and compassion will be elevated needs during this time which, in itself, will be a practice.

Week 4:

Week four will build awareness around somatic and relational intelligence. We will leverage the previous week’s experience to better understand ourselves and one another. From here, we’ll start strategizing on what will be best for us.

Week 5:

Week five will focus on what’s best for those around us. This could be our team, a group, set of internal customers, stakeholders, or the whole organization. To advance one’s leadership abilities one requires an effort to improve the environment in which they work and, in this new reality, live. This, in turn, will affect the situational awareness — the reduction of distraction and the elevated ability to focus and leverage temporal intelligence, the wise use of time.

Week 6:

Week six will bring everything together. It’ll involve documenting and aligning your personal plan and the plan for others in your sphere. You’ll share these will fellow cohort members along with a personal commitment to form certain habits, those self-selected practices you believe will get you where you want to go.

Lab Leader

Al Adamsen

The Lab will be led by Al Adamsen, PAFOW’s Founder & CEO. Al has served as a leader within numerous organizations including Ernst & Young, Gap Inc., Kenexa (now IBM), Insight222, and PAFOW. Al was also an entrepreneur in Russia and Ukraine in the mid to late ’90’s. His leadership approach is based on many academics and thought leaders, in particular those responsible for the development of leading concepts like Growth Mindset, Mindfulness, Situational Leadership, and Conscious Leadership.

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