The Leadership Challenge® Workshop—Why It’s Often Called a “Life Changing” Experience

Recently, during the kick-off of a twelve-month leadership development process (using the Leadership Challenge^® Workshop content), a past participant described his experience to a group of leaders being introduced to the process. He summed up his experience as “life changing” and shared examples of ways the experience had impacted him.

As I’ve facilitated these types of long-term engagements, I’ve heard hundreds of similar descriptions. Below is a sample of reactions, pulled from emails I have received from participants in the Leadership Challenge^® Workshop experience:

• “This is life changing and could not have come at a better time. I learned a lot about myself as a leader and have cemented my core values—honesty, achievement, dependability, and happiness. My core values are what drive me every day and if I hold true to them, they should allow me to focus on what I feel is important.”
•  “This process has brought me closer to my true self. There is always a trigger behind one realizing one’s destined path – I have seen it countless times in my life. I am so thankful that this has come into my life – the trigger which has helped shape my professional and PERSONAL evolvement.”
• “I had a moment today that the training helped me through…I got really frustrated because of something a team member said, and instead of reacting, I remembered my values; I listened and filtered out the content and helped my team member with a solution.  I can see that I have really grown through this process.”

I’m not surprised when I hear these reactions as something magical happens during the process—participants are reminded of their intrinsic value. What they often discover is that which makes them most effective as a leader has been with them all along—they just need to get out of their own way.

FlashPoint offers a public Leadership Challenge^® Workshop each spring. If you are interested in learning more about this experience, please click here for additional information.

Andrea Moore is a Senior Consulting Manager at FlashPoint; Andrea focuses on leadership development, training and performance improvement solutions, and one-on-one coaching.