Dawn Frail - The Heart Method

The Heart Method™ is a 3-step strategy that helps women to become better leaders by teaching them to embrace and engage their natural female strengths. The result is dramatically improved personal leadership performance and team productivity. Available in 30-90 minute keynote.

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1. Listen To Your Heart: Being a great female leader requires a level of courage, energy and passion that can only come from deep inside your core – your “heart”. When you’re faced with an unpopular decision or put into a difficult situation, you need to feel that what you believe is right. You need to rely on your deepest intuitive wisdom.
2. Make Up Both Your Minds: There are many leadership situations where your head and your heart will be at odds with one another. As a woman leader, every time this happens you must resolve this internal struggle before moving forward. Then you will be able to stand with conviction when your wisdom faces obstacles, adversities and challenges.
3. Lead With Dignity: Once you have made up your mind, as a female leader, you need to lead with dignity; to exude an air of calm assurance and resolve that cannot be undermined. By focusing on the art of dignity, female leaders can be much more effective.

OUR PROCESS

Private Coaching

Leaders often find that with the help of a coach, performance can be enhanced significantly in a short period of time. A typical coaching partnership begins by establishing objectives and goals and building a customized development plan.

Sessions are held either in person or on the telephone and include various learning and assessment tools, all of which help the leader assess, learn and practice. The leader`s own team is the environment where knowledge is transferred into action. Dedication to fieldwork and stretch projects are expected from the leader and along the way we review progress and evaluate results.

The International Women`s Leadership Project™

The IWLP™ is dedicated to leadership excellence for women around the world. Designed for women in leadership roles, this year-long leadership development program is exclusively for women who are serious about getting extraordinary results.

Intensive learning sessions are combined with private coaching and telephone and email support. This process ensures the leader has the knowledge and skill they need to lead with excellence in 6 critical areas:

Vision and Direction Setting
Self Leadership
Building High Performing Teams
Communication
Change Management
Execution

Learning sessions are typically conducted at the front end, giving the leader the remainder of the year to build their skill with the help of a private coach. As the year progresses, feedback comes from various sources, including their immediate leader and their team and the development plan is adjusted as progress is made. Upon completion, the leader is a lifetime member of The IWLP™ Alumni.

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Achieve Leadership Greatness...

Define the playing field

Strong leadership begins with an understanding of where you are and a vision of where you are going. Create an inspirational vision, a motivational mission, executable goals and liveable values. Weave these into a strong foundation that delivers a creative and sustainable plan for moving your team and yourself forward.

Understand the culture of the organization and how it impacts results
Assess the current and desired culture of your team
Draft goals that enable execution
Explore the relationship between trust and loyalty in the workplace

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Leading the Leader

Myers Briggs is a personality profiling tool that helps you understand yourself better and in turn, get along better with others. This session will explore the dynamics of differences between people and is targeted to help you and your people get better results.

Analyze your own personality type
Understand how your type affects your ability to get results
Get along better with others, regardless of personality differences
Better manage change, stress, communication, conflict, team building, etc. both inside and outside the workplace

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Create a team of great players

Managing the performance of individuals and the team as a whole is often the most difficult part of a leader’s job. The more diverse a team is, the stronger the leader must be in order to draw out the full potential. Navigate the different needs, engage the individuals, and turn a group of professionals into a high-performing team

Understand the five stages of team development
Diagnose the development level of your current team
Define a plan for moving your team to the next level
Use a situational leadership methodology to drive performance

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...By Optimizing Team Performance

Energize your communication

A vast amount of time and energy is spent communicating when you are a leader. Yet miscommunication is still the root of many leadership challenges, both large and small. Communicate for understanding in interpersonal communication situations and handle formal presentations with confidence and poise.

Communicate for understanding vs. speaking to be heard
Craft and deliver an engaging message to all levels of the organization
Be more aware of the non-verbal messages
Understand how to be more effective in formal presentation settings

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Get people on board with change

Leaders skilled in dealing with the inevitable dynamics of change are able to capitalize on productivity improvements sooner. Skillfully managing the team, including yourself, through change, resistance and transition is the hallmark of a great leader.

Understand the difference between change and transition
Apply transition management to any personal or organizational change
Use a proven process for breaking through resistance
Analyze change properly and make more effective decisions
Design a plan for effectively communicating change

Deliver great results

Your ability to rally the team around the organizational strategy and deliver on it will be a true test of your leadership ability. No one wins until execution happens.