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LEADERS WORTH FOLLOWING – CULTIVATING EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE

When thinking about what has been called the “new normal” I wonder, if something is “new”, can it be “normal”? And if it is “normal”, can it be “new”? I think what is both “new” and “normal” is change.

With the pandemic our world experienced a major reset and continues to change at a rapid pace. Remote workforces must collaborate within digital ecosystems that are often extremely complex. The ability to separate rest, work, and play to maintain a healthy work/life balance is becoming increasingly more difficult. Teams that are made up of different cultures, generations, mindsets, and personalities must be more agile and innovative. Communication and relationships, the foundation of effective and efficient team dynamics, is often overlooked as “leaders” wish to get to execution and capacity.

As our world changes, leadership needs to change. Our leadership mindset must be transformed to meet these never-ending challenges. Leadership is often mistaken for position and the C-suite is siloed from other executive and management layers. This lack of alignment impacts the entire workforce, and ultimately, customers, clients, students, patients, or whomever consumes what you do. The ability to look into the leadership mirror and understand how others perceive your leadership has become foggy. What is it like to be on the other side of you? What are your blind spots? When is the last time that you looked to see if people were truly following you?

Here's the call to action: What are you willing to do? It is easy to shift the blame somewhere else, but what are you willing to do? If you are an executive, are you willing to share, coach, mentor, and yes, listen? If you are a mid-level director, manager, or supervisor, are you willing to learn, share, listen and develop your ability to lead at a higher level? If you are an aspiring leader, are you willing to make your voice heard about what it is like to be part of a culture that is demoralized by poor leadership, and to listen and learn?

The inaugural Alaskan Leadership Symposium is aimed at providing ideas that challenge the status quo. It may seem strange to target an audience as diverse and broad as we are seeking to bring to the Captain Cook Hotel’s Discovery Ballroom on January 23^rd and 24^th, 2023. Our objective is to bring our community together to share perspectives, exchange ideas and tangible ways to refine and grow Alaskan leadership. We have made it through a lot together. We have endured economic crises, pandemics, earthquakes, storms, and more. Let’s get together to share our experiences, listen, positively challenge, and equip ourselves with a leadership mindset for the future. Let’s gain clarity, think differently, and become leaders that others want to follow.

We have assembled a small group of dynamic speakers that have helped others become better leaders and communicators. We have invited local leaders from diverse industries, backgrounds, and experiences to participate and facilitate panel discussions. We would like to bring together different perspectives, skills, tools, and techniques to help us take our leadership to the next level. Are you ready? What are YOU willing to do? We look forward to your participation and collaboration!

THEME: Leaders Worth Following ~ Cultivating Effective Leadership in the Digital Age

WHAT: A leadership Symposium

WHERE: The Captain Cook Hotel – Discovery Ballroom

INCLUDES: Valuable engagement and exchange of ideas on taking your leadership to the next level along with meals, refreshments, door prizes, swag, and opportunities to win books and merchandise

WHEN: January 23rd (full day) and January 24th (half-day)

WHO: The target audience is for anyone wanting to continue to develop their leadership skills. Leadership is for everyone, from top executives to the up-and-comers. We have put together content that will provide value for everyone who attends no matter your title, role, position, or location in the leadership journey.

• The C-Suite – Dealing with challenges associated with leading rapid change and remote workforces and providing compelling vision and strategy while operating in complex digital ecosystems. Needing to lead by influence over position.

• Directors, Mid-level Management, Supervisors – Dealing with challenges associated with 360° accountability and communicating up and down in the organization. Having to manage but needing to get buy-in and commitment. Need to lead by influence over position. Need to improve your skills in leading and developing teams.

• Sales and Marketing Personnel – Challenged with leading negotiations, building trust, understanding how to be interested before interesting, and learning how to build relationship before opportunity. Need to communicate more effectively, protect the brand and reputation, and develop a clear and consistent message.

• Business Owners and Entrepreneurs – Learning how to mature a growing organization and how to better lead and communicate to business partnerships and clientele. Challenged with the Sales and Marketing problems listed above and leading and building teams.

• Aspiring and up-and-coming Leaders – Challenged with getting to the next level, learning the language of leadership, gaining self-awareness and others awareness. Need to spend time with coaches, mentors, and other leaders that can help you up to the next level. Learning to influence and lead from any level in an organization.

• Project Managers and Credential Holders – Challenged with being a project leader vs. merely a manager and having to lead cross-functional initiatives while having minimal authority over resources and decisions. Need to lead by influence and motivation to get to deliverables. Need to keep up your professional certifications through PDUs.

WHY: An opportunity to learn from some of the trending leadership and communication coaches in the world, contribute to discussions and Q&A, collaborate, network, mentor, and learn with colleagues and peers. Gain awareness, find opportunities, and network your brand. Earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) and/or Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Breakaway from the grind for a day and half to charge your leadership batteries, boost morale, gain clarity, think differently, and become a leader that people want to follow.

OBJECTIVES and TAKEAWAYS:

• Greater Self-Awareness: Learn your voice and understand what it's like to be on the other side of your leadership.

• Better Alignment: Discover the sweet spots of those on your team, get better aligned, and reach higher levels of performance.

• Clear Communication: Communicate what you mean with clarity and effectiveness in an engaging and enrolling way. Understand the power of words and how to use them for positive transformation.

• Effective Delegation: Delegate more effectively to save time and increase productivity.

• Higher Performance: Confidently build high-performing teams with optimized capacity, rather than taking shots in the dark and hoping people do their jobs well.

• Quicker Decision Making: Learn how to listen better, ask helpful questions, and make more effective decisions quicker, while dealing with complex, constant, and rapid change.

• Hyper Resilience: Successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands. Embrace failure to achieve groundbreaking results. Recalibrate wellbeing.