Dr. D. Leitner
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Followership, Leadership & Strategy
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First time managers and anyone interested in improving their relationship with their leader and followers need to learn how to Lean Into Leadership. Learn tools, best practices, styles and skills so that leadership learns how to engage followership for success.
The “Leaning In” program concentrates specifically on the skills for exemplary communication and positive feedback systems.
We work together to improve communication skills. You and your teams will learn about the different leadership and followership styles and begin to understand how specific techniques are more or less effective with different types of followers and different developmental levels.
As part of this program, we run simulations that help instill a clear understanding of how to give feedback, accept feedback, determine roadblocks, provide instructions and coaching, as well as create positive relations with different types of followers.
Leadership is about connecting with your followers and getting them to move together on a mutual strategic process.
Originally designed for middle-management, Reframing Leadership takes a deep look into the importance of understanding followership in-depth. This is vital for any level of of an organization -from the smallest teams to the highest level – because our view of leadership significantly impacts our understanding of followership and our ability to accomplish goals in a timely and efficient manner.
The program guides the participants in understanding the different skills needed to address followership. Participants discover which skills they are strongly suited to and learn how to improve their weaker skills as well as teach their followers how to work with them.
As part of the workshop series, Dr. D. explains how to determine a follower’s styles and levels, and how leaders can use position, influence, and persuasion to get things done as they build teams.
Directed at upper management and executive leadership, the “Visionary Leadership Program” works to utilize followership concepts to make the right decisions about the future of the organization.
These workshops helps the executive team effectively communicate strategic objectives. And they learn how to determine how to use followership to choose who should be promoting those objectives.
Participants in this program learn to identify leaders who demonstrate strategic understanding and present as Strategic Partners.
Leadership learns how to view effective feedback systems in those most likely to bring organizationally driven concepts to fruition.
The program also helps create or improve the necessary feedback loops that will provide executive leadership with the information most likely to lead to ethical decisions making for future success.
What type of follower do you want in your organization? What types of followers are most likely to create a fluid dynamic leadership team and organization?
These are some of the main questions we address.
My Thoughts
Followership and Leadership
What is Followership and why is it important?
We hear the word leadership a lot these days. But, what are leaders without followers? There are more followers than leaders in every organization. And most (if not all) of the leaders are also followers.
Followership is integral to successful strategic engagement. It is time to focus on followership and understand how it impacts teams and organizations.
From Strategy to Tactics
What is Strategy and why is it important?
We all engage strategy and tactics in our work and home. By learning and understanding strategy and tactics, leaders and followers are more likely to find a state of co-flow where they work in synergy and in support of each other.
So it’s important for people at every level of an organization to understand how strategy, tactics, and followership work together.
My Story
I have spent over 20 years studying and researching followership, leadership, and strategy. And I have been educating teams, managers, students, IDF soldiers, one-year program groups, youth groups, campers, and more about how to engage strategy and leadership for over 15 years. I got my nickname “Dr. D.” from one of my students while teaching at Bar-Ilan University over the last 10+ years.
Born and raised in the USA, I came to Israel over 25 years ago on a one year program. The moment I set foot in the country, I knew that I was home.