SVForum Engineering Leadership Event: Why Would Anyone Follow You? July 21, 2011

Why Would Anyone Follow You? The Language and Behaviors of the Most Admired (and Despised) Leaders

Attend. Find out. Practice. Change.

Leadership is not a position in an organization chart or a title on a business card. Leadership is a way of thinking, behaving, and communicating. Leaders have only 3 tools at their disposal: A.C.T.
-Actions -Communication (both talking and listening) -Thinking

Of course followers can only directly experience 2 of those tools. Followers judge the effectiveness of leaders by their actions and communication. The pitfalls of poor leadership are well known, as are the practices of the most admired leaders in the world. But knowing how to do something has never been enough in itself to assure success. (If knowing how were enough we'd all be rich and thin!)

This event is NOT about telling you how to be a great leader. This highly engaging and interactive session will give you an opportunity to practice acting and communicating like a great leader. Come curious and prepared to participate, and leave more the kind of leader you admire.

SPEAKER: Kimberly Wiefling, Wiefling Consulting, Inc., Global Business Leadership Consultant, Author of the top-selling project management book "Scrappy Project Management - The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces" and "Scrappy Women in Business - Living Proof That Bending the Rules Isn't Breaking the Law." More about Kimberly: Kimberly specializes in enabling people to achieve what seems impossible, but is merely difficult. She does this using practical, common sense approaches proven to work in the real business world. She currently spends about half of her time working with high-potential leaders in Japanese companies as the executive program director for ALC Education's Global Management Consulting Group, facilitating leadership, innovation, global team effectiveness, and execution excellence workshops.

Official Website: http://www.svforum.org/ELSIG