Creative Leadership and Team Building

Artists and writers put their ideas in papers.
Leaders have to make them happen in the real world.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Organization and Leadership in present day context
• Vital attitude skills in communication
• Understanding Responsibility
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and interpersonal effectiveness
• Team building
• Facilitating and empowering people
• Feedback – the breakfast of champions
• Self-Leadership : The ultimate leadership task

CONTEXT

We are living in a difficult and increasingly complex world. Work cultures and values, across societies are rapidly changing. These are challenging times, and yet exciting—in terms of real growth opportunities.

Today, the biggest issues revolve around the area of leadership. When referring to leadership, it is no more the position but the qualities people in a team demonstrate. Clearly, the need of today’s organization is teams of people with subtle and sterling qualities of leadership at every level.

When the qualities are developed, these people can be powerful change catalysts in transforming the organization to a higher order of excellence. Collectively, such agents of change across different functions and hierarchies weave a robust network within the organization to embed and sustain a culture of high performance and a committed workforce.

In order to help manifest leadership qualities to meet the demands of organizational effectiveness, we would need to work at a rudimentary level of the ‘SELF’. When the core of the individuals has been tapped it has a direct bearing on the qualities they manifest and the actions they take.

The program sets the objectives to:

• Enhance self-insight and personal effectiveness
• Build rapport and develop quality relationships to influence, negotiate and resolve conflict easily
• Eliminate limiting beliefs and reduce stress levels for a more joyful and fulfilling life
• Become an active part of the co-creation of desired change in our environment
• Learn practical magic for energizing participation and commitment in groups and to enable huge shifts in self in terms of smoothening the whole process of leadership and key areas of responsibility, accountabilities in teams
• Learn how to build teams and communicate effectively such that the communication produces results

The program will traverse a dual journey of –

• ‘Doing' of a Leader: The key skill sets required to be a more facilitating, enabling and empowering leader
• 'Being' of a Leader: Self  Mastery, Creativity, Values & Vision Empowering Mindsets

CONTENTS

• Building leadership mind-set
• Vital attitude skills in communication (verbal and non-verbal)
• The art of giving and receiving feedback (using Johari Window)
• Dealing with difficult emotions; Being emotionally smart
• An awakening on Adversity Intelligence (AQ) and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
• Responsibility – from compliance to commitment
• Time management (managing self and energy)

Methodology:

• Conventional Methods (role plays, live case studies, team games, energizers & ice-breakers, lively dialogues)
• Individual reflection exercises
• Peer coaching sessions
• Brainstorming in subgroups and plenary
• Awakening meditative flow and play
• Out-door activities
• NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
• Action Planning

For queries and registration email: kabule@mos.com.np, kabuleader@gmail.com

Learner-Facilitator:

R. Manandhar is a professional trainer, executive life coach and psychological counselor. With two decades of leadership and managerial experience in international organizations under his belt, he has been helping people better develop their personal and professional excellence for the last seven years. His programs have touched the lives of hundreds of people, who claim to have been positively transformed following their participation.

While leading ‘Kabule-the Wise Leader’ and ‘NLP Nepal Catalyst for Transformation’, he is the focal person in designing and delivering trainings particularly on leadership, management and team building exercises. He is also a certified NLP trainer from ICTA and Makani Academy (Denmark and Cyprus). He has received trainings on inspiring leadership, Gestalt, mindfulness and Positive Psychology from internationally reputed trainers.

He has also been a regular columnist in several magazines on leadership and personal development. He has contributed to Yubamunch monthly youth digest for two years; and at present he has been contributing to The Himalayan Times (Nepal’s No. 1 English daily) as a columnist of the ‘Leadership League’ since 2010.

Manandhar has been a Buddhist monk for five years studying and practicing Buddhism in Thailand. He is studying Eastern philosophy and practicing yoga and meditations.

Some of our clients have been:

Measurement of Impact:

• ‘Kabule’ has been into leadership development from 2006 and further enlarged to Catalyst for Transformation Pvt. Ltd. in 2010. It has conducted over fifty programs for I/NGOs and corporate houses and over 20 Leadership & Teambuilding programs which have been appreciated by more than 200 professionals for making them behave spontaneously as an effective leader and team player. Some have shared that the course has opened up new insights in their life. And some have also shared the program as a transformational experience – profoundly revealing and life-changing in a very precious way.
• We have worked with professionals at different levels – senior professionals including CEOs/Country Directors and functional heads of organisations, mid level managers and frontline workers. Some in-house programs include the Country Director to Drivers and Guards. The beauty is that the feedbacks from all were equally positive.
• ‘Leadership Development’ is the main theme of Kabule. Many organizations have repeatedly hired our services for leadership training and many others have been sending participants on a regular basis.
• Some large organizations have been hiring us on a regular basis for different themes: e.g. stress management, sales, personal development, staff retreat facilitation, etc.

Some reflections from participants of Kabule’s previous programs:

• “The best learning session of my life!”
  Reshma Shrestha, Association of INGOs in Nepal (AIN)
  
• “I am highly grateful for providing such a soulful insight in various aspects of life such as creative leadership, responsibility, personal excellence, communication skills, etc. I believe that even if a little bit of this can be implemented in our real life will be really meaningful and fulfilling. All the best for your future success.”
  Gaurab S. Thapa, United Telecom
• “Sincerely saying, the training was really fantastic and creative. Creative in this way like all the qualities that are required for team building and leading are already resided within our heart. What this training did for me is, it re-energized those qualities inside me and I not only hope but also assure you that they will be beating in rhythm of my heart in every step in my life.”
  Prakash Koju, United Telecom
• “Thank you so much for these 3 days. It has been wonderful experience and I wish all the success for all your future ventures.”
  Nima Lama, The Last Resort
• “Really it was wonderful four days for me and I would like to thank and express gratitude to Kiran and Rajendra and my organization for this opportunity. It has helped me to revitalize my knowledge, skill, attitude and enhanced the professional quality.”
  Netra pd. Upadhaya, Plan Nepal
• “This training has been really helpful to me to explore myself, the brighter side of life and develop positive attitude in my days to come. I would like to thank everyone for providing me this opportunity. I believe I can have a brighter tomorrow and positive attitude towards life after attending this training.”
  Reshma Bajracharya, Ncell
• “I have not speculated that training can be in this form. There is not much framework and guidelines. Still it was wonderful. It will surely bring change in my life.”
  Kopila Dangol, Actionaid
• " The experience has been wonderful and thoroughly enjoyed by all the participants. I am amazed by how deep insights were realized in a playful way. Thanks R. Manandhar and Kabule for giving us such a wonderful experience."
  Sumitra Manandhar Gurung (Ph. D.)
  Chairperson, Mahila Sahayatra Microfinance Bittiya Sanstha
• “It has been a wise decision choosing Kabule for facilitating the annual staff retreat program. Everyone was amazed how so many activities (indoor, outdoor) were possible in a short time. It has been both entertaining and useful for enhancing leadership quality and team work. Thanks R., my dear friend.”
  Shiva Acharya, HR & Administration Manager, Room-to-Read
• “It was an excellent workshop. Now there is a new TURNING POINT which helps me in my field.It was nourishing and there was good atmosphere for the workshop – one to one experience.”
  Dijo K. Jonh, Kiran Village, Varanasi
• “The presence of Kiran and R. Manandhar and their way of being touched us immensely. It was full of so much learning insights! I am simply grateful for these four days.”
  Sahadev Mahat , Pragya Management
• “It is amazing.! It’s really wonderful! The process was so simple yet very powerful. It helped me to awaken myself. Thank you so much. I am so happy that I have participated the training.”
  Sangeeta Shrestha, Chairperson SHLEESHA and Trainer
• “These four days have been very important for me. I learnt what responsibility is, the deep meaning of listening, speaking, questioning and giving space. I experienced the magic of appreciation. Now I am confident that I can solve the problems I am facing in my life. I found myself very happy now.”
  Laxmi Rai, Lumanti
• “You are a very good trainer. You gave us quality of life and how we build relationship. Thanks for your kind support.”
  Sita Siwakoti, N. M. E. S.
  
• “Appreciate your patience. Appreciate you time management. Appreciate you creativeness and talent.”
  Tara Nepal, UTL
• “Dear Rajendra and Kiran, this training has been very insightful. For me, it really touched the essence of being with oneself and working with people. Good balance between fun, deep insights, knowledge and practice of skills.”
  Miriam Lindware, Trainer and Coach, Sunflower Coaching (Presently in ICIMOD)
• “I feel I got so many tips to implement in my practical life. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Kiran for his new techniques which I can adopt in my family and work life for better an effective teaching/learning.”
  Pushpa Raj Bhandari, Director, Birgunj Finance Company Ltd. (BFCL)
  (Presently in Bank of Kathmandu)