Seminars

Our flagship Virtuous Leadership program helps participants to achieve personal excellence through the cultivation of such virtues as magnanimity, prudence, justice, courage and self-control.

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1. Virtue – The Key to Successful Leadership

Leadership is neither a skill nor a technique but a state of being.  It is a question of character, of virtue in action.

Adapting leadership concepts derived from the classical European philosophical tradition to modern organizations, Virtuous Leadership transcends the common perception of leadership as a matter of charisma and personal style and the employment of techniques of persuasion that all too often lapse into manipulation.

The program challenges participants to review their assumptions about leadership and their criteria for professional success in light of the classical virtues, imparting a new awareness of virtue as the key to

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  • Effective decision-making
  • The formulation of compelling and realistic strategic plans
  • Building consensus
  • Effective communication
  • Winning trust and loyalty
  • Motivating others through the human attractiveness of the leader’s personality
  • Creating a rich and genuine corporate culture

 

By providing a framework for understanding the classical virtues and a methodology for practicing them, Virtuous Leadership helps participants to acknowledge their strengths and flaws from a leadership perspective and gives them the necessary means to improve – professionally and personally.

2. Program Content

The program consists of 3 modules, which include the following topics:

Module I: Greatness and Service
  • Purpose, meaning, sense of mission and vocation
  • Management by mission (MBM) v. Management by objectives (MBO
  • Challenging people to lead 
  • Empowerment and inclusion
  • The benefits of collegiality
  • Building a team culture
  • Altruistic motivation
  • Gaining in order to serve v. serving in order to gain
  • The financial benefits of a corporate culture of trust and commitment

Module II: Practical Wisdom and Willpower 

  • Prudence or practical wisdom: the virtue specific to decision-makers
  • Insight into the facts and «definition of reality»
  • Critical analysis, rationalizations and prejudices
  • Insight, foresight and command
  • Character and perception of reality
  • Staying the course
  • Self control and time management
  • Truthfulness, empathy and communication

Module III: Leaders are not Born, they are Trained

  • Leadership is a question of character, not temperament
  • Leaders of mind, will and heart
  • Realism v. idealism, skepticism and cynicism
  • Leadership and self-fulfillment
  • Self-knowledge and mentoring

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3. Methodology

Virtuous Leadership’s methodology stems from the two essential notions upon which it is predicated:

  1. Leadership is a question of character and character is virtue in action.
  2. Every human being is capable of acquiring and growing in virtue.The program helps participants to change and to improve – professionally and personally. The key to achieving this result is guidance and reflection. Self-examination – a very personal assessment of character strengths and flaws – is essential to achieving personal growth.

 

Thus, the program consists of a three-pronged format:

  1. Lectures
  2. Case studies and class discussion among the peer group
  3. Personalized mentoring after the program

4. Participants Profile

Virtuous Leadership is rooted in classical teachings, whose applicability is universal and timeless, about the nature of the human person.  As such, Virtuous Leadership is offered to professional managers and aspiring managers regardless of their sector of professional activity.

The HVLI seminar is designed to be a transformative experience – it’s about character, not technique; it aims to radically improve your inner self. Its content derives from academic research rooted in practical experience and the Western philosophical and spiritual tradition; it eschews psychobabble. It is daring: in an age of pessimism, it present an optimistic vision of man and his capacity to improve himself and society. It is provocative: it insists that the pre-condition for long-term success is morality and ethics. It provides a clear and practical tool kit for developing leadership skills.