Inside THE SENSEI LEADER Movement: What makes SL different?

Explain how the Sensei Leader program is different than most leadership development programs. Do you teach soft skills or more technical management?

Well, if you want to call them soft skills, and I really hate that term, right? Yeah. These are the most powerful skills, and the research is clear on this. And it's funny because I joke about the research all the time. We need more research to tell us what we already know. People work harder, they produce more, they create more, they're more innovative when they know their leaders care about them, when they trust and respect their leaders. So tell me, what is a more powerful— what are more powerful assets than respect, trust, and loyalty? And yet they're labeled as soft. So these are powerful assets. Now, what makes the Sensei Leader programs a little bit different? I still think that if we want to call it this, classical leadership development is often stuck in producing to-do lists. Very few programs really customize, right, to the individual. Every individual in that, in that group should come away with two things, and these are the only two expectations, the only two expectations you really need. We're gonna share and create strategies to help that person develop as a leader and as a person, and you're gonna leave with disciplines, specific disciplines, action steps that you're going to embed in your daily life. It takes practice. It takes discipline. It takes time. Sounding an awful lot like a martial artist again, no? Yeah. And that's why this imprint works so well. What we're really teaching people to do is to be, to think like black belts, like the title of one of our books, and to be the sensei. And that involves a tremendous amount of discipline. When you embrace these disciplines, when you make this part of your daily life, That's when the really— that's when the growth and development really happens.