VBL Advanced Development Sessions

These customized sessions provide practical opportunities to practice Values-Based® Leadership skills on real issues. Whether the issues are organizational or interpersonal, Kelly Gerling will facilitate your group or team so that your people will apply VBL skills on the spot. Group size varies from 6 to 60.

Preparation Process

1. Initial Survey - Improvement ideas and issues will be asked for in a simple survey.
2. Fill Out and Return Surveys - Your office will send surveys to The Leadership Project office.
3. Surveys Summarized - We will summarize the ideas and issues and send them back to you for ranking.
4. Issues Ranked - The participants in the session who filled out the surveys will rank the list of summarized issues in order of importance and send them back to us.
5. Rankings Summarized - Kelly Gerling will summarize the rankings and send them back to each person.
6. People Volunteer - People volunteer ahead of time to step up and take care of the most highly ranked issues in the session.
7. Take Care of Issues - When we have our VBL Advanced Development Session, we'll take care of as many issues as we can, in order of importance. Naturally, we can be successful as long as we have people who volunteer to step up and participate.

What We Do in the Session

• Review Positive Progress - We review the progress we have made in applying VBL skills.
• Review How We Can Improve - We review survey information on how we can improve as an organization.
• Leadership Development Laboratory - We take care of real issues through interaction in front of and supported by the whole group.
• Commitment Circle - We make commitments to develop and use our skills in the future.

Benefits of VBL Development Sessions

• Learning to solve the problems and opportunities for further practicing our values, both personal and organizational.
• People enhance their reputations and skills by stepping up and working on real issues.
• Learn how to better balance integrity, objectivity and empathy in real situations.
• Learn when to use our skills: When do we use leadership counseling? When do we do requesting?
• Learn how to change and heal whatever prevents us from using our capabilities as leaders.
• Asking and answering: "How can we spread our VBL skills throughout the organization during the next year?"

Developing Internal VBL Facilitators

It is important to develop a person or persons who will do VBL facilitation within the organization on both a proactive and as needed basis. That will accelerate the process of integrating VBL skills into the daily life of the organization.

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