Introduction and Background

Daring leadership is a collection of practical and teachable skillsets. Learning and practicing these skills requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart.

Dare to Lead is designed to untap the hidden potential in your organization’s people with specific steps to help them choose leadership, again and again. The Dare to Lead curriculum helps people and organizations become more courageous, builds trust, and provides practical tools for more effective communication and relationships one-on-one and in groups.

Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston and four-time New York Times best-selling author, spent years researching leadership and organizational cultures. One aspect of that research included interviewing 150 global C-level leaders on the future of leadership. She asked: “What, if anything, about the way people are leading today needs to change in order for leaders to be successful in a complex, rapidly changing environment?” Brown writes in Dare to Lead, “There was one answer across the interviews: We need braver leaders and more courageous cultures.”

Daring leaders know how to have hard conversations, hold themselves and others accountable, lead with empathy and connection, take smart risks that lead to innovation, build trust, reset quickly after disappointments and setbacks, and give and receive feedback – especially when it’s tough.

Based on her research, Dr. Brown developed an empirically based courage-building program. The four skills to be more courageous are teachable, observable, and measurable. Together, they lead to higher trust, higher impact teams. One of the core principles of this work is the belief in empowering leaders at all levels. Dr. Brown defines leaders as “Anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.”  

Google’s research into their highest performing teams found that far and away the most important of five key dimensions is psychological safety, defined as, “Team members feel safe to take risks and be vulnerable in front of each other.” 

While psychological safety is receiving more and more focus in the workplace, Dare to Lead is the only program we know of that teaches people how to be vulnerable, take risks, and be braver in ways that are successful. The greatest barrier to daring leadership is not fear; the greatest obstacle is armour – how we self-protect and avoid vulnerability when we feel uncertain. Certified Dare to Lead Facilitators teach others the skills necessary to move from armoured leadership to daring leadership.

• Program Overview
  Learn the four skills of a daring leader:

  • Rumbling with Vulnerability: Facing risk, uncertainty, and emotional exposure with courage and clarity.
  • Living into our Values: Identifying, operationalizing, and practicing the beliefs that we hold most important.
  • Braving Trust: Creating or deepening connections in relationships and teams based on the seven elements of trust.
  • Learning to Rise: Learning and growing from the failures, setbacks, and disappointments that are inevitable when we are brave with our lives.
• Key Learning Objectives
  • Understanding why vulnerability (uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure) is the foundational skill set of courage.
  • Understanding the critical role that self-awareness plays in daring leadership.
  • Understanding that it’s armour – not fear – that is the greatest obstacle to daring leadership.
  • Understanding that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are measurable, observable, and teachable.
  • Recognizing that vulnerability is the birthplace of many of the behaviors that define daring leadership, including creativity, accountability, and difficult conversations.
  • Recognizing that daring leadership requires showing up for hard conversations and ‘rumbles’, including giving and receiving feedback.
• What's Included
  • Daring Leadership Assessment
  • Videos featuring Brené Brown, who personally explains key elements of her research
  • 85-page workbook produced by Brené Brown
  • Post-workshop evaluation, administered by Brené Brown’s company
  • A Dare to Lead™ certificate
  • Optional short exam. If successful, you will receive a badge that can be used on you CV or displayed on LinkedIn (Dare to Lead Certified^TM)

   

Instructor Profile

Kellie Garrett, PCC, ICD.D, CDTLF, CDWF, IABC FELLOW
Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator

Cancellation

University of Saskatchewan's liability is limited to reimbursement of paid tuition fees.

Cancellations received at least ten (10) business days in advance of the course commencement date will receive a full refund. Cancellations received less than ten (10) business days prior to the course commencement date will be subject to a $200 administration fee. Cancellations received less than three (3) business days prior to the course commencement date will be subject to full course tuition cost.

Non-attendance will incur full course tuition cost.

Fees subject to change without notice.

Program Transfers

One course transfer will be permitted without penalty if the cancellation request is received within fifteen (15) business days prior to the course start date. Alternate program transfers may be approved dependent on course availability. Transfer requests must be scheduled within six (6) months of the initial purchase. Applicants will be responsible for any price difference in program fees at the time of the request. Each subsequent transfer request will be subject to $300 administration fee.