Challenge U Leadership programs are a customized combination of experiential formats, activities and exercises that has a group or individual move to their next level of leadership. The first step in designing the best program for you or your team is to set up a meeting or a call to discuss your ideal outcomes. Once Challenge U has an idea of the goals or outcomes you are seeking and any obstacles or challenges that play into the equation, we will present a proposal of options and costs to support in attaining those outcomes.

Please contact us to set up a call to discuss how we can partner to open new and effective doors to leadership with you or your company.

And if you would like to know a little about our leadership philosophy, see the content below.

Distinctions of a

Manager – Boss – Leader

Manager

• Responsible for process.
• Establishes and attains objectives.
• Optimizes use of time, money, material, energy and human resource.
• Plans – organizes – directs– coordinates – controls.

Boss (Commander)

• Position of legal authority.
• Formal head of a unit.
• Appointed through a system.

Leader.

• One who influences others to take effective action.

An understanding of these distinctions allows one to see that being a manager and/or a boss does not necessarily mean one will be an effective leader.  And we need to recognize that one can be a leader without holding a management position of having the title of “boss”.

“[Boss/command] normally includes a requirement for exercising leadership, but its nature depends on the ability, behavior, or mission of the individual commander [boss].  A captain may be designated a company commander; however, he/she must still effectively influence others to be called a leader.”

P. 1-3, The Study of Leadership, US Military Academy, OMPL, USCC, AY 1971-72.