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Retreat Agenda

The Hero’s Journey: Legendary Leadership and Employee Engagement

December 3, 2008

Agenda

  • This is your call to adventure
    • Leadership
      • Everyone leads from every chair
  • Introduce The Hero’s Journey
    • Leadership Model
  • Skill Transfer
    • Practical Application of The Hero’s Journey
      • Professional
      • Personal

Source Material

  • “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” by Joseph Campbell, published 1949

The IMBALANCE

  • All heroic tales begin in the same place; there is an imbalance
    • Princess has lost her golden ball in a well
    • Local dragon is on a bing and purge spree
    • Patch of woods everyone avoids because something strange is going on out there
  • The IMBALANCE in your world may be . . .