Leadership Residential Program

DAY 1: SELF-IN-ROLE – Reconnecting with Leadership Identity

Focus: Grounding in self-awareness, exploring leadership roles, and initiating personal inquiry.

Key Topics & Explorations:

• Understanding the dynamic between self, role, and system
• Exploring how personal identity impacts leadership style
• Identifying personal leadership myths and mental models
• Creating psychological safety for reflective learning

Frameworks Used: 

• • Johari Window (Self vs Others’ Perception)
  • Role Biography Mapping
  • Tavistock’s Group Relations Theory – Identity, Role, Task,Boundary (IRTB)

DAY 2: INNER DYNAMICS – Managing Emotions, Anxiety & Authority

Focus: Building emotional intelligence and resilience in high-stakes leadership.

Key Topics & Explorations:

• The neuroscience of leadership under stress
• Personal anxiety as a blocker to strategic clarity
• Emotional granularity: Naming and working with emotions
• Developing awareness of one’s triggers, coping responses, and projection patterns

Frameworks Used:

• Daniel Goleman’s 5 Pillars of Emotional Intelligence
• The “Window of Tolerance” for stress management
• Systems Psychodynamics – understanding resistance and shadow dynamics
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) for managing internal conflict

Methodologies:

• EI Self-assessment and reflective dialogue
• Deep listening exercises in facilitated pairs
• Conflict mapping and role simulation
• Individual coaching conversations and emotional processing

Feedback Mechanism:

• • Second round of One-on-One Feedback
  • Daily Reflection Journal reviewed by a mentor

DAY 3: RELATIONAL LEADERSHIP – Power, Influence & Group Dynamics

Focus: Understanding power, authority, and interpersonal complexity within and across organizational systems.

Key Topics & Explorations:

• Navigating organizational politics with integrity
• Holding power and working with powerlessness
• How perception, status, and projection shape relationships
• Creating influence without formal authority

Frameworks Used:

• French & Raven’s Power Typology
• Organizational Role Analysis (ORA)
• Sociodynamic Mapping
• Polarity Management (Managing opposing truths)

Methodologies:

• Group Simulations (mock boardroom dynamics)
• Role-playing real PSU scenarios (e.g., stakeholder negotiation, conflict resolution)
• Peer coaching and system feedback loops
• Collective “Shadow Work” Circle

Feedback Mechanism:

• • • Structured peer feedback using observation cards
    • Anonymous 360 feedback compiled and delivered in one-on-one session

DAY 4: INTEGRATION & TRANSFORMATION – Designing the Leader Within

Focus: Synthesizing learning and designing an authentic leadership path forward.

Key Topics & Explorations:

• Personal resilience and adaptive leadership
• Letting go of legacy behaviors and building new commitments
• Living your leadership legacy in PSU context
• Balancing vulnerability with authority

Frameworks Used:

• Theory U (Otto Scharmer) for transformation
• Immunity to Change Map (Kegan & Lahey)
• Circle of Influence and Concern (Covey)
• Hero’s Journey – Transition Framework for Mature Leaders

Methodologies:

• Creation of a Personal Leadership Manifesto
• Guided group ritual to release limiting beliefs
• Commitment sharing in a final peer council
• Presentation of feedback summary and action plan