The Captain's Rules: Leadership Lessons from the Sea

“Why are we all so out of sync?”

“Why is it so hard to realize our potential?”

“Why does trust always seem to be a problem?”

If these questions are your questions, this weekend will help you understand and engage them at a deeper level.

Container Practice and other leadership techniques from the sea,  brought ashore for you and your organization.

For Leaders who Teach, and Teachers who Lead.

A good ship’s crew is the model of a high performance team, consistently at their best in the most demanding circumstances. The challenges of the sea must be met with the strengths of mutual trust, clarity of purpose, and a high degree of self-organization.

In this context, leadership is a generosity practice, always focused on the best in everyone. It’s a practice everyone, not just the leader, can do.

We will explore:

Leadership as a generosity practice

Creating the potent situation that accomplishes our goals for us (Container Practice)

Leading with speech

Leading with silence

You can expect:

A highly interactive and experiential learning experience

Concrete techniques for improving your dealings with groups (business, community, family)

How to let the real world be the real teacher

A fresh perspective on self-leadership as the starting point

HOST: Crane Stookey is a Professional Mariner, Tall Ship Deck Officer and Founder of the adventure voyaging program the Nova Scotia Sea School. He received the Queen's Jubilee Medal for the Sea School's contribution to Canadian Society. Crane has a Masters degree from Harvard University, and serves on the faculty of the ALIA Institute for Authentic Leadership in Action. He has developed a signature expertise in the use of Container Practice, and  is publishing a new book on these principles of leadership lessons from the sea in the spring of 2011.  Read more about Crane Stookey —>