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The Self-Aware Leader is about being deeply attentive to your surroundings so you can be informed and intentional. It’s about seeing details that create direction, drive work, and rally teams. SAL is a game-changing leadership skill that accelerates productivity, engagement, and inclusion.
This suite of products creates multiple doors into the room with complementary tools to connect and extend the learning. Whether you’re starting with coaching and the assessment, training for a cohort, or casting a wider net with a keynote, each of the products relates to the others to create more opportunities for application and more sustainable momentum for growth.
The Self-Aware Leader Book
(ATD Press, 2012), written by Dan Gallagher, can serve as a workbook in training and coaching as well as a stand-alone resource.
The Self-Aware Leader Training
A modular and customizable training program with a full suite of materials for virtual modules with coaching circles as well as 2-day in-person training.
SAL is more than just a proven model; it is architecture for a development experience that includes five intentional focus areas that will create change and impact on the learner/leader and the business they serve.
- Framing = position context that positions new learning and connects previous learning
- Learning = introduce new content tied to prework and conversation with manager
- Applying = apply learnings to a business situation with a cross-functional scope
- Coaching = reflect and then prepare an approach to apply what was learned
- Activating = activate your action plan including an optional teach back to HR colleagues
SAL Training is a transformational development experience.
Dan Gallagher is the CEO of Gallagher Leadership, where his work is centered on research and experiences detailed in his book, The Self-Aware Leader: A Proven Model for Reinventing Yourself (ATD, 2012). He developed 6 modules of learning based on this proven SAL model that can be shared virtually or in-person. The experience is meant to be fluid and easily customizable for others to deliver. SAL is more than just a training program; it is architecture for a development experience that includes five intentional focus areas that will create change and impact on the learner/leader and the business they serve.
WHY/WHAT
The Self-Aware Leader Model
Leaders are consistently called on to reinvent and drive new ways to be better for themselves, others, and the business. Self-awareness is the leadership muscle that increases perspective on what moves need to be made next, why, and how. It creates space for you to step back, use your peripheral vision and become more informed about the work and the people doing the work. Leaders who proactively create moments of self-awareness will be more effective at anticipating reinventions needed before it’s directly asked for by others.
The Self-Aware Leader model was formally published in 2012 after 5+ years of practical usage in talent pipeline programs and a comprehensive validation of the model from studying over 700 middle managers.
The result is a proven model that defines the four core behaviors that will most influence self-awareness. Together with the three elements of reinvention, this system is focused, effective, and attainable.
The Model
The Self-Aware Leader model connects three reinventions to four validated behaviors. The reinventions focus leaders on what their next pivot is and why, and the four core behaviors focus on the activation and the how.
The Focus
Self-awareness is about slowing yourself down to speed yourself up. It’s about being deeply attentive to your surroundings so you can be informed and intentional. It’s about seeing details
The value of SAL
SAL Training is a transformational development experience.
Dan Gallagher is the CEO of Gallagher Leadership, where his work is centered on research and experiences detailed in his book, The Self-Aware Leader: A Proven Model for Reinventing Yourself (ATD, 2012). He developed 6 modules of learning based on this proven SAL model that can be shared virtually or in-person. The experience is meant to be fluid and easily customizable for others to deliver.
The Experience
SAL is more than just a training program; it is architecture for a development experience that includes five intentional focus areas that will create change and impact on the learner/leader and the business they serve.
- Framing = position context that positions new learning and connects previous learning
- Learning = introduce new content tied to prework and conversation with manager
- Applying = apply learnings to a business situation with a cross-functional scope
- Coaching = reflect and then prepare an approach to apply what was learned
- Activating = activate your action plan including an optional teach back to HR colleagues
The SAL System of Products
Dan Gallagher has used his years of leadership development experience coupled with his research to develop a core system of products to support the growth and development of Self-Awareness in today’s leaders. These products lean on each other to create momentum and growth.
- The Self-Aware Leader Book (ATD, 2012) is written by and based on the work of Dan Gallagher and is scheduled to be republished in Fall 2025.
- The Self-Aware Leader (SAL) Training Program is a modularized and customizable training program with a full suite of materials for virtual modules with cohorts over time or in-person training for a 2-day class.
- The Self-Aware Leader (SAL) Keynotes are comprehensive packages of information to market and deliver 60-90-minute customizable keynotes to your audiences.
- The Self-Aware Leader (SAL) Self-Assessment is an individual exercise based on the validation work that defined the 6 key behaviors for each of the four pillars in the model that can be used in training, workshops, or coaching.
- The Self-Aware Leader (SAL) 360-Assessment and Team Report (coming Summer 2024) is a multi-rater assessment based on the 24 behaviors in the self-assessment plus # more tied to achievement of outcomes that can be used in training or coaching. QUESTION = does someone need to be certified to buy/deliver this?
| Framing | provide context that positions new learning and connects previous learning |
| Learning | introduce new content tied to prework and conversation with manager |
| Applying | apply learnings to a business situation with a cross-functional scope |
| Coaching | reflect and then prepare an approach to apply what you learned |
| Activating | activate your action plan, including an optional teach back to colleagues |
