Hi, and welcome to How to Be an Exceptional Visionary Leader.
I'm Les McKeown and I'll be taking you through today's course. But before we jump into the detailed content, let me take just literally a few minutes to share with you five things which taken together will greatly enhance the quality of the outputs and results you get from this course.
Now, if you've taken other courses with us and you've seen this slide before, then feel free to skip right through because it's exactly the same for every course. But if this is the first time that you've seen this, then please invest the next few minutes. Like I say, it'll radically enhance your results. So five things. First of all, my name is Les McKeown, as I said, but that's enough about me for right now.
Rather than have you listen to me explain who I am and why I'm qualified to deliver this content to you, we put a separate short course on your course dashboard where you can go and hear more than you probably need to know or want to know about me and about Predictable Success. So that's right on your course dashboard waiting for you. The second thing is this: if somehow or other and I'm not too sure how it would happen, but I'm told it does, you've arrived at this course without taking the Predictable Success Leadership Styles quiz.
In other words, if you're not aware of the Visionary, Operator, Processor, Synergist model that we're going to be talking about, then invest the four to five minutes it takes to take the quiz. It's free. It literally will just take you a few moments. You'll get your results instantly. You'll also be sent an email with a link to a more detailed PDF, and just investing the time to read that will really, really massively increase what you get out of today's course.
So if somehow you haven't taken the quiz, find the link on this page and go take it. Then come right back here. Thirdly, we're going to talk here about what we call your base Style. That's the single one of the four Styles that you scored most highly on. Now, that's the primary, most important lens to look at your leadership Style through is what is your base Style, but it is just a starting point.
Those other three Styles do impact how you show up as a leader. So take this course as a starting point and use the additional resources that we have for you at the end to go deeper and to learn how to leverage not just your base Style, but how you show up with the other Styles as well. And all of that is going to become much clearer as you work through this course. The fourth point is a corollary of point 3, which is this: because I'm talking about your Base Style, the single Style that you scored most highly on in this course, I'm going to use a lot of generalizations.
You'll hear me say that Visionaries are like this, that Processors don't enjoy doing that, that Operators will always X, Y, Z, and Synergists will never A, B, C, but those are generalizations and of course none of them apply all of the time to everyone. That's the nature of generalizations. The flip side of that means that there are many cases in which what I'll share may not apply to you, and I don't want you to trip up if and when that happens.
So if you hear me say that a certain Style does this, likes this, enjoys this, and you think that's, that's not really me, that's fine. We're none of us cookie cutters, we're none of us exactly the same as other people. Thank goodness. So as with any course, take what works, leave what doesn't. Don't get tripped up by applicable generalizations that don't work for you.
And finally, let me share with you that there'll be quite a lot going on screen during this course. There's a visual learning element to it. Now, while you can consume the course podcast style, just listening to the audio, heck, you could even just read the PDFs.
You are not going to get anything like the sort of rich learning experience that you will get if you just invest the time to, at the very least, sit in front of your phone, preferably use a tablet or your desktop and engage with the visual element as well. So with all that said, let's jump into how to be an exceptional Visionary leader.