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For Leadership Development Workshops to be successful you need to start with great content. But great content is just that, the start.

The foundation of the Annual Marco’s Leadership Institute Gettysburg Workshop is the world-class content and experience provided by Diamond6 Leadership & Strategy. Following their model of “Learning from the past to prepare for the future”, participants are presented with the events of July 1863 and then asked to examine and apply the modern day leadership lessons based upon that history. They experience that learning in one of the most historic and important settings in the United States… the impact of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is multiplied ten fold when you are standing within yards of where the Address was delivered.

But as I said, the Battlefield component of the workshop is the foundation.

Leadership Development should also be an “experience”. To paraphrase one of my favorite authors, Priya Parker, a chance “to ‘Gather’, to create meaningful and memorable experiences.”

The MLI Gettysburg Workshop is purposefully designed to bring together a diverse group of individuals – Franchisees, Marco’s Pizza (Marco’s Franchising, LLC) Team Members and Senior Leadership, and Business Partners – and provide them with the opportunity to get to know, and to better understand, one another. The fact that they are doing that relationship building (and hopefully having fun) in some incredible venues and locations only adds to the experience.

Finally, the ultimate value of any leadership development workshop or program is measured by what happens after the event; putting education into action.

MLI Gettysburg Workshop Participants spend a full day working on how they will apply the lessons that they learned on the Battlefield. They focus on self-awareness through the use of the Predictive Index and Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Style assessments, increase organizational and Team awareness through structured analysis, and finally, using the Logic Outcome Model, begin to develop both Organizational and Personal Strategic Visions.

We packed a lot into 3 days, but we’re confident that the participants had an experience that will take them to the next level on their Leadership Development journeys, fulfilling our Mission of “Inspiring the Passion and Potential within others to contribute to the Greater Good.”