What Is A Leadership Diagnostic Workshop (And Why Is It Free)?

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You’ve been reading about leadership blind spots.
Or imposter syndrome.
Or maybe you’ve been wondering why you have difficulty delegating, and why your team is underperforming in ways you can’t fully explain.

Then somewhere in the back of your mind, a thought has been forming.
Those voices are starting to mumble.

I wonder if some of these issues are because me.

That thought is more important than you think – because most leaders never even get to that point. The ones who do begin to question their role, are the ones who flourish.

The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop was built for exactly that moment.

Let me tell you what it is, what it isn’t, and what you’ll actually walk out with.
Cool?
Cool.

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What the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop Is

It’s a 90-minute session designed to help you identify and acknowledge the specific patterns shaping how you lead right now.

It’s not about your values or your goals.
And we don’t do some useless 5-year vision.

This is all about your patterns. You’ll uncover the unconscious operating system that is controlling all your behavior, communication and decision-making. Including the parts you don’t like.

The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop is not coaching. It’s not even a sales pitch for coaching.
It’s not a personality assessment either. In fact, you should look at my thoughts on why you are not your personality test.

The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop is a diagnostic. It’s right there in the name.

A diagnostic tells you what’s actually going on before anyone recommends a treatment. Because you have to be diagnosed before you know what needs fixing. The proverbial horse needs to go before the proverbial cart.

Unfortunately, most leaders skip the diagnostic part entirely and go straight to solutions for problems that may not even be accurately assessed.

That’s partly why most leadership development doesn’t stick.

[Spoiler Alert: In the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop, I’ll explain why none of your previous leadership coaching, executive coaching, webinars or fancy frameworks have addressed your problems.

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What Happens in the 90 Minutes

The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop starts with you. It begins with what your great at and where your biggest challenges are.

It’s about what’s working, what keeps not working and what you wish were different.

From there, we map the patterns underneath your specific situation.

The thing I’ve learned after decades of leadership work is that what you think is the problem is almost never really the problem. Oftentimes what you think is a problem is really just a symptom.

The leader who has difficulty delegating isn’t struggling with task management.
The person whose team keeps underperforming isn’t dealing with a talent problem.
The one who says they don’t know how to have difficult conversations isn’t having a challenge with communication.

The patterns go much deeper than the symptom, and they’re almost always in your blindspot.

That’s what the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop does – it exposes the patterns in your blind spot.

We look at what you’re doing, what environment you’ve built, and what unconscious logic is keeping both of them working the way they do. By the end of the 90 minutes, you have a clear picture of the specific patterns that have been running your leadership – plus a concrete understanding of what change in your life if you addressed them.

There’s no homework or lengthy intake forms. In fact there’s no prep required at all.

You just show up and be open to being guided by someone who’s seen the pattern before.
By the way, that someone is me – Jeff Matlow. Here’s my story.

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Who the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop Is For

The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop is designed for emerging and seasoned leaders (managers, directors, VPs, founders and C-Suite) who are operating in complex environments.

Specifically, it tends to be most useful for leaders in one of these situations:

Something keeps not working and you can’t figure out why. You’re smart. You’ve tried things. But the same issues keep showing up. Maybe you feel like you’re doing a good job, but something still feels wrong. Imposter syndrome? Limited leadership guidance? The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop is designed exactly for this – when the problem is real but you just can’t figure out what is happening.

You’ve been told you have a specific issue but the feedback doesn’t feel quite right. You got a 360. Someone gave you feedback about your leadership style. It’s not wrong, exactly, but it doesn’t fully explain what you’re experiencing. The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop can help you understand what’s actually happening in your behavioral blind spots.

You’re considering coaching but you’re not sure if it’s the right fit. The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop is a no-commitment, low pressure way to find out if coaching or group cohorts are a good fit for you.. You’ll get a clear picture of what’s happening with your professional behavior, and an understanding about how coaching, mentoring, team work, or something else entirely is what you actually need.

You’ve been doing the work and you want to see what’s next. Some leaders come to the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop not because something is broken, but because they want to understand their ceiling. They have specific patterns that are still holding them back, even though almost everything else seems to be working.

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What You’ll Walk Out With

By the end of the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop, you’ll have a clear picture of your primary leadership patterns — the specific behaviors or beliefs that are most significantly shaping your environment and limiting your growth (and your team’s).

You’ll have an understanding of where that pattern comes from. Knowing where a pattern originated usually tells you why it’s been so hard to change by white knuckling it. You’ll learn what what methods will help you make the fastest, long-lasting shift.

You’ll get a concrete sense of what your life will look like if you interrupt your unconscious patterns. Most leaders come in knowing something is off but can’t envision what a different version would look like. By the end of the session, they get it.

You’ll also get an an honest recommendation of a potential next step for you. Maybe it’s coaching or mentorship, perhaps it’s a different team structure – or maybe a simple suggestion could make all the difference.

Either way, I’ll let you know.

The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop isn’t a funnel. It’s a diagnosis.

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Why It’s Free

The most expensive thing in leadership development is getting the wrong diagnosis.

Leaders spend a lot of time and money on coaching, training, and development programs that address the wrong problem. The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop is designed to help you prevent that.

I’m not the right fit for every leader. The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop helps both of us figure that out in 90 minutes instead of 6 months.

There’s no big sales pitch at the end. No follow-up pressure. If the work we discuss sounds like something worth pursuing, we talk about what that looks like. If not, you leave with more clarity about your own leadership than you came in with.

That part is free regardless.

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The Real Reason Most Leaders Don’t Do This

The real reason most leaders don’t participate in the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop isn’t about time. Ninety minutes is not the obstacle for someone who wants to better themselves and their department or company.

It’s not money. The darn thing is free.

It’s the quiet fear of what they might actually find out about themselves.

That fear is important. Because, in my experience, the pattern a leader is most reluctant to accept is almost always the one that’s the most important to address. The avoidance is itself an indicator.

Most leaders who go through the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop say some version of the same thing afterward: “I knew something was off. I just didn’t know it was that. Wow.”

The knowing is worth the 90 minutes.

Secure your spot in the the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is this a sales call in disguise?

No. The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop creates real value regardless of what comes next. You’ll leave with a clearer picture of your leadership patterns than most leaders get from months of coaching. Whether that leads to further work together is a separate conversation that only happens if it makes sense for both of us.

Q: Who is this not for?

Leaders who are looking for validation rather than diagnosis. If you come in hoping to be told your problems are external, the Leadership Diagnostic Workshop probably isn’t the right tool. It looks at your patterns first, not your team’s. If that’s uncomfortable, I suggest you attend despite the discomfort.

Q: What should I do to prepare?

Nothing. If you want, think of a leadership or business-related situation that is frustrating to you. That’s enough to start. I’ll provide the rest.

Q: How is this different from a coaching consultation?

This is not coaching and it’s not a consultation. Coaching consultations are conversations about whether you want to do coaching. The Leadership Diagnostic Workshop actually does the diagnosis. You’re not in the workshop talking about whether the process is useful – you’re actually doing the process.

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Jeff Matlow is a leadership coach, mentor and 3x entrepreneur who helps senior leaders spot the unconscious patterns keeping their teams dependent on them – then redesign the environment so everyone can actually perform. He’s spent 25+ years working with leaders at Disney, Porsche, Nestlé, and hundreds of high-growth companies. Think Ted Lasso meets Brené Brown meets a Navy SEAL. Learn more about working with Jeff or subscribe to The Best Leadership Newsletter Ever.