Achieving Leadership Excellence | Modern Management Training Center

If you want to move from being a good professional to being a great professional, you cannot afford to miss this seminar. Because leadership skills are attributes that every successful professional needs in today’s business environment. Here you will learn how to motivate your team in order to get them to want to do what they are supposed to do. Like all great leaders, you will learn how to provide a learning environment where team members can grow and develop new skills. You will learn how to stay on course while constantly refocusing your group or department’s goals. You will become an innovator able to add value to your organization, its customers, and its stakeholders.

Program Objectives

Inspire and direct your team to greater skills and motivation
Spot opportunities for strategic alliances with peers, staff, and superiors
Become a visionary, innovative, and successful leader
Identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses and the strengths and weaknesses of your staff
Increase your ability to influence others and gain their commitment
Develop a leadership style that flexes to the person and situation
Be a successful coach, mentor, and communicator
Put new concepts into action through real-life case studies and simulated projects

Beneficiaries

All leaders who want to create a productive workplace and organizational culture to enhance their leadership effectiveness. This seminar will help delegates to strengthen their existing leadership skills as well as increase their leadership abilities.

Contents

The power tools of leadership: motivating and delegating:

Identifying the important factors in motivation
Appreciating how different theories of motivation can be applied to the work setting
Tailor motivational efforts to individual employees and different situation
Identify the benefits and the barriers to delegation
Identify the different delegation styles and understand the guidelines for on how and when to use them
Evaluate employees and situations and determine the appropriate delegation style
The difference between doing, leading, and managing

The characteristics of leadership:

Kouze’s characteristics of highly effective leaders
The difference between traditional and transformational leadership
Using a flexible effective leadership styles
Successful leaders “equity check” their critical decisions
Effective leadership and emotional intelligence
Using the continuum of decision making options
Making decisions and building teams

From performance appraisal to performance management:

Performance Appraisals to Performance Management – manager’s self-evaluation
Managerial barriers to effective Performance Appraisals
How to assess and employee’s performance fairly – avoiding subjectivity and bias
The benefits of on-going Performance Management
Leadership/coaching behavior assessment
Your leadership/coaching style – strengths and gaps
Using performance management as a leadership strategy

Leadership strategies and tools for building a learning environment:

Defining a learning environment and its benefits
Senge’s five learning disciplines
Personal mastery – learning to expand our personal capacity to create the results we most desire
Mental models – seeing how our internal pictures of the world shape our actions
Shared vision – building a sense of commitment in a group
Team learning – crating a thinking synergistic environment
Systems thinking – a language for describing the forces that shape the behavior of systems

Building leadership influence through communication:

Identifying the importance of effective interpersonal communication for the leadership role
Building trust and believability: behaviors vs. intentions
Perception and communicating with others
Self-concept and leadership success – strategies for improving self-concept
Delivering clear, concise messages
Using active and reflective listening skills

Acting assertively, not aggressively or passively

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