Introduction:
This program focuses on the leader’s role in developing and motivating excellent teams. Rather than trying to define one ‘right’ way to lead, it will introduce a range of complementary approaches which delegates will have the opportunity to practice, combine and adapt to suit their personal preferences and organizational needs. By exploring the leadership role from a number of different perspectives, the program allows delegates to experiment with innovative ways to empower and enthuse their team and influence positively their organizational climate and culture. The benefits to the organization will be leaders better able to focus on organizational goals and better equipped to develop their team towards sustainable performance improvement.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the Achieving Leadership Excellence training program, participants will be able to:
Study effective team operations
Analyze effective communications strategies
Understand how to give and receive effective feedback
Consider tools for motivating and delegating
Explore leadership styles
Examine the construction of a learning environment
Who Should Attend?
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
Executives and senior managers seeking to reflect on, and further develop, their own leadership style
Those aspiring to take on leading roles in their organization
Professionals that wish to nurture an organizational environment that enables effective leadership and high performance.
Course Outlines:
Building Personal Leadership Skills
Creating Stronger Relationships for a Stronger organization
The Empowering 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 Attributes and Characteristics of Successful leadership
Characteristics of highly effective leaders
The difference between traditional and transformational leadership
Using flexible effective leadership styles
Understanding a leadership mindset
Effective leadership and emotional intelligence
Practicing effective decision making
How to build an effective, proactive team
Coaching for Top Quality Performance
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
How to Become an Environmental Change Agent
Defining a learning environment and its benefits
Singe’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 Effective Communication Skills
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