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Introduction

All the attributes that you will require as a leader, can be developed, though positive pro-activity, strong personal discipline and a desire to achieve. Self-confidence and self-determination, combined with an ability to manage people, will make you a strong leader, able to attain your targets and goals.

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.

Highlights of the course are:

How to build a positive work environment
How to develop each direct employee to their fullest abilities through delegating
How to coach, give feedback, and performance manage
How to build a learning environment
How to build influence through interpersonal communication strategies

Objectives

By the end of this programme you will be able to:

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
Develop a leadership style that flexes to the person and situation
Be a successful coach, mentor, and communicator

Training Methodology

The seminar will combine presentations with interactive practical exercises, supported by video material and case studies. Delegates will be encouraged to participate actively in relating the strategies of effective leadership to the particular needs of their workplace.

Organisational Impact

Know the significance of the people factor
Develop strong interpersonal relationship skills
Learn techniques for dealing with difficult people and how to realign their behavior in order to meet organization goals
Develop visionary, innovative, and effective leaders for the success of the organization
Keep the unit or department moving forward by accomplishing the set goals

Personal Impact

How to be a disciplined person
How to be proactive
How to be a flexible effective leader
How to use transformational leadership skills
How to apply the components of motivation differently, depending on the end user

SEMINAR OUTLINE

DAY 1 - 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

DAY 2 - The Attributes and Characteristics of Successful leadership

Characteristics of highly effective leaders
The difference between traditional and transformational leadership
Using a flexible effective leadership styles
Understanding a leadership mindset
Effective leadership and emotional intelligence
Practicing effective decision making
How to build an effective, proactive team

DAY 3 - 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

DAY 4 - How to Become an Environmental Change Agent

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

DAY 5 - 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

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