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INTRODUCTION

This 10-day Leadership programme will provide a leading edge forum for you to significantly enhance your leadership skills. You will gain a comprehensive range of very practical and highly effective leadership tools and approaches that can be immediately implemented upon your return to work.

The sessions will focus on inspiring and empowering the leader to handle a wide range of situations. You will return home confident in your abilities to handle the toughest leadership challenges and lead your people to sustained high performance. The use of leading edge accelerated learning techniques ensures each conference session will be stimulating, challenging, highly effective and fun.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Specifically designed to enhance the leadership skills of any individual in business, government, education, social aid and the military
Anyone who is asked to lead and manage an organisation, division, department or team will return to work prepared and skilled to tackle the toughest leadership assignments
It will particularly benefit anyone responsible for
- developing and implementing strategies
- initiating and managing change
- improving operational performance
- creating and leading high performance teams and demonstrating empowering leadership
- transitioning from managing to leading

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

Achieve measurable improvement in Leadership Performance
Develop a personal action plan to improve leadership effectiveness
Develop the ability to think like a leader
Recognising and breaking your old management paradigms
Generating ownership and responsibility for change
Measuring and observing performance of others
Learning to empower others to perform at a higher level
Leading difficult staff and colleagues through feedback processes
Developing the ability to think on a strategic level
Adapting your behavioral style to communicate with anyone in any culture
Becoming a powerful speaker - in front of any group
Exploring the tools for transformational change
Gaining the respect of your people and your senior management team

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

The programme opens by exploring and reviewing the qualities and approaches of great leaders from the past. Using this initial analysis, the programme explores the power of vision to inspire enthusiasm and commitment. Participants then learn the same graphical planning tools that enabled the completion of the Apollo moon landing in eight short years when even the experts said it couldn’t be done.

We explore a range of tools to unleash Emotional Intelligence and achieve Corporate Transformation. Leadership participants are then provided with a comprehensive range of approaches to focus, inspire, motivate and enable their followers and staff to perform as outstanding individuals. After this, the training session focuses on empowering the individual participants with a range of very powerful personal leadership and facilitation tools. These tools are used by some of the leading people in present leadership roles in the global markets. In studying what they do that has been a success in a variety of business situations, you can adapt these tools to your own situations.

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

DAY 1 - The Leader's Personality Profile

Essential people skills for Effective Leadership
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal skills for the Innovative Leader
Personality profiling
Your preferred behavioral style
Explore your behavioural tendencies
Understanding the model for Innovative Leadership
Removing emotional blindspots
Appropriate self-disclosure

DAY 2 - Leading Others Effectively

Understanding the Personality Profiles
The Introverted Neutral and Analytical Perfectionist
The Extraverted Relational and Decisive Exhorter
People-Oriented Helper
Task-oriented Implementer
Optimizing the leader's natural strengths
Individual transformation for self-development
Corporate transformation through innovative leadership

DAY 3 - Essential Competencies for the Innovative Leader

Effective skills for understanding others
Developing competencies for effective leadership
Resilience for sacrificial leadership
Intentionality for self-motivation
Creativity for Innovative Leadership
Interpersonal Connections for persuasive leadership
Constructive Discontent
Integrity and Compassion for Accountable Leadership

DAY 4 - Enhancing Creative Thinking Skills for the Innovative Leader

Developing Illumination and Verification
Divergent Thinking Skills openness to innovative ideas
Creativity and Perception
Removing blocks to creativity
Understanding the creative process
Preparation, Incubation, for Innovative Leadership
Metaphors and analogies for innovative thinking

DAY 5 - Implementing Innovative Leadership for Managing Performance in the Workplace

Applying teamwork for innovation in the workplace
Creative Problem Solving techniques
Cultivating a creative workplace
Harnessing creativity in subordinates through aligned leadership
Establishing criteria for implementing innovative ideas
Advocacy skills to implement innovative ideas in the workplace
Leadership for Performance Management

DAY 6 - Strategic Thinking and The Power of Visionary Leadership

Management vs. Leadership
Critical Leadership Competencies for 21st Century Managers
Strategic vs. Operational Thinking
Purpose, Mission and Vision
The Power of Strategic Vision
Painting a Picture of the Future - The Power of Graphical Vision
Stabilising Vision
Communicating Vision to the Vision Community

DAY 7 - Developing Leadership Power - Exploring Personal Purpose and Passion

Developing the Leader’s Personal Life Map
Exploring the journey to Life to Reclaim Personal Power
Keys to Personal Leadership Enthusiasm
Understanding the Dynamics of Balance as a key to Resilient Leadership
The Power of Personal Goals and Vision
The Leadership Zone of Empowerment
Eliciting and Clarifying Personal Values
Optimal Time Management - A Crucial Leadership Skill

DAY 8 - Combining Management Skills and Leadership Competencies

The History of Management and Leadership
Leadership and Management in the Industrial Age - Production and thus the Manager were King
The Paradox of Leadership and Management in the Information Age - The Customer and thus the Staff are King
Delivering Customer Value - The Management Focus
Staff Contribution Contracts
Staff Empowerment
The Power of Systems
Ensuring Staff Capability