Building Personal Leadership Skills: Creating Stronger Relationships for a Stronger Organization

Introduction

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 need in today’s business environment. Here Course Outcomes how to motivate your team in order to get them to want to do what they are supposed to do. Like all great leaders, participants will learn how to provide a learning environment where team members can grow and develop new skills. You will become an innovator able to add value to your organization, its customers, and its stakeholders.

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants 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
• 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

Target Audience

All leaders 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.

Management & Leadership Outline

The course covers the following topics:

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

• Characteristics of highly effective leaders
• The difference between traditional and transformational leadership
• Using 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 an 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
• The 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