Achieving Leadership Excellence

Achieving Leadership Excellence

:OBJECTIVES

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

Organisational Impact:

1. Learn techniques for dealing with difficult people and how to realign their behavior in order to meet organization goals
2. Develop visionary, innovative, and effective leaders for the success of the organization
3. Keep the unit or department moving forward by accomplishing the set goals

Personal Impact:

1. How to be a flexible effective leader
2. How to use transformational leadership skills
3. How to apply the components of motivation differently, depending on the end user

Course Outline:

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

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

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.