Achieving Leadership Excellence

Introduction:

This course 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 that participants will have the opportunity to practice, combine and adapt to suit their personal preferences and organizational needs.

By exploring the leadership role from many different perspectives, the seminar 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.

Targeted Groups:

Managers
Supervisors & Team leaders
Employees who are being prepared to be promoted to a managerial level

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the 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
Sharpene influencing skills
Elevate communication skills
Improve the utilization of leadership styles
Increase the effectiveness in managing performance
Get the greatest levels of personal productivity

Targeted Competencies:

Performance management
Leadership skills & strategies
Decision making
Communication skills
Empowering & Delegating
Coaching

Course Content:

Unit 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

Unit 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

Unit 3: Coaching for Top Quality Performance:

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

Unit 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 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

Unit 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