Leadership Development: Self-Awareness, Skills and Strategies

Introduction:

The best leaders thoroughly understand themselves. Time and time again, research has shown that self-awareness and self-direction are two essential factors in leadership effectiveness. As leaders gain a better sense of themselves and a clearer plan to self-actualization.

Targeted Groups:

• Managers among all managerial levels
• Supervisors & Team leaders
• Human resources department
• People interested in developing their skills

Conference Objectives:

At the end of this conference the participants will be able to:

• View leadership from a new and higher-level perspective
• Discover and analyze their leadership style and tendencies
• Grow in personal power and effectiveness
• Discover and build upon their intrinsic leadership qualities
• Understand, develop and employ the emotional forces within them
• Develop the critical interpersonal skills essential for leading others
• Discover the “inner” leader as a source of growth
• Tap into your amazing hidden personal power
• Take team development to new levels of achievement
• Learn to lead through excellent communication skills
• Have the ability to understand and relate to people in the organization
• Avoid many of the difficult people and HR problems that plaques many organizations
• Possess skills that are now considered to have a greater impact on organizational performance than traditional measures of intelligence such as IQ
• Promote increased employee cooperation, increased motivation, increased productivity, and increased profits
• Understand themselves and their potential more clearly
• Recognize their own emotions as well as the emotions of others
• Resolve conflict more effectively
• Improve their ability to communicate, influence and work with others

Targeted Competencies:

• Leadership skills
• Team management
• Performance management
• Emotional Intelligence
• People Skills
• Communication skills

Conference Content:
Unit 1: Master Keys of Effective Leadership:

• The principles of leadership
• The mind of the leader
• The heart of the leader
• The practices of effective leaders
• The five roles leaders play
• Leadership self-assessment
• Rebalance your leadership style for optimal results

Unit 2: Towards Emotional Self-Awareness:

• Growing your power
• Achieving emotional excellence
• Self-leadership through inner mastery
• Success through a positive attitude
• Your time and your life
• Increasing personal productivity
• Direction through personal Integrity
• Designing a strategic plan for your life and career

Unit 3: Mastering People Skills:

• Understanding Interdependence
• Wining through effective communication
• The active listening model
• The four styles of communication
• Dealing with conflict constructively
• Using the principles of influence & persuasion
• Speaking and presenting skillfully
• The art of win-win negotiation

Unit 4: Building and Leading Extraordinary Teams:

• How a high performing team differs from a traditional workgroup
• The three elements of high-performance teams
• Understanding the four types of teams
• The stages of team development
• Team dynamics: How teams work
• Understanding and optimizing team member styles
• Leading through trust
• Leading through change

Unit 5: Performance Management:

• Igniting team creativity
• The art of practical coaching
• Conducting effective performance discussions
• Positive discipline through expectations
• Delegating and empowering the right way
• The situational leadership model
• How to analyze development needs
• Using effective tools for managing performance