Achieving Leadership Excellence

Overview:

Introduction:

This training program is designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge necessary to become effective leaders in their respective fields. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks, practical exercises, and real-world case studies, participants develop the confidence and capabilities to lead teams and organizations towards success.

Program Objectives:

At the end of this program, 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.

Targeted Audience:

• Managers.

• Supervisors & Team leaders.

• Employees who are being prepared to be promoted to a managerial level.

Program Outlines:

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 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.