Leadership and Management
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:
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Study effective team operations.
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Analyze effective communications strategies.
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Understand how to give and receive effective feedback
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Consider tools for motivating and delegating.
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Explore leadership styles.
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Examine the construction of a learning environment.
Targeted Audience:
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Managers.
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Supervisors & Team leaders.
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Employees who are being prepared to be promoted to a managerial level.
Program Outlines:
Unit 1:
The Empowering Tools of Leadership: Motivating and Delegating:
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Identifying the important factors in motivation.
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Appreciating how different theories of motivation can be applied to the work setting.
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Tailor motivational efforts to individual employees and different situation.
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Identify the benefits and the barriers to delegation.
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Identify the different delegation styles and understand the guidelines for on how and when to use them.
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Evaluate employees and situations and determine the appropriate delegation style.
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The difference between doing, leading, and managing.
Unit 2:
The Attributes and Characteristics of Successful leadership :
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Characteristics of highly effective leaders.
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The difference between traditional and transformational leadership.
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Using flexible effective leadership styles.
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Understanding a leadership mindset.
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Effective leadership and emotional intelligence.
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Practicing effective decision making.
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How to build an effective, proactive team.
Unit 3:
Coaching for Top Quality Performance:
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Performance Appraisals to Performance Management – manager’s self-evaluation.
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Managerial barriers to Effective Performance Appraisals.
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How to assess an employee’s performance fairly – avoiding subjectivity and bias.
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The benefits of on-going Performance Management.
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Leadership/coaching behavior assessment.
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Your leadership/coaching style – strengths and gaps.
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Using performance management as a leadership strategy.
Unit 4:
How to Become an Environmental Change Agent:
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Defining a learning environment and its benefits.
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Senge’s five learning disciplines.
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Personal mastery – learning to expand our capacity to create the results we most desire.
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Mental models – seeing how our internal pictures of the world shape our actions.
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Shared vision – building a sense of commitment in a group.
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Team learning – crating a thinking synergistic environment.
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Systems thinking – a language for describing the forces that shape the behavior of systems.
Unit 5:
Building Effective Communication Skills:
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Identifying the importance of effective interpersonal communication for the leadership role.
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Building trust and believability: behaviors vs. intentions.
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Perception and communicating with others.
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Self-concept and leadership success – strategies for improving self-concept.
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Delivering clear, concise messages.