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Building Leadership Skills
Are you ready for the challenge of executive leadership?
Taking on a leadership role in today's environment is like signing on for a constant race against change. You have to stay one step ahead of the trends...strive to develop new strategies and keep ahead of the crowd. It's up to you to ensure your department or team is on track for success.
And now you can achieve your leadership goals!
Here is your opportunity to learn how to identify and manage the challenges you face with practical and proven-in-action techniques. In-class exercises, coupled with updates on current research, allow you to practice new ideas and to try out shared insights. In this highly interactive seminar, you will have the opportunity to learn from your seminar leader and your peers as you stretch your leadership methods and assert your role in your organization.
Who Should Attend?
This seminar is designed for mid-level managers or executives who lead others with managerial responsibility. It is beneficial to executives requiring strong decision-making skills and the ability to lead and motivate others.
How You Will Benefit:
- Build a leadership style that creates trust, sets a clear vision and guides
- Gain insight into the key skills and techniques you need to create a winning strategy
- Create passion in your department, your team, your organization—to establish a solid and ethical reputation
- Learn what real "coaching" consists of and how to build an extraordinary team that works together in order to deliver results
- Develop heightened "emotional intelligence" for greater professional achievement and satisfaction
- Outline a personal action plan for further development as a leader
What You Will Cover:
Current Leadership Expectations
- Exploring fundamental concepts about leadership
- Four factor model of effective leadership
- How leadership and management differ
Leadership with the Head—Exploring the Strategic Elements of Leadership
- Focusing on the "big picture" with regard to culture building
- The importance of planning and prioritization in day-to-day activities
- Discovering how a personal vision statement helps drive success in accomplishing an organizational vision
Leadership with the Feet—Personal Values and Ethics at Work
- Understanding the challenges being faced
- The creation of a personal culture of trusting relationships
- Individualized "passionate purpose" undertaken as a context for credibility and consistency
Leadership with the Heart— Practice Ways to Communicate
- How to enhance pride in the work and the organization
- Three elements of motivating the workforce that will ensure a heightened level of productivity
- The role "emotional intelligence" plays in successful leadership
Leadership with the Hands—Exploring Situational Leadership®
- Effectively influencing the performance of others
- Using Situational Leadership® in coaching situations that reflect actual organizational issues such as performance goals
- Coaching role plays and various tools to inspire improved team leadership, creativity, communication and problem-solving
Creating Your Executive Leadership Development Plan
- Complete an executive leadership development plan, based on your goals and your organization's strategy
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