Adaptable Leadership for Team and Business Success 5-day program

Enhancing your 4 Pillars of EQ, Leadership Skills, and Strategic Management & Planning

Introduction:

A management position requires the holder to perform several roles simultaneously: strategist, team-builder, innovator, decision-maker, mentor and leader. Success at management level involves integrating the requirements of all these different roles with confidence and assurance.

This uniquely designed program offers supervisors, team leaders, management professionals and employees being prepared for promotion to a senior level, the opportunity to develop the awareness, understanding, knowledge and skills which will enable them to maximize their performance and success in today’s fast-changing and demanding business environment.

It will help them to understand:

• What are their leadership strengths and weaknesses?
• What can they do to mitigate the weaknesses?
• How can they improve their emotional intelligence?
• What can they do to lead people more effectively?
• How can they develop a vision for their area of responsibility?
• What is strategy, and how they can plan for the future?
• Is there a proven process for planning and change?

How can they ensure that they are able to implement what gets planned?

Objectives:

By the end of the program candidates will:

• Gain an honest and accurate awareness of their personality, strengths and weaknesses
• Monitor and adapt their own emotions and behaviors for their own benefit and that of their team/department and organization
• Have the ability to have a positive influence on the emotions and motivation of others
• Be able to create an atmosphere that fosters emotional intelligence
• Demonstrate adaptability in dealing with different personalities
• Understand and be able to apply psychology of leadership principles
• Have studied the design of visionary strategic plans
• Know how to translate strategic plans into action plans
• Be able to examine a model for organizational self-assessment
• Be able to provide insights into strategic planning problems to avoid
• Develop the skills required to highlight examples of strategic success and failure
• Understand the nature of the organizational life cycle
• Be able to provide insights into productive contingency planning

Impact:

Organizational Impact:

The organizational benefits of your employees completing this program include:

• Improved teamwork and teambuilding skills through greater emotional intelligence
• Enhanced cooperation through better relationship building skills
• A more emotionally intelligent work environment
• More efficient allocation of resources
• Greater organizational flexibility
• Improved operating performance and results

Personal Impact

The personal benefits to delegates include:

• Learning how to cultivate emotional intelligence competencies
• Learning how to effectively manage your own emotions and the emotions of others
• Personal growth as an emotionally intelligent leader
• Understanding different personality styles and how to adapt your leadership style to get the best from everyone
• Sharper focus on the challenges and opportunities of the future
• Being more creative
• The ability to develop effective, transformational strategic plans

Methodology:

This training course will utilize a variety of proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, retention of the information presented.  Pre and post-test assessments will be carried out to measure the learning and understanding resulting from the program.

Who would benefit from this course:

This training is aimed at:

• Supervisors
• Managers at all levels
• Team Leaders
• Employees being prepared for management/supervisory positions

Course Content:

Day 1

An Introduction to Emotional Intelligence

• Understanding Emotional Intelligence (EI) and its components
• The significance of EI and the Emotional Quotient (EQ) on effective leadership
• The importance of perception
• Attitudes and behavior of effective leaders
• Consequences of low EQ on personal effectiveness and how to address these
• Removing emotional blind spots

Day 2

The Psychology of Leadership

• Theories of leadership
• The importance of self-concept
• Understanding personality styles
• Optimizing our personality strengths
• Managing our personality weaknesses
• How to be adaptable to best deal with different personality types
• Task vs. Relationship Oriented Leadership

Day 3

Applying Psychology to Lead in an Emotionally Intelligent Way

• Enhancing self-awareness
• Empathy – increasing your level of social awareness
• Delegation
• Influencing and inspiring People
• Identifying personality disorders
• Managing difficult behavior and poor performance

Day 4

Building an Emotionally Intelligent Team using Psychological Principles

• The importance of EQ on team effectiveness
• Motivating a high-performing team
• Building unified teams
• EQ to build trusting relationships
• Conflict resolution for promoting consensus & collaboration
• Increase the EQ of your teams and your organization overall

Day 5

Communication for Successful Leadership

• Giving & receiving effective feedback
• The Psychology of Persuasion
• Creating an inspiring vision
• Solving “people problems” in the workplace
• Non-alienation for high EQ leadership
• Developing leadership integrity
• Inspiring passion in your team