Powerful Leadership & Management Program

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(Enhancing your Team Development, Emotional Intelligence, and Strategic Planning Techniques)

Introduction:

A management position requires the holder to perform a number of roles simultaneously: strategist, team-builder, innovator, decision-maker, mentor and leader. Success at a management level involves integrating the requirements of these roles with confidence and assurance and this course will equip you with these abilities.

Objectives:

These are an overview of objectives:

  • Become an agent for value-added change
  • Coach individuals and teams to achieve extraordinary goals
  • Select appropriate methods for measuring and managing performance
  • Be in tune with the team’s effectiveness and be able to turn morale around if and when necessary
  • Facilitate problem-solving groups that will deliver results on time and on budget
  • Develop employees to take more responsibility
  • Learn to use best-practiced strategies for influencing and motivating others

Impact:

Organizational Impact:

In sending delegates to this training seminar, the organization will gain the following benefits:

  • Have a clear understanding of management essentials
  • Be better able to coach and improve productivity
  • Better understand their own strengths and weaknesses
  • Be more confident to take bold decisions
  • Have a better knowledge of dealing upwards in an organization
  • Return with renewed energy and passion for managing their team

Personal Impact

In attending this training seminar, delegates will be able to:

  • Reflect on their own management style and identify areas for improvement
  • Learn how to influence those who are confronting positive change
  • Learn how to deal with difficult employees of all stripes
  • Learn to power your team to higher performance
  • Learn how to manage upwards as well as within your team
  • Learn how to motivate and create a culture of responsibility

Methodology:

This training course will utilize a variety of proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, retention of the information presented. A pre and post test/assessment will be provided to measure the learning and understanding in this course.

Who would benefit from this course:

This training is designed for the following:

  • Functional Specialists who wish to prepare themselves for general management roles
  • Existing Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Management Staff, wishing to gain a rounded view of best management practices
  • Middle-Senior Management Professionals wishing to update themselves on latest practices across a range of management topics

Course Content:

Day 1: The Manager as a Strategist

  • The purpose of organizations
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Motivation and the importance of context
  • The challenge of thriving in a VUCA world
  • More change is Coming and it’s Much Bigger and More impactful than you Think!
  • Strategic performance drivers
  • The physiology and biology of leadership
  • Strategy vs. Values: The greatest impact on performance

Day 2: The Manager as a Coach

  • Leadership, coaching and mentoring compared
  • Diagnosis and evaluation of personal leadership styles
  • Delegation, empowerment and the importance of trust
  • Coaching case study: Understanding the goals
  • The Impact of Relationships on Trust
  • Impacting Performance by raising Expectations
  • Effective Coaching Meetings
  • Knowing what role to pay: sounding board, facilitator or advisor

Day 3: The Manager as a Team Leader

  • Teamwork Best Practices
  • Creating a High-Performance Team
  • Empowerment and its Link to Performance
  • Team Decision Making: When and How to Achieve a Consensus
  • Performance Measurement
  • The 4 Stages of Team Development
  • Team-Building Techniques
  • Recognition and Reward

Day 4: The Manager as the Project Team Facilitator

  • Elements of successful projects
  • People dynamics in a project team as compared to a permanent team
  • Meetings: The #1 Time Waster
  • Reducing Meeting Times by 50% and more
  • The Role of the Facilitator
  • The 5 Types of Meetings
  • Creating an Agenda that Focuses on Process and Content
  • Dealing with Dysfunctional Meeting Behaviors
  • Encouraging Creativity and Innovation
  • Ensuring Accountability for Value Added Outcomes

Day 5: The Manager as Change Agent

  • The Challenge of Personal Change
  • Six Typical Reaction to Change
  • The Attributes of Effective Change Agents
  • Influencing Upward
  • Knowing Your Power and Leveraging it
  • The Importance of Humility and other Emotional Intelligence Skills
  • Knowing how to be Assertive without Appearing Aggressive