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Building Personal Leadership Skills: Creating Stronger Relationships for Organization

Introduction

Building Personal Leadership Skills: Creating Stronger Relationships for Organization

Objectives

By the end of this programme you will be able to:

• Inspire and direct your team to greater skills and motivation
• Spot opportunities for strategic alliances with peers, staff, and superiors
• Become a visionary, innovative, and successful leader
• Identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses and the strengths and weaknesses of your staff
• Develop a leadership style that flexes to the person and situation
• Be a successful coach, mentor, and communicator

​COURSE OUTLINE

DAY 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

DAY 2 - The Attributes and Characteristics of Successful leadership

• Characteristics of highly effective leaders
• The difference between traditional and transformational leadership
• Using a flexible effective leadership styles
• Understanding a leadership mindset
• Effective leadership and emotional intelligence
• Practicing effective decision making
• How to build an effective, proactive team

DAY 3 - Coaching for Top Quality Performance

• Performance Appraisals to Performance Management – manager’s self-evaluation
• Managerial barriers to effective Performance Appraisals
• How to assess and 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

DAY 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 personal 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

DAY 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