COURSE OVERVIEW

The concept behind good leadership in organizations is to be able to extract the best out of employees – it is a mutual relationship between leaders and their subordinates that aim towards common organizational goals.

This training course will empower you with an eye-opening journey of self-discovery to uncover what kind of leader you want to be. Self-aware leaders can clearly convey their vision to stakeholders and employees, which is the key to creating a motivational climate where everyone is ‘onboard’ and passionately rowing in the same direction.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Leadership Excellence Training Program successfully, participants will be able to:

• Recognize what real leadership and management enablement involves
• Understand how to use self-development change initiatives as a strategic training tool
• Learn how to improve the ways in which you manage others, yourself, and your work environment
• Understand the significance of interpersonal relationship skills in good leadership
• Build a proactive process around your existing leadership skills
• Know how to motivate yourself and others
• Understand the importance of delegating tasks effectively

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This collaborative Leadership Excellence Training Program will comprise the following training methods:

• Lectures
• Seminars & Presentations
• Group Discussions
• Assignments
• Case Studies & Functional Exercises

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This Leadership Excellence Training Program would be suitable for:

• Current and potential leaders
• Management professionals
• Team leaders
• Supervisors
• Line managers
• Technical personnel who lead sub-teams
• All aspiring leaders in any field

COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE 1: SELF-AWARENESS

• Know yourself as a team leader – your strengths and style preferences
• Examine and challenge your personal belief system
• Set personal goals to guide your outputs
• Manage your time and activities
• Embrace the power of role modelling

MODULE 2: ESTABLISHING TEAM ENVIRONMENT, MEMBERSHIP, AND ROLES

• Learn from what high performing teams do
• Conduct a team purpose analysis
• Map your stakeholders
• Build an energetic team environment
• Identify critical team roles
• Identify effective team behaviours
• Learn how teams develop

MODULE 3: BUILDING EXCEPTIONAL TEAM PRODUCTIVITY, PROGRESS, AND LEARNING

• Deploy motivation theories in team management
• Get things done – how to influence stakeholders
• Influence and motivate different social style preferences
• Incorporate systems thinking for continuous team improvement
• Celebrate great team performance

MODULE 4: CONSTRUCTING FRICTIONLESS COMMUNICATION

• Understand how communication works and doesn’t work
• Identify and overcome barriers to communication
• The process of listening and asking questions
• Develop positive learning in teams – appreciative inquiry
• Give feedback that improves performance
• Manage meetings efficiently and effectively

MODULE 5: DEALING WITH TEAM CONFLICTS AND USING THEM TO IMPROVE TEAM PERFORMANCE

• Identify and avoid ineffective team dynamics
• Understand and deal with dysfunctional behaviour
• Ground rules for effective conflict resolution

MODULE 6: DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP FOR THE MODERN WORKPLACE

• The challenge of personal leadership development
• Understanding the power of transformational leadership
• Developing a personal leadership mind-set
• Characteristics of highly effective leaders

MODULE 7: BUILDING DYNAMICS FOR LEADING SUCCESSFUL TEAMS

• How to select and prepare for a successful team
• Discover the strategy of building a high-performance team
• How to create and shape high performing achievers
• Identifying the essential factors in motivation
• How to motivate yourself and others

MODULE 8: DEVELOPING TOP PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• How to be a successful coach to shape peak performance
• What strategic mentoring will do to produce results?
• Making performance appraisal really effective
• Developing a powerful, positive leadership mindset
• Utilising the benefits of result-producing delegation

MODULE 9: FROM PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL TO PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• Manager’s self-evaluation
• Managerial barriers to effective performance appraisals
• How to assess an employee’s performance fairly
• The benefits of on-going Performance Management
• Leadership/coaching behaviour
• Your leadership strengths and gaps
• Using performance management as a leadership strategy

MODULE 10: THE POWER 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 how to use them
• Evaluate employees and situations and determine the appropriate delegation style
• The difference between doing, leading, and managing

MODULE 11: ESSENTIAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR LEADERS

• How to utilise effective interpersonal communication skills
• Knowing how to communicate with confidence and impact
• Understanding barriers to effective communication
• Understanding positive, win-win assertiveness in leadership
• Developing powerful listening skills

MODULE 12: DEVELOPING PROACTIVE LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES

• How to effectively manage and lead change
• How to utilise empowering decision-making skills
• Learning Richard Branson’s strategies for business success
• Discovering and using the power of appreciation
• How to develop your own proactive plan of action