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Leadership Excellence

6-Week Experience

People & communication skills are an essential ingredient for leadership success. As a leader, you can positively influence others in order to achieve organizational success. Leaders who demonstrate certain principles create an environment where employees are motivated, not forced, to bring their best to work. These principles strengthen teamwork and trust, leading to a more cohesive, creative, and constructive workforce. In Leadership Excellence, you will learn to maximize your own performance, become a stronger leader, and add more value to the organization.

Program Objectives

  • Build confidence and self-direction
  • Strengthen people skills
  • Improve process skills
  • Enhance communication skills
  • Increase accountability

Program Overview

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

  • Laying a Foundation & Enhance Relationships
  • Time Management
  • Delegation
  • Disagree Agreeably
  • Coaching for Skill Development
  • Change Readiness
  • Stress & Worry

Week 5

Week 6

  • Influence Others
  • Coaching for Performance Improvement & Giving Constructive Feedback
  • Build Others Through Recognition & Celebrate Achievements
  • Sustaining Growth


The leadership excellence training provided a lot of resources and values to help sharpen my leadership skills. Our trainer kept the sessions fun, engaging, and informative. I strongly believe all leaders should participate in this training because it provides tools for effective coaching, giving feedback in a receptive manner, and for collaboration with peers, direct reports and upline. - Graduate of Leadership Training for Managers


Program Breakdown

Session 1: Key area

Objectives

Laying a Foundation & Enhance Relationships



  1. 1.Understand leadership and management and the related drivers for success
  2. 2.Identify core values as leaders
  3. 3.Apply Human Relations principles to build trust and rapport
  4. 4.“Innerview” to open the lines of communication and build trust

Session 2: Key area

Objectives

Time Management

  1. 1.Gain an understanding of where our time is spent
  2. 2.Develop the mindset to overcome time management obstacles and work more efficiently
  3. 3.Apply tools to plan, organize and manage our time
  4. 4.Leverage time and increase productivity by working smarter, not harder

Delegation

  1. 1.Delegate tasks and responsibilities to develop and train others
  2. 2.Plan and prepare for a delegation meeting
  3. 3.Communicate clear performance standards for follow-up and accountability

Session 3: Key area

Objectives

Disagree Agreeably




  1. 1.Identify personal hot buttons and our role in disagreements
  2. 2.Give others the benefit of the doubt and cushion opinions for greater acceptance
  3. 3.Apply a formula for contributing ideas and disagreeing in an agreeable way change

Coaching for Skill

Development


  1. 1.Describe the Cycle of Performance Change
  2. 2.Apply the steps of the coaching process to improve performance in others
  3. 3.Identify additional approaches to develop people influence


Session 4: Key area

Objectives

Change Readiness




  1. 1.Avoid the most common change management mistakes
  2. 2.Understand a model for change
  3. 3.Define the type of change currently occurring in the organization
  4. 4.Manage ourselves and others during organizational change


Stress Management




  1. 1.Recognize the impact negative stress has on our results and effectiveness
  2. 2.Commit to using concepts and principles to better handle stress
  3. 3.Discover more effective ways for business professionals to prepare for and address challenges


Session 5: Key area

Objectives

Influence Others

  1. 1.Identify opportunities to influence change in our organization
  2. 2.Learn and apply the principles for influencing behaviors and attitudes
  3. 3.Commit to influencing positive change

Coaching for Performance Improvement & Giving Constructive Feedback

  1. 1.Use the Coaching Performance Improvement Process
  2. 2.Create opportunities for feedback to close the communication loop
  3. 3.Avoid common de-motivators when leading others

Session 6: Key area

Objectives

Build Others Through Recognition & Celebrate Achievements

  1. 1.Concentrate on the strengths of others
  2. 2.Discover the value of sincere appreciation
  3. 3.Understand program value and create a vision for change

Sustaining Growth


  1. 1.Assess balance in our personal and professional lives
  2. 2.Acknowledge our growth and renewed vision
  3. 3.Commit to continuous improvement


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