Course Overview
The concept behind good leadership in organisations 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 organisational goals.
As such, today’s leaders need to be proficient in skills like good communication, creativity, collaboration, delegation, and the ability to motivate their teams.
Whether you are a senior executive trying to advance your organisation in a new world or an experienced project manager, you will be empowered with new skills and a contemporary perspective on leadership from this course.
How will this “Leadership Excellence Training Program” help you in becoming a better leader? In order to be an effective leader in today’s work environments, you must wear multiple hats and bring the right set of skills and attitudes to achieve results.
This Leadership Excellence Training Program provides the experienced manager with the skills to take their leadership to the next level, and an amateur leader the right skills to cultivate their leadership styles with the right guidance.
This Zoe 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:
- Recognise 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
Like all our training programs, this course also follows the ‘Do-Review-Learn-Apply’ model.
Organisational Benefits
Companies who nominate their employees to participate in this Leadership Excellence Training Program can benefit in the following ways:
- More creativity from team members as a result of improved leadership skills
- Problems get solved quicker due to the use of best practices in conflict management
- Increase your teams’ productivity levels due to enhanced self-awareness
- Greater teamworking and collaboration among team members will lead to higher productivity
- Fewer interpersonal challenges and complaints between team members will result in a cohesive environment where the employees and the business will thrive
- Performance issues can be addressed directly rather than in an indirect or biased manner
Personal Benefits
Individuals who participate in this Leadership Excellence Training Program can gain from it in the following ways:
- Gain a clear idea of your leadership style through enhanced self-awareness
- Increase your understanding of the current paradigm for leadership, and its implications for individual development and organisational change
- Devise a customised self-development plan to ensure growth as a leader
- Apply the knowledge and skills you learn, to develop your own employee’s performance and wellbeing, as well as the growth of your organisation
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
