Leadership Development Program

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn what the true meaning of “Leadership” know to thoroughly explain the difference between Leading and Managing.
• Cascade company objectives to department objectives
• Explain the Trait Theory
• Understand Transformational Leadership
• The ability to lead a team and effect change in the workplace towards an organisations vision, mission and values
• Setting proper KPI for these objectives
• Understand the people you lead and how to adapt your leadership styles
• Understand the importance of Emotional intelligence in the workplace
• Explain leading by Directing, delegating & participating
• Highlight the importance of coaching as a leader
• Setting SMART goals linked to company strategy
• Discuss the Kouzes and Posner’s Transformational Leadership Model
• Be better and more effective team supervisors and develop, as leaders.

Course Content:

Scope of Leadership

• Workshop scope description
• Defining Leadership
• Difference between Leadership & Management.
• Profile and job functions of middle managers
• Formal and informal organizational relationships

The Nature of Leadership

• Identification, development and appropriate choice of personal leadership styles
• The role of trust and respect in effective team leadership
• The nature and purpose of organizations, including mission and value statements
• The nature of influencing

Understanding Leadership

• The true meaning of Leadership
• Understanding Your Comfort Zone
• Managing Performance
• Servant Leadership
• Onboarding and Orientation

Manage Your Time and Your Energy

• Learn how to manage time in an efficient way
• Learn about the importance of managing energy levels
• Personal management styles and their effects on situations and individuals

Leadership Agility

• How am I currently playing my leadership role?
• How do others respond and what can I do to influence their response?
• How do I adapt and grow in a new role and broader responsibilities?
• How much is creativity a result of the job and how much of the individual?
• What are the barriers to creative thinking at the organizational level and the personal level?

Managing the Team

• How is a team a strategic organization?
• When are extra-team ties more critical than intra-team relations for overall success?
• What’s the best way to design high-performance teams?
• When a team is not high-performing, what are the four things that can, and do, go wrong?
• How can they be prevented?

Introduction to High-Performance Leadership

• Learn what drives high performance in uncertain times
• Identify the three drivers and corresponding attributes of a high-performing work
• environment
• Explore familiar leadership styles and the correlation between leadership style and resultant behaviors
• How can you identify and enable top performers?

The Commitment Curve

• The Big Picture
• Stages of the Curve
• Understand the stages of transition that accompany any organizational change

Employee Development Models

• The Coaching Model
• The Dialogue Model
• The Consequences and Benefits Matrix

Communication

• The importance of effective communication
• Methods/procedures to overcome communication challenges
• Communications climate and culture
• Importance of feedback skills to facilitate communication and workplace relationships

Emotional intelligence

• Understanding emotional intelligence
• How to effectively apply EI as a Leader

Dealing with Conflict and Difficult Issues

• Reflection on the importance of emotional intelligence
• Techniques for Resolving Conflict
• Influencing positively – pushing and pulling
• Dealing with difficult people and situations

Organizational needs and objectives

• Cascade company objectives to department objectives
• setting SMART goals linked to company strategy
• Setting proper KPI for these objectives)

Change management 

• Understanding change management
• The role of a leader in change management

Strategically thinking as a Leader

• The strategic management process
• Strategic thinking versus strategic planning
• Benefiting from strategic management
• Myths about strategy