Leadership In Action - Workshop Outline
Grow results through people with a customised 'Leadership In Action' workshop for your management team. Challenge your managers to:
- focus on attaining results through people
- drive strategic execution and make the dream, the plan, a visible reality from the boardroom to the grass roots
- harness people's natural motivation and desire to contribute by building belief in the business and themselves
- address emotional immaturity blocking managers from developing their direct reports, and robbing the business of invaluable productivity
- eliminate 'them and us', the greatest roadblock to serving customers
- embrace business 'problems' as opportunities or they will kill management creativity
.......and much more, including
Introduction and Overview
- Pre-workshop assessments
- Critical leadership and business issues
Today's Challenge: Leadership
- Management versus leadership responsibilities
- Attaining predetermined objectives
- Leadership is a skill; learn and grow
- Creating voluntary engagement and effort
- Eliminating distrust to build productivity
Why We Fail To Lead Part 1 - Request a Preview CD
- Negative impact of management mistakes
- Boost, rather than filter, corporate communication
- Accepting personal accountability
- Developing strong teams and people
- Eliminating the we/they syndrome
- Using problems to attain objectives
Why We Fail to Lead Part 2
- Being the leader, not a best friend
- Measurement and standards that build pride
- Providing recognition to people at every level
- Understanding what motivates people
- Eliminating employee adoption
Structuring for High Level Performance
- Why people fail to perform effectively
- Building value into each employee's job
- Communicating responsibilities and expectations
- Effectively measuring performance
- Setting minimum standards of quality
Characteristics of Good Leaders
- Effective characteristics and exercising judgement
- Managing different people differently
- Developing management versatility
Developing and Coaching for Results
- Change means train; creating the desire to learn
- Ensuring people know how to do the job
- Three step model for training and coaching
- Changing behaviour is a process
- Ensure consequences are in balance
Confronting Incompetence and Redirecting Behaviour
- Leaders do not condone incompetence
- Rules for effective confrontation
- How to confront effectively and solve the problem
- Techniques to redirect negative behaviour
- Positively reinforcing desired behaviour
How to Effectively Facilitate Change
- Change involves pain and the benefits must outweigh
- Change is always preceded by dissatisfaction
- Mindsets of people involved in change
- Basic human motivations that drive or hinder change
- How to to sell and facilitate change
Building Belief: The Foundation of Success
- Difference between success and failure
- Behaviour change comes from thinking
- How to elevate people's thinking
- Approaches to growing productivity
- What top performers believe in
- Leaders build people's belief and self esteem
Team Action Strategies
Preview the workshop content.
Get a Preview CD of the session 'Why We Fail To Lead Part 1'.