Introduction

This seminar is made up of both the following modules:

Week 1 - The Oxford Leadership Seminar

Week 2 - Motivation & Behaviour

These seminars are designed to provide the practicising or potential leaders with the knowledge and skills required by their roles. Each week is designed to concentrate of specific areas of leadership and motivation to enable leaders to fulfil their potential and that of their teams.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

All professionals who need to hone their behavioural leadership skills to become more effective leaders. You will grow in leadership skills, personal power, authenticity and integrity by:

• Communicating with others effectively
• Motivating themselves and others
• Thinking positively
• Creating actions that really make a difference
• Creating an emotionally healthy, productive workplace that ensures an open and positive organisational culture
• Recreating excellence again and again
• Understanding motivational traits by observing behaviours, and communicating effectively with others.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES - Participants attending the programme will:

• To understand the wide range of skills required of the leader
• To develop further the individuals key skills
• To build confidence and ability in leadership skills
• To understand the impact of change on teams
• To develop communication skills
• To generate a strategy for improvement of these key skills in each team member through coaching and mentoring
• Understand the psychology of motivation.
• Recognise your own behavioural style, both natural and adapted.
• Recognise the behavioural style of others, who are not like you.
• Develop the skills of being able to adapt to other behaviours.
• Learn how to create a motivational environment, for different behaviours.
• Discover a variety of communication styles to effectively cope with different situations
• Communicate far more effectively.
• Create much better results from team meetings.
• Learn BODY LANGUAGE from one of the world’s leading experts.
• Learn what motivates and de-motivates different behavioural types.
• Recognise what different behavioural types do, under pressure.
• Learn about emotional intelligence; their own, and that of others, and how to be in control.
• Learn the benefit of behaviour for recruitment.
• Create a Plan of Action to implement in their organisation

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The seminar is carefully designed to address all styles of learning and to engage participants fully. Lectures and discussions are either preceded or followed by powerful individual or group exercises. These exercises provide opportunities for personal participation in real situations. During these exercises you discover that you can do what you are learning. This process makes the training fun filled, fast-paced, challenging and empowering.

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

The programme covers all the soft skills needed by people in leadership positions. The programme will concentrate on the skills required to lead staff, motivate staff, communicate with staff and manage the outcomes expected by anyone within the organisation. All participants will return to their organisations with an armoury of new skills, having a completely different view of the way they handle people, with enhanced leadership skills and greater emotional intelligence

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

Week 1

Achieving Excellence in Leadership Issues

• Understanding the key roles and responsibilities for the effective leader
• Identifying and developing the key skills required as a leader
• Leadership styles and their effect on the team
• Situational Leadership
• Understanding the difference between leadership and management

Excellence in Communication

• Understanding the principles of excellent communication
• Active Listening
• Identifying and Overcoming your communication problems

Excellent Time Management and Prioritisation

• Where does the time go?
• Making the best use of your time
• Setting and maintaining priorities
• Understanding the difference between urgent and important
• Identifying your key time stealers
• Making the Pareto Principle work for you

Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Tools and Techniques
• A structured approach to problem solving
• Identifying the influences on decisions you make
• Cause and effect
• Selecting and evaluating options
• Creativity and problem solving

Managing Change

• Planning for change
• Implementing change
• Managing change
• Force Field analysis

Understanding and Influencing Behaviour

• Understanding why we behave as we do
• Different forms of behaviour
• Using our behaviour to persuade and influence others
• Dealing with difficult behaviour in others
• Developing a negotiation style

Managing People To Achieve Results

• Managing Conflicting
• Motivation
• Using delegation & empowerment effectively
• The role of coaching & mentoring

Week 2

Understanding Behaviour and Motivation

• What is motivation?
• What motivates people?
• The benefits of understanding behaviour.
• Editing your behavioural report to make it more accurate.
• Knowing and understanding your own behavioural style.

Understanding Behaviour (continued)

• Your natural and adapted style.
• Behavioural styles of others, not like you.
• Keys to how you like to be managed.
• Recognising how better to manage and motivate others with different behaviours.
• Recognising the behavioural style of your work colleagues and friends.
• Understanding what you’ve been doing wrong in your leadership and communication.
• Learn how different behaviours determine how a person will do a job.
• Recognising different behaviours from the words that they use.
• Adapting to other behavioural types, for greater appreciation, communication and understanding.
• Understanding that 36% of your most effective leadership, is emotional intelligence.

Body Language

• What is body language?
• How to accurately read body language.
• Understanding people’s thoughts, from their gestures, movements, posture, distances, angles and posture.
• How reading body language, will help you recognise behaviour and de-motivation.
• Different degrees of body language for different behaviours in the hands, the stance, and the way people walk.
• How to use your own body language, to lead and motivate more effectively.

Motivating the Team

• Individual exercise on motivation.
• Group exercises on behaviours.
• Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
• Differing motivational needs of men and women.
• The 6 most powerful potential motivators.
• Keep your good staff motivated…and keep your good staff.
• 15 things to say to make people feel good.
• Incentives to inspire people into action.

Motivating with a Positive Mental Attitude

• Negativity and where it comes from.
• How negativity de-motives people.
• Acquiring a positive mental attitude.
• Laughter is the best medicine.
• To motivate others… first you have to motivate yourself.

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