Collaborating for Success: Leadership through Collaboration & Synergy

Introduction

This seminar is designed to help delegates enhance their skills in collaborating with others to achieve organizational success. Delegates will learn how to develop the managerial and leadership skills to collaborate with others. They will learn how to develop strategies for maximum impact in collaborating with others.

Objectives

At the end of the course, delegates should learn to:

• Follow through on promises and deliberate before speaking
• Treat others as equals and recognise cultural differences
• Value the diverse population within the organisation
• Strive for team success as well as personal success
• Demonstrate commitment to fellow team members by seeking first to understand and then be understood
• Foster teamwork by working actively with all nationalities
• Share knowledge and information openly with all colleagues
• Conduct briefings so that staff know what is expected of them
• Act with integrity and does not hesitate to take action when required
• Encourage and promote new ideas, providing a sense of purpose and innovative environment

Training Methodology

The seminar will combine presentations with interactive practical exercises, supported by video material and case studies. Delegates will be encouraged to participate actively in relating the principles of effective leadership to the particular needs of their workplace.

Organisational Impact

• Employees who attend this programme will be motivated and confident to move up to the next level.
• Delegates will have the competence to avoid common pitfalls Delegates will be equipped to make a significant contribution to moving their organisation in desired directions and steer their teams through complex scenarios
• Enhance leadership through better interpersonal skills
• Cultivate a more productive work environment
• Promote organizational change effectively
• Improve teamwork and teambuilding skills
• Create conditions that enable the team to perform at its best, sets clear direction and clear expectations and motivates them to achieve both individual and team goals
• Influence others within the organisation and beyond to gain support
  

Personal Impact

• New insights into their preferred leadership style
• Improve the prospect that those whom they lead will want to follow them
• Understand the different personality styles
• Discuss and persuade others, building confidence and commitment to a course of action and explain convincingly why there is a need to do something
• Provide supportive documentation and examples to explain intention
• Review course of action in order to achieve the most effective impact
• Present information, views and justifications convincingly in order to influence others
• Present arguments, reasons, consequences and outcomes assertively to gain acceptance
• Formulate and articulate well through out discussions and backs this up with facts, logic and rationale

Competencies Emphasized

Participants will develop the following competencies:

• The Core skills of collaborating with others successfully
• Understanding people
• Assessing your organisations culture and its implications
• How group dynamics affect team work
• Cultivate improved interpersonal relationships with others
• Utilize understanding of personality styles to enhance your leadership as a manager
• Want to develop their leadership skills

Who Should Attend?

This seminar is designed for all leaders & professionals who feel the need to adopt a personal change in order to be better prepared to lead their teams or workforce. The seminar would benefit anyone who is interested in developing their skills in collaborating with others to achieve the organizational mission.

Seminar Outline

Day 1: Developing your Collaborating Skills

• Fine tune your own leadership style for greater success
• Understand the importance of knowing your leadership style
• Insights into the influence of personality on your emotional intelligence
• Pacing and priority conflicts
• Developing style flexibility for handling people
• Strategies to create Engaged Teams.
• Inspiring effective change

Day 2: Collaborating with Others from Your Mind and Your Heart

• Understanding the 4 stages of human development
• Motivating oneself and motivating others
• Developing wellness as a manager
• Developing creative collaboration practices in the workplace
• Leadership Style and Impact
• Extraordinary Leadership
• Resolving conflicts effectively

Day 3: Managing an Effective Team through Persuasive Communication

• Understand the difference between being a "leader" and a "manager", and how to transition between the two
• Saying 'No' skillfully: How to give criticism to others
• How to receive criticism non-defensively
• Dealing with others effectively
• Influence Others : Handling change effectively
• Effective persuasion
• Learning experiences and action plan