Developing
Excellence in People Leadership
This comprehensive seminar incorporates a number of the most difficult leadership skills, - the ones that deal with other people - into a two-week intensive program of people leadership with a focus on communication, interpersonal skills, motivation and organisational culture.
- Improved communication throughout the organisation
- Develop a new organisational culture - "Customer/ People Centric" Management style
- Have more results focused people continuously and constantly
- Highly motivate people at work
- Create an innovative workforce
- Become an organisation of leaders with an attitude for excellence achievement, commitment and passion
- Learn how to improve personal strengths and manage areas requiring attention
- Improve communication and interpersonal and influencing skills
- Enhance personal performance, credibility with colleagues and career success
- Get motivated when and where you need
- Understand employees and enhance their ability to motivate others in any given situation
- Learn how to expand personal leadership and creativity skills to achieve full potential
- Understand people and learn how to influence team, staff, managers and self
This seminar is designed for all leaders, team leaders & professionals who need to adopt a personal change in order to be better prepared to lead their teams or workforce.
- Self-awareness, self-development and self-mastery
- Integrity and vision
- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills
- Empowering delegation skills
- Giving constructive feedback
- Presentation skills
- Making meetings work
- Understanding employees' personal needs and wants
- Apply individual differences to motivate others
- Increase motivation by removing self limiting beliefs
- Develop people and teams to self perpetuate continual motivation
- Motivate innovative and creative thinking into their employees
- Managing change in a productive way a way that gets results
A highly interactive blend of informal lecture, group work discussion, exercises, case studies and videos.
Day 1 - Who do you think you are?
Towards self-mastery
- The process of self-mastery
- Inherent flaws in the common symbols of success
- Redefining success based on your personal paradigm
- Respond to key moments in your life
- The emotional loop - exploring the consequences of your behaviour
- Changing weak beliefs and doubt to empowering beliefs
Reality and responsibility
- Learn the meaning and nature of personal responsibility
- Understand how you avoid taking responsibility for yourself
- Assess your willingness to accept personal responsibility
- Personal choices
- Understand the power and freedom that comes from accepting responsibility
Day 2 - Vision and Integrity
Vision
- The meaning and power of vision
- Creating a vision
- Affirming your personal purpose
- Visualisation to achieve your vision
Integrity and self-esteem
- What do you mean by integrity?
- Recognise when you are and are not
- Accept your imperfections
- Learn to make time for self-renewal
- Acknowledge and build upon your strengths
Day 3 - Advanced communication skills
Communication skills for leaders
- The communication process - understanding others' subjective experience
- Verbal and nonverbal communication techniques
- Identify your own and others' preferred ways of communicating
- Understand
- The fine arts of listening and questioning
- Alternative ways of communicating/influencing others
- Learning to use time as any other resource
Day 4 - Leadership
Emotionally intelligent leadership
- Myths of leadership
- Interactive and institutional leadership
- Emotional intelligence
- Leadership and management
- Understanding your own leadership style - the 6 styles of leadership
- A charter for effective leadership
- Being a flexible leader
Empowerment and delegation
- Motivation
- Understanding empowerment
- Leadership for commitment not compliance
- Learn a model of situational leadership
- Effective feedback
Day 5 - The public face of the mature leader
Presentation
- Profiling your audience
- Focusing on key themes
- Inspiring and influencing your audience
- Making a presentation memorable
- Professionalism in public speaking
- Controlling nerves
Meetings
- The characteristics of effective meetings
- Comprehensive steps for organising a meeting
- How to create and utilise an agenda and minutes
- Leading a meeting - from the chair or from the floor
Conclusion: Personal planning and actions
- Course review and personal planning
Day 6: Adopting the new organisational culture through understanding people
- Importance of perception
- Perception in the workplace
- Maximising our perceptual ability
- Type and trait theories of human personality
- Understanding personality styles
- Optimising our personality strengths
- Removing emotional blind spots
- Appropriate self-disclosures
Day 7: Motivating employees
- Understanding motivation
- Motivating ourselves and others
- Applying theories of motivation in the workplace
- How leaders can motivate employees
- Removing blocks to motivation
- Motivation for excellent performance
- Motivating a high performance team
- The art of giving and receiving criticism
Day 8: Motivating innovative & creative thinking in the workplace
- Psychological principles of creativity in the workplace
- Encouraging creativity for continuous improvement
- Convergent and divergent thinking
- Understanding and managing creative people
- Stages of the creative process: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination & Verification
- Transforming blocks to creativity
- Creativity for business breakthroughs
- Divergent thinking skills for innovative leadership
Day 9: The new leader
- Psychological principles of leadership
- Theories of leadership
- Leadership for managing performance
- Transactional leadership and transformational leadership
- Visionary and competent leadership
- Developing leadership integrity
- Innovative leadership for excellent performance
- Being prepared to lead
Day 10: Managing for Excellence
- Development of vision, mission , key goals and key processes
- Optimising the leader's natural strengths
- Integrity and compassion for accountable leadership
- Leadership for performance management
- Managing change and getting others involved
- Leading by example
- Inspirational leadership
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