Developing Excellence in People Leadership

Dates 25 Jul - 5 Aug 2010 17 - 28 October 2010
Location Dubai Dubai
Fees US$7,700 US$7,700
CPE Credits 60 60

Introduction

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.

Training Methodology

Highly interactive blend of informal lecture, group work discussion, exercises, case studies and videos. Any theory discussed will be grounded immediately in practical day to day work. Learning will be enhanced through active involvement in exercises followed by review. Opportunities for self assessment will be provided and feedback on individual and group performance will be encouraged.

Organisational Impact

  • 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

Personal Impact

  • 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

Who Should Attend?

  • All leaders and professionals who are motivated to be better prepared to lead their teams or workforce.
  • Anyone interested in developing their skills in motivating and leading teams to achieve the organizational mission.
  • Anyone who wants a better understanding of the psychology of workplace behaviour
  • Managers who are making the transition to leadership
  • Managers who want to expand their repertoire of knowledge and skills to get even more from their teams

Seminar outline

Day 1: Who Do You Think You Are? Self-Mastery, Reality and Responsibility

  • Taking charge of your brain
  • Reaching success based upon your paradigm
  • Understanding the emotional loop
  • Gaining power and freedom by taking responsibility
  • Analyzing the power of beliefs
  • Utilizing emotion to drive action
  • Directing your focus
  • Understanding visual, auditory and kinesthetic sub modalities

Day 2:  Vision and Integrity

  • Analyzing the impact of values on your vision
  • Understanding how your values impact your purpose
  • Designing your destiny with the power of vision
  • Creating a powerful vision
  • Operating with personal integrity
  • Achieving positive self-renewal
  • Building self confidence
  • Harnessing the power of enthusiasm
  • Strengthening your courage

Day 3: Advanced Communication Skills

  • Communicating with intention
  • Breaking negative patterns
  • Understanding the communication process
  • Creating effective oral communication
  • Understanding the relationship of verbal and nonverbal communication
  • Utilizing active listening techniques
  • Dealing with difficulties in communication
  • Analyzing communication styles: aggressive, passive and assertive

Day 4: Leadership

  • Understanding the importance of emotional intelligence
  • Developing self-awareness, motivation, empathy and social skills
  • Moving to a new model of empowerment
  • Recognizing 21st century leadership skills
  • Interpreting institutional and interactive leadership
  • Comprehending the difference between leadership and management
  • Utilizing effective situational leadership
  • Learning the 4 Es of leadership at GE: energy, excite, edge and execute
  • Evaluating the leadership secrets of Jack Welch
  • Investigating theories of motivation

 Day 5: The Public Face of the Mature Leader

  • Making successful presentations
  • Influencing through appeal to achievement of a vision
  • Influencing through the utilization of logic
  • Influencing through a genuine people orientation
  • Displaying personal power in communications
  • Overcoming the failure mechanism
  • Running productive meetings
  • Reviewing the seminar

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