This program centers around the responsibilities of leaders in developing and inspiring exceptional teams. Instead of prescribing a single "correct" leadership approach, it introduces a variety of complementary approaches that participants can practice, blend, and customize to align with their own preferences and organizational requirements. By examining the leadership role from various perspectives, the program encourages delegates to experiment with innovative methods to empower and motivate their teams, while also positively influencing the organizational climate and culture. As a result, leaders will be better equipped to concentrate on organizational objectives and adept at fostering their teams' sustainable performance improvement, ultimately benefiting the organization as a whole.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the Achieving Leadership Excellence training program, participants will be able to:

Study effective team operations
Analyze effective communications strategies
Understand how to give and receive effective feedback
Consider tools for motivating and delegating
Explore leadership styles
Examine the construction of a learning environment

Who Should Attend?

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Executives and senior managers seeking to reflect on, and further develop, their own leadership style
Those aspiring to take on leading roles in their organization
Professionals that wish to nurture an organizational environment that enables effective leadership and high performance.

Course Outlines:

Building Personal Leadership Skills

Creating Stronger Relationships for a Stronger organization

The Empowering Tools of Leadership: Motivating and Delegating

Identifying the important factors in motivation
Appreciating how different theories of motivation can be applied to the work setting
Tailor motivational efforts to individual employees and different situation
Identify the benefits and the barriers to delegation
Identify the different delegation styles and understand the guidelines for on how and when to use them
Evaluate employees and situations and determine the appropriate delegation style
The difference between doing, leading, and managing

The Attributes and Characteristics of Successful leadership

Characteristics of highly effective leaders
The difference between traditional and transformational leadership
Using flexible effective leadership styles
Understanding a leadership mindset
Effective leadership and emotional intelligence
Practicing effective decision making
How to build an effective, proactive team

Coaching for Top Quality Performance

Performance Appraisals to Performance Management – manager’s self-evaluation
Managerial barriers to effective Performance Appraisals
How to assess and employee’s performance fairly – avoiding subjectivity and bias
The benefits of on-going Performance Management
Leadership/coaching behavior assessment
Your leadership/coaching style – strengths and gaps
Using performance management as a leadership strategy

How to Become an Environmental Change Agent

Defining a learning environment and its benefits
Singe’s five learning disciplines
Personal mastery – learning to expand our personal capacity to create the results we most desire
Mental models – seeing how our internal pictures of the world shape our actions
Shared vision – building a sense of commitment in a group
Team learning – crating a thinking synergistic environment
Systems thinking – a language for describing the forces that shape the behavior of systems

Building Effective Communication Skills

Identifying the importance of effective interpersonal communication for the leadership role
Building trust and believability: behaviors vs. intentions
Perception and communicating with others
Self-concept and leadership success – strategies for improving self-concept
Delivering clear, concise messages

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