Advanced Leadership & Management Skills
Advanced Management & Leadership Skills
OBJECTIVES
- Practical leadership tools and techniques that can be applied immediately
- Successful leadership approaches from the best-of-the-best world-class organizations
- How to apply the 10 most powerful leadership competencies for greater success
- To consider methods for improving management performance
- Effective strategic planning: a step-by-step process for your business enterprise
- Critical components of succession planning
- Authentic coaching guidelines for turn-of-the-century leadership
- Getting results through effective mortification techniques
- Best ways of managing knowledge and human capital
- Insights into the successful implementation of teams
- Improved ways leaders are measuring performance by using performance builders
- Understand how to put together a strategic plan for your business unit
- New developed skills in negotiating
- To analyze the Baldridge Award criteria for excellence
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Mid-to upper-level managers responsible for the continuous leadership development of others and building high-performance organizations
- Team leaders and coaches who are called to inspire and motivate their workers each day to accept new responsibility
- Sales managers and VPs responsible for improving the overall productivity of their employees while maximizing the potential of their sales organization
- Human resource managers who are charged with creating and maintaining the human capital within their organizations
- Customer service managers called upon to lead employees from customer service excellence to enduring customer loyalty through more effective leadership
- Managers who wish to transform their way of thinking, managing and leading for a higher level of skill, empowerment, and overall achievement
- Those interested in achieving standards of excellence and who wish to enhance their management skills
COURSE OUTLINE
Leadership Competencies
- understanding the power of leadership competencies
- incorporating leadership competencies into your organization
- 10 most powerful leadership competencies
- developing your own competency model
- applying competencies in your organization
- aligning competencies to yield greater business results
Strategic Leadership Planning
- strategic planning step-by-step when goal setting isn’t enough
- creating your own strategic plan to use immediately
- four-part blueprint for strategic planning
- implementing your plan for optimum effectiveness
Succession Planning and Career Planning
- applying critical components of leadership succession
- attracting and retaining top talent
- creating leaders from within
- building your dream team
- developing careers
- learning lab: real-world best practices exercise
Coaching at all Levels – Becoming an Influential Leader
- using primary leadership styles of effective coaching
- developing authentic coaching guidelines
- using 11 principles for coaching success
- implementing a four-step plan for developing your influence
- expanding the sphere of influence
- learning lab: real-world coaching best practices exercise
Managing Knowledge and Better Ways to Measure Performance
- creating a world-class learning environment
- understanding the future of learning in the organization
- realizing the importance of 21st Century training and what has to happen first
- Deming’s take on performance appraisals: performance appraisal vs. performance building
- evaluating current performance appraisals and improving them greatly
- new and better ways for measuring performance you never thought possible
People Management
- The importance of sociotechnical management
- Techniques for effective communication
- Motivating for results
- Enhancing your coaching skills
- Empowering employees for improved performance
- Characteristics of a successful manager
Leading Teams
- Obtaining the benefits of teamwork
- Characteristics of ineffective teams
- Characteristics of effective teams
- Managing conflict in a productive manner
- Understanding team member styles
- Creating a virtual team
Strategic Planning
- Analyzing the strategic planning process
- Achieving competitive advantage
- Utilizing dynamic SWOT analysis
- Focusing on vision and mission
- The importance of contingency planning
- Examples of strategic success and failure
Negotiating for Results
- Gaining insight into the negotiating process
- Characteristics of an effective negotiator
- Developing negotiating strategies
- Employing persuasive negotiation techniques
- Achieving the benefits of effective negotiating
- Negotiation exercises
Operational Excellence
- The Malcolm Baldrige quality award-standard of excellence
- Lessons from the best performing companies
- Benchmarking your operation against the best
- Creating employee commitment
- Managing continuous improvement
- Creating the high performance organization