Decisions, Dynamics & Leadership Styles

Decisions, Dynamics & Leadership Styles

OBJECTIVES

• Gain a greater awareness of yourself and your full leadership potential
• Refine your leadership styles for the benefit of your team and department
• Develop adaptability in dealing with different people
• Enhance decision making skills in employees
• Apply effective decision making skills in solving problems

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This seminar is designed for anyone in a leadership role, department heads, supervisors, and team leaders who wish to learn more about strategies for improving leadership effectiveness in times of pressure, stress and crisis.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day One

Gaining Insights into your Leadership Styles

• How Perception influences our leadership style
• Understanding our personality
• Personality and leadership style
• Improving our strengths & managing our weaknesses
• Maximizing our interpersonal relationship with others
• Removing emotional and mental blind spots

Day Two

Developing Decision Making Skills

• Using your left brain & right brain to make decisions
• Split brain theory for developing effective problem solving skills
• Developing openness to new ideas in making decisions
• Promoting idea mobility in teams
• Understanding the creative solving process in individuals and teams
• IDEAL problem solving approach

Day Three

Applying Effective Decision Making Skills in the Workplace

• Encouraging creative problem solving for continuous improvement
• Removing blocks to creative problem solving
• Convergent versus Divergent Thinking
• Divergent Thinking Skills for solving problems
• Using SCAMPER techniques to approach problem solving
• Applying SCAMPER techniques to make effective decisions

Day Four

Overcoming Mental Blocks to Decision Making

• Challenging self-imposed assumptions
• Metaphorical thinking
• Increasing new ideas
• Getting people behind your ideas
• Evaluating new ideas
• Creative leadership

Day Five

Effective Leadership to Develop Dynamic Problem Solving in the Team

• Ensuring alignment with corporate mission
• Encouraging self-initiated activity
• Endorsing Unofficial activity
• Enhancing Serendipity
• Importance of appreciating diverse stimuli
• Practicing within-company communication for problem solving
• Developing a personal action plan