Developing Excellence in People Leadership

Developing Excellence in People Leadership

OBJECTIVES

• Improved communication throughout the organization
• Develop a new organizational 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 organization of leaders with an attitude for excellence achievement, commitment and passion

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This seminar is designed for all leaders, managers, team leaders & professionals who need to adopt a personal change in order to be better prepared to lead their teams or workforce.

COURSE OUTLINE

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

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

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

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

Motivating Innovative & Creative Thinking in the Workplace

• Psychological principles of creativity in the workplace
• Encouraging creativity for continuous improvement
• Convergent & 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

The New Leader

• Psychological principles of leadership
• Theories of leadership
• Leadership for managing performance
• Transactional leadership & transformational leadership
• Visionary & competent leadership
• Developing leadership integrity
• Innovative leadership for excellent performance
• Being prepared to lead

Managing for Excellence

• Development of vision, mission, key goals and key processes
• Optimisation of your natural strengths
• Integrity & compassion for accountable leadership
• Leadership for performance management
• Managing change and getting others involved
• Leading by example
• Inspirational leadership