Effective Transformational Leadership: Tools for Effective Leadership Strategies

Effective Transformational Leadership:
Tools for Effective Leadership Strategies

OBJECTIVES

• Coaching and equipping, is one of the most important acts of leadership.
• Successful managers recognise that to get things done cost effectively they must ‘grow’ people to their full potential.
• Outstanding performance must be drawn from every member of the team.
• This requires clear direction, feedback and personal empowerment.
• Understand that communication is vital to successful, productive work groups
• Learn and understand one’s personal communication style and the effect it has on relationships within a work group
• Learn a person’s strengths and challenges according to their communication type
• Identify and understand communication styles of colleagues and others in the workplace
• Recognize the need and value of communication style diversity among members of a work group
• Learn techniques to assist in communication problem resolution
• Identify the characteristics of effective communication between colleagues in work groups
• Learn techniques to assess communication styles of people
• Identify communication strategies to build more productive communications
• Learn how to create rapport, build trust and establish credibility in a work group

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Enhancing Leadership Skills with Effective Interpersonal Interaction will benefit any person who desires to develop more productive communication and human interaction skills, communicate better with others and understand why others communicate and interact differently. professionals, leaders, team members or those responsible for others in organizations will benefit. The seminar is designed for any person who desires to learn how they interact with others, why others may interact differently and how these differences can be used to develop more productive environments.

COURSE OUTLINE 

Strategic Equipping For Leadership

• Changing Manager’s roles
• What is real Leadership?
• How to equip Leaders for excellence
• The pursuit of excellence
• Developing key management competencies to create excellence
• 12 Ways to develop your Staff potential and talent
• The Manager as a Change agent
• The need for peak performance
• Activators, Behaviours and consequences
• Benefits for the organization, manager and performer

The Manager as a Coach and Mentor

• What is coaching?
• Why is coaching so important?
• Making the transition from Manager to Coach
• Qualities and attributes of a good Coach
• Develop the Coaching Model
• What does coaching achieve?
• Deciding When and How to coach
• Select the appropriate coaching style
• Arranging a coaching session
• Use the “GROW” model
• Measuring and observing performance
• How to appraise a person’s performance
• The link with feedback motivation

The Coaching / Motivation Process and Skills

• Influencing the readiness to change
• The importance of handling change
• Gaining a persons commitment to change
• Raising their effectiveness through questioning
• Motivation as a lever
• Setting action orientated performance goals
• End goals, performance goals and process goals
• Working your own goal setting strategy
• Developing efficient Time management
• Learn to prioritize your time
• The importance of essential Listening skills
• Developing the cycle for continuous improvement

Putting Coaching & Counselling to Work

• Understanding the performers agenda
• Coaching the subconscious mind
• Knowing what improvements to aim for
• Exploring barriers to progress
• Replacement principle
• Coaching the right performance attitude
• Making appropriate attitude adjustments
• Knowing what empowering improvement to aim for
• Leading by example
• Develop appreciation within and without
• The coach’s role as a facilitator

Coaching for Decisive Action

• Adopting the approach, process and skills as a way of life
• Self coaching to fit your own aims and objectives – personal discipline
• Improving your ability to make decisions
• Ten steps to vital decision making
• Choosing Pro-Active leadership
• Understand the Circle of control
• How to be pro-active in your relationships
• How to apply Persistence Performance
• Using the learnt skills to apply at every level
• Ten essential qualities of a successful Corporate Executive

Introduction to Human Interaction and Communication

• Introductions
• Goals and Objectives of the seminar
• Importance of interpersonal interaction and communication styles
• Interpersonal communication is two-way
• Interpersonal interaction preferences differ
• Communication is listening
• Importance and techniques of active listening

Assessing and Identifying Interpersonal Styles

• Identification of interpersonal communication methods
• Interpersonal interaction diversity factors
• Effective listening leads to sensitivity and trust
• Successful interpersonal interaction develops trust
• Characteristics of interpersonal interaction
• Identification of the personal interaction style

What is My Real Interpersonal Interaction Style?

• Individual strengths and challenges of each interaction style
• Best-Fit interaction types for each person
• Dominant, auxiliary and tertiary functions
• Identifying interpersonal communication team types
• Team strengths and challenges in interpersonal interactions
• How we work best with others’ types

Interpersonal Interaction at Work in Teams?

• Understanding how teams work better using varied interaction types
• Understanding interpersonal team dynamics
• Developing self awareness of team members’ strengths and weaknesses
• Communication and interaction openness develops trust
• Understanding another’s type of interaction takes active listening
• Building and maintaining trust is vital for success

Putting the Knowledge of Interpersonal Interaction into Action

• Identifying how to assist others in understanding interaction types
• Communication information in our work groups
• Techniques to identify and work with style differences
• Enablers and barriers to effective interaction
• Synthesis and integration of interpersonal interaction and communication topics
• Next opportunities
• Course review, summary and feedback