Leadership Best Practices Influencing & Leading People To Maximise Performance
Leadership Best Practices Influencing & Leading People To Maximise Performance
OBJECTIVES
- Determine best practices of leaders through history and how to apply them today.
- Articulate an understanding of what leadership means for in your business.
- Explain your leadership capabilities and areas for personal development.
- Determine your role as an effective leader in any organization.
- Describe a change management model for management and the process of planning, communicating, and implementing change.
- Describe how to build and rebuild trust in an organization.
- Use personal influence and develop political savvy to network and influence people effectively.
- Develop strategies for creating a positive work environment that fosters leadership and a commitment to continuous improvement in others.
- Develop a Personal and Professional Vision and Communicate it to all stakeholders.
- Tap into and “inner power” to gain self confidence and strength.
- Get the most productivity out of each constituent (worker or other).
- Delegate and Empower employees to maximize results and time management.
- Develop a culture that earns respect through new ideas and innovation.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Senior to mid-level Executives
- Financial Officers and controllers
- Process Leaders
- Strategic Planning Professionals
COURSE OUTLINE
Leadership and Influence: What do they mean?
- Course Introduction
- Leadership Theories
- Self Assessment: Leadership Behaviors
- Leadership from Within
- Paradigms that Guide Thinking
- Three Lenses of Leadership
How a Leader Leads From Within
- Ways to Increase Self Knowledge
- Self Reflection
- Understand how you Think
- The Character of a Leader
- Creating an Environment of Leadership
- Balancing Inquiry and Advocacy
- Guide to your Inner Leader
The Role of a Change Leader
- Four Responses to Change
- Change and Leadership Paradigms
- Communicating Change
- The Human Side of Change
- John Kotter’s Change Dynamics
How a Leader Builds Trust
- What is Trust?
- The Benefits of a High Trust Environment
- Transformative Trust
- Building Capacity for Trust
- Personal Influence and Political Savvy
- Effective Interpersonal Influence
- Negotiating Agreement
- Developing Your Political Savvy
How a Leader Fosters a Leadership Environment
- The Alliance Mindset
- Developing the Win Win Solution
- The Flight of the Buffalo: Leaders who create Leaders
- Strategies for Fostering Leadership
- Knowledge Check
Creating and Implementing a Leadership Communication Strategy
- The leader as a Visionary
- The Power of Creative Vision
- The Leader’s Influence on Culture
- Models of best run Visionary Companies
- How a leader facilitates the path to a Culture
- Implementing a Leadership Communication approach
- The leaders’ ability to communicate across all boundaries
How Effective Leaders Control their “Inner Power”
- Guide to knowing your leadership strengths
- How Leaders use their Emotional Intelligence
- Understanding the Leaders base of Power
- Understanding “Spiritual Capital”
- Studies of Great Leaders and their Influence on the World and Business
- Leaders Influence on people – employees, peers and senior managers
How a Leader Develops People
- You don’t have to do it alone – secrets to involve others
- Best Practices of effective Mentors and Coaches
- The Motivating Leader
- Defining a practical application for the 3 critical competencies
- How a Leader motivates themselves and others
- The need for achievement, power and affiliation
- Expectancy theory and motivation
- How a leader Creates an environment for self motivation
How a Leader uses Resources more Effectively
- Best Practices to effectively delegating
- The benefits of delegation
- The barriers to delegation
- Delegation Vs Empowerment
- Creating the climate for empowerment
- Using goal setting, time management, planning and prioritizing techniques successfully
How a Leader Builds an Innovative Culture
- The Leaders as a Creative Thinker
- Building a Culture of Innovation and new ideas
- Putting Best Practices, into Practice
- Guide to Building a Personal Leadership Plan
- Course Review and Certification