Managing & Motivating Towards Excellence: Skills, Competencies, Traits & Techniques

Managing & Motivating Towards Excellence:
Skills, Competencies, Traits & Techniques

OBJECTIVES

• Gain insights of their own strengths and weaknesses and leadership styles
• Abilities to understand the emotional makeup of other people
• Develop leadership competencies & skills to motivate employees
• Understand and practice Innovative leadership
• Build the Foundation for Continuous Improvement
• Harness their employees’ emotional intelligence to release creativity in the workplace
• Understand and practice key people skills to motivate towards excellence

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This seminar is designed for all leaders & professionals who feel the need to adopt a personal change in order to be better prepared to lead their teams or workforce. The seminar would benefit anyone who is interested in developing their skills in motivating and leading teams to achieve the organizational mission. This program would enable delegates to apply the knowledge of psychology at the workplace coupled with their preferred leadership styles to improve their lives as well as those whom they manage.

COURSE OUTLINE

DAY 1

Adopting the new organizational culture through understanding people

• Importance of perception
• Perception in the workplace
• Maximizing our perceptual ability
• Type & trait theories of human personality
• Understanding Personality styles
• Optimizing our personality strengths
• Removing emotional blind spots
• Appropriate self-disclosures

DAY 2

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

DAY 3

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

DAY 4

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

DAY 5

Managing for Excellence

• Development of Vision, Mission , Key Goals and Key Processes
• Optimizing the leader’s natural strengths
• Integrity & Compassion for Accountable Leadership
• Leadership for Performance Management
• Managing Change and getting others involved
• Leading by example
• Inspirational Leadership