Fundamental Leadership Skills

This workshop will help participants with the fundamentals needed to develop and improve their effectiveness as a leader. They will build on their previously successful experience in leadership situations in order to achieve higher levels of personal performance and productivity. This program develops leadership skills by using followership as a method to determine one’s leadership abilities. They will learn to identify and apply the skills of other effective leaders, deal with value challenges and gain followers.

The Problem

Is your organization struggling to fill the leadership gap left by downsizing, upsizing or retirement?

Are you challenged by the responsibility to achieve corporate goals and meet deadlines and finding time to lead, motivate and engage your direct reports?

Are you new in your current leadership position?

Do you need to be re-inspired to lead?

Are you finding it more and more difficult to communicate with, motivate or develop employees in this ever-changing work environment?

Our Solution To Learn...

The skills of an effective leader, the blocks of leadership and the Trinity of Leadership Roles

To identify preferred communication styles of both self and others. Learn to utilize your strengths, manage your weaknesses and communicate more effectively to others

To practice the three levels of listening and the effective use of questions to “hear” what is going on from your direct reports and others in your organization

To deal with challenges to values and how to resolve differences

Course Outline

Module 1: Describe the leadership characteristics of successful leaders, describe the leadership needs of a situation through the use of the Dimension of Leadership Profile, The Trinity of Leadership Roles which includes their role as manager of the business, change leader and human asset leverage

Module 2: Use the DiSC® Personal Profile System to identify his/her own behavior and management style

Module 3: Discover the impact of five different listening approaches and how to match the approach to communication needs, Personal Listening Profile, use the effective Spiraling Questioning Techniques

Module 4: Eight steps to message development and persuasiveness

Module 5: Identifying our own values, respecting differences and resolving conflicts over values, resolving third party conflicts

Module 6: Explore why major change poses a challenge to organizations, Managing Work Expectations Profile or The Transitions Profile

Module 7: Motivate others through the use of positive feedback

Module 8: Performance management, information about planning, appraising and coaching, performance appraisal, goal setting

Module 9: How to give negative feedback and coaching for a disciplinary situation

Module 10: Goal setting and aligning corporate goals, communicating those goals to direct reports, effective delegation for accomplishment of goals