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Developing Effective Leadership Skills
Developing Effective Leadership Skills

Without critical analysis or thoughtful insight, leadership becomes hit and miss. Most leaders underestimate the impact of their influence over their teams; passively agree to goals and objectives that are not aligned with their corporate values and mission; or become too focussed on outcomes while destroying morale. Poor leadership is often at the forefront of disastrous processes. How can leaders promote quality assurance, develop human capital, and support innovation but not bother to invest in their own continuous learning? Have you ever wondered why great leaders are the few and not the many?

This program will highlight key components of successful leadership that are common in all great leaders. You will learn effective strategic and operational decision making skills within ever-changing environments that have converging and competing variables in demanding pressures of time, risk and reward. Great leaders also build contingencies and flexibility in each decision as they understand that there are many paths to success, some of which are not under their control. Equally critical is your ability to develop leaders at every level. Through focussed and deliberate communication strategies, you can build a performance based organization by fostering a culture of innovation, purpose and drive.

Great leaders have the strategic capacity and vision to position their organization in order to take advantage of circumstances that may not have been forecasted. They have the ability to predict turning points and have the agility to reposition their organization. This ability to envision a future in the present by utilizing a methodological approach may determine the very economic viability, or sustainability of your organization. 
In this 3 day program through discussions and case studies, you will learn effective strategies that will immediately enhance your leadership skills. Leadership is not a specific responsibility or task, rather it is a way of thinking, learning and doing!

Three Day Program Content

Developing a Leadership Philosophy
  • Recognizing the 4 Cs of leadership responsibility
  • Developing strategies to change culture
  • Aligning your leadership style to meet specific objectives and circumstances
  • Visioning: develop tools to help you create the future in the present
  • What is metacognition and why is it important to leadership
  • Differentiating between cognitive and metacognitive skills
Critical Leadership Components
  • Knowing when to use a different leadership style
  • Understanding the essence of leadership – three key components
  • What is the effect of time on your leadership style
  • Understanding when it is appropriate to lead
  • Helping your employees develop an organizational leadership philosophy
  • Can leaders unknowingly contribute to a negative environment
  • Learning to think strategically
Effective Decision Making Skills
  • Using the decision making model
  • Formulating options and a contingency plan
  • ‘Paralysis by Analysis’ – knowing when you need to act
  • Aligning decisions to mission/value statements
  • Utilizing the risk/certainty model in developing organizational capacity and tolerance
  • Setting strategic priorities
  • Learning how to lead short term vs. long term goals
  • Building consensus when making unpopular decisions
Organizational Leadership: Performance Based Teams
  • Developing high powered teams
  • Why some cross functional teams don’t work
  • Bringing divergent interests into common synergies
  • Moving from Performance Management to Performance Leadership
  • Designing various leadership approaches
  • Learning tools to reenergize a senior team
  • Using various strategies to measure the effectiveness of your organization
Developing Leaders at Every Level
  • Investing in your human resource capacity
  • How employees interpret corporate communications
  • Aligning individual goals with organizational goals
  • Hierarchical command structure versus flat organizations -what impact does this have
  • Learning different motivation theories that build a need for action
  • Ensuring organizational sustainability through succession planning
Leadership and Successful Communication Strategies
  • Developing an implementation plan
  • Designing communications that are cognitively attractive
  • What is the ‘Art of Persuasion’
  • Using personal and social influences
  • Understanding why 'top down' communication strategies don't always work
  • Leading by influence versus authority and power
  • Defining the key elements to successful communications that lead to action
Leadership & Strategic Thinking
  • Learning the 10 components of strategic thinking
  • Defining corporate obstacles to strategic thinking
  • What are the mega, macro and micro strategic priorities
  • What are the 5 steps to an effective strategic plan
  • Using a process of ‘environmental scanning’ to gain competitive knowledge
  • Fostering employee engagement
Leadership & Orgainzational Culture
  • What is organizational culture
  • Understanding how organizational culture develops
  • Understanding how poor change initiatives can lead to "never adopters"
  • Why reinforcement is critical for sustained change
  • Understanding why some employees will never accept change
  • Building a culture of accountability
  • Employing Change Management Models that work
Strategic Positioning
  • Relying on customer feedback to help position your organization
  • Building relationships and networks with key stakeholders in your community and abroad
  • Learning when to attack, consolidate or defend your position
  • Deciphering events, and trends that have a real impact
  • Defining the internal and external forces
  • Environmental scanning – how effective is it and when should you use it

General Information

Why should you attend?
  • Small interactive hands-on programs
  • Role-playing and simulation of real workplace situations
  • Group activities, open discussions and case studies
  • Experienced program presenters who are leaders in their field
  • Practical content and information that you can use in your everyday work environment
  • You will not be pressured to purchase books or videos as all program materials are provided at no additional cost
  • Program satisfaction guaranteed!
Who Should Attend?
  • Managers and supervisors
  • Human resources and Labor relations specialists
  • Directors and board members
  • Administrators
  • Members of the negotiations team
  • Future managers, supervisors and those in leadership positions
General Program Information
  • Breakfast and lunch are included daily
  • Program materials will be provided
  • Certificates will be presented upon completion of the program
  • Program is in session from 9am to 4 pm