If a manager, director, or Vice President or your business decisions have far reaching impact or critical outcomes, they will benefit from taking this dynamic, interactive workshop on Leadership Strategy skills.
To succeed as a leader, you must first define the future, then design a plan to realize that future, and finally implement that plan. Moreover, as corporate cultures change and evolve with management and staff turnover, mergers and acquisitions, or shifting missions or markets, you must be flexible enough to change your style to remain effective as a leader. Recognizing how these changes impact the work force, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders is the first step. Motivating, challenging, and supporting your team to drive them to success in the face of change is the next.
In this dynamic, highly interactive Leadership training course, we will tackle all that it takes to succeed as a leader: the vision, the strategy, the execution, and navigating your organization through uncertainty and change. You will learn about your own style of leadership and how it impacts others. You will acquire the critical skills and tools that are required for leadership success in today's business world.
Upon completion of Leadership workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Communicate their vision in a manner that ties the strategic goals with their operational implementation
- Recognize the variation in individual leadership style preferences and align their style with that of their superiors, colleagues, and subordinates
- Employ team-strengthening strategies that help you motivate, inspire, and build commitment
- Coordinate day-to-day activities with the strategic mission while readying employees for new initiatives
- Use practiced, real-world scenarios to resolve challenges and dismantle barriers
- Recognize shifts in organizational culture (e.g., lack of trust, decreased motivation, lower loyalty leading to resignations) to devise a plan to re-energize the work force
- Lead change, both as a leader and a follower
- Determine the "tipping point" for a new initiative and create a plan to make an initiative tip
- Recognize inconsistencies between leadership styles and work force needs and create a plan to realign
- Create a system for the leadership team to address and conquer new challenges which seem insurmountable
- Present major shifts in direction in a manner that motivates and wins trust of employees at all levels
- Design a "marketing" plan to move customers, vendors, the leadership team and the work force to embrace and implement a risk - laden idea
There are no formal prerequisites. However, if you have worked for two years in a managerial role or six plus months in a senior management position, you will be able to appreciate the issues dealt with here.