Developing Excellence in People Leadership

Overview:

Introduction:

This comprehensive conference incorporates a number of the most difficult leadership skills, - the ones that deal with other people - into a two-week intensive program of people leadership with a focus on communication, interpersonal skills, motivation, and organizational culture.

Conference Objectives:

At the end of this conference the participants will be able to: 

• Study effective management of our thoughts, beliefs, focus and action.
• Consider how to build confidence, enthusiasm, and courage.
• Explore methods of improving communication.
• Analyze the public face of the leader.
• Gain insights into their own strengths and weaknesses and leadership styles.
• Understand and practice key people skills to motivate towards excellence.

Targeted Audience:

• Managers, leaders and professionals who want to discover new ways to lead their teams
• Those who want a better understanding of the psychology of leadership and workplace behaviour
• Those interested in developing their skills in motivating and leading teams to achieve the organizational mission
• Managers who are making the transition to leadership

Conference Outlines:

Unit 1: Who Do You Think You Are? Self-Mastery, Reality, and Responsibility:

• Taking charge of your brain.
• Reaching success based upon your paradigm.
• Understanding the emotional loop.
• Gaining power and freedom by taking responsibility.
• Analyzing the power of beliefs.
• Utilizing emotion to drive action.
• Directing your focus.
• Understanding visual, auditory, and kinesthetic submodalities.

Unit 2: Vision and Integrity:

• Analyzing the impact of values on your vision.
• Understanding how your values impact your purpose.
• Designing your destiny with the power of vision.
• Creating a powerful vision.
• Operating with personal integrity.
• Achieving positive self-renewal.
• Building self-confidence.
• Harnessing the power of enthusiasm.
• Strengthening your courage.

Unit 3: Advanced Communication Skills:

• Communicating with intention.
• Breaking negative patterns.
• Understanding the communication process.
• Creating effective oral communication.
• Understanding the relationship of verbal and nonverbal communication.
• Utilizing active listening techniques.
• Dealing with difficulties in communication.
• Analyzing communication styles: aggressive, passive and assertive.

Unit 4: Leadership:

• Understanding the importance of emotional intelligence.
• Developing self-awareness, motivation, empathy and social skills.
• Moving to a new model of empowerment.
• Recognizing 21st-century leadership skills.
• Interpreting institutional and interactive leadership.
• Comprehending the difference between leadership and management.
• Utilizing effective situational leadership.
• Learning the 4 Es of leadership at GE: energy, excite, edge and execute.
• Evaluating the leadership secrets of Jack Welch.
• Investigating theories of motivation.

Unit 5: The Public Face of The Mature Leader:

• Making successful presentations.
• Influencing through appeal to the achievement of a vision.
• Influencing through the utilization of logic.
• Influencing through a genuine people orientation.
• Displaying personal power in communications.
• Overcoming the failure mechanism.
• Running productive meetings.
• Reviewing the course.

Unit 6: Adopting the New Organisational 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.

Unit 7: Motivating Employees:

• Understanding motivation.
• Motivating ourselves and others.
• Applying theories of motivation in the workplace.
• How leaders can motivate employees.
• Removing blocks to motivation.
• The motivation for an excellent performance.
• Motivating a high-performance team.
• The art of giving and receiving criticism.

Unit 8: 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.

Unit 9: 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 an excellent performance.
• Being prepared to lead.

Unit 10: Managing for Excellence:

• Development of vision, mission, key goals, and key processes.
• Optimization of your natural strengths.
• Integrity & compassion for accountable leadership.
• Leadership for performance management.
• Managing change and getting others involved.
• Leading by example.
• Inspirational leadership.