Basic Leadership Skills is available in the following delivery formats: Full Day Face-to-Face Training Workshop (1, 2 & 3 Days), and Live Virtual Instructor-led Classroom Training
Our Introduction to Leadership Skills training workshop will help new leaders with the fundamentals needed to develop and improve their effectiveness as a leader.
Participants will build on their previously successful experience in leadership situations in order to achieve higher levels of personal performance and productivity.
Our Fundamental Leadership Skills workshop develops leadership skills by using “follower-ship” as a method to determine one’s leadership abilities. New Leaders will learn to identify and apply the skills of other effective leaders, deal with value challenges and gain followers.
The Problem
Organizations are struggling to fill the leadership gap left by downsizing, up-sizing or retirement
There are challenges to achieving corporate goals
Communicating, motivating and engaging direct reports takes time leaders often don’t have
Our Solution
Acquire the skills of an effective leader, the blocks of leadership and the Trinity of Leadership Roles
Identify preferred communication styles
Utilize your strengths, manage your weaknesses and communicate more effectively to others
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
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 the accomplishment of goals
This program leverages the power of storytelling – of catching others actively living out the organization’s core values. These personal stories of your values in action resonate with both the head and the heart.
During this session, participants will be actively engaged in an array of virtual techniques to ensure retention of concepts for how to coach effectively using trust-building techniques and conversation starters.
During this session, participants will be actively engaged in an array of virtual techniques to ensure retention of concepts that build confidence and highlight one’s true leadership skill across levels.
During this session, participants will be actively engaged in an array of virtual techniques to ensure retention of concepts for how to effective leadership through rapid growth and change.
During this session, participants will be actively engaged in an array of virtual techniques to ensure retention of concepts for how to develop a different skill set to lead teams into the future.
Ready to discuss how to develop your new and emerging leaders? Schedule a 30-minute call, so we can learn more about each other and determine if we are a good fit. This is a no-obligation consultation. We look forward to hearing from you. Call us at 800-807-8030 or fill out the form below.
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