Discover the leader in you

Leadership always has been a key differentiator between successful and unsuccessful organisations. But what is leadership? One of the best definitions is the one that is said to have been used by the great Arab leader Tariq Ibn Ziyad who said that: Leadership is the art of getting people to do willingly what they would not ordinarily do. This exciting event will provide total and immediate immersion in the roles and responsibilities that come with leadership that is the defining characteristic of the discover the leader in you Program experience. Approach Through a stimulating mix of teaching methods, participants engage in activities that challenge them to assume the complex role of leadership. Participants acquire the necessary tools and techniques to both benchmark and enhance their leadership practices, as well as those of their organisations Training Effectiveness Our Consultant - Joy Wilson believes in creating optimal learning experiences to reach all of your learners whatever their leaning preferences. Through accelerated learning methodologies she will engage learners, and generate response-ability to ensure that the positive effects of active learning result in improved individual and organisational performance Business impact Significantly increased focus on team and personal goals Increased optional effort from an empowered team Raised levels of departmental confidence in his or her team s ability to deliver - time after time Active support for innovation and change Four days of professional and personal transformation Workshop objectives The objective of this three-day workshop is to ensure that those who attend come away with the ability to: Understand and demonstrate the difference between managing and leading and. adopt different styles of leadership for different situations. Recognise that leadership is the art of creating capable followers Learn and create the states that make people in the Company want to follow the leader. Keep the balance between empowerment and control. Understand the interaction between the five factors that create high performance: Morale, Motivation, Information, Competency, and Empowerment. Develop powerful communication skills from their own authentic identities to help build consensus and cooperation; Develop linear and incremental approaches to planning change and demonstrate the ability to make change attractive Demonstrate techniques for increasing everyone s ownership of and commitment to change. To focus on strategic rather than tactical change: moving away from the quick fix to effective long term solutions Create vigorous action plans for future professional and personal progress Course Content: Specific topics you will explore include: Day One: Defining the personal characteristics and competencies of effective leaders; Recognising the difference between management and leadership and knowing when and how to assume each role; Identifying your preferred leadership behaviours and practicing a range of leadership behaviours Behaviour options, choosing your style to meet the demands of the situation Mapping your strategic direction making a measurable difference Identifying and reconciling trade-offs between personal leadership styles and the demands of the organization; Day Two: Recognise and utilise the sources of power and influence in your networks Your toolkit of influencing skills - Managing organisational politics and building relationships to achieve both company and personal goals; Empower and motivate others through influence rather than Authority Managing productivity through goal definition, and setting measurable performance standards Empowering others through personal power using the GROW model Focused feedback for accelerated performance Preventing and resolving conflict. Analysing your fixed action trigger behaviours and cooperation blocks.  Factors affecting motivation A toolkit of motivation techniques to use with your team Day Three: Decision making and problem solving avoid fatally flawed thinking Gathering Evidence - heart or mind strategy? An understanding of a variety of approaches to effectively collecting information. How your emotions can influence your reactions Understanding thinking patterns Do you go towards  or Away from  Your Goal? The way we see the problem Avoiding positive/negative generalisation Your experience of yesterday What did you learn then to apply to today or tomorrow? The decision making model. Apply the Six Step Approach A Toolkit of Techniques - Weighting Criteria, PROVE, Brainstorming, Mind Mapping, New Shoes, SWOT, Mind the Gap! - Traps to avoid! The Anchoring Trap. The Status Quo Trap, The Sunk Cost Trap, The Confirming Evidence Trap, The Framing Trap, The recent Event Trap. Lateral Thinking, Reversal, Pareto Analysis, Force Field Analysis, Six Hats Create positive neural pathways. Use multiple intelligences - everyone s a genius! Day Four: Defining, Planning and Delivering a Change Strategy. The process for success defining your direction and goal clarity What does the future look like? Aligning the organization s culture with its strategy for success Establishing a sense of urgency Identifying benefits - create addiction and enthusiasm Understand the impact that your management style has on strategic implementation, Practice people centered change methods Providing direction, involvement and commitment through clear steps and signposts that indicate how success is going to be achieved Poor performance planning - Identify the gaps between current capability and future critical success factors and acting on the implications Applying the principles of project management to people issues and policies, ensure accountabilities, achievable targets, timelines and monitoring of delivery