Leadership In Action

Training Provided by The Fortune Group A comprehensive leadership development approach for small business and corporates, Leadership In Action covers the core thinking and skills managers need to effectively engage and manage people. The program presents the practical principles and skills all managers need to effectively deal with the wide range of management issues that challenge every business, including: - How should problems be handled in a business? - Why do managers question the need to provide people with training? - When one of your people is not performing, how do you deal with it? The DIY system is presented through eight practical video tutorials, designed to be interacted with many times over. Leadership teams use this inhouse-facilitated system in bite-sized modules, one-on-one or in small groups, for training, retraining and coaching. Generate personal and business creativity Fortune training programs are business tools for self-starters and companies, large or small, that deliver 'core' principles, ideas and skills. Implemented in thousands of companies for over thirty years, our programs generate personal and business creativity that enable people to think and act more effectively, and businesses to perform more successfully.

Leadership In Action The training is presented through 8 practical video (DVD) modules which are designed to be interacted with many times over. Module 1 Today's Challenge: Leadership

• Prerequisites for business success
• Management and leadership responsibilities
• Characteristics all leaders possess
• Key leadership questions
• Definition and purpose of leadership
• Creating voluntary cooperation and productivity

Module 2 Why We Fail To Lead Part 1

• Negative impact of management errors
• Refusal to accept personal accountability
• Having a we/ they attitude
• Failing to develop people
• Self induced time pressure
• Managing everyone the same way
• Concentrating on problems not objectives
• Being a buddy not the boss

Module 3 Why We Fail to Lead Part 2

• Failure to measure performance
• Failure to set standards and build pride
• Failure to train
• Condoning incompetence
• Recognising only top performers
• Attempting to motivate people

Module 4 How to Structure for High Level Performance

• Major causes of performance failure
• Structuring jobs effectively to build employee value
• Communicating responsibilities and tasks
• Recommendation for inducting new hires
• Methods of measuring performance
• Setting standards to build pride

Module 5 How to Train and Coach for Results

• Making sure people know how to do the job
• Effective training involves management
• Difference between education and training
• Proven training formula; three step model
• Helping people succeed; building competence
• Behavior modification model; its a process
• Effective one on one coaching

Module 6 How to Confront Incompetence and Redirect Behaviour

• Taking people from entry level to what's expected
• Asking the right introspective questions of yourself
• Rules for confronting poor performance
• Formula for confronting poor performance
• Formula for redirecting behavior
• Positively reinforcing desired behavior
• Leadership self assessment

Module 7 How to Facilitate Change Effectively

• Impact of change on performance
• Change means pain; resist or embrace?
• Mindsets involved in change
• Motivations for change
• Getting people to embrace change
• How to facilitate change

Module 8 Belief: The Foundation of Success

• Successful versus unsuccessful people
• Connection between results and thinking
• Questions every leader must understand
• Approaches to growing performance
• The 'where is the value to me' question
• Building self esteem and belief
• Top performers believe in three things

About The Training Provider: The Fortune Group