Developing future leaders is the single greatest challenge that all organizations face today. Companies who invest in the development of leaders and manage talent gain a competitive edge demonstrated in profitability with sustained predictable results.

Audience

Current leaders, managers, senior professionals, and those transitioning from supervision into management or executive roles. The Leadership and Management Certificate Program is a recommended prerequisite. This program is your second phase of leadership development.

Leadership Excellence in a Complex World: Transitioning into a Powerful Leader

• Identify principles and learn critical skills used by successful leaders today.
• Learn the difference between excellent management and leadership and the role each plays in creating and sustaining success.
• Learn the professional characteristics of excellent managers and leaders. Determine how to assess these characteristics within your team and organization.
• Identify your leadership qualities, uncover your mind-sets and create a detailed development plan for your future to achieve significant leadership results.
• Learn how to unleash the power and potential of people by gaining insight into “The 10 Principles of Supervision™” and the “7 Basic Needs™” of all employees.

Strategic Communication for Today’s Leader

• Practice the art of communicating to get others to act-as you want them to.
• Learn how to develop powerful presentations that educate, motivate and inspire people to perform at their highest level.
• Develop strategies for building rapport and interpersonal networks of influence’up, down and across the organization.
• Learn the difference between marginal communication skills, effective communications and mastery of strategic communications.
• Correctly identify the root causes of performance issues and apply the best coaching strategy.

Achieve Results through Advanced Influencing Skills

• Discover “proven” communication skills to gain buy-in for your ideas and needs.
• Master the principles necessary for gaining agreement under difficult conditions.
• Learn the powerful keys necessary to create successful negotiations.
• Learn to accurately read situations, individuals, and groups and apply the appropriate influencing skill.
• Practice successful “selling your ideas” techniques to ensure you will be heard and seen as a powerful leader.
• Learn how to turn ordinary meetings into sessions that influence, inform, and motivate people to excel.

Critical Thinking and Decision Making for the Strategic Leader

• Through real-life case studies, learn to analyze facts, opinions, problems, uncover root causes and lay out strategies for long-term effectiveness.
• Learn to make strategic adjustments such as organizational moves, role and responsibility changes, and process changes.
• Gain insight into your thinking and decision-making style. Learn to identify and challenge the assumptions and biases that influence your and others’ thinking.
• Experience powerful techniques to expand the way situations are perceived; solve the right problem, and gain support for innovative solutions.

Transformational Coaching Skills and Change Management

• Understand the most common management philosophies and how they impact employee performance.
• Discover the three most common leadership styles and how to apply these styles to increase results.
• Practice specific coaching skills and techniques to improve performance.
• Determine how to effectively coach individuals through change by uncovering their values.
• Become a successful leader by learning the four basic employee types and how to motivate them.

Strength-based Leadership: Tapping Human Potential to Maximize Commitment and Performance

• Discover the “24 Leadership Absolutes™” while acting with respect, thoughtfulness and fairness.
• Explore human performance motivation and determine strategies that work for you.
• Learn the “48 Big Ones™,” the most common management and leadership mistakes. Discover how to turn these wrongs into rights.
• Take a leadership self-evaluation and determine areas of strength and opportunities for improvement.
• Become an exemplary leader by creating your own professional leadership development plan.

Seminar Leaders

Jack Barry

Richard Tyler