Great leaders create new visions, unleash untapped talent at every level of the organization and channel that great energy into growth and success. Great leaders prepare their companies for the challenges of tomorrow. As catalysts of change and champions of excellence, they put these processes into motion to revitalize and gear up their organizations to compete in today's competitive global marketplace.

Everything a manager does should reflect the vision and values of the organization. A manager sets the tone for the team through his/her ability to lead. In a fast-paced, changing work world, vision and values are what stay constant.

The pressure for "dynamic" leadership at all levels within organizations has grown rapidly over the past few years. This is in response to several factors, including younger managers, interactive client dealings and the general speed of change in organizations.

The Dynamics of Leadership is designed to help you and your organization build lasting leadership skills for the new economy. It seeks to help managers balance "managing" and "leading". 

This program is built around a highly-researched set of High Leverage Core Competencies:

• Leading with Vision
• Building the Business
• Working with Others

As a comprehensive curriculum for managers, the 10 Steps to Success of the program are designed and sequenced to address four major skill areas. These are represented by the four phases of the program.

The modular approach for this program provides flexibility of delivery and is tailored to fit organizational and individual needs.
 

Program Benefits

An adult learning program that is

• Stimulating
• High Energy
• Fast-paced
• Interactive
• Experiential
• Work-based

• Assessment of current skills
• Relationship of leadership to success
• Development of new skills
• Development of 90 degrees and 180 degrees action plans
• Real world cases and applications.

The primary audience is experienced managers and middle management, facilitated to build on their past experiences.

Those new to the management/leadership role will also benefit through the learning and application of leadership "good habits" from the start of their management career.

Team attendance highly recommended
This is to facilitate successful implementation of the theory learned and establish a common framework to practice in real-life environment.

Certificate of Participation will be awarded.
 

R A F F L E   D R A W !

PHASE I — GETTING A HANDLE ON THE MANAGER’S ROLE

STEP 1: Your Role In Managing the Process

• Examine the work processes to take the organization to new levels of excellence.
• Explore what opportunities are present to further the pursuit of excellence.
• Move beyond current levels of productivity by setting new goals.

• Explore how to work with team members as a collective unit to maximize high performance.

• Explore what motivates people to succeed and your role in shaping an environment conduce to motivation.

• How to anticipate and drive change.
• Addresses what all of us experience in change and what you can do to support people through change.

• Difference between coaching and counseling.
• Communicate and manage conditions of employment and to implement policy effectively.

STEP 6: Your Role As An Active Listener

• Managers often spend more time talking to employees rather than listening.  This skill building module teaches managers active listening skills as a primary function of good coaching.

• Explores the differences in work styles and the diversity in personality and perspectives of employees. 
• Framework to manage communication with individuals according to their style.

STEP 8: Your Role In Coaching, Counselling and the Performance Management Process

• Learn and be able to practice an effective coaching model 
• Counsel and manage people back to acceptable levels of performance, or to terminate them with appropriate action
• Work jointly with employees in creating a clear understanding of performance expectations. A skill-building exercise in not only writing clear performance plans but in knowing and being able to articulate the criteria for specific levels of evaluation.

• Explore tips and techniques for effective time management.
• Encourages managers to think in terms of time priorities.

• Brings all of the teaching together in a format to help managers put together a comprehensive 90-day action plan based on what they explored.