PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Effective leadership is essential for ensuring both individual and organisational success. Given the fast pace of change, the role of leaders continues to evolve. Leaders must keep abreast with latest leadership principles and practices. Only then can they motivate their people, and themselves. This workshop will enable participants to competently apply leadership principles for executing their roles in a pragmatic manner.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Managers and Supervisors
LEARNING OBJECTIVES & OUTCOMES
- State the need for leadership development, in the context of the organisation
- Explain conceptual difference between leadership and management
- Develop an overview of personal strengths and development needs
- Harness individual strengths to enhance leadership performance in the context of specific roles and responsibilities
- Identify the traits of competent leaders
- Explain the value of transactional and transformational leadership
- Describe the core leadership skills for connecting with different stakeholders
- Describe how to motivate people to achieve SMART goals
- Provide solutions to workplace problems and improving performance
- Formulate personal action plan for applying leadership for enhancing performance
DURATION
2 days
CONTENT
I. Strategic Thrust of Competent Leadership
- The need for Leadership Development
- Personal stake in organisation
- Difference between Leadership and Management
II. Reflective Leadership Development
- Redefining leadership and validating individual strengths and weaknesses
- Reviewing personal strengths and developments needs in context of specific leadership roles and responsibilities
- Harnessing individual strengths to enhance leadership performance
III. Traits of Competent Leaders
- Experience with “role-model” leaders
- Leadership traits of competent managers
- Different leadership perspectives
- Value of Transactional and Transformational Leadership
IV. Core Leadership Skills
- The twin-pillar of effective communication
- Becoming aware of leadership bias
- Body Language – The ‘Silent’ Communicator
- Empathetic Listening – The ‘3-A’ Technique
- The 3-Pronged Framework for Feedback
V. Leadership for Enhancing Performance
- Achieving Result – Power of Motivation
- Identifying gaps in specific workplace performance, setting SMART goals to address workplace challenges
- Drawing out collaborative strengths of different team members, and giving solutions to enhance workplace performance
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