Understanding Your Authentic Leadership Style

Too often we strive to be someone we are not. We utilize skills that are unnatural and try to achieve success with behavior and leadership styles that work for others and not ourselves. The more we understand our natural strengths, personalities and behavior styles the greater opportunity to apply them for increased productivity, results and success.

Topics:

  • Understand emotional intelligence and it’s leadership relevance
  • Understand the DiSC behavioral profile assessment. What are the four behavior styles? What is my style? And how do I use this knowledge to improve my interactions with others.
  • Assess my personal strengths and weaknesses as a leader. What gaps exist and how do I manage those gaps.
  • Develop an ongoing personal action plan to realize and enhance your authentic leadership skills.

Prior to this class participants are required to take the DiSC behavioral profile assessment.

Communication Skills for Leadership Success

Building on the previous workshop, we will consider several communication topics that will help to build better relationships manage difficult conversations and provide useful feedback to peers and employees.

Topics:

  • Acquire tools to improve communication and collaboration
  • Understand how to manage difficult conversations
  • Identify and discuss conflict management styles
  • Understand and practice skills for giving and receiving feedback
  • Consider the basics of a coaching relationship: how does coaching differ from feedback
  • Develop and ongoing personal action plan to realize and enhance your communication abilities

Everyday Critical Thinking for Breakthrough Results

For the past 25 years, we have optimized our organizations for efficiency and quality. Over the next quarter century, we must optimize our entire society for innovation…creativity, innovation and flexibility will not be the special province of an elite. It will be demanded of virtually everyone (2008). As emerging leaders, it is imperative to be equipped with the necessary tools to support the type of environment in the workplace that will encourage this type of thinking; the difference between ‘business as usual’ and breakthrough results.

Topics explored:

  • What is creativity and why is it so important to success?
  • Changing old habits and replacing them with ones that work
  • Critical thinking EVERYDAY not just on special occasions
  • Problem-solving that encourages new ideas

Leadership Success! Mindsets, Skills & Behaviors of Exceptional Leaders

In today’s world, more and more organizations are looking for their managers to demonstrate leadership behaviors in their areas of responsibility. They are looking for leadership behaviors that challenge the status quo and brings change, innovation, and new directions. These leadership behaviors require a strong foundation that generates employee engagement and motivation. This interactive seminar will focus on the necessary characteristics required for success as a leader.

Topics

  • How to grow your way to success as a leader
  • The differences between managing and leading
  • The #1 obligation of leaders is to get results!
  • How to develop a results mentality
  • The 1st foundation of leadership – Accountability
  • The 2nd foundation of leadership – Commitment
  • The 3d foundation of leadership – Trust
  • The 4th foundation of leadership – High Expectations

Project Management: How to Run Successful Projects

90% of executives state project management is important to their operations and only 37% feel their firm does a good job managing important projects. This interactive seminar will focus on the basics of project management and teach you how to run success projects

Topics

  • Project Management Essentials
  • Project Management Life Cycle
  • Understanding the Techniques & practices
  • Value of Project Management

Building and Leading Successful Teams

Teamwork is the heart and soul of a company. Groups are comprised of individuals; and individual drive, skills, experience and motivation are essential to the success of the group. Unfortunately, too often we are unable to harness the differences among team members for sustainable success.

Topics:

  • Identify the stages of team building
  • Assess your current team
  • Discuss opportunities to enhance trust among team members
  • Understand that functional conflict is critical to achieving maximized results
  • Consider opportunities to enhance clarity and accountability among team members
  • Identify opportunities to focus team members around collective results
  • Develop and ongoing team development plan

Successful Marketing Strategy

Success depends upon identifying and selecting the right things to do and then doing things right upon implementation. Marketing Strategy is about identifying and selecting the right things to do. This course is about identifying and selecting the right products and services, the right customers to sell to, the right channels of distribution and the right communications to use.

Topics:

  • Marketing’s impact on financial statement
  • Analyzing Markets
  • Product Decisions
  • Distribution Strategies
  • Pricing Decisions
  • Communication Strategies

Applied Financial Analysis

Participants will become well-versed in the key areas of financial decision-making, which is fundamental knowledge to any position within a company.

Topics:

  • Understand Financial Statement Basics and Analysis
  • Compare Accounting verses Finance
  • Comprehend the Time Value of Money
  • Understand how a Project Evaluation will contribute to your company’s goals

How to Sell Your Ideas in the Organization

Managers find themselves persuading, influencing or convincing others frequently. It may be one person, a small peer group or a senior manager group. You may not sell a product or service but there are other things you “sell” or “propose.” For instance, you might attempt to sell a decision, a plan, a new method, a new system, a project, a policy, an improvement or a budget. These business ideas, that can benefit the organization, require compelling techniques to make the sale. And on a personal basis, no one will really know how good you are unless your ideas are acted upon and implemented.

Topics:

  • Understand what makes people buy an idea
  • How to develop a goal or outcome statement for your idea
  • How to do an organizational diagnosis for your idea
  • How to develop and evaluate your idea
  • How to research your audience
  • How to learn from the past
  • How to use a “benefit-building” idea list
  • Putting it all together, the “AIDA” formula for building a compelling case for your idea

How Strategy Drives Organizational Results

A results-oriented strategy sets the agenda for the organization and creates incredible focus for all stakeholders of the organization. When the organization is “out of focus”, it becomes a victim of the “activity trap.” In this trap, organizational activities are diffused, unorganized,random, uncorrelated and unproductive. One basic feature characterizes every organizational activity trap – a lack of strategic direction.

Topics:

  • How to create a dynamic strategic direction that focuses on execution and results
  • How strategy creates alignment in the organization
  • 12 steps that ensure a strong strategic direction
  • The power of “execution” in strategic planning
  • How strategic plans become a huge waste of time, money and energy