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This course will provide a leading edge forum for you to significantly enhance your leadership skills. You will gain a comprehensive range of very practical and highly effective leadership tools and approaches that can be immediately implemented upon your return to work. The course will focus on inspiring and empowering the leader to handle a wide range of situations. You will return home confident in your abilities to handle the toughest leadership challenges and lead your people to sustained high performance. The use of leading edge accelerated learning techniques ensures each conference session will be stimulating, challenging, highly effective and fun.

Executives, Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Superintendents, Financial Officers and Controllers, Process Managers, Strategic Planning Managers, Key Personnel, Champions, Officers

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Achieve measurable improvement in Leadership Performance
• Develop a personal action plan to improve leadership effectiveness
• Develop the ability to think like a leader
• Recognizing and breaking your old management paradigms
• Generating ownership and responsibility for change
• Measuring and observing performance of others
• Learning to empower others to perform at a higher level
• Leading difficult staff and colleagues through feedback processes
• Developing the ability to think on a strategic level
• Adapting your behavioral style to communicate with anyone in any culture
• Becoming a powerful speaker – in front of any group
• Exploring the tools for transformational change
• Gaining the respect of your people and your senior management team

The Leader's Personality Profile

· Essential people skills for Effective Leadership

· Intrapersonal and Interpersonal skills for the Innovative Leader

· Personality profiling

· Your preferred behavioral style

· Explore your behavioural tendencies

· Understanding the model for Innovative Leadership

· Removing emotional blindspots

· Appropriate self-disclosure

Leading Others Effectively

· Understanding the Personality Profiles

· The Introverted Neutral and Analytical Perfectionist

· The Extraverted Relational and Decisive Exhorter

· People-Oriented Helper

· Task-oriented Implementer

· Optimizing the leader’s natural strengths

· Individual transformation for self-development

· Corporate transformation through innovative leadership

Essential Competencies for the Innovative Leader

· Effective skills for understanding others

· Developing competencies for effective leadership

· Resilience for sacrificial leadership

· Intentionality for self-motivation

· Creativity for Innovative Leadership

· Interpersonal Connections for persuasive leadership

· Constructive Discontent

· Integrity and Compassion for Accountable Leadership

Enhancing Creative Thinking Skills for the Innovative Leader

· Developing Illumination and Verification

· Divergent Thinking Skills openness to innovative ideas

· Creativity and Perception

· Removing blocks to creativity

· Understanding the creative process

· Preparation, Incubation, for Innovative Leadership

· Metaphors and analogies for innovative thinking

Implementing Innovative Leadership for Managing Performance in the Workplace

· Applying teamwork for innovation in the workplace

· Creative Problem Solving techniques

· Cultivating a creative workplace

· Harnessing creativity in subordinates through aligned leadership

· Establishing criteria for implementing innovative ideas

· Advocacy skills to implement innovative ideas in the workplace

· Leadership for Performance Management

Strategic Thinking and the Power of Visionary Leadership

· Management vs. Leadership

· Critical Leadership Competencies for 21st Century Managers

· Strategic vs. Operational Thinking

· Purpose, Mission and Vision

· The Power of Strategic Vision

· Painting a Picture of the Future – The Power of Graphical Vision

· Stabilising Vision

· Communicating Vision to the Vision Community

Developing Leadership Power - Exploring Personal Purpose and Passion

· Developing the Leader’s Personal Life Map

· Exploring the journey to Life to Reclaim Personal Power

· Keys to Personal Leadership Enthusiasm

· Understanding the Dynamics of Balance as a key to Resilient Leadership

· The Power of Personal Goals and Vision

· The Leadership Zone of Empowerment

· Eliciting and Clarifying Personal Values

· Optimal Time Management – A Crucial Leadership Skill

Combining Management Skills and Leadership Competencies

· The History of Management and Leadership

· Leadership and Management in the Industrial Age

· The Paradox of Leadership and Management in the Information Age

· Delivering Customer Value

· Staff Contribution Contracts

· Staff Empowerment

· The Power of Systems

· Ensuring Staff Capability

Motivating, Rewarding and Leading Teams

· Why Do People Behave as They Do?

· Powerful Keys to Motivation

· Understanding Passion

· Rapport Mastery

· Deep Needs & Fears

· The Dynamics of Balance

· Inspiring Enthusiasm

· Managing and Leading – Style Flexibility

Leadership in Action - Maximising Interpersonal Communications

· The Power of Communication

· The Five Keys to Effective Leadership Communication

· Effective Meetings and Presentations

· Managing Change and Resolving Workplace Conflicts

· How to Optimise the Leadership Environment

· Taking Command as a Leader

· How to Present Data and Information

· Removing the Blocks to Communicating with your Staff