The Art of Leadership

Ref	MG 310	MG 631
Dates	21 - 25 June 2010	29 November - 3 December 2010
Venue	Marbella	Geneva
Fees	US$ 4450	US$ 4450
CPE Credits	30	30

INTRODUCTION

“A leader is someone who sets the direction and influences people to follow in that direction”

The Art of Leadership will take you on a journey to discover your own strengths as a leader and demonstrate how you can build on those strengths to lead your own team to higher productivity. Some of the issues discussed in this programme include the best approaches past leaders have taken to drive their teams or organizations to great success and how they overcame difficult times. A study of “best practices” is used based on the latest techniques used in modern business to overcome the enormous pressures that exist in this trying economy. In this programme you will learn how to:

Determine best practices of leaders through history and how to apply them today
Explore your leadership capabilities and areas for personal development
Build a culture of TRUST that encourages people to follow you
Identify strategies for overcoming obstacles in the work environment that lead to higher performance

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This programme is intended to take professionals and give them pure leadership skills to enable them to have the capacity to both lead and manage people. In that context, the programme should be attended by those who aspire to build their leadership qualities

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

This programme is designed to promote effective leadership and influencing skills among management personnel. At the conclusion of this training session, you should be able to:

Articulate an understanding of what leadership means for your business
Determine your role as an effective leader in any organization
Demonstrate the leadership core skills of Communication and Inspiration; Systems Thinking and Emotional Intelligence
Use personal influence and develop political savvy to network and influence people effectively
Describe a change management model for management and the process of planning, communicating and implementing change
Develop a Personal and Professional Vision and Communicate it to all stakeholders
Tap into and “inner power” to gain self confidence and strength.
Get the most productivity out of each constituent (worker or other)

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This programme is an interactive mixture of lecture, discussion groups, team activities and practice on various case studies and video sequences. It provides the latest instructional technologies to enable the delegate to learn and apply the skills and techniques used in the programmes.

COMPETENCIES GAINED

Develop essential leadership qualities to enable growth and capacity to lead
Develop a Leadership Balance
Build a following by Building Trust
How to Inspire people into productive contributors
The ability to pursued other people to change
Insight into your own Leadership Style
Apply personal Growth Techniques
Become an Effective Communicator

Attending this programme will allow delegates to gain important skills and understanding of how a leader leads people and influences others. This programme includes many of the best practices used in business and government today and demonstrates how a delegate can use these techniques to build a strong followship. By focusing on the art of leading, delegates should be stronger in the areas of visioning, inspiring, decision making and changing their respective organizations for the better.

To impact their respective organizations, leaders need to know how to foster business growth through more productive people and innovative ideas. This programme advances the leadership techniques learned in the training session with hands on, case studies and illustrations of how to apply these skills to build a more robust organization.

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

DAY 1 - Leadership and Influence: What do they mean?

The Challenge to Lead in today’s modern organization
Lessons learned from powerful leaders of the past
The Changing nature of Leadership
The role of leaders in today’s organization
The influence of followers on leadership
Self Assessment: Leadership Behaviors
Know yourself, a guide to your inner strengths
Three Lenses of Leadership
The Flight of the Buffalo: Leaders who create Leaders

DAY 2 - How a Leader leads from inner power

Ways to Increase Self Knowledge
Self Reflection
Understand how you Think
Becoming a “Systems Thinker”
The Character of a Leader
Leadership from Within
Creating an Environment of Leadership
Balancing Inquiry and Advocacy
Guide to your Inner Leader

DAY 3 - How a Leader builds trust

What is trust
The benefits of a high trust environment
How Trust produces the competitive edge
Building Capacity for Trust
Personal Influence and Political Savvy
Effective Interpersonal Influence
Negotiating Agreement
Developing Your Political Savvy

DAY 4 - How a Leader uses communication to gain influence

The Art of Communication as a leader
Building your skills as an effective communicator
The power of Vision
Using language a word pictures to demonstrate your vision
John Kotters Change Management theory in practice
Practice session

DAY 5 - How a Leader influences people

The Motivating Leader
How a Leader motivates themselves and others
The need for achievement, power and affiliation
Expectancy theory and motivation
How a leader Creates an environment for self motivation
Personal Roadmap to Leadership
Review

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