Leadership and Team Development for Managerial Success

Ref	MG 580
Dates	7 - 11 November 2010
Venue	Dubai
Fees	US$ 3850
CPE Credits	30

INTRODUCTION

• Understand the five practices of the world’s greatest leaders
• Create a clear and compelling vision of the future
• Become a leader who empowers your team and brings out their best
• Learn how to organize and manage your priorities so that big things control little things
• Recognize leadership qualities inside yourself

• Recognize yourself as a leader
• Understand the practices of empowering leaders
• Commit to lead “from the balcony”
• Find balance among the 5 leadership roles
• Improve personal productivity and use of time
• Understand the fundamentals of teams and leadership within a team environment
• Learn the process for developing high performance teams
• Establish clear performance expectations for your team and develop the ability to confront poor performance
• Become a leader who empowers others

• The importance of leadership in achieving long-term organizational success
• The five myths of leadership
• The difference between leadership and management
• The difference between controlling and empowering leadership styles

Practices of empowering leaders

• Empowering leaders have a driving passion to realize their vision
• Empowering leaders build and sustain trust with their followers
• Empowering leaders unleash the commitment and motivation of their followers
• Empowering leaders are social and organizational architects
• Empowering leaders act from positive beliefs about people and situations

• The three core elements of team effectiveness
• The five roles of leadership
• The appropriate balance among the five roles
• How to lead “from the balcony”
• How to use a set of diagnostic questions to lead “from the balcony”

Leadership practices: A self assessment

• Understanding your strengths and weaknesses as a leader
• Assessing yourself in the five leadership roles
• Knowing how you are viewed by others in your organization
• Developing personal improvement plans

• How you currently use your time
• The barriers that keep you from managing your time more effectively
• The difference between the important and the urgent and how to schedule time for the time for the important
• To set professional goals to guide your use of time
• A systematic approach to managing daily events

Fundamentals of high performance teams

• The definition of a High Performance team and how it differs from traditional work groups
• The three elements of High Performance teams
• Four types of teams
• The stages of team development

• The team charter
• Managing the process
• Role and responsibilities
• Setting Goals and keeping score

Performance expectations

• Learn to confront behaviour that fails to meet your expectations
• Understand the importance of discipline and conformity in building high performance
• Develop a set of non-negotiables for those whom you lead
• Practice the skill of harnessing harmful behavior
• Apply the skill to back-home situations

• The difference between commitment and compliance motivation
• How leadership changes to create commitment
• The four principles of empowerment
• The elements of empowerment
• A matrix for identifying what people need in order to empowered
• A dialogue to transfer power to others
• A model of situational leadership
  

 

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