Leadership, Influence & Trust - Creating Professional Strategies

Objectives

This program is designed to promote effective leadership and influencing skills among management personnel.
• Determine best practices of leaders through history and how to apply them today
• Articulate an understanding of what leadership means for in your business.
• Explain your leadership capabilities and areas for personal development.
• Determine your role as an effective leader in any organization.
• Describe a change management model for management and the process of planning, communicating, and implementing change.
• Describe how to build and rebuild trust in an organization.
• Develop strategies for creating a positive work environment that fosters leadership and a commitment to continuous improvement in others.
• Tap into and “inner power” to gain self confidence and strength.
• Get the most productivity out of each constituent (worker or other)
• Develop a culture that earns respect through new ideas and innovation.

Outline

Leadership and Influence: What do they mean?
• Course Introduction
• Leadership roles
• Self Assessment: Leadership Behaviors
• Leadership from Within
• Paradigms that Guide Thinking
• Three Lenses of Leadership

How a Leader Leads From Within
• Ways to Increase Self Knowledge
• Self Reflection and self esteem
• Understand how you Think
• The Character of a Leader
• Creating an Environment of Leadership
• Real Leaders are emotionally intelligent
• Guide to your Inner Leader

The Role of a Change Leader
• Making the change transition
• Responses to Change
• How to be resilient during change times
• Environmental change agents
• Change and Leadership Paradigms
• Communicating Change
• The Human Side of Change

How a Leader Builds Trust
• What is Trust?
• The Benefits of a High Trust Environment
• Trust reducing behaviours
• Restoring breached trust
• Building Capacity for Trust
• Personal Influence and Political Savvy
• Negotiating Agreement

How a Leader Fosters a Leadership Environment
• Mind and action focus
• The Alliance Mindset
• Developing the Win Solution
• Tips on improving performance
• Strategies for Fostering Leadership
• Leadership knowledge check
• Essential leadership qualities
• Success questions
• Action steps to take

Who Should Attend ?

should be attended by all who aspire to build their leadership qualities.