• Recognize themselves as leaders
• Understand the practices of empowering leaders
• Commit to lead “from the balcony”
• Find balance among the leadership roles
• Build powerful leadership communication skills
• Understand the fundamentals of teams and team leadership
• Establish clear performance expectations
• Develop the ability to confront poor performance
• Become a leader who empowers others
• Improve your personal productivity and self-leadership

COURSE CONTENT

Principles and Practices of High Performing Leadership

• • 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
  • The practices of exceptional leaders
  • The five key roles of leaders
  • Leadership styles self-assessment

Leading through Communication

• • Understand the nature of the components of the interpersonal process
  • Impactful Face-to-face communication
  • The barriers of effective communication
  • Active listening
  • Understanding the styles of communication
  • Presenting with skill and influence
  • Productive conflict & negotiation

Developing and Leading High Performing Teams

• • Fundamentals of effective teams vs traditional work groups
  • The three elements of High-Performance teams
  • Four types of teams
  • The stages of team development process
  • Understanding team player styles
  • Fostering team creativity
  • Team decision-making and problem-solving

Managing Performance for Commitment

• • The difference between commitment and compliance motivation
  • Coaching and motivating your team for success
  • Using positive discipline
  • Practice the skill of harnessing harmful behaviour
  • The elements of empowerment
  • A model of situational leadership

Building Personal Power and Productivity

• • The Emotional Intelligence and leadership connection
  • The Integrity Model
  • Increasing self-mastery and personal power
  • Overcoming the barriers to genuine self-management and self-discipline
  • Clarify difference between the important and the urgent
  • To set professional goals to guide your use of time
  • A systematic approach to developing personal improvement plans

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

This course is available in the following locations:

Ghana - $6000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000