Advanced Management and Leadership Program

Introduction

Business leaders are required to possess cutting-edge skills and are faced with increasingly complex responsibilities. Most Leaders of tomorrow must come from the ranks of the managers of today. Making this transition from manager to leader requires new competencies and a plan to move into leadership. This is a 5-day fast-paced, dynamic, and highly informative advanced leadership and management program to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. In this program you will learn:

• Identify the competencies of a leader and a manager
• The difference between leading and managing
• Understanding of the power of leadership
• The difference between leading and managing
• Practical leadership tools and techniques from the world’s great leaders
• Design your own succession plan for leadership
• Determine what are the competencies needed to succeed in your industry
• Knowledge of coaching skills to enhance your leadership influence
• Insights on creating a world-class learning environment
• Evaluating people for higher positions
• To manage and motivate people more effectively
• To create and harness the power of high performing teams
• Negotiation for positive results
• How to understand and effectively utilize strategic planning techniques

Objectives

• Practical leadership tools and techniques that can be applied immediately
• Successful leadership approaches from the best-of-the-best world-class organizations
• How to apply the 10 most powerful leadership competencies for greater success
• To consider methods for improving management performance
• Effective strategic planning: a step-by-step process for your business enterprise
• Critical components of succession planning
• Authentic coaching guidelines for turn-of-the-century leadership
• Getting results through effective mortification techniques
• Best ways of managing knowledge and human capital
• Insights into the successful implementation of teams
• Improved ways leaders are measuring performance by using performance builders
• Understand how to put together a strategic plan for your business unit
• New developed skills in negotiating
• To analyze the Bald ridge Award criteria for excellence

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

If you're presently in a leadership or management position in your organization and you wish to step up to the next level of advanced leadership and management skill development, this program for you. Others who should attend include:

• Mid-to upper-level managers responsible for the continuous leadership development of others and building high-performance organizations
• Team leaders and coaches who are called to inspire and motivate their workers each day to accept new responsibility
• Sales managers and VPs responsible for improving the overall productivity of their employees while maximizing the potential of their sales organization
• Human resource managers who are charged with creating and maintaining the human capital within their organizations
• Customer service managers called upon to lead employees from customer service excellence to enduring customer loyalty through more effective leadership
• Managers who wish to transform their way of thinking, managing, and leading for a higher level of skill, empowerment, and overall achievement
• Those interested in achieving standards of excellence and who wish to enhance their management skills

Course Outline

Day 1: Leadership Competencies

• Understanding the power of leadership competencies
• Incorporating leadership competencies into your organization
• 10 most powerful leadership competencies
• Developing your own competency model
• Applying competencies in your organization
• Aligning competencies to yield greater business results

Day 2: Strategic Leadership Planning

• Strategic planning step-by-step when goal setting isn't enough
• Creating your own strategic plan to use immediately
• Four-part blueprint for strategic planning
• Implementing your plan for optimum effectiveness

Day 3: Succession Planning and Career Planning

• Applying critical components of leadership succession
• Attracting and retaining top talent
• Creating leaders from within
• Building your dream team
• Developing careers
• Learning lab: real-world best practices exercise

Day 4: Coaching at all Levels - Becoming an Influential Leader

• Using primary leadership styles of effective coaching
• Developing authentic coaching guidelines
• Using 11 principles for coaching success
• Implementing a four-step plan for developing your influence
• Expanding the sphere of influence
• Learning lab: real-world coaching best practices exercise

Day 5: Managing Knowledge and Better ways to Measure Performance

• Creating a world-class learning environment
• Understanding the future of learning in the organization
• Realizing the importance of 21st-century training and what has to happen first
• Deming's take on performance appraisals: performance appraisal vs. Performance building
• Evaluating current performance appraisals and improving them greatly
• New and better ways for measuring performance you never thought possible