Leadership Training
Topic: Leadership Skills for the Professional
Purpose: The purpose of this course is to provide the professional with insight and the skill set needed to successfully function in a leadership and managerial role.
Course Description: This course covers in depth the topics of communication, organizational structures, and evaluation procedures. The class structure centers around 360 degree feedback , leaderless group exercises and simulations that will allow individuals to participate in and observe positive and negative models of effective behavior. Each participant will determine how to identify specific strengths and developmental needs during the course of the workshop.
Duration: 8 hours
Audience: Professionals
Instructional Reference Material: The Successful Manager's Handbook, PTI Management Associates' Communication Workshop, Performance Appraisal workshop, and Socio-Tech Design Principles, Trist/Ketchum Organizational design, and HBR article, "Human Relations or Human Resources."
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and utilize the most effective communication medium to foster open communication
- Be able to identify and correct communication problems through effective feedback techniques
- Understand what is required to create an environment conducive to teamwork
- Develop an awareness of motivational principles and how to maximize potential
- Explain Principal Accountabilities and Performance Objectives.
- Describe how to evaluate performance.
- Identify communications rules used in performance evaluation.
- Describe performance planning and review principles
- Review Planning Guide for Performance Interviews
- Describe trends that impact organizational structure
- Understand the social implications of organizational systems and design
- Define the relationship of the technical system to the social system
- Describe the skills required in a socio-tech redesigned organization
Provider: HRD Strategies
Topic: Leadership Skills for the Technical Professional
Purpose: The purpose of this course is to provide the technical professional with insight and the skill set needed to successfully function in a leadership and team member role.
Course Description: This course covers in depth the topics of leadership, communications and teamwork. The class structure centers around 360 degree feedback gathered as pre-work, leaderless group exercises and simulations that will allow individuals to participate in and observe positive and negative models of effective behavior. Each participant will receive feedback on his or her specific strengths and developmental needs during the course of the workshop.
Duration: 16 hours (two-8 hour days)
Audience: Identified Technical Professionals
Instructional Material: The Successful Manager's Handbook
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and utilize the most effective communication medium to foster open communication
- Be able to identify and correct communication problems
- Develop an awareness of effective and ineffective team behaviors
- Identify and modify leadership behaviors to accommodate different situations
- Demonstrate and utilize participatory leadership techniques
- Utilize consensus decision making techniques
- Understand what is required to create an environment conducive to teamwork
- Develop an awareness of motivational principles and how to maximize potential
- Conduct and facilitate a team meeting
Provider: HRD Strategies
Topic: Leadership Intensive Training (LIT) Process
Purpose: The purpose of this course is to help individuals and teams within the same organization create and launch their own leadership development process
Learning Objectives:
- Reaching a unified understanding of leadership principles and team effectiveness
- Increasing and sharpening individual leadership abilities and skills
- Building more effective work relationships
- Developing organization-wide teams, both functional and cross-functional
- Identifying opportunities to facilitate transitions and change efforts
- Sharing a sense of excitement, enthusiasm and full engagement in mastering changing roles
- Clarifying responsibility and accountability
- Developing and extending individual and organizational vision and action plans
Topic: Helping Individuals Lead Successfully (HILS)
Purpose: The purpose of this course is for a company to help its executives sharpen their leading and influencing skills.
Course Description: This course is a powerful 3-day leadership process, which helps teams and individuals from diverse organizations address their critical issues of leadership. The effectiveness of this training stems from its unique blend of the personal and the practical. HILS is a highly interactive process. Performance profiles and 360° questionnaires help each person identify his or her leadership strengths and learn to address challenges with the courage that comes from personal mastery. Additionally, HILS provides the opportunity to practice the four core leadership skills necessary for participants to lead successfully.
Duration: 24 hours (three-8 hour days)
Audience: Executives
Learning Objectives:
- Developing more effective relationship strategies
- Establishing personal mastery and direction
- Building confident leaders in organizations
- Learning the creative use of conflict resolution
- Grasping wholehearted leadership models, examples and skills
- Understanding and utilizing critical performance-based feedback skills
- Creating Personal Leadership Action Plans
- Developing core skills at the heart of leading most effectively