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Maximum Performance Leadership
Most Manage… Few Lead
The Challenge:
Many organizations today have too many managers and not enough leaders. You don’t have to be a senior executive to be called a leader. In fact, you can lead from any position in an organization. The word “leader” means traveler, someone who takes teams to new visions, heights, or levels of performance. The word “manager” means handler, the ability to juggle many tasks and activities. Your ability to transform managers into leaders is a key ingredient for organizational success.
The Program:
Maximum Performance Leadership provides participants with the tools, skills, and behaviors essential to becoming a great leader—a leader who accepts responsibility for their team’s results and continually strives to raise both their own, and their team’s, performance.
Topic areas include:
- The Leadership Skills Inventory Profile
- Assessment of each participant’s current performance (by direct reports, self, and supervisor) in a number of management and leadership skill areas
- Utilization of a 360 Feedback report to identify each participant’s strengths and areas for development
- Creation of an action plan to focus on areas for development
- The Key Factors in Motivating People
- The key factors in motivating people (goal setting, training, recognition, rewards, self-esteem, feedback, empowerment, etc.)
- Motivating oneself and how to maintain a constructive, positive outlook in the face of adversity
- Understanding people’s motivational levers
- How to avoid ‘demotivating’ people
- The Four E’s – Energizing oneself, Energizing others, the Edge to make tough decisions, and the ability to Execute
- Dealing Effectively with Conflict
- Addressing behavioral issues
- How to handle negative attitudes
- Using conflict constructively
- Building Team Effectiveness
- Developing a highly effective and winning team
- Creating a self-empowered, self-motivated environment
- Getting ownership and alignment to team goals and vision
- Creating an action plan for team development
- Becoming a Change Agent
- Embracing and creating enduring change
- How to shift paradigms and question assumptions
- Handling resistance to change; getting buy-in
- Becoming a “calculated” risk taker
- The Art of Leadership
- Leading by making others powerful
- Enrolling every voice in the vision
- Radiating possibility throughout the organization
- Utilizing “best practices” from successful leaders
- The five key leadership qualities
- Communicating Effectively with Others
- Assessing your behavioral style and understanding how it affects others’ willingness to listen to you
- Learn how to adapt or flex your style to meet the needs of others