Leadership Development Elements

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YOUR LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

Leadership skills and attributes can be identified and honed to produce a high level of overall effectiveness, or can remain unrecognized, untapped and squandered. How you develop and channel your potential into specific directions can significantly impact your future.

Resolving the age-old discussion – are leaders born or made?
Unleashing your leadership potential
Practicing self-leadership – owning your choices
Building on your strengths and always learning from your mistakes

LEADERSHIP SUCCESS

Effectively leading people and managing tasks is positively influencing the actions and behaviors of others to achieve desired results, outcomes, or goals.

Digging deep to discover true success within yourself
Understanding authority vs. power – there is a difference
Recognizing the three types of formal leadership and taking stock of your own behaviors
Examining when you become an enhancer, a neutralizer, or a diminisher of others

LEADERSHIP SUCCESS

Effectively leading people and managing tasks is positively influencing the actions and behaviors of others to achieve desired results, outcomes, or goals.

Digging deep to discover true success within yourself
Understanding authority vs. power – there is a difference
Recognizing the three types of formal leadership and taking stock of your own behaviors
Examining when you become an enhancer, a neutralizer, or a diminisher of others

THE POWER OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Researchers estimate that as much as 75% of a person’s ability to succeed can be related to understanding and consistently demonstrating high emotional intelligence.

Understanding Emotional Intelligence and its importance to your organization
Recognizing behavioral characteristics of high and low emotional intelligence patterns
Tying together self-awareness and social awareness
Mastering self-management and relationship management

UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY WHILE CREATING INCLUSION

Almost any conversation and discussion about diversity or inclusivity can trigger an intense emotional response. Considering how prominent this focus is in our everyday environment, we need to know how to handle this subject matter personally and professionally and effectively communicate our thoughts.

Understanding what diversity means and involves
Recognizing how unconscious or implicit bias can impact our attitude toward diversity
Creating the attitudinal change required for course correction
Making the power of inclusion happen

ACHIEVING GOALS FOR SUCCESS

An important component of leadership behavior is ensuring goals are not just set but achieved. Become a master goal achiever and not just a master goal setter.

Understanding the various types of goals, their best applications, and their elements can lead to more results more often
Internalizing the critical components and criteria of the goals achievement process
Learning when to properly apply the four different types of goals personally and professionally
Working through our copyrighted goal planning process, your action plans, and necessary action steps

UNDERSTANDING AND AFFIRMING YOU

In a very real sense, you are more than just one self. You are a composite of several different selfs that surface and recede according to your daily circumstances.

Acquiring a deeper understanding of your three selfs
Choosing among your three ego states in a professional environment
Focusing on the positive and affirming yourself
Developing positive habits can yield positive results

COMMUNICATIONS

Communications is a two way process that involves multiple layers of emotion and frames of reference being understood and successfully managed to get the desired outcomes.

Successfully communicating ideas and reducing miscommunication
Tying principles of communication and emotions together
Mastering listening aggressively and enhancing listening via questions
Building stronger relationships through communication

MANAGING YOUR TIME

Since you can’t get more time, you have to get more out of the time you’ve got. Often, the more time you invest upfront preventing crises, the less time and money you will be forced to spend scrambling and reacting to crises.

Internalizing the concepts of outstanding time management and developing appropriate delegation techniques and attitudes
Identifying and eliminating common time wasting habits and traps including procrastination
Making the most of your time – planning with a purpose and putting together time plans that work
Effectively managing paperwork and accomplishing routine tasks

MAKING DECISIONS AND SOLVING ISSUES

Effective decision making is like a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight. Poor problem solving ability together with indecisiveness is like a dull knife that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind.

Understanding the linkage between decision making, issue resolution, and our habits of thought
Making prompt but not rash decisions – mastering the elements of a solid decision making process
Reaching high quality decisions more often
Gathering important information without procrastinating

MOTIVATION AND COURAGE

Success and motivation are interdependent and inseparable. You can’t have one without the other.

Tapping into both emotion and logic as you lead yourself and others
Understanding human needs, common methods of motivation, and personal values drivers
Reducing motivation killers – managing worry and handling frustration
Sustaining the courage to stay on course

YOUR ACTION PLAN – Your Tools for Personal and Professional Achievement

PERSONAL GOALS PROGRAM

Dream Inventory (Like a “Bucket List”)
Self-Evaluation Sections to Develop Yourself as a Total Person
- Encompasses Mental, Social, Physical, Financial/Career, Family Life, Ethics and Beliefs Development Areas
- Each section includes a: Self-Evaluation Questionnaire, listing of Past Achievements/Mental Strengths, narrative to capture Where I Stand Now, place to generate personal Goal Categories and establish Priorities

GOAL PLANNING SHEETS WITH AN EXAMPLE AND INSTRUCTIONS ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS PROGRAM

Capturing overall Organizational Goals
Creating Divisional – Departmental – Team Goals
Position Description including instructions & Worksheet

PRODUCTIVITY

Defining Personal Productivity
Productivity Evaluation Questionnaire
Generating Productivity Goal Categories, establishing Priorities and setting Goals

TIME MANAGEMENT

Time Evaluation Matrix and Analysis
Time Management Evaluation Questionnaire
Generating Time Management Categories, establishing Priorities and setting Time Use Goals