Essentials Of Leadership For Managers
Explore your potential as an effective leader
Leadership is a critical part of helping employees achieve higher performance levels. This interactive workshop helps supervisors and managers build the skills they need to be effective leaders and explore their own leadership potential. Participants will complete a detailed self-assessment to receive feedback about their own leadership style and its effectiveness in their role of leading others. The recommended supplemental book for this course is The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead.
Completion of a brief, online assessment prior to the course is required; to ensure timely analysis, we recommend enrolling at least 3-5 days prior to course start date.
Course Outline
What will be covered:
- Knowing Yourself
- Identify your values, leadership and management preferences
- Assess your leadership style
- Understand the pros and cons of various leadership styles
- DiSC Work of Leaders
- Analyze your style based on the DiSC assessment Work of Leaders
- Learn the "best practices"of leaders based on research
- Understand the components of crafting a vision, building alignment, and successful execution
- Sharpen Leadership Communication Skills
- Learn the power of active listening and paraphrasing
- Practice the elements of directive communication
- Craft a vision based on best practice research
- Practice Effective Execution
- Learn the elements of execution (momentum, structure, feedback)
- Practice constructing a tactical framework to effectively plan changes and manage performance plans
- Practice giving and receiving focused feedback to improve performance
Book for this Course
- The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead (1st Edition)
Learner Outcomes
After this class, you will be able to:
- Identify essential leadership qualities for success
- Draw from critical leadership behaviors, including setting priorities, creating positive change, solving problems through others, and developing people
- Bring out the best in your employees
- Analyze your own leadership style and create a plan for developing it further
Course Sections
| Type | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online (Instructor-led) | Dec 10 & 11, 2024 | 9:00AM - 4:00PM | Zoom |
Essentials of Leadership for Managers Course Information
Contact Hours
12 hours
Course Fee(s)
Tuition non-credit - $825.00