Leadership Development Skills for Managers Training Course

Your emerging leaders are your rising managers and leaders in the making. Companies across every industry are facing complex organizational challenges that require the rapid development of new and agile leaders. More than ever before, emerging leaders must quickly learn and deploy core management skills, develop a broad strategic perspective, take their leadership skills to the next level, and expand their professional and personal networks.

Day 1

• Leadership Basics
• Traits theory of Leadership/Process
• Factors of Leadership
• Bass Theory of Leadership
• Management VS Leadership
• Boss or Leader
• Attributes of Leadership
• Environment
• Roles and Relationship
• Culture and Climate
• Leading
• Goals (Steps of goal setting)
• Supervision for leaders
• Inspiring your Employees
• Training and Coaching

Day 2

• Six Point of Leadership Power
• The Seven Principles of Thinking Like a Leader
• Leadership Philosophy
• Team Leadership Model
• Path-Goal Theory of Leadership
• Transformational Leadership
• Social Leadership
• Servant Leadership

Creating Strategic Concepts

• A summary of strategic management
• Strategic analyses
• Methods and tools
• Working-out precise strategies

Day 3

Implementing Strategic Guidelines

• Corporate policy, business mission
• Corporate and business strategies as guidelines
• Helping to shape implementation
• Active implementation, a plan of action

Commitments, Agreements, and Accountability

• The language of commitments
• Differentiating among: ideas, requests, demands, and ultimatums
• Creating clear, solid agreements with defined accountability
• Cleanly addressing broken agreements
• S.M.A.R.T. goal-setting
• Unconscious commitments; how to shift out of negative patterns

Day 4

Self-Management, Work Techniques, Priorities

• Delegating what needs to be delegated
• Using your work time in a result-oriented way
• Managing yourself
• How to use your personal resources
• Optimizing your own strengths

Managing Employees, Leading Teams

• Principles of managing employees
• How to increase the performance of employees
• Making sure employees are satisfied
• Prerequisites for motivating people
• The principles of group dynamics

Day 5

Social Competence

• Social and emotional competence
• Effect and application in different management situations
• Recognizing your own strengths and weaknesses

Communication

• Communicating in your everyday work
• The ability to achieve approval through empathy
• Communication as a major factor of success in your everyday work
• Skillful conflict management