ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

As a leader, you are undoubtedly very busy managing and guiding your team, striving to achieve all that is on your individual plate, and working to keep your organization moving forward. You may even feel too busy to invest time in your own development. If so, please consider the following question: You encourage and support the development of your people so why would you not do the same for yourself?

You may never find the time, so why not make the time? For a bit of additional motivation, consider the positive impacts of you being the best leader you can be on the people you lead and on your organization.

The Leadership Edge Program is a highly interactive and engaging program that combines proven theory and best practices in the areas of leadership personality drivers, competencies, and skills. The program includes concepts, tools and insights that are critical to success for any leader, with an emphasis on very immediate and practical results that allow the modern leader to validate and improve his or her individual leadership skills and approach.

PROGRAM PARTICIPANT/AUDIENCE:

Any leader in a mid-level position or higher looking to assess/reassess, revitalize, refine, or further develop their leadership skills and approach to enhance their individual performance as well as their impacts on people and organizational results.

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PROGRAM FEATURES INCLUDE:

• introduction and exploration of various leadership theories
• group discussion and sharing of experiences/ideas
• experiential case studies/simulations
• skills practice scenarios
• individual leadership self-assessment instrument
• creation of an individual Leadership Development Plan (LDP) that will focus on reassessing current development strategies while also identifying new development strategies to shape personal leadership behaviors and strategies going forward

PROGRAM CONTENT:

Module 1: The Leaders Role in Creating a Positive Culture

• Viewing the background and perspective about organizational culture
• Understand the three levels of organizational culture
• Explore the levels of culture in your world
• What does a positive culture look like?
• Leader and employee actions in culture building
• Building effective workplace relationships
• Focus on your desired culture and actions for culture change

Module 2: Leadership Communication Strategies

• Defining and understanding the broad scope of communication
• Focus on the proven and effective communication process
• Develop the factors that can impact communication success
• Understand the various communication styles
• Learn how to create a positive self-image
• Delve into the concept associated with frame of reference identification
• Follow the proven techniques of communication in the workplace
• Being assertive yet appropriate in demonstrating your communication approach

Module 3: Talent Development & Management

• Define Talent Management in modern terms
• Understand job specifications and identify core competencies
• Lead plans for methods of finding, selecting, and keeping the best people using behavioral interviewing techniques
• Plan to get new employees off to a good start
• Maintain healthy employee relations
• Make performance appraisals a cooperative process
• Engaging employees for buy-in and ownership
• Planning for future talent needs

Module 4: Developing High Performance Teams

• Defining high performance requirements in your organization
• Identify the different types of teams
• Building teamwork by recognizing and utilizing the 12 characteristics of effective teams
• Promote trust and rapport through team member styles and group dynamics
• Moving teams from mere involvement to full empowerment
• Understand how action planning and analysis can aid in improving team performance
• Characteristics of great teams!

Module 5: Leading with Emotional Intelligence

• Understand the concept and definition of EQ
• Why is EQ important for leaders?
• Exercise: The EQ Blueprint
• Validating emotions in others
• Understanding emotions and how to manage them
• Apply Emotional Intelligence to your role and your workplace
• Create your EQ Development Plan

Module 6: Leading Organizational Change

• How do you lead change?
• The intertwining of motivation and change
• The Change Model
• Change: A real world application
• Developing resilience during change events
• Understanding and addressing reactions to change
• Getting to the heart of resistance
• Coaching others through change
• Focus on the six steps to successful change

Module 7: The Nine Roles of Strategic Leadership

• What is strategic leadership?
• Defining the qualities of a strategic leader
• Introduction of the Nine Roles Model
• Explanations and behavioral illustrations of each of the Nine Roles
• Assess which roles fit you
• Relate the roles to leadership competencies
• A situational look at the Nine Roles
• View the Nine Roles from your real world

Module 8: Effective Strategic Planning

• Understanding strategic planning
• Identifying your values
• Designing your vision
• On a mission – a statement for direction
• The tools of strategic planning
• Goals setting and making them SMART
• Assigning roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
• The full picture; Case studies in success and failure