Leading By Tasks

Module 1:

Leading with Confidence

Day 1:

Creating a Confident and Credible Image

• What does it mean to buy strong, confident, assertive

• Where does self-confidence come from

• The comfort zone and its impact on business success

• Banishing the fear of speaking in public

• Self-perception and its impact on confidence

• How being confident can help you raise your profile

• Body language and its impact on the credibility

• Dress and grooming (everything matters)

Day 2:

Confident Communication to Groups

• How to run efficient and effective meetings

• How to prepare for and structure a business presentation

• How to get over the nerves of giving a business presentation

• Effective questioning skills

• Dealing with questions from senior leaders

• How to sell yourself and your organization and your ideas

• Building rapport in business presentations

Day 3:

Confident Communicating with getting Results

• The power of using stories to get messages across

• Using analogies effectively

• Using evidence to win people over to your way of thinking

• Increasing your personal power and charisma

• When to be strong and when to play weak

• Inclusive/exclusive language and its effect on people

Day 4:

Communicating Passion

• The importance of passion

• Developing courage and confidence in conflict situations

• Beating your comfort zone and taking more risks

• How not to be afraid of speaking strongly in meetings and presentations

• Using our full range of communication

• Powerful closes that move people to action

• Become a magnetic personality

Day 5:

Enhancing your Profile Within the Business

• How to conduct yourself to senior people

• How to sell change to people who don’t want to change

• How to sell unpopular policies to team

• How to make yourself memorable

• Be a radiator, not a drain

• The speaking challenge

Module 2:

Managing Multiple Tasks, Priorities & Deadlines

Day 6:

Introduction of Work Task Concepts

• Introductions, course purpose, goals, and objectives

• Understanding the role of self-management in managing tasks

• Overview and context of management of tasks

• Identifying some reasons for the current focus on managing tasks

• Understand how work is accomplished in organizations

• Identifying the role of strategic management in the leadership of tasks

• Understanding the role of organization type in task management

Day 7:

Importance of Planning in Management of Tasks

• Integrating a scope, work structure and management plan in assignments

• Learning to identify and manage stakeholders

• Identifying risk techniques that affect tasks, priorities, and deadlines

• Understanding how to develop clarity in purpose and objectives in task assignments

• Identifying the skills necessary to lead and manage work tasks

Day 8:

Setting Priorities and Deadlines in our Time Management

• Using the manner we approach work as an initial time management plan

• Planning for time management, scheduling and meeting deadlines

• Integrating time management into the development of priorities

• Making the most from meetings, e-mails, interruptions and transition time

• Developing a personal plan, with a “to-do” list and priorities

• Dealing with time wasters, procrastination and bosses

Day 9:

Skills Required to Deal with People in our Work Assignments

• Identifying skills required to obtain the help of others on tasks

• The importance of understanding our ways of working with others

• The importance of interpersonal skill in the accomplishment of tasks

• Identifying interpersonal work styles of self and other

• Understanding task flexibility and versatility in people leadership

Day 10:

Personally Managing Tasks to Implement Change

• Learning techniques to use communication for success in tasks

• Understand the characteristics of proper communication

• Identifying methods to deal with human change patterns

• Developing a personal plan to become more effective with self-management

• Dealing with some people who struggle with change