Practical Tools for Effective Leadership & Developing Talents

DAY 1

Strategic Equipping For Leadership

• Changing the Manager’s roles

• What is real Leadership?

• How to equip Leaders for excellence

• The pursuit of excellence

• Developing key management competencies to create excellence

• 12 Ways to Develop your Staff potential and talent

• The Manager as a Change agent

• The need for peak performance

• Activators, Behaviours, and consequences

• Benefits for the organization, manager, and performer

DAY 2

The Manager as a Coach and Mentor

• What is coaching?

• Why is coaching so important?

• Making the transition from Manager to Coach

• Qualities and attributes of a good Coach

• Develop the Coaching Model

• What does coaching achieve?

• Deciding When and How to coach

• Select the appropriate coaching style

• Arranging a coaching session

• Use the “GROW” model

• Measuring and observing performance

• How to appraise a person’s performance

• The link with feedback motivation

DAY 3

The Coaching / Motivation Process and Skills

• Influencing the readiness to change

• The importance of handling change

• Gaining a personal commitment to change

• Raising their effectiveness through questioning

• Motivation as a lever

• Setting action-orientated performance goals

• End goals, performance goals, and process goals

• Working your goal setting strategy

• Developing efficient Time management

• Learn to prioritize your time

• The importance of essential Listening skills

• Developing the cycle for continuous improvement

DAY 4

Putting Coaching & Counselling to Work

• Understanding the performer's agenda

• Coaching the subconscious mind

• Knowing what improvements to aim for

• Exploring barriers to progress

• Replacement principle

• Coaching the right performance attitude

• Making appropriate attitude adjustments

• Knowing what empowering improvement to aim for

• Leading by example

• Develop appreciation within and without

• The coach’s role as a facilitator

DAY 5

Coaching for Decisive Action

• Adopting the approach, process, and skills as a way of life

• Self-coaching to fit your aims and objectives – personal discipline

• Improving your ability to make decisions

• Ten steps to vital decision making

• Choosing Pro-Active leadership

• Understand the Circle of control

• How to be pro-active in your relationships

• How to apply Persistence Performance

• Using the learned skills to apply at every level

• Ten essential qualities of a successful Corporate Executive