Managing & Motivating Towards Excellence

DAY 1

Adopting the new organizational culture through understanding people

• Importance of perception

• Perception in the workplace

• Maximizing our perceptual ability

• Type & trait theories of human personality

• Understanding Personality styles

• Optimizing our personality strengths

• Removing emotional blind spots

• Appropriate self-disclosures

DAY 2

Motivating employees

• Understanding motivation

• Motivating ourselves and others

• Applying theories of motivation in the workplace

• How leaders can motivate employees

• Removing blocks to motivation

• The motivation for excellent performance

• Motivating a high-performance team

• The Art of Giving and Receiving Criticism

DAY 3

Motivating innovative & creative thinking in the workplace

• Psychological principles of creativity in the workplace

• Encouraging creativity for continuous improvement

• Convergent & divergent thinking

• Understanding and managing creative people

• Stages of the creative process: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination & Verification

• Transforming blocks to creativity

• Creativity for business breakthroughs

• Divergent Thinking Skills for Innovative Leadership

DAY 4

The new leader

• Psychological principles of leadership

• Theories of leadership

• Leadership for managing performance

• Transactional leadership & transformational leadership

• Visionary & competent leadership

• Developing leadership integrity

• Innovative leadership for excellent performance

• Being Prepared to Lead

DAY 5

Managing for Excellence

• Development of Vision, Mission, Key Goals and Key Processes

• Optimizing the leader's natural strengths

• Integrity & Compassion for Accountable Leadership

• Leadership for Performance Management

• Managing Change and getting others involved

• Leading by example

• Inspirational Leadership