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Leadership Skills: Building Success Through Teamwork

Course: 222   Type: Workshop   Duration: 3 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Develop your teams to maximise their strengths and enhance productivity
  • Optimise organisation and work design for success in service delivery teams
  • Motivate your team with effective performance measurement
  • Integrate your leadership behaviours, competencies and responsibilities into your management role
  • Leverage the complementary skills and styles of your team
  • Eliminate barriers and chokepoints that block teamwork

Course Benefits
Leaders who inspire teams to work together can deliver results and services faster, better and more cost effectively. In this course, you gain the skills to structure, measure and tune performance in a service team environment. Through practical workshops, you learn how to become a leader who equips his or her team with the skills and capabilities to optimise productivity and performance and deliver high-quality results.

Who Should Attend
Managers and anyone aspiring to a leadership position. Course 290, "Management Skills", or previous experience managing teams, is helpful.

Course Workshops
Workshops provide you with practical experience developing your leadership skills and include:
  • Modelling key behaviours of effective leadership
  • Optimising team processes
  • Identifying dimensions of difference
  • Managing measures to affect performance
  • Applying communication styles in pressure situations
  • Motivating people to stay
  • Employing the dimensions of coaching
  • Profiling your Emotional Intelligence (EI) strengths
  • Applying conflict-handling styles to minimise disruption
  • Creating your service leadership action plan

Course Content
Introduction
  • Focusing on people: the key to successful leadership
  • Debunking the charisma requirement
  • Defining leadership and leadership effectiveness
  • Linking the behaviours, competencies and responsibilities of successful leaders
Structuring Effective Work Design
Identifying the components of effective teamwork
  • The power of team-owned ground rules
  • Optimising team structure
Designing effective work assignments
  • Matching task-to-team organisation
  • Selecting the best team design
Shaping the Leadership Thought Process
Managing beyond your team boundaries
  • Protecting the team from outside pressure and disturbance
  • Influencing key players to secure resources
Questioning leadership conventions
  • Countering the myth of "Big L" leadership
  • Applying quiet leadership skills
Harnessing the Power of Motivation and Performance Measurement
Building team-led effectiveness
  • Analysing the subtle forces of measurement
  • Measuring what matters
  • Building a positive psychological contract
  • Tuning measures to optimise results
Overcoming roadblocks to productivity
  • Anticipating and deflecting external pressures
  • Ranking team member motivators
Forging Your Role as a Leader
Integrating management and leadership
  • Distinguishing the five components of effective leadership
  • Applying leadership in service delivery teams
Refining a powerful leadership approach
  • Coaching your team for enhanced performance
  • Building performance through emotionally intelligent leadership
Adopting a servant-leadership role
  • Making the team your primary customer
  • Enhancing individual and team capabilities
  • Enabling the team as a key leadership activity
Adapting Your Leadership Role to Accommodate Difference
Expanding your leadership perspective and capabilities
  • Adopting attitudes and expectations to enhance performance
  • Taking on the challenge of leadership excellence
Converting difference into team effectiveness
  • Appreciating the uniqueness of each team member
  • Capitalising on the differences and diversity of your team
Pinpointing chokepoints in team dynamics
  • Modelling your team as a system
  • Optimising system effectiveness
Designing an Effective Team Communication Strategy
The elements of successful communication
  • The causal link between climate, mood and productivity
  • Recognising mutual communication styles
  • The dominance of emotion in communication and thought
Applying a diverse communication approach
  • Matching channels for communication clarity
  • Factoring in the impact of technology
  • Bridging differences across distance and culture
  • Managing for agreement and handling conflict
Planning Your Transition to Successful Leadership
  • Building your vision for your high-performing team
  • Matching your leadership strategies to your team realities
  • Managing reentry into the workplace
  • Setting performance milestones to evaluate your success

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