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You Will Learn How To
- Lead, manage and motivate individuals and teams within a strategic context
- Create strategic momentum to achieve organisational growth
- Enable effective decision making in challenging situations
- Leverage the power of networking to manage organisational change
- Focus on individual and team strengths to enhance capability and performance
- Navigate organisational politics to get things done
Course Benefits
Because organisations must constantly change and improve results, they rely more on managers who have the vision and skills to keep their teams motivated and productive. In this course, you gain practical knowledge, skills and political savvy to become more effective at decision making, problem-solving, leadership and motivation.
Who Should Attend
Experienced managers and middle managers who wish to enhance their ability to drive results across the organisation and take their leadership skills to the next level. Management experience at the level of Course 290, "Management Skills", or Course 222, "Leadership Skills: Building Success Through Teamwork", is assumed.
In an immersive environment, you participate in a thought-provoking case study, as well as individual and group activities, to apply management tools, techniques and strategies. Activities include the following:
- Aligning the goals of the business unit, team and individuals
- Profiling your decision-making style
- Role-playing problem resolution strategies and tactics
- Identifying competing interests and creating alliances
- Debating the pros and cons of organisational politics
- Assessing your organisation's change readiness
- Developing a performance dashboard
- Building a talent development plan for your organisation
- Selling your ideas to top management
- Customising a road map for personal and organisational growth
Course Content
- The voice of experience
- Assessing your strengths
- Leveraging the strengths of others
- Building credibility and trust
- Managing for results
- Seeing the big picture
- Identifying and communicating how your team contributes
- Ensuring people get and stay focused on the right results
- Storytelling to build commitment
- Building momentum using measures and milestones
- Communicating results up and down the hierarchy
- Dealing with the unknown
- Balancing rational thought and emotions
- Recognising the potential for conflict
- Navigating loyalties
- Problems and dilemmas
- Generating and prioritising options
- Synthesising diverse decision-making styles within a complementary framework
- Applying key business indicators and metrics
- Making tradeoffs and getting buy-in
- Communicating across functions and business units
- Creating cohesion across teams through common goals
- Identifying pivotal links across the organisation
- Forging solutions through systems thinking
- Creating alliances to effect positive action
- Enhancing productivity by gaining support and commitment from others
- Creating team-to-team links
- Why change is difficult
- Helping people see the need for change
- Inspiring action and completion
- Acting as an agent of change
- Providing the essential catalysts for change
- Implementing approaches that deliver effective change
- Transforming resistance into cooperative productivity
- Leveraging people's talents and skills
- Aligning individual purpose with organisational goals
- Eliminating performance barriers
- Bolstering confidence through increased delegation
- Supporting improved individual and team performance
- Motivating others through a shared vision
- Fostering teamwork in first-line managers
- Encouraging ownership and accountability in your management team
- Developing future management talent
- Respecting different values and approaches
- Separating intention from action
- Deciphering and interpreting style differences
- Demystifying your organisation's culture
- Appreciating political dynamics
- Assimilating the impact of cultural difference on growth and change
- Valuing different perspectives
- Setting a clear agenda
- Assessing the political landscape
- Developing your power base
- Building coalitions for positive change
- Communicating with the voice of experience
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