..... High-Performance Leadership

Modules

1. Principles of Leadership

• Learn the importance of leadership in achieving longterm organizational success.
• Discover the five myths of leadership.
• Understand the difference between leadership and management.
• Learn the difference between controlling and empowering leadership styles.
  
  

2. Practices of Empowering Leaders

• Empowering leaders have a driving passion to realize their vision.
• Empowering leaders build and sustain trust with their followers.
• Empowering leaders unleash the commitment and motivation of their followers.
• Empowering leaders are social and organizational architects.
• Empowering leaders act from positive beliefs about people and situations.
  
  

3. The Five Leadership Roles

• Examine the three core elements of team effectiveness.
• Learn the five roles of leadership.
• Discover the appropriate balance among the five roles.
• Understand how to lead “from the balcony”.
• Learn how to use a set of diagnostic questions to lead “from the balcony”.
  
  

4. Leadership Practices

• Understand your strengths and weaknesses as a leader.
• Assess yourself in the five leadership roles.
• Know how you are viewed by others in your organization.
• Develop personal improvement plans.
  
  

5. Personal Productivity

• Assess how you currently use your time.
• Discover the barriers that keep you from managing your time more effectively.
• Learn the difference between the important and the urgent and how to schedule the time for the important.
• Learn to set professional goals to guide your use of time.
• Learn a systematic approach to managing daily events.
  
  

6. Fundamentals of High-Performance Teams

• Learn the definition of a high-performance team and how it differs from traditional work groups.
• Discover the three elements of high-performance teams.
• Learn the four types of teams.
• Learn the stages of team development.
  
  

7. Performance Expectations

• Learn to confront behavior that fails to meet your expectations.
• Understand the importance of discipline and conformity in building high performance.
• Develop a set of non-negotiables for those whom you lead.
• Practice the skill of harnessing harmful behavior.
• Apply the skill to back-home situations.
  
  

8. Empowering Others For Success

• Learn the difference between commitment and compliance motivation.
• Undrstand how leadership changes to create commitment.
• Learn the four principles of empowerment.
• Learn the elements of empowerment.
• Discover a matrix for identifying what people need in order to be empowered.
• Develop a dialogue to transfer power to others.
• Create a model of situational leadership.

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