Leading With Impact: Leveraging Your Leadership

Surveys of top executives have confirmed that leadership skills are considered the most important factor in a manager’s career progress – rated above intelligence, knowledge or job skills.

Leveraging Your Leadership is a top-rated program for professional executives who are serious about achieving peak performance in their role as leader, communicator and change agent.

What You Will Learn

• Enhance your knowledge of major personal and professional leadership strategies
• Design your own personalized leadership model
• Explore 10 major leverage points in leadership
• Learn what has changed in leadership and how strong leaders adapt
• Arm yourself with new ways to think on your feet and prepare for crucial meetings, whether it’s with three people or three hundred
• Understand the conditions under which all your team can perform independently and effectively toward a common objective
• Use new tools to speed up decision making and problem solving
• Identify your leadership strengths and development opportunities
• Become aware of the interplay between organization culture and your leadership styles
• Learn how to become a change agent who encourages innovation

Pre-Work Leadership Package

Your learning begins as soon as you register:

• Receive a leader impact 360º assessment tool
• Complete four leadership strategy exercises
• Plus our Leveraging Your Leadership take-home resource binder

Content

Leadership in the 21st Century

• Dealing with disruption and a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous) environment

Characteristics of Effective Leadership

• Why Leadership Is Not Management
• Key leadership competencies
• Six leadership styles based on “emotional intelligence” and when to use them

Developing Leadership Capacity

• Create your own “Leadership brand statement” to identify your unique leadership style
• Develop ways to enhance individual and team performance in the workplace
• Develop trust as a leader and tips on building interpersonal relationships
• Developing your leadership philosophy
• Create a culture of high performance and achievement

Effective Leadership Communication

• Shift from traditional, corporate communication to organizational conversations
• Practice “team tools” for collaboration and enhanced communication

Receive a Leadership Impact™ 360º Assessment

• Become aware of your own leadership strategies and how this affects the performance of others
• Enhance your personal and organizational effectiveness

Making Improvements in Your Leadership; 10 Leveraging Strategies and Their Dual Concepts:

• Envisioning (defining vs. delimiting)
• Role modelling (exemplifying vs. circumscribing)
• Mentoring (active vs. passive)
• Stimulating thinking (lateral vs. vertical)
• Referring (positive vs. negative)
• Monitoring (by excellence vs. by exception)
• Providing feedback (positive vs. negative)
• Reinforcing (rewarding vs. punishing) Influencing (reciprocal vs. unilateral)
• Creating a setting (facilitating vs. constraining)
• Deliver team presentations and examine how to apply the strategies when back on the job

Creating a Culture of Achievement

• The role of a leader in developing culture
• Understanding the differences between employee satisfaction, engagement and culture

Leading Change Effectively

• The role of change management vs change leadership
• Top 10 challenges to implementing organizational change Managing polarities
• Application of change leadership to workplace situation