INFLUENCING FOR CHANGE, INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE

SYNOPSIS: Any successful leaders understand their strengths and weaknesses, as well as being able to build strong, powerful relationships with clients and individuals to leverage business success. This training will focus on the prime competencies of self-awareness, as well as the ability to influence in order to form strong professional relationships to help drive sustainable business growth. Understanding and practicing these key competencies will help to develop your professional leadership and improve your standing as an influential leader who also inspires others.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of this training, participants will learn to:

• Describe the differences in leadership and management and be aware of your own self-understanding
• Understand your own self-imposed limits, growing your self-understanding and how to overcome issues arising from this knowledge
• Apply techniques to grow your own self-understanding to improve your engagement with others
• Utilize influencing techniques to build and form strong business relationships
• Understand how to lead the organization by providing strategic direction and vision

COURSE CONTENT

Leadership: self-awareness to growth

• Defining Leadership
• Competencies of Great Leaders
• Leadership Styles, Attributes and Qualities
• VUCA Leadership: The New Normal
• Personal Power and Emotional Intelligence
• Self-understanding to SWOT
• Leadership Assessment

Leading through positive interaction and influence

• Developing Positive Inspirational Leadership
• Psychology of Personal Interaction and Motivation
• Key Interpersonal and Engagement Techniques
• Influencing Skills and Methods
• Social Networking - How to work the room?
• The Art of Social Negotiation

Leadership for sustainable growth

• Creating an Environment for Growth
• Forming Vision and Values
• Defining Organizational Aims, Goals, and Targets
• Developing and Cascading Clear Business Objectives
• Communicating the Message as a Leader

Leading organizational success

• Leading through Change
• Strategic and Future Planning
• Organizational Planning: Succession Planning for a sustainable future
• Celebrating Organizational Success

TARGET AUDIENCE: Middle Level Managers, Senior Managers, Executives