Workshop on Advanced Leadership Skills Development Program for Senior Executives

Program Overview:

The Advanced Leadership Development Skills program is designed to enhance and leverage the skills of highly accomplished, experienced leaders who want to apply their talents to solve significant organizational problems in private and public sectors of the economy. The focus of this program is to see how participants can leverage on their skills to create exceptional performing workforce in their organizations.

For whom:

This program is designed for top, senior and upper - middle level executives with positions such as head of department, general manager, and assistant general manager responsible for leading and executing organizational strategies in both private and public organizations

Learning objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

•          effectively influence others to produce outstanding performance;
•          improve on their existing leadership skills;
•          develop a strong leadership presence and competencies to lead their departments and organizations;
•          demonstrate flexibility in their leadership approach; and
•          develop leadership potentials of their work teams to make ethical decisions.

Course outline:

Day 1: Modeling and Inspiring a Shared Vision

• Choosing your Vision
• Communicating Your Vision
• Identifying the Benefit for Others
• Being an Inspirational Role Model
• Influencing Others' Perspectives

Day 2: Leading into the future

• Leadership presence
• Building Advanced Leadership Skills
• Developing Yourself and Others
• Strengthening Your Partnerships
• Targeted Selection
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Day 3: Leadership & Management Skills

• Leadership & Management: The Complimentary factor
• Setting and achieving goals
• Communicate with more clarity and accuracy.
• Manage your time. Plan, prioritize and prepare your work
• Manage conflict; How to manage difficult conversations and personalities.
• Motivate and inspire yourself so that you feel strong and confident; even during the toughest times
• Learn to motivate and inspire other people to achieve their full potential.
• Making sense of turbulent times  
• Developing influences skills
• The Leadership Value
• Leadership Tools
• Driving performance

Day 4: Building Advanced Leadership Skills

• Build an environment of trust with and among others.
• Develop and retain organizational talent.
• Adapt leadership approaches to meet a variety of

personalities, environments, and situations.

• Use personal power (rather than position power)

to gain acceptance to ideas and move people to action

• Motivate employees to achieve higher levels of

• Build partnerships across the organization to achieve

• Select talent to ensure long-term organizational success.

Day 5: Leading High Performance Team

• Team Building Techniques
• Team Building Stages
• Facilitation Skills
• Tips for Team Leader

Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, and case studies will be used to reinforce these teachings/learning methods.

ABIODUN ODEYEMI - M.Sc. (Managerial Psychology), MCIPS, (London) AMNIM, QMS Auditor. An experienced Management Practitioner with over 25 years of experience spanning the manufacturing, engineering and service sectors of the economy.  Mr Odeyemi is a specialist in Managerial Psychology (Leadership, General Management, Negotiation, Communication and Human Relations) Business/Process Development, Employee's Motivation, Productivity Improvement, Performance Management, Project Management (Monitoring and Evaluation), Supply Chain Management, QMS Certification, and Attitudinal Change. Mr Odeyemi was as the Asst. General Manager, Supply Chain, Pivot Engineering Nig. Ltd before venturing into consultancy. He will join others to share their experiences on this program.

Dr. Nosike Agokei is a seasoned corporate manager, boardroom expert, legal practitioner, banker, Economist, Corporate Governance expert, Chartered Secretary, Arbitrator and a Chartered Accountant. He has diverse experience in banking, accounting, board practices, leadership and dynamics (including corporate governance, induction and board evaluation), legal, administration, human resources, strategy, corporate and public affairs, and taxation, covering over thirty years. He holds the degrees of B.Sc Economics, LLB, BL, M.Sc Economics and a Doctorate Degree. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA); a member of the Institute of Directors, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators of London, United Kingdom (FCIS); a member, Chartered Institute of Taxation (ACTI); a fellow, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (FCIB); and a fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK (FCIArb). He is currently a Legal, Management Consultant and Facilitator to several organizations in Nigeria and abroad (in the past and presently), including the African Development Bank, Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire and at their offices all over Africa, the Institute of Directors, the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators of Nigeria. He has undertaken management consulting projects for a couple of organizations in Nigeria, Kenya, Tunisia, the United Kingdom and Ghana.

Group nomination of 5 and above participants attracts 10% discount