Fundamentals of Leadership Development

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This highly interactive Fundamentals of Leadership course is designed to teach leader the necessary skills and abilities to manage people through coaching, motivation and performance management. Today’s leaders need to be able to optimize team strengths and synergies to accomplish the objectives of their individual units. The need for skills in change management, organizational learning and the effective management of knowledge, are just a few of the key skills required in today’s changing work environment. The objective of this program is to focus on the basic principles of personal and interpersonal leadership in managing teams that can be used in any workplace arena. 

We will explore variables that affect team collaboration, employee productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency, and a variety of interpersonal leader skill-sets. Emphasis will be placed on vision, goals & objectives, motivation, decision-making, time management, power, team building, conflict, ethics, dealing with change, communication skills, and diversity issues. In addition, we will explore a variety of other topics including developing your personal leadership style, and organizational politics. 

Classroom teaching methods will include a high degree of facilitator interaction, class discussion, videos, oral presentations, written assignments, role plays and group projects. 

1. Understanding team dynamics.
2. Gain an understanding of the characteristics of motivated and high-performing, team. 
3. Identify the power of a positive attitude in a team.
4. Develop techniques to build rapport within the team.
5. Leadership from within: Managing ourselves strategically.
6. Fundamentals of leading people through Situational Leadership (SLII) methodology.
7. Manage conflict effectively and strategically to improve workplace productivity.
8. Inspire team-building and employee development.