Business Leadership
$100.00
Anyone can be promoted to manager, but not anyone can lead. At its core, leadership means setting goals, lighting a path, and persuading others to follow. By accepting the challenge to lead, you come to realize that the only limits are those you place on yourself.
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After you complete this course, you will be able to:
- Define your role as a manager and identify how that role differs from other roles you have had.
- Understand the management challenge and the new functions of management.
- Discover how you can prepare for and embrace the forces of change.
- Identify ways to get you and your workspace organized and get a jump on the next crisis.
- Identify your leadership profile and explore ways to use this knowledge to improve your success as a manager.
- Enhance your ability to communicate with others in meetings and through presentations.
- Create an action plan for managing your career success.
Course Outline & Major Topics
- Business Leadership: Becoming Management Material
- About the Learning Organization
- Achieving Personal Mastery
- Developing Your Personal Vision
- Mental Models
- Strategies for Working with Mental Models
- The Ladder of Inference
- Using Your Own Experiences as a Resource
- Case Study
- Team Learning
- The Meteor Belt
- Protocols for Skillful Discussion
- Systems Thinking
- Your Leadership Style
- Leadership Styles
- Understanding Your Comfort Zone
- Adapting Our Style
- Cycling Through the Styles
- Managing Performance
- Humility
- Five Practices for Success
- Practice One: Challenge the Process
- Practice Two: Inspire a Shared Vision
- Practice Three: Enable Others to Act
- Practice Four: Model the Way
- Practice Five: Encourage the Heart
- Practices in Practice
- Building Trust
- The Cycle of Trust and Performance
- Improving Trust
- Trust Exercise
- Managing Change
- About Change
- Key Factors in Successful Change
- A Step-by-Step Plan for Change
- Getting More From the Last Hour
- Time Management Tips and Tricks
- Assessing the Impact
- Going the Extra Mile
- Managers vs. Leaders
- Types of Thinking
- Directional Thinking
- Paradigm Shifts
- Mind Mapping
- Reframing
- Consequential Thinking
- Influence Strategies
- Common Influence Strategies
- Cialdini’s Six Strategies
- Managing Relationships
- The Relationship Cycle
- Coaching Through Conflict
- Helping Others in Conflict
- Managing Stress
- The Positive Effect
- Doing Delegation Right
- What is Delegation?
- Defining Delegation
- Defining Delegation
- Levels of Delegation
- Breaking Down the Model, Part One
- Breaking Down the Model, Part Two
- Breaking Down the Model, Part Three
- Delegation Case Study
- Delegation Case Study
- Criteria for Useful Feedback
- Giving Constructive Feedback
- Best Practices
- The Importance of Feedback
- Making Connections
- Feedback Techniques
- Feedback Techniques
- The Open-Ended Approach
- More Feedback Options
- Encouraging Feedback
- Case Study
- Mastering Your Body Language
- Mastering Your Body Language
- Things to Consider
- Reading Cues and Adjusting Your Approach
*Receive a nationally recognized certificate for participation in this course
Who Should Take This Course?
- Team Members & Leaders
- Front Line Workers
- New Hires
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