Excellence in Leadership and Strategic Planning
Place: London , Istanbul , Kuwait ,Amman
May 15 - May 19\ 2022 : Amaan
May 15 - May 19\ 2022 : London
Oct 10—Oct 14 \ 2022 : Istanbul
Oct 10—Oct 14 \ 2022 :Kuwait
June27 - July 01\ 2022 : London
Introduction
This leadership course embarks into the essential fundamental aspects of leadership on your career pathway. Set over the course using a combination of discussion debates, case studies, research and immersion sessions, you will explore experientially how to emerge more fully as a leader and to harness the workforce to transform.
Use this IACT course to discover your leadership style, strengths and weaknesses. Apply this insight during your supervisor training course to examine real-time issues instead of hypothetical case studies, and learn to implement your leadership style to fit any organizational context. Master the art of conducting effective team meetings that generate meaningful outcomes, and become an expert communicator with staff, management and customers.
Benefit from our supervisory skills training curriculum’s extensive interactive training format, a variety of modern teaching approaches, customized assessment tools – including the Myers-Briggs Assessment Inventory – lectures, leadership surveys, group case discussions, role plays, visual aids and team exercises. The certificate, divided into five fundamental learning cornerstones, covers the key roles of effective supervisors and managers; leadership and team motivation; communications skills training and staff development; delegation, problem-solving and decision-making; and employee conflict resolution and performance evaluation.
Objectives
Ü Comprehensively understand leadership principles and apply them.
Ü Explore the leadership styles and the psychological basis that underpins great leadership.
Ü Apply high-level decision-making approaches to deliver robust leadership strategies.
Ü Master key aspects of leadership using a mixture of pragmatic and logical considerations.
Ü Hone both your interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to increase influence and persuasion.
Ü Debate and negotiate in a manner to get acceptance from stakeholders to proceed with the organization's mission.
Ü Activate the operational capacities of all strategic business units using influence, authority and power.
Ü Overhaul corporate strategy and business plans.
Ü Navigate internal and external forces by excelling leadership drivers.
Ü Develop a practical perspective on contemporary work practices in your field.
Ü Implement an Action Plan at your workplace using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This program benefits :
Ü Appointed division managers, office managers and supervisors
Ü HR and industrial relations specialists, project managers
Ü Team leaders and supervisors, plant/production managers
Ü Superintendents, public-sector supervisors and managers, development managers.
Course Methodology
The course uses self-assessments and a wide mix of business cases that promote healthy discussions around the importance of managing multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Participants will benefit from role plays covering workplace challenges related to handling tasks, deadlines and priorities. They will learn how to deal with conflicts that may arise as a result. Interactive team exercises are also used with each team presenting their findings and comments.
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:
- 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
- 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
- 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
- 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions
Pre and Post Test
Outline
DAY 1:
The Key Roles of Supervisors and Front-Line Managers:
Ü The Essentials of Progressing in Organizations
Ü Transitioning from doing to being responsible for results
Ü Acting as a role model to others – what does that really mean?
Ü Supervisory responsibilities – what does that entail?
Ü MBTI Tool – How does your style impact your performance?
Ü How does this “translate” in managing others?
Ü Explore the potential strengths and non strengths of your style
Developing a “Different, Progressive” Mindset
Ü Clarifying your authority/limitations
Ü No longer a “member” of the team – what it means
Ü Challenges we encounter when we consider progressing
· Working with older, more experienced staff, former peers, managing a diverse workforce
Goals Setting and Managing the Resource of Time
Ü The supervisor/manager’s role in setting goals, sustaining them to successful completion
Ü The planning process and prioritizing the work
Ü Time management strategies
Ü Increasing effectiveness by managing the resource of time
Ü Identifying opportunities to add-value
DAY 2:
Effective Leadership and Team Motivation Techniques
Ü The Supervisor as a Leader
Ü What is leadership?
Ü The importance of becoming a role model
Ü Competencies/behaviour and skills of great leader – why these matter?
Ü Managing the different daily interactions – how do we respond?
Ü Your leadership style: what does it mean and implications
Working with and through others
Ü Defining teams now
Ü Building teams: 4 stages
Ü Conduct, characteristics and behaviours of successful teams
Ü Fundamental motivation techniques: telling and asking employees
Ü Valuing the diversity of the team
Ü Creating opportunities to achieve
Motivational Techniques
Ü What do we value in work?
Ü Fundamentals motivational techniques: telling or asking
Ü Creating opportunities to achieve – why this is an important aspect of motivation?
Ü Motivating without money – dealing with morale issues
DAY 3 :
Communication Skills and Staff Development
Ü Communicating Effectively with Staff
Ü Recognizing the barriers to good communication
Ü Key elements of effective listening
Ü Using Questions as a tool to source more information
Ü Coaching to Improve Performance
DAY 4 :
Presentation Skills 2:
Ü Stage management.
Ü Using your voice and body and facial expression.
Ü Choosing your words - psycho-linguistic research and the art of oratory.
Ü Presentation Skills Exercise 2 (Part 2 - preparation).
Ü Presentation Skills Exercise 2 (Part 3 - presentations and feedback).
Ü Managing the audience.
Ü Handling questions.
DAY 5 :
Presentation Skills 3/Communication and Influencing Skills:
Ü Presentation Skills Exercise 2 (Part 3 - presentations and feedback) cont'd.
Ü Presenting as a team.
Ü Introducing change and getting support - influencing skills and managing the ‘politics’.
Ü Program review and action points.
Ü Specific Pro-Poor Activities in PPPs
Ü Interventions in the Context of PPPs
Ü Output-Based Aid Contracts
Ü Framework for Measuring, Monitoring, and Reporting on Results
Ü Resources and Tools
Ü The French model: concessions and delegated management
Fees:
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: 5.250 USD$
Schedule:
08:30 – 10:15 First Session
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:15 Second Session
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00 Third Session