Essential Leadership for High Performance Teams

Course Number:  116-BB
Recommended Duration:  2 Days

Intended Audience:   Formal or informal business leaders.

Course Overview
Leadership involves creating a clear vision for the future that fuels business growth and focuses the efforts of a group of people towards achieving it. It is about motivating and empowering individuals to maximize their potential and to recognize their success when they do. It is also about recognizing the different styles of leadership required to manage change or to sustain and improve a steady state environment. This course provides a challenging environment in which participants can acquire knowledge and skills as well as developing practical solutions to current leadership issues.

Objectives

As a result of taking this course, you will learn to:

• Understand the spirit and essence of being a leader and the unique responsibilities of leadership
• Learn how to create and sustain high performance teams

Prerequisites:  None

Topics

• Understanding the spirit and essence of being a leader and the unique responsibilities of leadership

• Leadership vs. Management

• Characteristics of effective leaders

• Creating a vision, goals and strategy

• Translating strategy into action

• Managing your impact on others

• Motivation, empowerment and recognition

• Encouraging creativity

• Building personal networks