Course Outline - Building Influence and Project Leadership Skills Workshop

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Continuing Education for Technical Professionals

Key Leadership Competencies for Managers Workshop

This course can be customized to meet your needs, and is delivered at most locations internationally.

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Workshop Description

This workshop teaches the essential skills needed to lead teams, with major emphasis on being influential rather than using authority. Participants learn key differences between leadership and management skills, and in class each attendee identifies the specific competencies that are important in their particular roles.

Each participant leaves the workshop with individualized action plans for developing leadership competencies. Participants engage in case studies and exercises that assess their current ability and provide examples of good leadership techniques as well as techniques to avoid.

Benefits

This workshop enables participants to:

become more influential
resolve common day-to-day employee issues
identify leadership development goals specific to individual needs
get more support for ideas that will benefit your company
coach employees for performance and improvement
build rapport with employees, managers, and peers
improve the level of commitment from individuals

Who should attend?

Team Leads
Project Managers
Supervisors
Managers
Prospective Managers and Supervisors
Technical Leads
Anyone who could benefit from being more influential

Workshop Content Example

What is Leadership?
What leadership is, and what leadership is not
Why leadership skills are more important than having authority
Differences between leadership and management skills
Self-analysis of key leadership and management skill areas to improve
Five levels of leadership

How to Develop Trust and Respect
Characteristics that help credibility and perceived integrity
Characteristics that hurt credibility
Self-assessment

Helping Employees be Successful
Resolving Conflict
Coaching for Performance
Coaching for Improvement
Communication Practices

The Art of Influence
Building rapport with business associates
Helping others to see your view
Influencing your manager and other leaders
Understanding the process of “give and take”
Leading by example, even in tough situations when leaders don’t agree with high-level decisions
Strengthening the level of commitment

Self Assessment of Leadership Ability and Potential
Attendees assess abilities in 3 key areas and come up with a score that illustrates strengths and specific skills to develop

Leading and Managing Projects
Opportunities to distribute project leadership and management responsibilities
Case study: Sharing of Leadership and Management Responsibilities
Case study: Outstanding Team Leader (a role model for individual contributors as leaders)

Our Guarantee

If for any reason you are not satisfied, write to us within 30 days after attending the workshop and return the course materials and we'll arrange for you to receive a full refund - hassle-free!

Workshop fee includes a comprehensive workbook and email/phone follow-up with the instructor after the workshop to assist with implementation. This course can be customized to meet your needs, and is delivered at most locations internationally.

Contact us for more information.