Duration: 3 Days
When the stock market is making you wonder about your organization's future, it's vital to be well-equipped to optimize your company's performance-as well as your own career-with executive leadership training. To exhibit real executive leadership, you must be a visionary, a trailblazer, a strategist, a communicator, a coach, a diplomat, and a politician. The world's most successful leaders are able to focus on the big picture and uphold high standards while wearing many hats.
This intensive three-day executive leadership training program combines proven-in-action techniques with peer interaction and insights from the latest research to help you master the competencies of effective executive leadership.
This seminar combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses, and other resources to maximize your training goals. Combining proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, this blended learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for you-producing a greater return on investment for you and your employer.
What You Will Learn
- Build an executive leadership style that creates trust, sets a clear vision, and guides your entire team toward greater performance and profit
- Gain insights into the key executive leadership skills and techniques you need to create a winning strategy
- Learn what real coaching consists of and how to build an extraordinary team that works together to deliver results
- Develop heightened emotional intelligence for greater professional achievement and satisfaction
- Characteristics of effective leadership and the most common saboteur
- Develop an executive leadership style that adapts to the person and situation
- Improve performance through empowerment and effective delegation
- Clearly communicate mission, vision, and value statements
- Build a cohesive unit that performs well in all situations
- Apply executive leadership training to continue your growth as a leader through a self-development plan
Audience
- Mid-level managers or executives who lead others with managerial responsibility
- Executives who require strong decision-making skills and the ability to lead and motivate others
Prerequistes
Course Outline
1. Understanding Today's Executive Leadership Expectations
- Examining your executive leadership challenges
- Exploring the fundamental concepts of executive leadership
- The four-factor model of effective executive leadership
- Differentiating between leadership and management
- Executive leadership requirements for the 21st century
2. Leadership with the Head: Exploring the Strategic Elements of Executive Leadership
- Defining mission, vision, and values
- Focusing on the big picture when building the culture
- The importance of planning and prioritizing in day-to-day activities
- Taking the time to focus on envisioning the future
- How a personal vision statement helps you achieve your organizational vision
3. Leadership with the Hands: Examining Situational Leadership
- Effectively influencing the performance of others
- Applying Situational Leadership® in coaching situations: delegating to high-performing employees and properly addressing performance issues
- Giving positive and constructive feedback: you vs. I messages
- Coaching role-plays and other techniques that help you lead the team with effective executive leadership, boost creativity, improve communication, solve problems, and make decisions
4. Leadership with the Feet: Personal Values and Ethics at Work
- Understanding the challenges you face and the various ways you can manage them
- Creating a culture of trusting relationships
- How individualized "passionate purpose" provides a context for consistency and credibility
5. Leadership with the Heart: Practicing Ways to Communicate
- Executive leadership techniques for enhancing pride in the work and the organization
- Motivating the workforce: three elements that ensure increased job satisfaction and productivity
- Examining the role of emotional intelligence in successful executive leadership
- Assessing your emotional intelligence: your strengths and areas that need development
6. Creating an Executive Leadership Development Plan
- Developing a plan based on your goals and your organization's strategy
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