Leadership Training

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Seminars to Choose From:

10 Steps to Becoming a Leader

This seminar recognizes that each one of us can be a leader, formally or informally. If you are in any sort of leadership position, or subscribe to be in one whether business, church, parent, teacher, you may want to attend this course. What are you doing to improve your leadership skills? Are you a leader now?

This course will examine the difference between leadership styles, outlining principles for inspiring and influencing others. These principles, as outlined in the course, can be used in any organization to build integrity, promote self-discipline, and bring about positive change. It will also define the leader managers apart from the “run of the mill managers.”

We will discuss:

  • The Leader that is at the front of the organization
  • The Leader that learns Leadership from others
  • The Leader that is late in developing
  • The Leader that has limited skills

Questions to be resolved by the seminar:

  • Do leaders need the big picture and related it to others?
  • Are leaders long-term thinkers?
  • Should the leader really put a great deal of emphasis on mission, values, and motivation?
  • Does the effective leader need to be a politician?
  • Do leaders ever have to accept the status quo?

OUTCOME: The outcome of the seminar is to allow the participants to address their major leadership questions and validate where they are now in the leadership journey. It is the intent for all participants to take their place at the head of the pack. Remember, “If you are not the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”

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Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization

This seminar discusses the need to reinvent leadership and prepare yourself to lead the young and upcoming generations while dealing with diversity.
Topics to be covered include:

  • How can you move away from conventional standards of business practice?
  • How can you work as a leader to build TRUST?
  • How do you find a mentor to encourage reflective backtalk or “porch talk?”
  • How do you find rewards and hold your passion?

Questions to be addressed:

  • How do you develop the traits of a Leader?
  • What is the personal side of Leadership?
  • How do you promote a guiding vision and direction?
  • How do you create a trusting environment within the organization?
  • How do you lead the transformation?
  • How can you overcome the reactive crisis mode of work?
  • What are the new strategies for the new work paradigm? More hours and working at home?

OUTCOME: This seminar will address the above-mentioned issues and discuss the need to reinvent the leadership necessary to work in the 21 st Century.

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12 Steps to Creating an All-Star Team

This seminar is designed to give the participants the tools necessary to develop a high performing team. The steps are clear-cut and will require education, training, and understanding.

Topics to be discussed:

  • Providing strong leadership
  • Creating and reinforcing a positive work culture
  • Creating and gaining alignment on a departmental purpose
  • Leading your team to become interdependent and maximize group synergy
  • Creating meetings characterized by high communication and trust
  • Encouraging employees to use their creative talents
  • Solving problems proactively
  • Recognizing and defining opportunities
  • Gaining team commitment

Questions to be addressed:

  • How does management encourage teams?
  • Are there different management skills needed to lead teams?
  • Has the role of manager shifted over the past decade?
  • How can you shift to a group responsibility and still maintain accountability?
  • How do you gain commitment?
  • How do you overcome the troublesome employee?
  • How can you improve innovation, creativity, and receive more ideas for improvement?

OUTCOME: The outcome is for each participant to take a day and evaluate his or her team efforts either at work, church, community, or home. What can be done to build this strong team committed to excellence?
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Taking Charge: How to Lead a Group and Make The Right Choices

This class discusses the critical elements of becoming a leader anywhere, anytime. It is intended to be the ultimate down-to-earth seminar designed for the busy executive or front line supervisor who wants to develop, hone, and refine his or her leadership skills.

Topics to be addressed:

  • Handling hiring
  • Working with difficult employees
  • Firing incompetent employees
  • Organizing crises
  • Keeping abreast of changes in technology
  • Managing Time
  • Establishing Priorities
  • Working with Stress

Questions to be answered:

  • How do I develop trust?
  • Am I a good teacher or is that necessary?
  • Should I solve all the problems because of my position?
  • Do I have what it takes to move up?
  • Do I manage my time well?
  • Do I have the technical competence for my assignment?
  • How do I overcome incompetence in employees?
  • How do I do as far as taking care of my people? How do I know?
  • Have I provided a strong foundation with a vision?
  • Am I working on the right goals?
  • Do I motivate my people? Am I motivated?
  • Am I visible and approachable to my people?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar is to evaluate the leadership style to date, determine what gaps are prevalent, and determine what to do about it.

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The 11 Principles of Effective Life Management: Strategies for Increased Productivity and Inner Peace

This seminar is designed to improve your time management and enhance you capability to deal with problems. This seminar also deals with the problems we have in balancing our life as well as work.
Topics include:

  • Time robbers and their identity
  • Your prioritization of life
  • Goals to put everything back in perspective
  • Your values at work
  • Using your daily planner
  • ABC priority system for home and work
  • Basic needs for those around you

Questions to be addressed:

  • How to better manage your time effectively?
  • How to determine your value set for life?
  • How to improve time spent on daily activities?
  • How to be more effective with daily planning?
  • How can you satisfy your needs and save more time with loved ones?
  • How can you sharpen the saw?

OUTCOME: This outcome of this seminar should enable you to improve your time management and continually assess your priorities of life.

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Breakout of Complacency in Your Personal and Organizational Life: Getting Out of the Danger (Comfort) Zone

This seminar has been developed to provide you and your organization a realistic look into how both entities operate. It is very easy for complacency to creep into any job or organization and erode the competitive margin that once existed.

Topics to be discussed:

  • When organizations and people become too comfortable
  • The lethargy of entitlement
  • When organizations are too stressed
  • The paralysis of fear
  • Understanding how people work
  • Moving away from entitlement and fear
  • Maintaining the creative energy of earning
  • Increasing or decreasing pressure

Questions to be addressed:

  • How do you determine if you are “in the box?”
  • How to determine if your team or organization is “in the box?”
  • What is entitlement in the first place?
  • What is the new business reality?
  • What is the new employment contract and how can it impact you and your family?
  • Are there too many rules where you work?
  • Are you doing pseudowork?
  • Are you passive with innovation?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar will be the clear evaluation as to whether you or the organization needs to move out in a new direction or just dust off the cobwebs. This seminar is taught interactively and with humor.

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8 Steps to Managing Change in Your Organization: How to Plan and Implement a Change at Work

This seminar is designed to provide the participant with the tools to evaluate where the organization is and is not. It will offer an eight-stage process to implement the positive, proactive change necessary to improve business processes.

Topic to be discussed:

  • Transform the organization
  • Successful changes
  • Establishing a sense of urgency
  • Finding the right enemy
  • Creating the guiding coalition
  • Developing the vision and strategy
  • Communicating the change
  • Empowering the employees during the change
  • Generating short term wins
  • Consolidating gains and producing more change
  • Anchoring new approaches in the culture

Questions to be answered:

  • How do we know that we need a change?
  • Why should we change?
  • Are we allowing too much complacency?
  • Do we truly understand the power of vision?
  • Have we undercommunicated the change in the past?
  • Have we permitted obstacles to prevent earlier changes and how can we overcome them this time?
  • What is our corporate culture like?
  • What are the top eight mistakes we can make in implementing a change?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar will be to train and educate participants concerning how to develop, design, document, and implement change for the better. This seminar is taught interactively and with humor.

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Strategies For Successful Leaders

This seminar is designed to list out strategies that all successful leaders emulate. It is based upon extensive research and the experience of the instructor after over 27 years in leadership positions.

Topics to be discussed:

  • Relations with your boss
  • Show qualities that you want the employees to show
  • Give clear direction
  • Accomplish a strategic plan at your location whether you have one from on high or not
  • Reward and Recognition
  • Praise
  • Giving feedback
  • Hiring
  • Characteristics of Effective Goals
  • Secrets of How to be a Good Boss
  • Questions to ask about performance problems
  • Firing

Questions to be answered:

  • How to share goals and objectives?
  • How to get buy-in?
  • How to manage time better?
  • How to approach disagreements honestly?
  • How to handle your stress and theirs?
  • How to Fire?
  • How to Hire?
  • What to do about performance problems?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar will be to train and educate participants concerning how to develop into a better leader. It also helps the participant see where they need to work to overcome some initial deficiency. This seminar is more effective if a core group of students can come from the same organization.

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Mentoring, Coaching, and Counseling: Which Is Appropriate and When?

The purpose of this seminar is to give leaders and managers and practical guide that allows them to determine which of the above topics are necessary and when to use each one. It is based upon a number of books and the experience of the instructor being in leadership positions for over 27 years.

Topics to be covered:

  • Defining mentoring, coaching and counseling
  • The unforgivable mistakes a leader/manager can make
  • The art of delegation
  • Deciding who should be mentored
  • Describing the key qualities of the empowered workplace
  • Defining the three paths to empowerment
  • Improving self-esteem, yours and theirs
  • Determining motivation
  • Developing collaborative relationships

Questions to be addressed:

  • What are the benefits of mentoring, coaching and counseling?
  • Why you cannot afford to do all three at different times for all employees?
  • How to give constructive feedback?
  • How to stay cool under stress?
  • How to plan and conduct effective sessions for all three and make it seem formal or informal?
  • How to avoid pitfalls and fatal errors?
  • What are the guidelines for effectiveness?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar will be to train and educate participants concerning how and when to mentor, coach, and counsel. It also helps the participant see where they need to work to overcome any current deficiencies. This seminar is more effective if a core group of students can come from the same organization. This seminar is taught interactively and with humor.

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Tips and Techniques for Those In Charge of Anything

This seminar is designed to outline the basic moves that leaders/managers/supervisors/work leaders/informal leaders need to implement in order to take their rightful place – in charge. It is based upon a number of books and the experience of the instructor being in leadership positions for over 27 years.

Topics to be covered:

  • Strategies for making better decisions
  • Steps for opening yourself up to change
  • Ways to keep your ego in check and learn from others
  • Ways to make better use of your time and improve your performance
  • Listening skills
  • Elements of entrepreneurial thinking
  • Ways to speak precisely and to be understood
  • Tips to give impromptu speeches and promote the vision
  • Ways to walk your talk and set the example

Questions answered:

  • How can I establish a method to make better decisions in a timely manner and involve my workforce?
  • How can I look for positive change and become more proactive with it?
  • How can I insure that I do not get “too big for my britches?”
  • How can I improve my time management?
  • How can I give short speeches better and motivate people, including the boss?
  • How can I walk my talk and how will I know when I don’t?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar will be to train and educate participants concerning how and when to make some smart moves at the workplace and home. It also helps the participant see where they need to work to overcome any current deficiencies. This seminar is more effective if a core group of students can come from the same organization. This seminar is taught interactively and with humor.

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How the World’s Greatest Managers Do It And How Can You Implement Some of This Stuff

This seminar is designed to acquaint the participant with the new book and recent research concerning the best managers on earth. What do they do and why? It is based upon a number of books and the experience of the instructor being in leadership positions for over 27 years.

Topics to be covered:

  • The Measuring Stick
  • Human Capital
  • The 12 Key Questions about Work
  • Interviews of 80,000 Managers and over 400 Companies Summed Up for the layperson
  • Selecting Talent
  • Defining the Outcomes
  • Focusing on the Strengths
  • The Right Fit
  • Performance Management

Questions to be answered:

  • Why do we keep promoting people to their level of incompetence?
  • How do these manager terminate and keep a relationship intact?
  • What do we know to be important but are unable to measures?
  • How can you measure human capital?
  • What are the most critical elements of outcomes?
  • What are the four basic roles of great managers?
  • Why does every role, performed at excellence, require talent?
  • Why is talent more important than experience, brainpower, and will power?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar will be to train and educate participants concerning how and when to make some decisions like the world’s greatest managers. Where are the similarities and the differences with you? It also helps the participant see where they need to work to overcome any current deficiencies. This seminar is more effective if a core group of students can come from the same organization. This seminar is taught interactively and with humor.

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36 Great Expectations to Have of People: Subordinates, Peers, Yourself, Customers, and How to Add Value During the Process

This seminar is designed to acquaint the participant with information concerning subordinates, peers, and customers. What should you expect? Why should you expect it? It is based upon a number of books and the experience of the instructor being in leadership positions for over 27 years.

Topics to be covered:

  • Clear Performance Objectives
  • Teaching (Showing what right is)
  • Criticizing
  • Praising
  • Listening
  • Their development and your own
  • Accountability, the bad word
  • Cooperation and what it looks like
  • Supporting Subordinates
  • Promoting

Questions to be addressed:

  • How to exceed subordinate and peer expectations?
  • How to exhibit the highest conduct?
  • How to accept criticism in stride?
  • How to praise graciously?
  • How to be a team player and encourage others?
  • How not to jump to conclusions?
  • How to manage by wandering around?
  • How to delegate more effectively?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar will be to train and educate participants concerning how and what to expect from all those you work with. Where can you maximize your efforts? It also helps the participant see where they need to work to overcome any current deficiencies. This seminar is more effective if a core group of students can come from the same organization or sub-organization. This seminar is taught interactively and with humor.

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The Unquestionable 10 Commandments of Being an Effective Boss

This seminar is designed for those personnel who are currently managers of people or soon will be. It is also a good refresher for those who have been in charge for a while but may have lost an edge or just need refreshing. The commandments are unassailable and must be accomplished for success to follow. It is based upon over 500 books, over 1300 websites, over 1,000 journal articles and the experience of the instructor gained from over 27 years in leadership positions.

Topics to be covered:

  • Trust
  • Importance of Attitude
  • Controlling emotions when everyone else lost theirs
  • Being a good Teacher
  • You can’t solve all of the problems
  • Look toward the end
  • Improving communications which, without a concerted effort, kills organizations
  • Time Management and Priorities
  • The infamous “Golden Rule” and what it really means to you and the others
  • When to empower and how
  • Look for Slow Moving Rabbits and Low Hanging Fruit
  • Developing yourself with four critical criteria as a backdrop

Questions to be answered:

  • Do my people really trust me?
  • How do I know if they trust me or not?
  • Do I really have the right attitude?
  • Am I a good teacher?
  • Does being a good teacher and a good leader go hand in hand?
  • Do I live and set the right example for others?
  • What are slow moving rabbits anyway?
  • What are the four essential, critical criteria for success in life?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar will be to train and educate participants about the irrefutable laws and commandments of being a good boss. Where can you maximize your efforts? It also helps the participant see where they need to work to overcome any current deficiencies. This seminar is more effective if a core group of students can come from the same organization. This seminar is taught interactively and with humor.

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Survival Skills for 21 st Century Leaders: How We Must Change!

This seminar is designed for those personnel who are currently in a leadership or will be in a leadership position in the near future. It is also a good refresher for those who have been in charge for a while but may have lost an edge or just need refreshing. The essential points of leadership in the future will require substantial changes. It is based upon over 70 books and the experience of the instructor being in leadership positions for over 27 years.

Topics to be covered:

  • We must think differently.
  • You must set a vision, mission, and/or goals so that everyone can be engaged.
  • Beware the Ladder of Inference
  • We must be aware and continuously learning.
  • The importance of attitude, Are You the Problem?
  • You must build the team and be decisive.
  • Who is on the team?
  • You must inspire the masses.
  • You must travel with the troops, work through tough problems with them.
  • You must build strong alliances.
  • You must be a risk taker, innovate.
  • You are required to form the culture and set the example.

Questions to be answered:

  • How can I process all of the information?
  • How can I do strategic planning if my boss does not?
  • How can I ensure that I am not a victim to the Ladder of Inference (Senge)?
  • How can I ensure a positive attitude?
  • How should I act when we are in deep trouble?
  • How can I form the team? What about naysayers?
  • How can I build alliances when I don’t have time?
  • How can I take risks when it is safer not to do this?
  • How do I form the culture to improve the organization?

OUTCOME: This seminar will be to train and educate participants about survival skills necessary to be a successful leader in the 21 st Century. Where can you maximize your efforts? How can you set goals that are realistic? It also helps the participant see where they need to work to overcome any current deficiencies. This seminar is more effective if a core group of students can come from the same organization. This seminar is taught interactively and with humor.

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Leading From Below: How to make things work when you are not the boss!!

This seminar is designed for those personnel who are currently NOT in a leadership. It is designed for employees and attempts for them to understand where they are in regard to organizational accomplishments. This seminar specifically delineates their role in the organization and how they can improve their current status. It is also a good refresher for those who are in leadership positions who have a number of employees who report to them. The essential points of Leading From Below are addressed below. It is based upon over 30 books and the experience of the instructor being in employee and leadership positions for over 27 years.

Topics to be covered:

  • Managing versus Leading
  • Questions to ask about Optimum or Desired State
  • Questions to ask about the Present or Current Organization
  • Questions to ask about People Needed or Key Resources
  • What other influences impact upon your organization?
  • Top Twenty Rules for Success
  • Leading Change In Your Life

Questions to be answered:

  • Are you currently doing good work? How do you know?
  • Are you being supportive or competitive with your boss?
  • Do you understand your Boss’s Style of Leadership?
  • Are you in tune with your boss’s goals and direction for the organization?
  • Do you know when to fight and when not to fight?
  • Are you building personal relationships at work and in other areas outside yours?
  • Do you give praise and credit generously?
  • Have you built a mentoring relationship inside or outside?
  • What strategies do you have for listening to others intently?
  • Are you aware of the power you currently possess?

OUTCOME: The outcome of this seminar will be to train and educate participants about how they can become a more effective employee and how they can lead from a any position in the organization. It explores the necessity of informal leaders to achieve what the organization needs. Where can the individual employee maximize efforts? How can you set goals that are realistic? It also helps the participant see where they need to work to overcome any current deficiencies and look with expectation to the future. This seminar is more effective if a core group of students can come from the same organization. This seminar is taught interactively and with humor.

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Project Management and Leadership

This seminar should be conducted prior to the project being assigned. This course assists in determining how to balance time, resources, results, perceptions and gain agreement between project team and stakeholders. Two basic definitions are needed prior to the training.

Project – A sequence of tasks with a beginning and an end that is bounded by time, resources, and desired results. It has a specific, desired outcome; a deadline or target date when the project must be completed; a budget limiting the amount of people, supplies, and money to be utilized to complete the project.

Program – Another name for a recurring project. Programs happen over and over again. As an example, producing a monthly customer newsletter, publishing the annual report, etc. Recurring projects happen predictable, but each cycle involves a new plan and a unique end product. The plan, resources, and results are what make programs different from other repetitive tasks.

We will discuss the five phases of Project Management:

Phase 1 – Project Initiating Process, Phase 2 – Project Planning Process, Phase 3 – Project Executing Process, Phase 4 – Project Controlling Process, Phase 5 – Project Closing Process

Each process or phase includes different tasks, behaviors, and skills in order to progress to the next phase.

Additionally, the following topics will be discussed:

  • Requirements for leadership
  • The top six reasons project management fails to achieve goals
  • The twelve golden rules for project management
  • The critical role of the project manager/leader
  • The seven traits of good project managers
  • The types of risk for the project and how to overcome them

Questions to be resolved by the seminar:

  • Who will charter group?
  • How can the work be defined?
  • How can consensus be gained?
  • How will authority be secured?
  • Who should be on the team and why?
  • What role does leadership play in the success of the project?
  • How do you write a solid Statement of Work?
  • How do you know when you are finished?

OUTCOME: The outcome of the seminar will be allowing the participants to address their major leadership questions, project description questions, and establish a firm working model for success. It is the intent for all participants to fully understand their role in the completion of the project.

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9 Steps to Finishing First in a Learning Organization

This seminar is designed to have organizations evaluate if they quality for a learning organization. Questions like the following will be answered during the day-long seminar:

  • Do we as an organization really attempt to spread knowledge around?
  • How do we unlock the knowledge of our people?
  • How do we manage organizational knowledge?
  • Are we learning from any mistakes we make?
  • Are we developing our personnel?
  • Are we improving?
  • How do we know?

We will discuss how to:

  • Reinvent relationships
  • Become loyal to the truth and tell it with conviction
  • Develop strategies for personal mastery
  • Build a shared vision with those your lead
  • Integrate systems level thinking in the organization
  • Design dialogue sessions
  • Develop strategies for team learning and team building
  • Look as the organizations as communities and develop synergy, and,
  • Develop the organization’s governing ideas

OUTCOME: This seminar has been developed to improve your organization and further develop the idea of looking across the organization for innovation and dissemination of ideas.

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