Leadership
Everyone agrees that leadership is a good thing, but few people can articulate what you actually need to do on a day to day basis to be a great leader. This programme – often delivered as a two or three day training course – enables participants to take a big step forward in their understanding of what leadership means and what they have to do to be a great leader.
Can anyone be a great leader? Of course not – although not everyone in the training business is willing to admit it, some leadership traits are undoubtedly genetic, or acquired in through early childhood experiences. Can everyone improve their leadership abilities? Absolutely. That's what this course is all about.
What is leadership?
- Leadership v management
- Leadership in context
- What great leaders actually do
- Delivering results – the ultimate leadership test
- How do you measure up
Challenge the status quo
- Establishing your credibility
- Challenging your people – the skill/will model
- Challenging your processes – process mapping
- Continuous improvement and radical change – evolution v revolution
- Leading large scale organisational change
Articulate a vision
- Why you need a vision
- How to discover your vision
- Scenario planning and other tools for getting the vision right
- Powerful communication
- How to communicate the vision
- Values and what they really mean
Win commitment
- Trust and rapport – the basis of influence
- Five influencing styles
- Six principles of persuasion
Do the right thing
- Four approaches to decision making
- Why integrity really matters in the 21st Century - how to do the hard right thing, not the easy wrong thing
- Focusing on results – personal productivity and life balance
- Leaving a legacy
What participants say about this programme
"The Management had never had any formal training and we had never invited a consultant to help us drive the business forward. Prior to the first session there was much apprehension! The result however was startling, previously hidden ambition was exposed and all members of the Management Team focused their energies towards the Company's ambitious new goals. The Company has since exceeded the targets set by the Management Team (50% sales increase whilst bettering productivity targets in 18 months) and still they want more! There is no question that Larry Reynolds has provided this company with the best return on any investment ever."
"By far the best course I have ever been on, learnt more in half an hour on this course than in five years as a project manager."
"One of the most useful, interesting and valuable learning experiences I've ever had"
"An excellent, informative, inspiring and useful event full of practical suggestions I shall use in the future"