Leadership Skills: Building Success Through Teamwork

Complete Seminar Details

You will learn how to

• Develop your teams to maximize their strengths and enhance productivity
• Optimize organization and work design for success in service delivery teams
• Motivate your team with effective performance measurement
• Integrate your role as a leader into your management style
• Leverage the complementary skills and styles of your team
• Eliminate barriers and chokepoints that block teamwork
• Apply a diverse and multilevel approach to minimize communication breakdowns

Course benefits

In this course, you gain the skills to structure, measure and tune teamwork performance. Through practical workshops, you learn how to become a leader who equips his or her teams with the skills and capabilities to optimize productivity and performance and ensure success.

Who should attend

Course workshop

• Modeling key behaviors of effective leadership
• Optimizing team processes
• Identifying dimensions of difference
• Managing measures to affect performance
• Applying communication styles in pressure situations
• Adopting process improvements to optimize team success
• Creating measures for productive team results
• Profiling your EI strengths
• Choosing coaching approaches
• Applying your conflict-handling style to minimize team disruption
• Creating your service leadership action plan

Course content

• Focusing on people: the key to successful leadership
• Debunking the charisma requirement
• Defining leadership and leadership effectiveness
• Linking the behaviors, competencies and responsibilities of successful leaders

STRUCTURING EFFECTIVE WORK DESIGN

• Identifying the components of effective teamwork
• The power of team-owned ground rules
• Optimizing team structure
• Designing effective work assignments
• Matching task-to-team organization
• Selecting the best team design

CHALLENGING LEADERSHIP MYTHS

• Managing beyond your team boundaries
• Protecting the team from outside pressure and disturbance
• Influencing key players to secure resources
• Questioning leadership conventions
• Countering the myth of "Big L" leadership
• Applying quiet leadership skills

HARNESSING THE POWER OF MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

• Building Team-Led Effectiveness
• Analyzing the subtle forces of measurement
• Measuring what matters
• Building a positive psychological contract
• Tuning measures to optimize results
• Overcoming roadblocks to productivity
• Anticipating and deflecting external pressures
• Streamlining meetings to essential topics

FORGING YOUR ROLE AS A LEADER

• Integrating management and leadership
• Distinguishing the five components of effective leadership
• Applying leadership in service delivery teams
• Refining a powerful leadership approach
• Coaching your team for enhanced performance
• Building performance through emotionally intelligent leadership
• Adopting a servant-leadership role
• Making the team your primary customer
• Enhancing individual and team capabilities
• Enabling the team as a key leadership activity

ADAPTING YOUR LEADERSHIP ROLE TO ACCOMMODATE DIFFERENCE

• Expanding your leadership perspective and capabilities
• Adopting attitudes and expectations to enhance performance
• Taking on the challenge of leadership excellence
• Converting difference into team effectiveness
• Appreciating the uniqueness of each team member
• Capitalizing on the differences and diversity of your team
• Pinpointing chokepoints in team dynamics
• Modeling your team as a system
• Optimizing system effectiveness

BUILDING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR PRODUCTIVE COMMUNICATION

• The elements of successful communication
• The causal link between climate, mood and productivity
• Recognizing mutual communication styles
• The dominance of emotion in communication and thought
• Applying a diverse communication approach
• Matching channels for communication clarity
• Factoring in the impact of technology
• Bridging differences across distance and culture
• Managing for agreement and handling conflict

PLANNING YOUR TRANSITION TO SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP

• Building your vision for your high-performing team
• Matching your leadership strategies to your team realities
• Managing reentry into the workplace
• Setting performance milestones to evaluate your success

Sponsor Background:

Learning Tree International is a world leader in Hands-on training for Management and Technology Professionals. Since 1974, over 1,700,000 course participants from over 13,000 organizations around the world have enhanced their skills through intensive hands-on exercises under the guidance of expert instructors with real-world experience.

Virtually every major company and government agency has relied on Learning Tree to provide its managers and employees with the skills they need to succeed in their job functions.

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