Leadership and Team Development for Managerial Success

Get effective leadership skills for managers to inspire and influence your people to achieve team goals!

When should you be a motivator...and when should you be a coach? Can you empower team members to self-manage? Or do your teams fall apart when you're not there?

Learn how to foster team cohesiveness and collaboration. You'll step up to be a leader, a coach, a persuasive communicator and much more. Sharpen your team-building skills and discover new ways to drive performance and productivity.

Who Should Attend

New managers, team leaders and business professionals interested in acquiring effective leadership skills for managers.

How You Will Benefit

• Understand leadership skills for managers to know when to manage and when to lead your team
• Assess your leadership behavior and determine the best style to generate results
• Clearly visualize your goals and communicate them to your team
• Work in a horizontal mode of operation instead of managing only one piece of the process
• Develop a high-performance team by first developing leadership skills
• Use effective communication to motivate and coach

What You Will Cover

• Understanding leadership style and the situation
• Emphasizing the importance of vision in aligning team performance
• Integrating your leadership and managerial roles by applying insights gained from your current leadership position
• Examining the leader’s role as motivator and coach
• Distinguishing the four team types
• Exploring the principles that make teams work
• Diagnosing work-teams: a work-team simulation

Course Outline

Leadership

• Define Key Aspects of Leadership and Teams That Are Used Throughout the Course
• Assess Your Performance in Your Current Leadership Position

Visionary Leadership

• Describe the Importance of Vision
• Align the Organization and Team to the Vision for Maximum Adaptability

Leadership Style

• Diagnose Your Leadership Style and Apply the Most Effective Leadership Style to a Situation
• Identify the Most Effective Leadership Style and Conversation Goal for Conducting Team Interactions

Individual and Team Motivation

• Develop the Keys to a Motivated Workforce Using Appropriate Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators
• Identify Appropriate Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators

Coaching

• Prepare for, and Apply Appropriate Techniques to, Coaching Situations
• Craft Effectively Coaching Messages

Building a Team

• Describe the Characteristics of, and Develop the Skills to Facilitate, Effective Teams
• Identify the Stages of Team Development and Learn the Importance of Leader Facilitation of the Development Process