INTRODUCTION TO EXERCISING EFFECTIVENESS & EFFICIENCY IN DIFFERENT TIMES FOR LEADERS & MANAGERS
A highly acclaimed leadership programme developed by international trainers from Malaysia. It is meant to equip today’s managers and executives with 10 critical tools for Exercising Effectiveness & Efficiency in Different Times for leaders & Managers in order to ensure that they meet business sustainability and contribute to the growth and development of their organizations.
The 10 Critical Tools for Highly Effective Managers is a highly interactive programme that aims to help managers, engineers and supervisors to use a holistic approach to exercise effectiveness & efficiency in different times as team leaders so that they could to attend matters and improve their area of weaknesses, using activity-oriented and experiential learning environment. The simulated management activities provide perfect setting to encourage participation and active learning, moderated.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After completing this program, participants should be able to:
- Understand Key elements of Strategic Management & Strategic Planning
- Set Strategic Priorities and work effectively.
- How to effectively lead a team by using different leadership styles
- Apply highly effective delegation for outstanding performance
- Elicit own and others Attitudes and how to influence Attitude change
- Gaining buy-in from management and clients
- Understand group dynamics and manage group situations effectively and how to set priorities effectively with your team.
- Optimize the use of their Left and Right Brain as a Manager
- How to Think, make Objective Decisions and Solve Problems Effectively
- How to manage work stressors effectively as a Leader
- Be a highly Innovative Agent of Change
- Transform their Mindset to that of an Effective Leader
- Demonstrate confidence and ability as a highly effective manager
COURSE CONTENT
How to Lead Your People
· Definition of a Leader
· Definition of a Manager
· Difference between a Leader and a Manager
· Tomorrow’s Company versus Yesterday’s Company
· The Leader of a Tomorrow’s Company
· 4 Leadership Styles
· Attributes of Leaders
How to Think Strategically
· Strategic Planning Tool
· SWOT/Value Chain/USP Analysis
· Setting effective priorities with your team
· Work effectively – 80/20 Rule
· Mistakes and Errors managers make
· Exercise: Assessment of your Management Effective Profile
How to Solve Problems & Make Effective Decisions
· Left & Right Brain Decisions
· Decision Making Skills using both Brains
· Programmed and Non-Programmed Decisions and how to handle them
· How Emotions Affects Your Decision
· Barriers to Effective Managerial Decision making
· Taking Responsibility for Decision Making
· Exercise: Objective Decision Making using Weighted System
How to Manage Time
· Analyzing Time
· Planning Time
· Managing your priority and not your Time
· The Yearly Planner
· The Weekly Worksheet
· The Daily Work Plan
· Checklist for effective use of time
How to Stay Stress-free & Well
· Code name for FEAR
· Exercise: How to Handle Stress via Reframing Perspectives
· Discover & Eliminating Sources of Stress
· Reflecting on Experience
· Group Discussion- Eliminating Time Robbers
· Game: Send-a-Problem Puzzle
How to Build Great Teams
· Understanding Team Dynamics
· Characteristics of Group Dynamics
· Team development model
· 5 Stages of Team Development
· Exercise: ‘Traffic-Jam’ Game – intellectual team problem solving
· Review of Game to apply Team Dynamics
How to Communicate & Interpersonalise
· 7-38-55 Communication Effectiveness
· Congruence – Building Trust and Respect
· How team communication breaks down
· Effective interpersonal communication to gain buy-in
· Exercises: NLP techniques in Emphatic Listening & Effective Communication
How to Delegate & Empower
· The Difference between Delegation and Empowerment
· Why Delegation?
· Benefits of Delegation
· A Process for Effective Delegation
· How to empower employees?
· Guidelines for implementing and improving Empowerment
How to Encourage Innovation & Creativity
· Basics of Innovation & Creativity
· Typical Responses to Change Initiatives
· Implementing and Freezing Change
· Reverse Brainstorming – A Highly Creative way to Identify Changes needed
· People or Product or Process (Service) Innovation?
· Exercise : Star-Busting for Innovative Breakthrough
Mindset Transformation of Top Achievers
· Understanding The Concept of top 5%
· Why most managers fail
- What is stopping you
- The Driving Force in you – the “whatever it takes attitude”
· Activity: Assess ours & others’ attitudes & how to influence them
· Exercise: VAK Exercises to install powerful positive mindsets