Leadership and Team Development for Managerial Success

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.

• 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

• 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

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