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Preparing For Leadership: What It Takes To Take The Lead
Seminar No: 02536 -XNBB
CEU Credits: 1.2
Length: 2 days
You want to become a leader, but are you ready to take that step? Learn how to get noticed and selected for a leadership position and develop the skills every confident leader needs!
This course is uniquely designed to help leaders-to-be get ready for their new challenges and responsibilities. You'll discover the heart, soul and mind of true leadership. You'll learn what people expect from and respect in leaders. You'll explore leadership roles as strategist, change agent, coach, manager, communicator, mentor and team member. And you'll learn how to develop your unique leadership style for maximum impact.
Attendees:
Any manager who is a potential candidate for a leadership role; or who is about to take on a new leadership assignment.
How You Will Benefit:
- Understand what a leader is...and is not
- Project a more dynamic image
- Discover your own unique leadership style
- Determine which leadership attributes you already possess
- Take on your first leadership position with greater confidence
- Get noticed by learning how to look and talk like a leader
- Find out what people expect and respect in a leader
- Reduce the anxiety and stress that come with being a leader
- Avoid false starts and mishaps when you start being a leader
- Refine your leadership skills in gaining and using power and influence positively
- Learn how to motivate a team, including "difficult" people
- Protect yourself against the pitfalls of intra-organizational politics
What You Will Cover:
- What senior management looks for in potential leaders
- What followers expect from their leaders
- Prerequisites and characteristics of leadership
- The most common pitfalls of becoming a leader
- Developing and using leadership power tools
- How to overcome resistance and win the support, buy-in and confidence of others
- How to survive organizational politics
- Developing your own unique leadership style and philosophy
- How to measure your progress toward leadership
- Create a self-development action plan for continuous learning and growth as a leader
Extended/Detailed Course Outline
Learning Objectives
- Understand What a Leader Is...and Is Not
- Project a More Dynamic Image
- Discover Your Own Unique Leadership Style
- Determine Which Leadership Attributes You Already Possess
- Take on Your First Leadership Position with Greater Confidence
- Get Noticed by Learning How to Look and Talk Like a Leader
- Find Out What People Expect and Respect in a Leader
- Reduce the Anxiety and Stress That Come with Being a Leader
- Avoid False Starts and Mishaps When You Start Being a Leader
- Refine Your Leadership Skills in Gaining and Using Power and Influence Positively
- Learn How to Motivate a Team, Including "Difficult" People
- Protect Yourself against the Pitfalls of Intraorganizational Politics
Is There a Leader in You?
- Discuss Which Qualities Senior Management Looks for in Candidates for Leadership Positions
- Explain What Followers Expect from Their Leaders
- Identify Your Major Strengths and Areas for Improvement as a Leader
What Is Your Leadership Image and Style?
- Describe How to Project the Positive Professional Image of a Leader
- Understand the Importance of Trust and Its Effects on Followers
- Explain the Communication Styles Used by Leaders
What Do Leaders Talk About?
- Explain the Communication Styles Used by Leaders
- Develop the Most Effective Communication Style for Your Position
- Identify the Types of Subjects That Leaders Discuss
- Describe How to Create Vision, Set Direction and Give Instructions That Are Understood and Followed
How Can You Build Your Influence and Power?
- Identify a Leader’s Sources of Power and Influence
- Describe Ways That Leaders Can Build Their Power and Influence
- Identify Ways You Can Build Your Power and Influence
- Understand the Precautions on the Use of Your Power and Influence
- List the Traps to Avoid in Using Power
How Can You Develop Key Relationships?
- Understand Why It Is Critical to Develop Key Relationships
- Identify Methods to Build Those Relationships
- Identify the Strategic Alliances You Need to Build
How Should You Handle Organizational Politics?
- Explain Why Leaders Must Understand and Participate in Organizational Politics
- Describe How Well You Are Attuned to Organizational Politics
- Describe How Leaders Develop and Advance Their Leadership Agenda
- Explain Strategies for Getting Others to Support Your Agenda
- Describe How to Cope with and Survive the Agendas of Adversaries
How Can You Motivate People?
- Explain the Things That Really Motivate People
- List the Factors That Make People Act the Way They Do
- Explain How to Handle Former Peers Who Resist Your Authority
- Describe How to Handle Difficult People
What Are the Biggest Challenges of Leadership?
- Understand the Challenges You Will Face as a Leader
- Describe the Strengths You Bring to Your Leadership Position
- Outline and Create an Action Plan to Develop the Skills Needed to Become an Effective and Successful Leader
Resources to Help You Approach the First Day, Week, Month, and Year of Leadership
- Design Your Strategies for Being Noticed and Selected to Be a Leader
- Describe the Ways in Which Being a Leader Will Be Different from What You Have Done Before
- Describe What You Should Do-and Not Do-during Each Phase
- Discuss the Critical Success Factors for Each Phase of the Transition
- Describe How to Avoid Being Derailed as a Leader
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New York
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Chicago
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, CA 94103
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Washington, DC
Arlington, Virginia
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Arlington, VA 22202
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