Personal Leadership in a Managerial Role

Course Description:

This intensive interactive workshop helps Managers, Supervisors and Team Leads to identify their personal leadership characteristics and identify how their talents and abilities can be leveraged.

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn both individually and as group participants through a number of exercises designed to improve inter-personal communication. A coaching model will be introduced that can be immediately applied to the current work situation to improve inter-personal communication effectiveness. Learning points will be applied and practiced in role play/simulation exercises conducted in a supportive environment.

What’s in it for you? You Will

• Understand the characteristics of personal leadership
• Learn the five jobs of any leader
• Examine of the most frequent friction factors for working in management
• Explore the need for personal leadership to precede business leadership
• Identify gap areas where your current managerial skills require further improvement
• Check for congruency between personal and professional values
• Learn how to Improve interpersonal rapport skills that help with communicating and listening more effectively
• Understand how to build more credibility and trust
• Increase your personal effectiveness through influencing others
• Determine your personal leadership approach and then discover how to create leadership opportunities within your work role

The Essential Learning Experience:

Small class size – approachable and engaging trainer – post-workshop follow-up.

When it comes to delivering training, at Essential Communications we:
• Create opportunities for large and small group learning, and time for individual writing/reflection
• Use experiential learning, case studies and role playing to create multiple opportunities to practice
• Focus on practical, relevant examples
• Develop skills and strategies that can easily be applied to your real world work situation
• Have energized, engaging, focused trainers. Our trainers all have front of the room experience and thousands of hours of experience
• Always engage our audience in an interactive discussion; we never lecture

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What’s in it for your organization?

Personal leadership precedes business leadership and this workshop helps the participant to identify their core values and leadership strengths. We assist participants in identifying areas of weakness and accelerate their ability to create a solid, congruent, and balanced leadership stance.

Having taken this course:

By the end of the workshop, participants will have an increased awareness of the factors and leadership strategies necessary for increased personal effectiveness, which will enhance overall personal and group performance. As well, they will know how to distinguish the difference between management and leadership behaviours.