Dynamic Leadership

dynamicLeaders should ensure the creation of strategies, systems, and methods for achieving excellence thus stimulating innovation, and building knowledge and capabilities. Leadership should inspire and motivate your entire workforce and should encourage all employees to contribute, to develop, and to learn to be innovative and creative.

Army Performance Improvement Criteria (APIC) 2003

This course focuses on unleashing the potential of our most valuable asset - People with Effective Integration of Leadership styles that power Performance

This training offers a range of both traditional and innovative Leadership Techniques that have been used to transform a work force into a cooperative and productive unit. "Dynamic Leadership” integrates and accommodates the difficult roles of the single leader with that of working effectively with teams.

Employees call for greater workplace participation. Directives are issued and people trained to implement Change, Teams, Empowerment, Culture, etc. All this adds to the complexity of Leadership.  You learn to deal with resistance to change and other issues by evaluating the current culture and style then defining the approach for change that is appropriate and designed to bring it into alignment with the organization's goals. The goal is to develop a team spirit that articulates the vision that transforms People into Leaders.

Duration:

1 or 2 days

Objectives:

After successfully completing this course, the attendee should be able to:

Apply leadership fundamentals

Motivate direct reports and others to complete assigned tasks

Leverage emotional intelligence to improve communication effectiveness

Communicate more effectively to increase awareness and commitment

Build more effective teams

Organize an effective learning organization

Identify leadership styles

Content:

This high impact program is divided into modules and presented in a sequence determined by the needs of the participants.

This high impact program is divided into modules and presented in a sequence determined by the needs of the participants.

Module 1:  Leadership Fundamentals

  • Visionary Leadership and Management
  • Different approaches to Leadership - Directive to Participate
  • Leadership that makes people innovative - Produce
  • Understand that Trust is the key and how to build it
  • Social Responsibility
  • Ethics   

Module 2:  Motivation

  • Theories of Motivation (Hertzberg, Maslow, McGregor, Expectancy, My Fair Lady, etc.)
  • Morale and Productivity
  • Improving Performance
  • Performance Appraisals
  • Organized Behavior

Module 3:  Emotional Intelligence

  • Understanding Human Behavior
  • Dealing with Feelings
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Empathy - Managing Emotions
  • The change Process - Discussion "who moved my cheese"

Module 4:  Effective Communications

  • Leadership and the importance of Effective Communications
  • Dynamic Leadership
  • Team Communications
  • Conflict Resolution among Peers, Subordinates, Superiors

Module 5:  Building Effective Work Groups and Teams

  • Building Team Commitment
  • Successful Team Concepts - What works and what doesn't
  • Group Dynamics and Team Building
  • Acquire a balanced understanding of other Cultures

Module 6:  Leadership and the Learning Organization

  • Effective Delegation
  • Developing a Climate Conducive to Learning
  • The Mentoring Process

Module 7:  Machiavelli and Modern Leadership

Module 8:  Leadership and Ethics

Methods:

The Lausanne Institute is committed to the application of classroom learning to the workplace setting. We employ a variety of instructional training methods to assure skills transfer. These include:

  • Group Dynamics
  • Guided Conferences
  • Simulations
  • Case Studies
  • Lecturettes
  • Skill Practice Exercises