Leadership Training Seminar Outline – Case Study and Assessment
CASE STUDY: “Let them solve the problem.” Transition more fully and powerfully into management by learning how to use this insight to empower your employees. This component of the leadership training seminar outline establishes a simple yet substantial insight that will be used throughout the day.
Increase your credibility by following “the arm’s length” rule to overcome the buddy syndrome.
Use the Skills Box to layout your blueprint for which technical skills to leverage right now and which leadership skills to hone for the future. Every skill you sharpen increases your value.
ASSESSMENT: Measure how you stack up on each of the 9 “Must-Have” Skills. Use this important tool to strengthen your leadership approach.
Six criteria for formality – apply them to determine when you should be coaching so that you don’t get at odds with HR – or the law!
Three continuous components of coaching – one should be done ten times more frequently than the other two. Do this one action more to see your results skyrocket.
Leadership Training Seminar Outline – Live Modeling and Skills Practice
LIVE MODELING: Three common coaching mistakes and six proven practices. Manage all 9 to strengthen your leadership, build greater motivation and impact how work is executed. This part of our leadership training seminar outline is crucial because we focus on realistic experiences rather than academic concepts.
Capture seven essentials for motivating people. Are they fully embedded in your leadership thinking every day?
Use the “four buckets” of non-performance to make more effective decisions about how to handle people who just aren’t cutting the mustard.
SKILLS PRACTICE: Create a plan of action for that one performer who just chooses not to perform – or the one who can’t. A clear plan reduces your stress and improves productivity for the whole team.
Any skill – including every leadership skill – is comprised of two elements. Learn these two elements and how to measure skill success so that you can develop your people. This bullet from our leadership training seminar outline serves as a cornerstone for talent development.
Leadership Training Seminar Outline – Case Study and Assessment
CASE STUDY: “Wait a minute! The leadership pipeline isn’t a straight shot to the top.” But you can learn to maneuver through it so that you can advance upwards.
Career benefit – learn and leverage three essential lessons about transitioning through the leadership pipeline related to the skills you build, the perspective you develop and how you use time.
ASSESSMENT: Select and measure one HIPO (high potential) from your pipeline to develop. Build a blueprint that benefits them – and you.
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Leadership Training Seminar Outline – Team Exercise and Case Study
TEAM EXERCISE: The 80% Rule of Time Usage. Gain valuable leadership insight about using your time differently to fit your role as a team leader.
Motivation Essential #2: Use the job triangle to unearth what each one of your employees really needs to be more engaged at work. Caution: if you ask them, then be ready to deliver upon what you discover.
Engage in difficult conversations with greater confidence by honing your scripting skills.
CASE STUDY: “Can I just hire you to come in and say it?” Build your reputation for knowing just what to say when the stakes are high.
The scripting model – manage all three key steps to influence your employees, your boss, your customers, your peers – perhaps even your family members.
Leadership Training Seminar Outline – Skills Practice and Live Modeling
SKILLS PRACTICE: Dance gracefully in all four corners of the “dialogue box” as well as smack in the middle of it.
Courage! That’s just one of the things that it takes to demonstrate the skill of formal disciplining. Learn when to do it and how to do it legally, ethically and by giving the employee a reasonable chance to choose to perform.
9 Reasons that many managers just don’t discipline employees when they should. Is one of these yours? Lean into the yoke of leadership with greater strength by eliminating behaviors that derail other managers.
LIVE MODELING: Bad, better and best ways to deliver a disciplinary action session.
Leadership Training Seminar Outline – Case Study and Team Exercise
CASE STUDY: “This is better than a fortune cookie!” See what one organization did to turn motivation around when the ranks of the disgruntled got too large.
You know this: employee behavior is typically a function of its consequences. Be sure you know how to manage all three types of consequences to get winning performance.
TEAM EXERCISE: The two B’s and two P’s of delegation. It will give you a new perspective about where you start when it comes to delegating effectively.
More than cross-training, let’s call it fulfilling dynamic changing jobs. This contemporary perspective enables you to dynamically respond to business change and challenges.
Leadership Training Seminar Outline – Final Case Study
Motivation Essential #7: Working through overwhelming personal problems. You don’t want to breach employee privacy and you must use “head-out-of-the-sand” leadership to motivate everybody on your team. Or everyone – including you – will need help for depression.
Although listed last, measuring work isn’t a trailing skill. It’s critical in today’s data driven organizations. Learn what you need to do to hone it.
Cut through the data and measure what really matters most by using the Pareto Principle.
CASE STUDY: “How one physical therapist went from owning one location to being part owner of a high-profile sports team with his measurement tool: The 5/15 Report.” Owning a sports team may not be what is in your future, but leading business teams more successfully certainly is.
1 Day Seminar | 9 "Must-Have" Skills for Supervisors and Team Leaders™
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