High Performance Leadership: Strategies for Effective Management

Business Mentoring & Coaching

Learn a coaching strategy to supplement your leadership and management strategies. Understand the qualities of great coaches, leadership coaching strategies and coaching skills. You will have the opportunity to practice coaching skills as well as experience being coached with fellow participants.

Delegating for Leaders

The strongest leaders are those that empower others to be involved with the work of their organization. Too many leaders believe they have to shoulder the weight of the priorities alone. This is not so. A key skill to develop, is that of being able to delegate all kinds of work tasks, priorities and projects to team members at every developmental level. In this session, participants will learn the importance of delegation, the proper way to delegate to people at each development level, novice to expert, and how to build bench strength as a result of proper empowerment and delegation.

Emotional Intelligence

Your emotions play a vital role in our work and personal lives. Channeling your emotions, either positively or negatively, can make or break your professional relationships. We will gain insight into how to use our emotions to create positive workplace results. Through discussion, we will uncover techniques that will allow you to set aside emotions that sabotage your own effectiveness.

Effective Performance Appraisals

Learn to write measurable performance expectations and evaluate nontangible skills. Learn to evaluate employees' current performance and write performance objectives they can follow. This course covers when employees do not meet expectations and disciplinary action that must be taken; as well as progressive discipline including written performance plans.

Fostering Diversity in the Workplace

Learn how people from different backgrounds and experiences contribute to the richness and the competitive edge of any organization. Explore ways to create an atmosphere of inclusion, understanding and appreciation for individuals who will enhance creativity, collaboration and increase overall team performance.

HR Legal Issues for Managers & Supervisors

Learn about the human resource function and legal issues that impact a manager's role. Get an overview of the major employment laws and work with case studies to apply the principals learned.

Leading Change in the Workplace

When faced with change, you have one of three choices. Lead, follow or get out of the way. Choose to lead! This course will help managers deal with change in the workplace - both personally and as a leader of their team. Topics include understanding both positive and negative effects of change, learning personal response to change, helping to lead employees through change, seeing change as an opportunity, and communication during change.

Leading High Performance Teams

Transform your team into a high performing one. Learn the basics of team dynamics, the stages of team formation, and learn to utilize individual strengths to bring out the best in all team members. Learn about your own leadership style and explore it's impact on team performance.

Management Basics

Get the core skills you need to ensure success as a mid-level manager. In this highly interactive session you will learn how to build your credibility, the admired traits of managers and the fatal flaws that can curtail one's success, how to flex your management style to fit the situation, how to build effective teams, as well as the topics of communication and delegation. This course provides the essence of managerial excellence.