THE 10 STEPS TO LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE

In this seminar you'll learn...

What makes effective leaders tick? Explore the skills and characteristics that all successful leaders share. See what some of yesterday´s and today´s leaders did to become successful, and then find out how to make your own transition from mere management to powerful leadership.
How you approach leadership has as much to do with who you are as it does with how you tackle a challenge. You´ll become far more effective if you recognize and define your own personal leadership style. Understanding yourself is the first important key to successfully leading others.
You encounter many different situations on any given workday that test your leadership strength. No one approach can ever successfully handle each one. Expand your range by understanding what makes up other styles and learn how to adopt those approaches when you need them.
Leaders use focused thinking and well-developed strategy to achieve their goals and create their vision. Learn how to consider a problem, where to make the connections between seemingly unrelated ideas and how to tap unlikely sources for solutions to generate dramatic results.
Decision making is complex. Even the simplest situations call on your powers of evaluation, communication, consideration and projection. Good decisions come out of everything—from experience to a willingness to consider other viewpoints, from the ability to forecast outcomes to your comfort level with uncertainty.
The combined strengths of your skills and talents mixed with those of your group members can produce incredible outcomes. But to lead your small or large team, you´re going to have to be adept at coaching, identifying and tapping your team members´ inherent strengths and motivating them so it means something. Learn how to transform a group of Lone Rangers into the "Unstoppable Six" or the "Dedicated Dozen."
You´ve built the team—the next step is to keep it running at peak performance. Your leadership role calls for you to quickly assess team member abilities and coordinate individual efforts for the best results. Along the way you must do everything you can to empower your team so it can meet its true potential. All of this requires balance, willingness to share power and diplomacy—qualities developed in every strong leader.
Successful performance management calls for clear and achievable expectations. It demands that you understand the tasks as well as the abilities of those who will tackle them. As a strong leader, you must ensure that performance can be measured, reviewed and adjusted in ways that work for the organization and for the employee.
Leadership strategies that foster accountability and responsibility in individual group members are an important link in creating "reach for the sky" performance from your team. Your team grows stronger and your leadership matures when these important principles are put into daily practice.
Termination often proves to be a hasty and shortsighted decision. It can bring downtime, costly lawsuits and damaged morale. Instead, consider leadership strategies that stress root-cause understanding, calm yet firm responses and other helpful tactics that will both solve immediate problems and enhance your leadership standing in the long run.