Design For :
Anyone who has new responsibilities to lead a team. Supervisors, team leads, managers, and others interested in becoming a better leader and a contributing team member will greatly benefit from this one-week experience. Many may want to take this seminar/workshop more than once for continuous improvement.
You Will Learn
How To:
- Become a more effective leader by overcoming the “tyranny of the urgent” with better time management
- Make better decisions by assessing when to make what kind of decisions
- Help others develop themselves by unleashing their career motivation
- Have more effective communications with technical and non-technical teams by developing the patience to let the team do its work
- Recognize and resolve conflicts before they get out of control by early detection of conflicts, when they’re simpler and have less impact
- Develop the ability to lead an empowered team of technical professionals by more effective delegation
- Reduce your own stress level by teaching yourself how to lower your stress with clearer thinking
- Learn assessment techniques for yours and other’s people skills by raising the competency levels of yourself and your team
- Walk your talk by getting buy-in for your ideas and vision
- Leading by example
Course Content
- The nature of teams
- Leadership vs. management
- Self-centering and tangential leadership
- Listening
- Motivation
- Group dynamics
- Conflict management
- Team-building
- Critical thinking and taking action
