Leadership Skills Training
How is Leadership different to Management?
Learn about all different levels of management and leadership styles. How to empower your Managers to make good decisions and achieve better results through leadership training. Discover how to create great teams to take your business to a higher level of efficiency with improved leadership skills.
What will delegates get out of the course?
- Different Styles of Leadership to encourage confidence and know how to lead people as opposed to managing them.
- How to lead change in any organisation. How to build trust within a team and to empower it to greater efficiency.
- Dealing with things when they go wrong!
Are your leadership skills effective in producing results for your organisation? Are you aware of the difference between being a leader and a manager? Do you lead by example?
Do you have effective leaders inside your workplace?
Learn about all different levels of management and leadership styles. This course will teach you how to empower your managers to make good decisions and achieve better results through leadership training. Discover how to create great teams to take your business to a higher level of efficiency.
Leadership Power – Influence with Passion
Degrees, ranks, or titles are limited tools when trying to influence people. Influence expands with the growth of a leader/manager's emotional intelligence and team leadership competencies. Influence can also be gained through one's demonstrated competence in a specialised field. Dr. Oz is a recognized, influential medical authority. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, because of their success in business, are very influential.
Be the Leader Others Choose to Follow
We become more powerful and influential by developing our emotional intelligence, then acting with courage and integrity. It's a process of followers choosing - after observing our behaviours, not so much our words, to know, like, respect, value, risk with, and trust us.
7 steps to cultivate your power and influence:
- Build Up your Ego.
Great leaders have a well-developed, strong ego that allows them to not take criticism personally, to be open to feedback and to serve ethically. It takes a strong ego to be able to suffer the slings and arrows of often outrageous, misinformed criticism. A leader with a weak ego is always trying to look good and this is dangerous.
"S/he has a big ego," is a statement of a shrivelled ego.
A person with a big ego can say, "I was wrong." "I made a mistake."
- Master the Craft of “Followership”.
Every leader must also be a follower. Even the President of the United States has to follow the electorate, his advisors and his conscience. Ultimately, he also must follow the law. The leader who cannot, or will not, follow eventually loses all his/her followers. A genius leader is both an oak and a willow. - Build & Cut Relationships.
A wise leader listens to understand (not necessarily agrees with) his/her detractors, distracters, and enemies (every leader has enemies) and critics. He/she processes information to build relationships where possible and cuts them off when required (it will be necessary from time to time). - Strive for Excellence.
Mediocrity generates disrespect. Mediocrity is viral. With excellence, that is not often the case. Leadership excellence is founded in behaviours based in values, principles, vision, mission and sets of competencies. Excellence is when we are performing to the highest level of our capabilities. Today's excellence is different to tomorrows. Or, "Today’s mistakes are tomorrow's improvements." - Temper Emotion with Discipline, Persistence and Integrity.
Being a leader is easy in good times. It's when confronted with the difficult, the ugly and the unsolvable that we show our true colours. The ability and willingness to keep perspective when many others around us are panicking, is a key ingredient of genius leadership. - Use power wisely. Influence with integrity.
Every leader at some time or other will have to pull rank and make a difficult decision that is likely going to cause people to suffer. Genius leaders share power. We give others the power they have earned. A leader/manager is an ingredient, not a cook. If we use our power to empower others, our influence will extend far beyond our grasp. - Courage and Integrity are the Foundation of Genius Leadership.
Taking on a leadership role is an opportunity to experience one's courage. We, and others, find out what we are made of. The integrity of a leader/manager is the foundation upon which s/he builds her/his character and influence. Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Oprah are examples. Identify one or two people to model. Use them like a lighthouse in the inevitable stormy seas of the leadership experience.
Leaders come in two distinct varieties - those who want total power and control over others, and those who want to use the power and influence of their position to help others reach their full potential too. If you are in the latter category and want to use your influence of power in leadership wisely, read on for three strategies that will keep you on the right path.
Tip #1: True Influence and Power Comes From Respecting Others
The best leaders realise that respecting those who are turning to them for guidance is the best way to keep their position. In a business setting, this means leaders will allow employees to act on their own initiative and handle a certain amount of decision making on their own.
Tip #2: True Power Comes From Sharing, Not Hording Information
Some leaders feel that in order to maintain their position, they must have full control over what information gets passed on down to those below them. Effective leaders on the other hand realise that information empowers those they are working with, and that benefits all involved. At the office, that means free flow of information to employees to encourage them to act on their own.
Tip #3: Encouraging Others to Find Their Inner Leader Increases Your Influence
Some leaders wish only to rule over others. Successful leaders know that they will further increase their power and influence if they encourage others to reach their fullest potential. In a corporate setting, this means coaching employees to become leaders themselves. This makes a business run even more efficiently and profitably.
Leaders who have experience to draw on should look for ways to best utilise that influence with others. An organisation could support its leaders in this way by publicly praising or acknowledging their relevant experience.
