Manager, Leader, or Both?
Session DescriptionTwo skills have become top priorities for learning and development organizations: management and leadership. Both are important but distinct skills and, without training, too much of one or the other can lead to serious trouble. As John Kotter points out, being over-managed and under-led stifles innovation, while the opposite leads to too much change and no execution. The true balance will drive productivity and achieve strategic goals as they were intended. This course will help you differentiate when to utilize which skill set so you can manage and lead more effectively. Learning ObjectivesManagement and leadership: What’s the difference?What to manageWhen to leadBuild your management and leadership vision Methodology LectureDiscussionTarget Audience Supervisory to mid-level leadersHigh-potential individual contributorsProject/Program Managers
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5 Strategies to Maintain Employee Engagement Through Turbulent Times
Session Description: Now, more than ever, leaders need to develop skills to help themselves and their teams effectively cope with uncertainty. Amidst turbulent times, organizations call upon employees not just to carry on but to remain engaged and highly productive. This practical online workshop will allow you to reflect and compare notes on your biggest challenges as leaders – from maintaining morale and motivation in remote environments to managing impossible workloads. It will give a practical set of tools (particularly relevant in a virtual or hybrid set up) to apply with your direct reports to maintain trust and productivity under constantly changing organizational conditions. It will help you to model and facilitate productive behaviors despite environmental uncertainty and turbulence Learning Objectives: Remain engaged and highly productive during the turbulent timesStrategize for current or anticipated changesIdentify and manage resistanceAcquire a practical set of tools to apply with their direct reports to maintain trust and productivityMethodology: Mini-lecture with relevant examples Interactive exercisesIndividual reflectionSmall group discussionsApplication & action planningTarget Audience: Leaders of organizations, departments, units, volunteer teamsAnyone with direct report(s)
Building Effective Relationships at Work
Session Description: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” – African proverb It’s rare at work that we can achieve everything we want to on our own. Working with other people and building effective relationships at work is the key to success – ours and our team’s. In this session, we will explore what makes some relationships work better than others, how trust can be built quickly and effectively, strategies for identifying and investing in our most important relationships as well as some tips for what to do when it all goes wrong! Learning Objectives: Identifying the relationships at work that are most important to usLearning techniques to create rapport and build trustExploring how to defuse common tensions and resolve misunderstandings earlyUnderstanding what to do to make authentic investments in the relationships that really countMethodology: Highly interactiveSharing strategies, tips, and toolsFacilitated group discussionsIncludes introduction to DiSC behavioral styles modelAction planning for accountability and sustainable changeTarget Audience: Leaders at all levelsHigh-potential individual contributorsStaff at all levels
Are We Being Strategic?
Description: Quick, name your company’s strategic objectives for this year! Struggling? Can you get close? Being strategic takes more than just a few meetings. It’s an ongoing conversation and mindset, a gear we switch into when business demands require it. This course will illuminate how to identify areas of your team’s work that require strategic thinking and give you conversation tools to pull people out of the weeds. Learning Objectives: Raising Awareness: How to tell if you’re being strategic Strategic activities in teams Individual strategic activities How to inspire strategic thought and action Methodology: Lecture Discussion Target Audience: Mid- to Senior-level leaders