Advanced Training in High-Performance Leadership

Introduction:

Welcome to the Advanced Training in High-Performance Leadership Course, designed to help you elevate your leadership credentials. Throughout the course, we will focus on six key leadership elements: Communication, Innovation, Vision, Inspiration, Enabling, and Encouragement.

You will evaluate your current abilities, face new challenges, and receive personalized coaching to enhance your leadership skills. Through case studies and materials from historical and modern leaders, you will learn what makes leadership effective and why businesses adapt their strategies. We will also delve into motivation theories and modern people management practices.

Be fully engaged in the class. Actively participate in discussions, group exercises, and hands-on activities to refine your leadership capabilities.

This course is designed for transformation, not just knowledge acquisition. In a world of constant change, standing still is falling behind. Take this chance to challenge yourself and advance to the next level of quality leadership.

Objectives:

The goals of the Advanced Training in High-Performance Leadership Course are:

• Understand why leaders succeed or fail.
• Cultivate leadership presence and social influence.
• Master communication skills and their impact.
• Use imagery and visualization to build powerful visions.
• Learn lessons from history’s great leaders.
• Inspire teams to achieve the extraordinary.
• Develop a charismatic image that fosters prosperity.
• Sustain momentum and a sense of urgency.
• Support and inspire every team member.
• Perfect both corporate and personal visions.
• Enhance effectiveness in persuasion and leadership.

Training Methodology:

• Case Studies
• Leadership examples from history and today
• Dedicated Workshops
• Panel Discussions
• Situational Role-Play
• Leadership Tasks
• Coaching and Feedback
• Vision Workshops
• Motivational Techniques
• Individual Development Programs
• Appraisal Evaluation

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Leadership

• The essence of true leadership and emulating great leaders from the past.
• Leadership’s role in current business affairs.
• Common reactions leaders elicit from people.
• Adapting to new business environments.
• Force-field analysis and stepping outside comfort zones.
• Employee vs. entrepreneur mindset.
• The equalizer effect.
• Leadership vs. management.

Unit 2: Vision

• The secret power of a smile.
• Creating and harnessing a vision using imagery techniques.
• The role of psycho-cybernetics in vision.
• Setting objectives to turn visions into reality.
• The mastermind group and the power of a positive mental attitude.
• Organizational vision, mission, and values.
• Vision calendars, coaching models, and the integer concept.

Unit 3: Communication

• Identifying and understanding communication styles.
• Adapting to other communication styles.
• Leveraging non-verbal gestures.
• The five levels of listening.
• Advanced questioning techniques.
• Selling ideas and securing buy-in.
• Persuading through communication.

Unit 4: Innovation

• Building an innovative organization.
• Encouraging fresh ideas from your team.
• Left brain, right brain, and innovation.
• Creative problem-solving methodologies.
• Using suggestion boxes and reward systems.
• Focusing on quantity over quality in innovation projects.
• Sticky note design techniques.
• Heuristic vs. normative criteria.
• Leveraging a diverse workforce for deeper innovation.
• Cost-saving inventions.

Unit 5: Influencing Skills

• Managing the relationship bank account.
• Ten guaranteed ways to build influence.
• Leading with confidence.
• Balancing give and take.
• Igniting passion within.
• Getting fanatical about leadership.
• The BE, DO, GET model.
• The pipeline principle.

Unit 6: The Challenge

• Understanding the leadership challenge.
• Pushing yourself beyond limits.
• How association affects leadership development.
• Accepting constructive criticism from others.
• The necessity of continual growth in leadership.
• Soaring to new heights by standing on the shoulders of others.
• Evolving through self-brainstorming.

Unit 7: Inspirational Leadership

• Eleanor Roosevelt’s thoughts on women and leadership.
• Democracy as a leadership principle.
• Human behavior shaped by patterns, culture, and space.
• Different types of inspiration and their origins.
• Is leadership a choice, a skill, or genetic?
• The difference between dreamers and doers.
• Fanning the flame within your team.
• Mentoring future leaders.

Unit 8: Enabling

• The role of an enabler in leadership.
• The differences between managers and enablers.
• Enabling through cultural competence.
• Empowering others by relinquishing control.
• Building loyalty through enabling leadership.
• Why enablers are more effective than managers.

Unit 9: Engaging and Encouraging Your People

• Why 75% of employees lack engagement.
• Overcoming low motivation in the workplace.
• The hidden costs of disengagement.
• Strategies for engaging your team in business meetings.
• Turning presentations into captivating performances.
• Recognizing and rewarding contributions.
• Addressing leadership challenges.

Unit 10: Personal Leadership Challenge

• Creating a vision for personal leadership goals.
• Setting and achieving personal leadership objectives.
• Taking responsibility and supporting others.
• Utilizing leadership tools and technologies.
• Becoming a leadership enabler.