Essential Skills for Leading Tasks Effectively

Introduction:

Today’s business environment highlights the growing need for effective managers and leaders. To excel in these roles, high self-esteem and strong leadership traits, acquired through self-study, education, training, and experience, are essential. Effective task management and leadership require self-confidence and mastery in leading teams and responsibilities.

The Task Leadership Skills course aims to enhance self-confidence and strengthen leadership abilities, focusing on two main areas: building self-confidence and leadership skills, and acquiring techniques to manage and prioritize tasks. These skills are applicable across various work environments.

Objectives:

By the end of the Task Leadership Skills course, participants will:

• Develop an aptitude for performing tasks and completing them on schedule.
• Use the respect gained from work to build confidence among colleagues.
• Persuade and motivate people using group dynamics and public speaking.
• Utilize primary planning measures for task planning.
• Practice strategic management for smooth transitions.
• Deliver speeches with commitment and assurance.
• Organize and accomplish work through effective interaction.
• Collaborate with colleagues without compromising personal work ethics.
• Possess increased self-confidence.
• Manage and motivate the capabilities of other team members skillfully.
• Handle meetings efficiently to achieve desired outcomes.
• Comfortably say “No” when necessary.
• Develop affirmative strategies for building relationships.
• Apply leadership principles to manage stakeholders.
• Forecast and control the impact of changes resulting from new initiatives.
• Inspire others with innovative ideas.
• Create focused task planning methods for individuals and teams.
• Approach and manage challenges sensibly.
• Convincingly market ideas to others.

Training Methodology:

• Hands-on Workshops
• Plenary Exercises
• Task Management within Multinational Corporations
• Overview of Current Trends in Task Management
• Task Management for Organizations
• Role of Strategic Management within Practical Leadership
• Structural Types of Organizations vs. Task Management Definition

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Creating a Strong, Persuasive Image

• Defining strength, competence, and self-assurance.
• Sources of self-belief and confidence.
• Comfort zone implications for business performance.
• Overcoming the fear of public speaking.
• Self-perception and its impact on confidence.
• Using self-esteem to enhance your image.
• The importance of nonverbal communication.
• Dress code and appearance.

Unit 2: Confident Group Communication

• Managing effective meetings.
• Crafting, rehearsing, and delivering business presentations.
• Handling presentation nerves.
• The art of questioning and responding to management.
• Presenting yourself, your company, and your ideas.
• Building connections during presentations.

Unit 3: Communicating Confidently to Achieve Success

• Using stories for effective message delivery.
• Leveraging analogies and metaphors.
• Persuasive communication and critical thinking.
• Energizing and building climaxes in communication.
• Balancing dominance and submission.
• Inclusive and exclusive language in communication.

Unit 4: Communicating with Emotion and Excitement

• The importance of passion in communication.
• Developing courage and trust in conflict situations.
• Stepping out of the comfort zone.
• Standing out in discussions and presentations.
• Maximizing communication tools for impact.
• Delivering effective conclusions that prompt action.
• Being the center of attention and influence.

Unit 5: Supporting Your Profile in the Organization

• Interacting with managers and authorities.
• Promoting change to uninterested audiences.
• Gaining team support for unpopular policies.
• Influencing the organizational atmosphere.
• Conversational strategies and challenges.

Unit 6: Introduction to Work Task Concepts

• Self-regulation and self-control in task management.
• Task management frameworks and their relevance.
• Strategic management in task leadership.
• Factors affecting task coordination and organizational structure.

Unit 7: Planning in Task Management

• Scope, work breakdown, and management plans for tasks.
• Managing risks and setting priorities.
• Developing clarity in task objectives.
• Tracking activity and people for successful task completion.

Unit 8: Setting Priorities and Managing Time

• Effective time management strategies.
• Developing priorities aligned with time management.
• Handling time wasters, procrastination, and interruptions.
• Organizing a ‘to-do’ plan and setting deadlines.

Unit 9: Interpersonal Skills for Task Management

• Understanding and enlisting others' assistance on projects.
• Interpersonal skills for task completion.
• Identifying personal and team working styles.
• Balancing focus on task achievement with leading people.

Unit 10: Managing Tasks to Implement Change

• Techniques for effective task communication.
• Components of effective communication.
• Analyzing behavioral change patterns.
• Developing self-management strategies.
• Managing resistant individuals during change implementation.