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Program Description:
Whether you lead a team, a work unit or an entire department, this comprehensive one-day seminar will help you build the solid foundation of skills you need to lead others to achieve phenomenal results!
You'll discover powerful ways to motivate and inspire, and you'll learn how to win total commitment and involvement from your team. This highly acclaimed seminar incorporates "the best of the best" — the best strategies successful leaders use to make teams really work.
You'll leave with practical answers to the many tough issues you face and be equipped with the practical "how-to's" needed to lead a team — any kind of team — effectively. Attend this skill-packed seminar and discover how to fire up your team with a can-do spirit that won't quit!
 What You'll Learn:
- Handle disagreements among team members with greater ease — and
less stress!
- Set team goals and know how to gain wholehearted commitment to them
- Run productive, efficient team meetings that members won't
dread attending
- Use specific strategies to inspire others to "go the extra mile"
- Build trust and respect among team members
- Use team decision-making techniques to generate creative ideas
and solutions
- Create a genuine sense of excitement and enthusiasm in your team — and keep it burning
- Work through team conflict, building stronger team relationships in
the process
- Foster a more cooperative, supportive team environment
- Take specific actions that will help your team members grow and improve
- Motivate and inspire your team to greater achievement — especially when the going gets rough
- Avoid communication traps that will turn off your team and sabotage
your goals
- Get team members to take more initiative in solving team problems
- Help team members air differences in a way that avoids personal attacks and criticism
- Build on your unique talents and strengths to achieve your full
leadership potential
Who Should Attend?
- New team leaders who want to fully understand how experienced leaders get great results
- Seasoned team leaders seeking fresh, new strategies and techniques
- Team leaders facing organizational change or transition
- Managers or supervisors ready to move beyond managing to leading
Workshop Agenda:
From Manager to Team Leader: How to Make the Transition With Ease
- 5 qualities of an effective leader: Inborn or learnable?
- They never said it would be easy: The conflicting demands of leadership and how to reconcile them
- Separating the managers from the leaders ... and why it's essential you understand the difference
- 7 key areas where exceptional leadership is an absolute must
- When keeping quiet is your strongest leadership tool
- What's your leadership style? Take an intensive self-assessment that may surprise you
Building a Team With Vision and Purpose
- 4 classic team structures: Is yours the right one for the job?
- Gaining a clear perspective on your team's effectiveness
- Do your team members make the grade? A self-report card to help
them improve
- How to set priorities and keep your team on track
- How to avoid decision traps — 3 steps to group decisions that make sense and stir action
Valuing the Individual — Strengthening the Team
- Tips for capitalizing on the talents of a diverse work team
- Communication essentials for building trust, belonging and cohesiveness
- 4 qualities all team members have in common — and 5 differences that may set them apart
- The creativity factor: How to encourage offbeat input and keep fresh
ideas flowing
- Spotting your stakeholders and bringing them into the fold for an
all-inclusive team
How to Lead Meetings That Make a Difference
- 6 new perspectives on meetings that generate surprising results
- 4 ironclad rules that will put power and focus into every meeting
you convene
- How to use meetings to reduce anxiety and give your team
bureaucratic relief
- The one action you must take before any meeting can be adjourned
The Leader's Role in Conflict, Change and Adversity
- "They just don't get it!" How to melt resistance and get the team to do what it's supposed to do
- How to project confidence that inspires your team during change
and adversity
- Comfort Zone or Danger Zone? Avoiding a leader's fatal flaw
- Positive strategies for dealing with Bumps-on-a-Log, Know-it-Alls and Clueless Klutzes
- Turning headaches into smiles: Using disagreements to open minds and grow ideas
- How to recognize the signs that a conflict's brewing ... before it gets out
of hand!
Communication Skills That Net Great Rewards for Leaders
- Now hear this! 5 listening techniques to get your point across and let others feel they've been heard
- Your crucial role in the delicate balance of team give-and-take
- Climate control: Creating an environment that fosters team spirit
and productivity
- How to avoid the 6 communication traps that will turn off your team and sabotage your goals
- Constructive back-talk: A positive way to get agreement and commitment from your team
Growing Your Leadership Skills ... and Ensuring Ongoing Career Success!
- The first 3 steps of your climb up the ladder of professional development
- How to increase your chances of success — and eliminate the factors
of failure
- Visualize your future and make it happen now!
- People, projects and proficiency: Managing the "3 P's" of successful leaders
- A checklist for keeping your skills primed and your career on track
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