Leading Professionals in the 21st Century – Using LEADERSHIP© Principles

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A 2-day Interactive Leadership Course to inspire and motivate professional service teams

The 21st century has taken such a great evolution that managing people today isn’t as easy as it used to be. In the first place, people today do not like to be managed, but they want to be led. Consider these six characteristics of members of the contemporary workforce:
• Well-educated
• Proud of Achievements
• Zealous of freedom
• Motivated by New Values
• Wanting substantial control over their own function
• Ready to raise level of performance with proper encouragement

Due to the nature of their development, many young professionals prefer to do things on their own, in their own way. A company’s best talents may not take too kindly to being told what to do and when to do it, and be unenthusiastic about working in a team, as they usually prefer to rely heavily on their own expertise to get a job done.

For those managers who have been working in the 21st century, operating in a ‘leaner and meaner’ structure has translated to broader responsibilities with increasing pressure to produce more with fewer resources. In this pressure-packed environment, successful managers must use the role of leadership to help people exercise the freedom to make decisions, respond quickly to situations, networking for higher efficiency, have the ability to work with peers, retaining the right employees, and produce the results needed by their organization.

Leading Professionals with LEADERSHIP© Principles will prove invaluable in helping both existing and aspiring leaders to motivate and inspire everyone in the team, meeting the challenge of fostering and maintaining a well-coordinated high-performance team capable of achieving clear business objectives.

To achieve success in today’s unpredictable economy, leaders need to understand the principles of leading professionals; possess emotional intelligence; develop potentials; enabling partnerships; and maintaining positive perceptions of all things to come.

Objectives:

This comprehensive leadership course is aim at helping participants to see the changing leadership criteria, evaluate performance, consequential planning, changing behaviors, and to motivate the individual employee to achieve the optimal results required by the Organization.

Course Outline

Understanding the Leadership Role in the 21st Century
• Changing leadership’s role
• Every one is a leader
• Leadership is Influence
• Understanding the concept of Individual-Focused Leadership
• Managing 4 Generations of Workforce and their Motivational Values
• Human Capital in the 21st Century

LEADERSHIP© Principles
• Understanding the 10 LEADERSHIP© Principles of the 21st century
• Minimizing Managing; Maximizing Leading

Leading Professionals
• The changing expectations of our younger employees
• Leading the Professional Employees
• Understanding the needs of X’ers and Nexters Generations
• Motivating for Higher Efficiency and Greater Performance

Emotional Intelligence
• Linking Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
• Differences of Leaders with High EI and Low EI
• Understanding the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Qualities associated with EI

Aligning Vision and Goals
• Understanding Vision and Goals
• Involving team members in vision and goals
• Increasing enthusiasm for the team with vision and goals

Developing Potentials
• Developing the unique talent possess by individuals
• Working with individual strengths
• Making your employees feels valued

Enabling Partnerships
• Empowerment is sidelined; Enabling is power
• Maximizing employees input and contributions
• Removing obstacles and barriers for greater productivity

Result-Oriented
• Energizing employees
• Leading with commitment; compassion; and encouragement
• Learning from mistakes
• Consequential Planning

Synergy
• Synergizing strengths is beyond team working
• Power of sharing and collaboration
• Synergizing for Results

Healings
• Understanding the four common conflicts in working with professionals
• Handling of poor performance
• Healing Needs Analyzer
• Managing Interpersonal disagreements

Integrity
• Importance of Integrity in leadership
• Re-developing of trust in relationships
• Developing the True Leadership Character

Positive Perceptions
• Critical need for positive perceptions
• Maintaining positive mental attitude
• Knowing what it take to be a leader in the 21st century

Who Will Benefit Most From This Course?

This course is highly recommended for managers and executives, whose job requires them to lead, motivate and inspire professional employees and individuals, to achieve higher productivity and better performance in the workplace.




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