Program Objectives

• Recognize yourself as a leader
• Understand the practices of empowering leaders
• Commit to lead "from the balcony"
• Find balance among the 5 leadership roles
• Improve personal productivity and use of time
• Understand the fundamentals of teams and leadership within a team environment
• Establish clear performance expectations and develop the ability to confront poor performance
• Become a leader who empowers others

Module 1: Principles of Leadership

• The importance of leadership in achieving long-term organizational success
• The five myths of leadership
• The difference between leadership and management
• The difference between controlling and empowering leadership styles

Module 2: Practices of Empowering Leaders

• Empowering leaders have a driving passion to realize their vision
• Empowering leaders build and sustain trust with their followers
• Empowering leaders unleash the commitment and motivation of their followers
• Empowering leaders are social and organizational architects
• Empowering leaders act from positive beliefs about people and situations

Module 3: The Five Leadership Roles

• The three core elements of team effectiveness
• The five roles of leadership
• The appropriate balance among the five roles
• How to lead "from the balcony"
• How to use a set of diagnostic questions to lead "from the balcony"

Module 4: Leadership Practices: A Self-Assessment

• Understanding your strengths and weaknesses as a leader
• Assessing yourself in the five leadership roles
• Knowing how you are viewed by others in your organization
• Developing personal improvement plans

Module 5: Personal Productivity

• How you currently use your time
• The barriers that keep you from managing your time more effectively
• The difference between the important and the urgent and how to schedule time for the time for the important
• To set professional goals to guide your use of time
• A systematic approach to managing daily events

Module 6: Fundamentals of High Performance Teams

• The definition of a High Performance team and how it differs from traditional work groups
• The three elements of High Performance teams
• Four types of teams
• The stages of team development

Module 7: Performance Expectations

• Learn to confront behavior that fails to meet your expectations
• Understand the importance of discipline and conformity in building high performance
• Develop a set of non-negotiables for those whom you lead
• Practice the skill of harnessing harmful behavior
• Apply the skill to back-home situations

Module 8: Empowering Others For Success

• The difference between commitment and compliance motivation
• How leadership changes to create commitment
• The four principles of empowerment
• The elements of empowerment
• A matrix for identifying what people need in order to empowered
• A dialogue to transfer power to others
• A model of situational leadership