Leadership – Habits of Effective Managers

This popular program provides executives with the key skills needed to be successful in today’s challenging business environment. These key skills have been identified through years of research by noted author and lecturer, Ken Zeigler.

This course helps executives to develop themselves and their direct reports into a real team that’s working together as one. This course is full of strategies that will show participants how to engage their direct reports.

It combines the key management skills of:

• Planning & Organizing
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Team building
• Teaching
• Communicating

This application-based full or half-day program allows executives to bring real situations they’re facing at work, into the classroom, where they can develop strategies and ways to improve their performance and the results of their team.  The course is customized to the needs of your group based on the amount of time you have.

After completing this course participants will be able to:

• Communicate more specifically with their direct reports
• Utilize their direct reports more effectively to achieve the team’s goals
• Show direct reports how to plan ahead and get the team off to a fast start daily
• Set-up discipline and structure for themselves and their team
• Batch their work and the requests/needs of their direct reports
• Be more visible to their direct reports yet get more accomplished daily
• Show their direct reports the tasks/projects that matter the most so it’s easier and less time consuming for them to prioritize their work accurately
• Coach their direct reports more effectively
• Engage their direct reports to offer new ideas and suggestions for change
• Handle interruptions more effectively as a team by developing team power hours and selective times to get more difficult projects/tasks completed
• Delegate the right tasks correctly the first time so it empowers their direct reports
• Plan more effective meetings that accomplish more in less time or fewer meetings

This program is for executives who want to develop the advanced skills necessary for today’s demanding work environment.

Leadership – Habits of Effective Executives

Module One – Leadership Self-Assessment Activity

• Identify your strengths and weaknesses as they relate to leadership characteristics and skills
• Characteristics of effective leaders
• Identify your opportunities for growth
• Group Exercise – How could you improve your strengths and limit your weaknesses?

Module Two – Creating Your Vision

• Identify your beliefs
• Create your mission statement
• The benefits of visioning
• What are your values?
• Team Exercise – Write your vision and explain how you’re going to use it in the future to shape your Leadership.

Module Three – Embracing Change to Become More Successful

• How to anticipate change
• How to encourage change and listen to new ideas
• How to communicate change to your direct reports
• Team Exercise – Evaluate how well you’re embracing change

Module Four – Planning and Organizing

• Showing them how to plan ahead (and get ahead of the curve)
• Getting everyone to plan the night before
• Getting everyone off to a fast start every morning
• Being more visible and still getting more accomplished
• Teaching your team some discipline
• Developing a group power hour (so the team gets more done)
• Showing them how to batch their questions
• Setting up quality time with them to listen to their ideas and concerns
• Group Exercise – How could you manage other’s time more effectively?

Module Five – Prioritizing and Multi-tasking

• How to teach your direct reports what matters most
• How to advise him/her on the right questions to ask to determine the correct priority
• Teach them how to work on one thing at a time
• Coach them to ask questions about prioritizing your requests and negotiating their workload.
• Group Exercise – How could you provide clearer direction to your reports?

Module Six – Managing and Controlling Interruptions

• Coaching your direct reports on how to control face-to-face interruptions.
• How to develop a team strategy for handling interruptions between team members and those outside the team.
• How to develop multiple team “power hours” so the whole team can get more accomplished and interrupt each other less.
• How to determine when to check your e-mail
• How to teach yourself and your direct reports ways to develop discipline in dealing with e-mail.
• How to get everyone on your team to use the time saving tools your current e-mail system offers
• Ways to stop using your in-box as your to-do list by developing an effective file system.
• Teaching your team when to use e-mail vs. the phone or a meeting
• Getting your team to use the electronic calendar to improve communication and save time.
• Teaching your direct reports how to write e-mail that gets to the point quickly.
• Teaching your team e-mail etiquette
• Showing direct reports how to:
• Batch and prioritize their calls so they take less time
• Plan their calls before they pick-up the phone
• Screen their calls when they’re working on a “veggie”
• Assess the nature of the call quickly and keep control of the call
• Improve the greeting on their voice mail
• Improve the message they leave for you and others
• Team Exercise – How could your team handle face-to-face interruptions, email, and the phone more effectively in the future?

Module Seven – Delegation that Empowers

• Why we don’t delegate more
• How to build a successful team and motivate them
• The ten foolproof steps you need to follow to build a confident team
• Team Exercise – Delegate an activity, task, or project using the 10 steps

Module Eight – Planning & Executing Effective Meetings

• Characteristics of unproductive meetings
• How to put together a successful training meeting (drive along)
• Do you really need to schedule a meeting? (Identifying the purpose)
• How to identify who to invite and how to tell them
• How to produce an effective agenda and why to distribute it early
• How to use the “veggie” principle to keep your meeting short
• How to be the ringmaster so you don’t lose control of the meeting
• How to deal with people that show up late for your meeting
• How to get your participants involved in the meeting
• Why minutes are so important and how to keep them
• How to determine the best time to schedule your meeting
• Team Exercise

Developing an Action Plan for Yourself and Your Team

PRICE LIST

Leadership – Managing Other’s Time           for up to 20     $5000 - click here
                             Half-day Workshop              for up to 20     $3000 - click here
                           
This is a one-day, 8-hour course.  Participants receive a Preplanning Journal, Workbook, and Handouts. Participants will be expected to complete the Preplanning Journal prior to attending the workshop.  The workshop is customized to the participants’ needs based on the Selection Menu.