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High Performance Leadership
Two day leadership training program for supervisors and managers
Develop the critical front line leadership skills of achieving your goals, communicating for results, and developing peak performance.
Leadership is a science and an art. During this two day intensive you will focus on exploring, discovering, and practicing the skills proven to be effective in transforming results.
In a short amount of time you will do the kind of hands-on work that extends your capacity and gives you the tools to lead effectively in ways that create meaningful and lasting results. Rooted in values and keeping a laser-sharp focus on goal achievement, this program will have you excited about leading and eager to coach and develop your team.
What to Expect
You’ll participate in a highly interactive three-day workshop where you explore, discover, and practice the keys to high performance leadership.
Who Should Attend
Front-line leaders, supervisors, managers, newly promoted leaders, and professionals seeking leadership opportunities will gain the most from these programs. Our workshops are especially well suited for people in the service industries, at insurance companies, and health care organizations.
Day One
Achieving Your Goals
Explore a 5-part goal achievement process that will set you on a relentless path toward achieving your goals. You'll be able to: Identify your vision, drop the barriers that are standing in your way, express your plan of action to people who matter, act relentlessly on your plan, and learn from feedback every day.
During this class you will set into motion a plan that you will keep in focus through-out the ten workshop series and beyond. The goal setting and achieving habits that you create will serve you well in every new project and goal that you want to accomplish. In your personal life as well as work life you will find Achieving Your Goals to be action-packed and results-oriented.
What You Will Cover
- Evaluate your leadership performance strengths and opportunities.
- Identify your vision and focus your goals
- Drop barriers that stand in your way of achievement
- Express your plan of action to people who matter
- Act relentlessly on your plan
- Learn from feedback everyday
- Schedule meetings and tasks according to your goals
- Perform according to your goals
Developing Centered Leadership
Front line leaders face an ever-changing variety of challenges from people of several performance levels and degrees of motivation.
How can you handle managing people who are sometimes so different from you in their expectations and actions? How can you instill the kind of productive work habits that will serve you -- and your organization in your efforts to achieve your goals?
Leaders tend to rely on one leadership style, whether or not it is appropriate for the person and the situation. As much as three-quarters of the time some other approach would be more effective. During this session you will expand your use of four key leadership competencies and styles to build flexibiity and precision that balances people-friendly communication skills with results-oriented expectations and insistence.
What You Will Cover
You'll be able to discover, explore and practice:
- Courage: Acting with the strength and character it takes to manage meaningful challenges.
- Compassion: Relating to other people by caring for their feelings, needs and dreams.
- Clarity: Making meaning, intention, and expectations clear.
- Creativity: Distilling, developing and connecting ideas into innovative solutions.
- Centering: Staying focused and grounded while guiding others toward success.
Day Two
Communicating For Results
At the heart
of successful leadership is genuine, candid communication.
During this session you will be able to learn how to create the kind of
effective communication that leads to better
interpersonal relationships and professional performance. You will also be able to practice how to inspire and achieve clarity, openness, and honesty in your conversations and experience deeper levels of understanding and expression. At work and home you'll find yourself more able to ask meaningful relationship building questions, clarify meanings to minimize misunderstandings, and express yourself courageously and with respect for yourself and others.
Building on the insights of some of the leading communication experts of our era, you will find the encouragement and practice that you need to become a highly skilled facilitator of important conversations.
What You Will Cover
- Ask open ended questions
- Clarify meanings, intentions, and assumptions
- Express your thoughts and
feelings
- Share responsibility for success
- Create deeper conversations
- Connect your presentations to motivate and mobilize your audience
- Practice a coaching process
for improving performance and results
Developing Peak Performance
An effective leader is above all else a skilled
coach. People from the most powerful superstars to the toughest
struggling performers all respond to coaching. Organizations that
encourage coaching and build a coaching culture generate improved
results and happier workplaces. Knowing how to coach and provide the
right level of feedback is critical to your success as a leader. During this class you will be able to identify and practice the keys to coaching your constituents for better performance. Explore the benefits of creating a learning culture and set about a plan to attract and retain the best talent for your team. Learn how to provide the types of support that your people need to succeed.
Develop your coaching skills and focus on what is most important for the people you need to develop.
What You Will Cover
You'll be able to explore and practice how to:
- Prioritize with intention and clarity
- Focus on actions that produce desired results
- Share responsibility for success
- Identify performance barriers
- Generate creative solutions
- Correct performance problems
- Coach in the style that each
situation and person requires for optimum effectiveness
- Perform according to your goals
Your Benefits for Attending
You'll develop the skills you need the most to supervise and manage at the front line level. Whether you work at a large organization or a small office, you will find that people respond to you more favorably, seem more motivated, and perform more effectively once you apply these important leadership skills. Typically this results in:
- Clarity and focus in achieving your goals
- Increased effectiveness in coaching others
- More effective use of feedback
- More meaningful, results-oriented conversations
- Precise and immediate handling of difficult situations
- Reduction in stress levels in the team
- Clear delineation of tasks and duties
- Strong presence and ability to share expectations
- Powerful alignment between
your vision, goals, and actions
You’ll also walk away with:
- Leadership Skills Assessment
(a $75 value)
- A complete learner’s guide
(a $125 value)
- Goal Planner ($19 value)
- Coaching Process Chart ($35
value)
- Team Survey you can use to
assess your team's strengths and opportunities ($125 value)
- Live 360 Agenda for gaining real-time feedback and clarification on your leadership performance and team building effectiveness ($200 value)
- Return on Investment Calculation Sheet -- determine the value of this, or any other training ($45 value)
- Two days of highly
interactive, instantly usable training ($1,450 value)
- Certificate of Achievement
(you'll earn it!)
Pricing
That's right -- just $450 per person (plus travel expenses for locations more than 50 miles from Denver, Colorado).
How can we bring you so much value for less cost?
We eliminate the frills and focus on the essentials -- building the skills that it takes to operate as a high performance leader who gets positive results. That means that you'll get world-class content, field tested material and losts of interactive practice but no bulking three ring binder or fancy carrying case (where would you put that anyway?).
Satisfaction Guarantee
There's no risk to you! We guarantee your complete satisfaction with our High Performance Leadership training program or we will refund 100% of your money.
For information on how to bring this program to your organization contact Doug at: 303-993-4851
Email: doug@dougsmithtraining.com
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Doug Smith Training
Louisville, Colorado