Training Executive Leadership: Strategies and Solutions
When you’re leading at the highest levels of an organization, there’s a lot riding on what you do and how you orchestrate it. It’s a complicated job with enormous pressure and demands. And your skill requirements increase with your ever-expanding responsibilities. We’ve created a powerful advanced leadership development experience that delves into the toughest challenges you face now—or will in the future—and the various ways you can handle them. This bold, new training is designed exclusively for upper-level executives and senior managers who are required to step up and face the realities of highly competitive markets … an ever-changing global environment … and operational difficulties and uncertainties they never imagined.
In Executive Leadership: Strategies and Solutions, participants will learn…
How to build and inspire a team that gives its all
How to engage employees and aim them in the same direction—toward your vision
How to identify and eliminate obstructions to progress—yours and your organization’s
How to weigh risks and rewards and make the right decision every time
And much more!
TRAINING AGENDA
Looking in the mirror and visualizing the leader you want to be
Take an honest look at the leadership strengths and limitations you bring to your role
The critical leadership core competencies every great leader has mastered
How to adopt a leadership style that enables you to adapt to any person and situation
Establishing a framework of leadership skills
Discover innovative ways to better leverage personnel and resources—opportunities you may have been missing out on until now
Integrative thinking: How you approach a complicated problem determines the success of your solution
How curiosity—surprisingly—can become your competitive advantage
Refining your strategy
Identify your “dominant strategy” and how to fully capitalize on it
How to target the best opportunities for short- and long-term growth
Use your influence to inspire a positive company-wide mindset of success
The organizational performance scorecard—your tool for letting everyone know how they’re doing at all times
Creating an adaptive culture
The incredible benefits of an adaptive organizational culture—and how to build one
Confidently lead others through change even when you’re struggling with it yourself
Facilitate an innovative, agile and responsive culture in a company still clinging to old habits
Learn to make change—in technology and economics, at home and across the globe—work for you
Communicating to gain trust and respect
Understand why people buy into ideas—and why they don’t—so you can convince others to follow your vision
Advanced presentation techniques used by today’s most successful professional speakers
The classic principles of persuasion … how and when to use them to win over anyone, from your board to the media
How to lead engaging, participative and productive meetings and discussions
Managing organizational risk
Understand what risk management really is
Identify your organization’s risks—and risk tolerance
Avoid missed opportunities that come with business plan misalignment
Perform a true and honest cost-benefit analysis
Break through red tape and move forward … as only a true leader can
Thinking clearly and making strong decisions
Emotional intelligence in the corner office: How to fulfill the emotional requirements of executive decision making
Proven decision-making models and how leaders use them as they grow and evolve
Dynamic decision making: Integrating facts, experience and intuition
Red flags that tell you when it’s time to call in an expert
Using tough-minded leadership to grow your bottom line
Key indicators in budgets and financial statements that will tell you when tough management action is necessary
Identify your critical measures of financial and operational performance and how to use them
Tough-minded financial leadership: Be realistic, objective and courageous when you need to
4 things tough-minded leaders do differently
Developing your most valued asset—your people
Human Capital Development (HCD): What it is and why it’s important to your strategic plan and future profitability and growth
Measuring the effectiveness of your HCD program
Spotting top talent and bringing them into the fold for a winning team
How to give your team direction, trust them to follow through and then let go
Engaging, motivating and retaining employees
Surprising new data about retention and engagement and what it means in your organization
Your biggest opportunities to reduce turnover and increase innovation and productivity
Understand the pivotal factors that play into motivating, engaging and retaining employees
Assess the ROI of employee training and professional development … and untapped opportunities for your company to grow
Strategic alliances: Why they are critical to your success and tips for building, guiding and changing them as circumstances change
