Learning To Lead
“My employees know more than I do and they’ve been on the job longer.”
“My colleague thought he was going to get this job and now I am his boss.”
“We used to go to lunch together and share the company gossip. Now I’m in a leadership role and things are very different.”
“I’d just as soon stay a little later than ask my employees to take on more work. They’ve got a lot on their plates, too.”
When stepping up to a leadership role, employees can find themselves unprepared. Once promoted to supervision, highly competent individual contributors often struggle figuring out how to stop doing the work themselves in order to lead and influence others to perform. This shift in role and responsibilities can be a big leap.
“Good management brings a degree of order and consistency to key dimensions like quality and profitability of products. Leadership, by contrast is about coping with change. ”
~ John Kotter, “What Leaders Really Do”
Harvard Business Review
In Learning to Lead, participants develop the essential skills and knowledge to effectively assume a leadership position. This program will give new formal leaders as well as project managers or team leads a boost in productivity and effectiveness and shorten the learning curve.
Essential knowledge, tools and skills include:
- Learning about one’s natural leadership strengths
- How to work with employees to set goals and performance standards
- Essentials of delegation
- Understanding and effectively working with different personality styles
- Managing up and keeping the boss informed
- Developing flexibility in leadership style
- Redirecting performance that is off track
- Encouraging and engaging employees to give their best
- Planning and facilitating effective team meetings: decision-making, problem-solving, generating new ideas
- Gaining credibility quickly
- Turning resistance into commitment and leading change
Participants will practice the skills and apply what they’re learning to current challenges.
