Session 1 - Understand the giant leap to leading people
Wednesday 3 March
- Discover how the history of management influences today’s workplace
- Differentiate management from leadership in practice
- Define the leadership mindset
- Demonstrate the requirement for leadership in all roles
- Explore the new leadership paradigm
- Adapt technical strengths to a leadership environment
Session 2 - Lead with aligned purpose
Friday 5 March
- Learn how to plan for an unknown future
- Consider why starting with ‘the why’ is so critical to goal setting
- Establish how to define the true requirements
- Build collaborative virtual teams in a complex environment
- Determine how to identify and engage all stakeholders (core, extended and external)
- Define unique roles and responsibilities in a team setting
- Identify and appraise the boundaries of ownership
- Use a leadership framework to run an innovative initiative
Session 3 - Understand people, personalities and motivation
Monday 8 March
- Understand the secrets of leading smart people
- Learn to work with different personality styles
- Understand how to motivate smart people
- Understand the balance between compliance versus commitment
- Build influential relationships, not just connections
- Networking and politics
- Understand trust versus micromanagement in the real-world
Session 4 - Establish your operational process to get the right things done
Wednesday 10 March
- How to stop the talking and start the doing
- Empower people using good process
- The key role of milestones and measures in planning complex projects
- Define unique versus shared ownership
- Define operational interfaces
- Learn to use negotiation levers of time, money, and scope
Session 5 - Personal leadership habits and checklists to fast-track your career
Friday 12 March
- Learn some daily habits that effective leaders use
- Build some checklists to help implement the changes required to close the gap
- Understand key traits to fast track your career