Leadership & Management Development

Purpose
The challenges of the 21st Century have placed great demands on the leaders and managers of both public and private business organizations. Global competition requires effective leadership and management of organizational resources and stewardship of the natural environment. These times demand leadership through mission, vision, mutual respect, personal resolve, all in the context of managing a diverse workforce.

As a leadership and management development specialist, Skip is dedicated to helping leaders at all levels develop the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the global challenge. In this workshop, Leadership for the 21st Century, Skip provides appropriate leadership theory integrated with state-of-the-art, practical experiential learning.

Overview
Skip’s leadership and management development workshop can be tailored to your unique workplace requirements, and can be presented in one, two, or three-day formats.

Skip’s dynamic and interactive workshop is conducted at your work site or in a neutral site, depending on your requirements.

Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Define their organizational vision and mission from a leadership perspective.
• Identify different types of leadership and their roles in the organization.
• The connection between leadership, culture and diversity.
• The six leadership competencies that all successful leaders must master.

Benefits
Benefits include:
• A high-energy, motivational learning experience.
• Practical, “how-to” approach based on experiential learning.
• Addresses current leadership and management challenges, such as diversity, knowledge worker culture, team-based work design, cross-organizational and matrixed management.
• A step-by-step process for positive change.

Workshop Specifics
• Introduction
Recognition of the need for change: The Context!
It’s all in your mind: The Mind/Body Experience!
• Preparation of the Imagination
All creation begins with mental models.
How to become self-awareness and monitor your self-programming.
Mental models of successful leadership and management practices.
How to write a mission statement.
• Courageous Communications
How to develop and implement two-way respect through powerful, action-oriented, influential conversations.
How to overcome cultural and other barriers to courageous conversations.
How to articulate your mission and vision.
• Transforming Attitudes
How to implement belief control: The strategy for high-level emotional and cultural intelligence.
How to discover your core values and authentic attributes.
• Responsibility: Goal Setting for Change
How to learn to respond reflectively, not just react, to change.
How to define and prioritize organizational problems.
How to write effective goal statements.
How to coordinate and align goals.
How to identify obstacles, opportunities, and risks.
• Maximizing the Successful Effort
How to manage time, money, and personal energy.
How to organize the work team and support team.
How to motivate team members toward maximum effort.
• Collaborative Leadership and Management Evaluation
How to design and articulate evaluation standards.
Relating the standards for evaluation to important leadership skills.
Types of leadership and management evaluations.
Understanding different methods of evaluation.
How to evaluate for professional development.

How to Order:
Contact Skip at his email address: skip@bannercross.com
or call him at (206) 227-7215

Banner Cross - 1420 Fifth Avenue - The U.S. Bank Center - Suite 2200 - Seattle - Washington - 98101 (206) 227-7215