The Leadership & Teambuilding Workshop (single-Day)
In today's changing world, it's not enough to be given formal authority over others with the expectation of meeting goals and objectives. Managers and/or administrators must seek to refine the interpersonal skills necessary to lead in the modern workplace. Leaders must teach team members to lead themselves achieving a feeling of personal success and satisfaction that creates a sum-team output. This single-day interactive seminar/workshop combination was designed to help develop managers into leaders who depend very little on using their authority to get results.
Below, is the format of sessions and topic's covered in this award-winning organizational development seminar/workshop:
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Meet & Greet: 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Opening Session: 8:45 – 9:00
Opening Comments – Session Overview
Session 1: 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. - Manager vs. Leader
In the last 20 years, we’ve seen a widening in the gap between the modern concept of leadership and traditional ideas of management. It’s not enough to use money or fear of a job loss to produce results anymore. Organizations now seek to create a workplace of job satisfaction and self-led workers without compromising the management hierarchy.
Learning Objectives of Session 1:
1.) To know the fundamental differences between what a manager does and what a leader is.
2.) To know the two basic types of motivation that causes subordinates to act or react as we might want them to.
3.) To learn how to form an effective leadership style of your own that works in any organization or industry.
4.) To know the 10 facts you must know before you can lead a team or organization effectively.
Session 2: 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. - What Motivation is, and What it Isn’t
How can you tell the difference between an administrator who seeks compliance by an authoritative style and one who uses an authoritarian style? It’s a thin line between two systems of motivation that causes individuals to want to perform and a system that makes them perform. Which do you think works best?
Learning Objectives of Session 2:
1.) To know the little-known secrets behind goal-setting and commitment to your goals.
2.) To learn how to influence work behavior’s that are aligned with the leader’s goals.
3.) To know the key differences between how managers communicate and leaders communicate.
4.) To know how to become a leader and motivator of your team when you don’t possess formal authority.
Session 3: 11:00 – 11:50 a.m. - Specialized Problem Solving in Today’s Teams
There is normally, no labeled position “problem-solver” in today’s teams because today’s teams are expected to solve all their problems within the confines of the team. Leaders today are especially challenged to be able to direct conflict towards collaboration and make problem solving a skill that strengthens the team instead of destroying it. Remember that you’ll always be evaluated first on what you like to do least.
Learning Objectives of Session 3:
1.) To know how to avoid becoming the designated problem solver for all organizational issues.
2.) To learn who loses out when problem solving is designated to a single individual.
3.) To learn how to convert destructive conflict into constructive conflict.
4.) To know the difference between problems the team can solve and problems the leader must solve.
Lunch Break: 11:50 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Session 4: 1:00 – 1:50 p.m. - Using “Looped Feedback” to Reach Your Full Potential
For several years, organizations have tried to develop a system of continual feedback that equally informs team member’s of where improvement is most needed and where it has become most obvious. Most systems of looped or '360 degree' feedback have failed to survive because we haven’t defined it as something positive for everyone in the organization. Effective leaders seek feedback as the fuel behind commitment and after this session, you will see why.
Learning Objectives of Session 4:
1.) To be able to clarify the difference between traditional ‘criticism’ and modern ‘feedback’.
2.) To know and apply the ‘do’s and don’ts’ of giving feedback.
3.) To learn how feedback is the best and cheapest organizational training tool.
4.) To understand the personal leadership gain one acquires when they can productively digest feedback given from other team members.
Session 5: 2:00 – 2:50 p.m. - How Team’s Effectively Deal with Unacceptable Behavior
Most managers are familiar with the traditional set of disciplinary procedures set in place to deal with poor performance but this often does little to change attitudes within the team. Unacceptable behavior and poor attitude often grow like a disease in organizations before intervention takes place and something always get lost in the carnage. The only way to reinforce good behavior in the team is to teach the team how they can and must reinforce positive behavior together.
Learning Objectives of Session 5:
1.) To be able to recognize when covert attitudes are destroying your organization.
2.) To learn how bad attitudes can be weeded out on a consistent basis.
3.) How a 'leader' handles unacceptable behavior.
4.) How the team can continually reinforce positive behavior together.
Session 6: 3:00 – 3:50 p.m. - Putting It All Together
Now it’s time to take all these teambuilding and leadership skills you’ve learned and brainstorm them into actions that you can take the next day you return to work. The biggest enemy of lasting change is the return of old habits. In the final session, we seek to develop a personal method of maintaining healthy and up building change.
Learning Objectives of Session 6:
1.) To acknowledge what you need to do the next day you return to work.
2.) To know and recognize the symptoms of backward thinking.
3.) To understand the difference between authentic empowerment and pseudo-empowerment.
4.) To understand why you should like your work but love your people.
UPCOMING SCHEDULED EVENTS:
| event date | city & state | seminar topic | Seminar registration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03.24.2008 | Oakbrook, IL | The Leadership & Teambuilding Workshop | Seminar Registration |
| 03.25.2008 | Kansas City, MO | The Leadership & Teambuilding Workshop | Seminar Registration |
| 03.27.2008 | Lees Summit, MO | The Leadership & Teambuilding Workshop | Seminar Registration |
| 03.28.2008 | Lee's Summit, MO | The Leadership & Teambuilding Workshop | Seminar Registration |
