Leadership Training: Leadership Training or Leadership Development

The Leadership Training Institute offers seminars that teach participants to confidently use proven methods of management leadership to lead people and help them plan, organize and control their work assignments. Seminar participants will also learn to use resources made available to them more effectively.

On-Site Seminars: can be tailored to the needs of client organization and delivered on-site at time and location of client choice.

Seminar Objectives:

At the 90-day post-seminar assessment, participants will have:

Demonstrated (on the job) an understanding that the intuitive style of leadership (self-centered, directive) will only work in special circumstances and will have made noticeable improvement in working themselves toward a management leadership style (participatory, empowering)

Spent more time "leading and managing" and less time "doing"

Used the action planning process to plan and implement at least one important initiative that has a positive impact on business results

Used the decision-making technique on the job to arrive at sound decisions that have or will have a positive impact on business results

Demonstrated greater ability to function in teamwork situations

Developed and successfully used a system of control by exception

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Leadership Training or Leadership Development - Building the Case

Why is leadership training or leadership development so important to organizations or to many individuals? Hundreds of book are written about great leaders and the art of leadership from historical figures such as Sun Tzu, Moses, Alexander the Great and Napoleon to modern day contemporaries including Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Jack Welch, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. However, when we travel beyond the incredible accomplishments of these great leaders and their art of leadership, the question still remains why is leadership so necessary for organizations, governments and even each human being?

Building the case for leadership must begin at the end of the road or as Stephen Covey has been so often quoted: "Begin with the end in mind." So, then, what are the results that we expect from the broad concept call leadership?

When individuals can secure results, they benefit and so do those around them. These benefits begin with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. First, we need to have our Biological and Physiological needs meet. After filling our stomachs and sleeping in our warm beds, we look to the second stage of Safety. Being protected from the elements to each other leads us to exploring the third stage of Belongingness and love needs. Then and only then can we reach the fourth state of Esteem needs including self-esteem, achievement and independence. Our trip ends at the fifth stage that Maslow called Self-Actualization. Only at this stage can we realize our personal potential, attain self-fulfillment and experience peak personal growth.

What Maslow did was to also build a foundational case for the art of leadership within his 5-step Hierarchy of Needs. Leadership is the bridge that connects each step or need to the next. Without leadership, the ability to get results, that being advancement to the next level, is much more difficult.

The case for leadership training or leadership development also extends into core values or those non-negotiable behaviors that will always be consistently demonstrated. To secure results without respecting others is not leadership.

For leadership is all about people helping people. That is the case for leadership development whether it is in the boardroom or the living room. Without leadership both organizations and people work "harder not smarter" in their quest to reach that fifth and final stage of self-fulfillment of their innate potential. And isn't that what leadership is all about? Being the best at what you do and helping others to be the best at what they do.

Source: Leanne Hoagland Smith link

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