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Proven Leadership Skills

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

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

Class Objectives:

At the 90-day post-class 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 Class: Truth About How Leadership Works

1. Leaders Can Operate in Very Different Ways

Leaders don't fit into a mold. Leadership isn't something that only works in one form. There are our elected government leaders, such as those we put into our federal and state legislatures. Other elected leaders may take positions on corporate boards or in our local clubs.

Meanwhile, informal leaders seem to come to be looked to by large crowds of people without having any sort of title. Other leaders may be born to a title, such as a prince or grandparent. Some become leaders simply by being among the most skilled or most accomplished in a field of study or work.
You need only look to how people have followed the guidance of people such as Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein to see how one's skills and work can bring about the role of a leader.
On top of all of this, many great written works list all sorts of styles practiced by those who are looked to as leaders.

*Lewin: Authoritative, Delegative, Participative
*Likert: Benevolent Authoritative, Consultative, Exploitive, Participative
*Goleman: Affiliative, Coaching, Commanding, Democratic, Pacesetting, Visionary

2. Leadership Skills Must Be Honed

Many of the traits a person needs in order to be a leader appear to be present at birth. However, it takes exposure to just the right environmental factors, such as educational and social resources, to develop leadership skills fully. In this way, leadership appears to function like any other skill. Everyone has their own innate aptitudes, which can be developed to varying degrees.

For many people, the extra step of a leadership seminar is all the extra knowledge needed to tap potential. Others will benefit from leadership workshops where they can practice application of leadership theory. One thing leaders seem to have in common is a continued improvement of their leadership skills and an improving recognition of leadership skills.

3. You Are Responsible for the Development of Your Own Leadership Skills

Leadership skills are not so much theory as application. You must practice leadership. Reading and talking about leadership have their place, but it is only through practice that you can develop your own leadership skills. Remember always that as a leader you'll be in front of a spotlight. You're always being watched. Everything you do is analyzed at some level. Just as importantly, everything you do, whether large or small, develops habits. This is the foundation of your character. For more on this, ready Steven Covey's "7 Habits of Highly Effective People".

4. You Must Belong to Lead

You can't live on an island and then expect people to follow you. You must engage an entire group of people, and even share responsibilities with that group, in order to emerge as a leader of that group. You have responsibilities that exist as a member of any given group, apart from the additional responsibilities you seek as the leader of that group. So you must lead by example in the shared responsibilities of the group in order to gain the trust for additional responsibilities.

You must effectively function as a team member. The quality of your interaction within your group will be what impacts the willingness of those in the group to follow your lead. Much of this comes down to the building of mutual understandings and trust. Trust can only be built by demonstrating yourself in action. Likewise, you must show respect for other members of the group.

5. The Right Leadership Style is Situation Dependent

You may wonder why some countries seem more successful under dictators, while others only seem to succeed under democracy. There are all sorts of factors that determine the needed and accepted forms of leadership for a group. Common group values are one important factor. At the same time, the situations of individual group members and the situation of the group as a whole may lend itself toward a specific leadership style.

The great leaders are the ones who can adapt their leadership styles without losing their leadership roles in order to meet varying leadership situations. To be a completely effective leader, you need to be able to adapt yourself to lead in a certain way during crises, and another way during tranquil times.

When you are in charge of a group of people who are highly competent at what they do, you can lead best as an enabler and delegator. When you are in charge of people who have no specific skills or internal drive, you may have to be a motivator and coach, with final say on how things are done.

You may already know all of this, but again, leadership is something you must do, not something you know about. Start practicing being a leader if you want to be a leader.

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