Management and Leadership Training Courses
Proven
Leadership Skills The
Leadership Training Institute offers courses that teach participants
to confidently use proven methods of management leadership
to lead people and help them plan, organize
and control their work assignments. Course
participants will also learn to use resources made available to them more
effectively.
On-Site
Courses: can be tailored to the needs of client
organization and delivered on-site at time and location
of client choice.
Course Objectives:
At
the 90-day post-course 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 Courses: The Role of Personal Development in Leadership Success
Just as the body can be strengthened, toned, and have its endurance increased, so the mind will improve through use and regular activity. In the absence of disease, it is lack of mental activity, not aging, that causes the loss of capability.
This understanding is critical and demonstrates that leadership and professional development are inextricably linked. Once you make a decision to develop your leadership style or skills, or to instill new behaviors in your life, you will need to practice until they become habitual. This is the only route to lasting change. Our habits were typically installed over long periods of time, so persistence is required to change them, but with determination this process brings assured results.
Change Usually Takes Time and Practice...
The development of more effective behaviors must be underpinned by changes at the subconscious level - we must become unconsciously competent in them. This explains why it is difficult to introduce changes of behavior in the classroom. No matter how good the instruction may be, it primarily addresses the conscious mind. Although we may be able to understand a book from a single reading, perhaps even explain parts of it to someone else, the subconscious needs a great deal of practice at visualizing and experiencing the concepts before modified behaviors will become automatic. In most learning environments it is not possible to effect the necessary changes to make progress permanent. This exposes one of the greatest flaws in leadership development courses: the time frames involved in most of them are simply inadequate to effect a lasting transformation.
The more often that a new behavior is exercised the more strongly the new neural circuits will develop and the more automatic it will become (science is now discovering that it is actually Myelin that does the work - but that will need to be the subject of a separate article). It is as though we are cutting a new path through the jungle. The first person along it has a very tough job, working hard every step of the way, but it becomes progressively easier for each successive trip. Our propensity to choose a new behavior increases each time we exercise it.
...But we Can Speed the Process
One way to speed up this process tremendously is through the use of visualization techniques. It has been proven that the subconscious mind experiences things we visualize in almost exactly the same way as if they were actually happening. I find it amazing that we can even build muscle mass in this way! So each time you visualize the attainment of a new behavior or goal the subconscious mind experiences it as done and begins to change.
Athletes understand this. They spend a lot of time practicing and very little time actually performing. This allows them to be their best. Unfortunately most executives attempt to be successful whilst approaching their role the other way around - they find it very difficult to allocate time to study and practice because they are too busy performing.
Leadership Requires Practice Too
Just as very few people ever really learn how to read well, because they stop learning once they are adequate at it, very often executives learn most of what they know about leading others early in their first leadership role. They rarely stop to really question the effectiveness of their leadership style.
Initially they watched their peers or other leaders, but once they had learned enough to reach an acceptable level, the pressure of the job became a more urgent priority and they no longer found the time to consciously think about the kind of leader they wanted to be. Their recently learnt behavior patterns became habitual and thus were no longer examined. From that point most people gain little conscious awareness of their weaknesses or opportunities for development without external support from a highly functioning boss, coach or mentor. And they rarely, if ever, take the focused approach to practice that is essential in developing the skills necessary to become more effective.
In my years of working with executives and business owners I've consistently found that when they gain awareness of possible improvements in behaviors and then identify simple exercises that they can incorporate in their normal business day, rapid progress can be achieved. The combination of awareness and practice enables them to establish new behaviors and choices which become the foundation for improved results.
Source: Michael Nicholas
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