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Proven Leadership Skills

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

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

Workshop Objectives:

At the 90-day post-workshop 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 Workshops: Leadership Workshops Vs Management Workshops- Are You Limiting Your Thinking?

Understanding leadership vs. management literally is the difference between status quo and achieving your dreams. Talents, gifts, and skills may earn you results early in your business, but building your dream lifestyle can only be accomplished by developing strong leadership skills. Furthermore, you need to become a leader of leaders. That is the secret to creating unstoppable growth.

Leadership vs. Management Fact #1:

If you are the only leader in your organization, and everyone looks to you for decisions, then you are really managing. Leaders understand the concept of rising up other leaders and empowering people.

Leadership vs. Management Fact #2:

If there isn't anybody else in your business right now, who could step up and fill your shoes, then you are not a leader, you are a manager. It is common for management to be somewhat secretive with their duties, and fail to teach key players everything, due to insecurities. It seems to come from the fear of not being needed, because if anyone else can function in their position as well, they become replaceable. Being a leader, means you understand the importance of being replaceable, because you want the business to be a success with or without you. A sign of being a strong leader is knowing that should something happen to you, the business would not suffer because you've done your job in developing leaders within your team.

Leadership vs. Management Fact #3:

If you are exceptional in managing day to day operations, but find it difficult to implement change within your team, then you are merely managing, and not leading. I have witnessed this countless times, where a person gets out of the gate running and achieves immediate results, only to see progress come to an abrupt halt. This is the result of fresh energy and excitement, because at the start of a new venture, most people have a natural limited focus on individual performance. The challenge comes in when the need to employ and motivate others arises. To create momentum beyond your personal efforts, demands leadership, as well as the ability to inspire leadership skills in your team.

Keys To Developing An Unstoppable Business

1. Invest Time & Resources Into Developing Leaders. Managers won't do this because of insecurities and the basic need to feel important. Leading is knowing how to produce a compounding result through cultivating leadership instead of employing followers. Leadership duplication increases the potential for your business, because the overall success isn't dependent on the skills of one person. Developing strength in the leadership team will ensure the business can thrive beyond their personal labor.

2. Invest In Your Best People. Management thinking leads positional leaders to focus energy in the wrong places, with the wrong people, being the team members who need the most help. Follow the 80/20 rule, and invest in your strongest team members or those who have the most leadership potential. When you develop more leaders, you have a larger selection of people who can teach and train the weaker members.

Succession defines one of the differences of leadership vs. management. Managing your business will limit your impact to only those you personally touch. You are only one person, and one person can add business one account, or one person at a time. However, leadership development causes multiplication, through influencing a larger population you otherwise would not have access to. Managers maintain operations, but leaders can cause explosive growth. True security is obtained when leaders invest in their best, and prepare their team members to succeed them.

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