Management and Leadership Training Workshops
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 Training Workshops: Leadership - Is It Important to Be a Good Follower?
I was thinking about what it takes to be a good follower. Kind of a contrary thought, isn't it? Because, anyway you slice the pie, leadership gets the most press.
The leader; is the out front guy, who takes the flack or receives the praises. As we all know, the leadership proficiency meter can go from bad to great with many stages and steps along the way. Is it completely out of vogue to be a good follower?
Great leaders are not hatched from a egg fully developed. They all start out as good followers. Timing or circumstances are the usual catalyst for turning a follower into a leader. If a follower hasn't learned from the feet of the leadership master, how can they become an exceptional leader?
Someone who has been in the following of a leader are, themselves, setting an example. If they haven't been coach-able, helpful, or taken direction well, the example they have set will be a poor one. Others will follow that example. When they advance to the leadership position, their reign will be fraught with the issues in their followers, they, themselves, were an example of. In other words, what goes around comes around.
Some people, in a leadership position, want to keep all the knowledge of how to lead people to themselves. They may feel insecure in sharing the knowledge. What if their followers won't want to follow them? Or, the follower might take their job if they understand what it takes to lead.
This kind of thinking is a grave error in judgment. The only leaders who can stand the test of time are those who create leaders from their followers.
A sign of a strong, confident leader is to realize or believe the cause they are fighting or working for is larger than themselves. If they are to truly succeed on a monumental leadership level, they have to train their followers to become a leader, and to develop other leaders; a leadership factory, so to speak.
If this isn't done, a good cause can fail, crumbled at the very core, by a lack of leadership to continue after the initial leader has gone.
There is value in being a good follower. Obviously, we can't all be the leader at the same time. It is an excellent leadership training ground to learn to lead. A good follower is the backbone and strength of any group.
As the old saying goes, a team is only as strong as its weakest link. If we understand and believe this concept, wouldn't it be wise to be the best follower possible?
Source: Nan McAdam
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