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High Performance Leadership
Date: 2 June 2014 ­ 6 June 2014
Course ID: 253/2014
Duration: 5 Days
Fee US $: 2950 US$
Venue: Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia Category: Leadership, Management, Strategy, HR and Soft Skills
Introduction:
Leader values are the guiding principles that determine leader behavior and performance, which, in turn motivates and inspires follower behavior.
Management in the 21st Century will focus on the well­documented values­based theory. The companies that offer powerful examples of the practical impact of Leader
values are the guiding principles that determine leader behavior and performance, which, in turn, motivates and inspires follower behavior. The end result is the high
performance required for an organization to achieve competitive advantage and future success.
Objectives:
Recognize the characteristics of high­performing leaders and workgroups
Encourage an environment that drives high performance
Effectively drive and manage change
Apply the principles of respectful communication
Collaborate to solve complex problems
Create a plan to eradicate the barriers to high performance in your business unit
Partner with other workgroups to effect positive change in the company
Surround yourself with people who have skills that complement your own
Identify, replicate, and nurture high­performance behaviors and workgroups throughout the organization
Develop a structured approach to preparing for and thinking more complexly about negotiations and everyday influence situations
Develop a framework for avoiding individual decision traps and improving team decisions
Lead more effectively and drive strategic direction by leveraging your strengths
Who should attend:
Newly appointed or experienced leaders who are expected to demonstrate core
competencies, while being problem solvers, decision makers and results producers in a daily environment that features change, issues and ill ­ structured challenges.
These leaders feel the need to equip themselves with techniques that can help achieve greater daily success.
With limited resources and numerous exogenous variables affecting your ability to function at peak performance levels, you will benefit from the best leadership practices
and performance leadership techniques that promote innovation, interdependence and proactive thinking.
Daily Outlines:
Day (1) :
• Introduction to High performance Leadership
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• What Is Leadership, And How Does It Differ From Management
Day (1) :
• Introduction to High performance Leadership
• What Is Leadership, And How Does It Differ From Management
• Generic Approaches to Leadership
• Leadership Traits Approach
• Leadership Behaviors Approach
• Three major approaches were developed:
• Michigan Studies
• Ohio State Studies
• Managerial Grid
• Leadership Grid
• Situational Approaches to Leadership
• Some of the most important and widely accepted situational theories of leadership include:
• Least­Preferred Coworker [LPC] Theory
• Favorableness of the Situation:
• Favorableness and Leader Style
• The Least­Preferred Coworker Theory of Leadership
• Path­Goal Theory [Evans &House]
• Four kinds of Leader Behavior include:
• Situational Factors in Path­Goal Theory:
• The Path­Goal Theory
• Vroom’s Decision Tree Approach
• Trait theories
• Identifiable characteristics of leaders.
• Leader­Member Exchange [LMX] Model
• Leadership: Encouraging a High­Performance Environment
• Values­based Leadership For The 21st Century
• The Connection Between Leader Values And High Performance
• How to use values
Day (2) :
• The Tenets of a High­Performance Environment
• Essential Requirements for Organization Change
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• Methods for Managing Change
• The Tenets of a High­Performance Environment
• Essential Requirements for Organization Change
• Methods for Managing Change
• Re­engineering
• Total Quality Management
• Development of Learning Organizations
• TQM and Learning Organization
• The Respectful Communication: More than the Dissemination of Information
• High Performance Development Model levels
• The 8 Core Competencies of high performance
1. Personal Mastery
2. Technical Skills
3. Interpersonal Effectiveness
4. Customer Service
5. Flexibility/Adaptability
6. Creative Thinking
7. Systems Thinking
8. Organizational Stewardship
• The 6 Tools
• Performance­Based Interviewing
• Continuous Assessment
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Continuous Learning Opportunities
• Performance Management
• Core Competency Development
• Personal Development Plan
• What is PDP?
• 5 star PDP
(1)Career Goals
o Why don’t PDP’s always work?
(2) Skills and Competencies
(3) Assessment
(4) development activity (5) Timelines
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Day (3) :
(4) development activity (5) Timelines
Day (3) :
Building High performance Environment
• Use The High Performance Development Model:
• 8 HPDM Core Competencies
• HPDM Pyramid
Character
• Definition Of Character
• Excellence Is A Habit
• The Leadership Challenge
• The 3­Step Process
• Facilitative Leaders
Day (4) :
• Discover your strength
• Super­leadership
• How Super­leadership Differs?
• Self­leadership
• Follower­ship
• Behavioral Strategies
• Cognitive Strategies
• Building natural rewards into the work
• Focusing one’s thoughts
• Establishing constructive thought patterns
• Teaching Super­leadership
• Modeling
• Guided Participation
• Allowing Self­leadership Skills to Develop
• Leadership and Power
• Legitimate Power
• Reward Power
• Coercive Power
• Referent Power
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• Expert Power
• Coercive Power
• Referent Power
• Expert Power
• Using Power
• Legitimate request
• Instrumental compliance
• Coercion
• Rational persuasion
• Personal identification
• Inspirational appeal
• Information distortion
• Decision Making Styles
Day (5) :
• Critical Thinking and Consensus: Decision Making
• Decision­ Making definition
• Decision­Making Process
• Problem­solving process
• Identify The Problem & Analyze The Situation
• Explore alternatives
• Choose most desirable alternative
• Implement decision
• Decision­making tools
• Behavioral aspects of decision­making
• Myer­Briggs indicators (MBI)
• Group Factors In Decision­making
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