Course Description

To maximize personal effectiveness in any enterprise, 3 success factors are required:  

1) understanding and mastery of Self;  2) understanding and motivation of Others;  3) developing and executing on Collaborative Strategies to achieve personal, team and organizational results.  Building Personal Leadership will explore all 3 of these essential building blocks of personal leadership, and provide the participant with practical tools, techniques, attitudes and mindsets to maximize their impact.  

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Target Audience

Employees in positions of influence, who have no staff or direct reports, but who nevertheless need to enlist the buy-in, cooperation and support of others, within the organization and externally, to get things done.  They may be individual contributors and/or potential FUTURE organizational leaders who are responsible TODAY for high performance and results.

Objectives

Participants will learn to:

     •  understand, develop and leverage their sources of personal power

     •  increase their Trustworthiness to generate more Trust

     •  maintain an appropriate and productive level of pressure on themselves and others

     •  manage proactively their reputation

     •  identify opportunities to form alliances with key colleagues and clients

     •  listen strategically and appreciate others' perspectives

     •  boost engagement by creating a "creative climate" where everyone feels free/safe to

          say what is really on their mind

     •  synergistically problem-solve with colleagues and customers

     •  disagree constructively, challenge productively and say "no" diplomatically     

     •  turn conflict into collaboration

     •  decide on and implement their collaborative strategies to get more things done

Method

A combination of lectures, discussions, and best-practice sharing complemented with personalized exercises, simulations, and case studies.  Practice of all new tools and techniques.  Each participant will develop and commit to their own "PLS" (Personal Leadership Strategy).

Duration of the session:  2 days

Number of participants:  12 maximum

Working languages:  English or French