Leading Meetings for Maximum Productivity
High-value meetings allow you to accomplish significantly more in less time. While this may seem like the exception and not the rule, there are insider tips and tactics you can learn that will make your meetings stand out as highly productive and worth the time. Increase your credibility by knowing when not to call a meeting. In this course, explore techniques used by professional facilitators to create highly productive meetings for faster decision-making, greater buy-in, enhanced work relationships, and a quicker pace. Practice creating action-oriented agendas that include post-meeting follow-up. Role-playing, case studies, and meeting simulations allow you to experience three distinct types of meetings—the recurring/standing, the project/strategy, and the virtual meeting—and to deconstruct the elements of each.
Creating a High-Performance Workplace
Managing performance in today’s marketplace presents the challenge of keeping employees engaged, focused on the most important tasks, and committed to the organization. If you have some management experience, then take this course to unveil the mystery of the performance process and to understand the critical elements that allow individuals and groups to reach their potential. Learn a disciplined approach to leading and managing, motivational strategies for developing employees, guidelines for creating fair and measurable performance goals, and methods for improving your own performance. This course uses readings, group discussions, team presentations, individual assessment exercises, and case studies to show you how to adjust your approach.
Decisions, Dynamics, and Leadership Styles
Effective decision-making is essential to personal and organizational success. Learn the process behind decision-making, explore various models and theories, and examine correlating leadership styles. Use case studies to shed light on decision-making styles—your own and those of others—and learn how to implement new ones. By the end of the course, be able to make strategic decisions more easily, more effectively, and with greater confidence.
Leadership and Management
Managers who excel not only are skilled at managing others, but they also are exceptional leaders. In this interactive seminar, differentiate between management skills and leadership skills, and learn to recognize which to use in different situations. Compare and contrast management and leadership, examine five fundamental practices of exemplary leadership, and arrive at a natural approach that works for you. Develop a personal action plan, and explore techniques to cultivate leadership skills in others. Benefit from a combination of lectures, learning assessment exercises, small-group activities, and case studies.
Talent Assessment
When organizations invest in talent management and assessment, they are investing in identifying, measuring and developing strengths that will allow their workforce and their leaders to execute the business strategy successfully. This course will teach students how to translate strategic goals from organizational capabilities into workforce strengths that matter. Through interactive group activities and lectures, students will be able to assess and utilize best tools and practices for effective results in various organizations.
Management Strategy and Communication
Managers in the current business climate cannot function effectively without the ability to analyze current business conditions, to set a strategy, and to communicate that strategy properly. This course is designed to help managers as well as human resource and organizational development professionals to understand the critical skills of strategy and business communication. Learn to present to executives, to target communications to audiences, to create communication plans, and to speak to diverse groups.