THREE-PART TRAINING SERIES
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Whether you are charged with leading and managing people or managing work processes, the skills required to do so in today’s business environments have continued to evolve as quickly as the business itself.
PeopleForce 2030 is a three-part series of facilitated and interactive 90-minute sessions that discuss three leadership competencies which can help managers build influential relationships, make collaborative decisions, and show up as authentic leaders. Each session builds upon the next – and even includes some “homework” that attendees can complete to both prepare for the next session and to engender discussions within their teams.
Each session is scheduled to your organization’s calendar.
1: Interpersonal Savvy
Audience: New and Aspiring Leaders
Course Objectives:
Current and future people leaders must learn communication competencies that allow them to influence and build relationships through both formal channels and informal networks, and within multi-hierarchical and cross-functional organizations. Attendees will also learn more about their own communication styles and work preferences and will discuss how to build strategic networks to support their work and career objectives.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand how your communications style/preference impacts your ability to effectively influence decisions and manage relationships.
- Learn techniques for delivering “bad” news while building and/or maintaining trust.
- Appreciate the importance of assertive actions and behaviors, and what can impact our ability to exhibit them.
- Discuss emotional intelligence and its connection to being a savvy communicator.
2: Dealing with Ambiguity
Audience: All Managers
Course Objectives:
In today’s complex work environments, the ability to deal with ambiguity is a key leadership skill that, if mastered as a core competency, can support a leader’s ability to effectively manage situations with limited information and the uncertainty of outcomes that exists when there is no clear path forward. This course will discuss how to move your work and motivate your teams with little or no direction – and how to recalibrate and adapt as new information becomes available.
Key Takeaways:
- Discuss language to use – and to avoid - when managing ambiguous situations.
- Learn the “principles” of journalism and how to employ them in determining what questions should be addressed when sharing an incomplete/evolving “story.”
- Appreciate the importance of asking for help.
- Understand when to talk and when to listen.
3: Building Resilience
Audience: All Managers
Course Objectives:
As a leadership strategy, Resilience is an emotional capability as much as a leadership characteristic or competency. This session will describe how resilient leaders are able to pick themselves up when they get knocked down and how they look at mistakes or failures as opportunities to learn and get better. We review how their “skeptical optimism” of projecting confidence while bracing themselves for unexpected challenges will support them through seemingly overwhelming challenges.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand and tap into your source of resilience.
- Learn the importance of creative, active problem-solving and how to involve everyone in the process.
- Recognize the signs when your “battery” has run too low for you to be an effective leader.
- Create your own “resiliency to-do list.”
