Course Objectives

• Gain insights of their own strengths and weaknesses and leadership styles
• Abilities to understand the emotional makeup of other people
• Develop leadership competencies and skills to motivate employees
• Understand and practice Innovative leadership
• Build the Foundation for Continuous Improvement
• Harness their employees' emotional intelligence to release creativity in the workplace
• Understand and practice key people skills to motivate towards excellence
• Remove blocks to motivation
• Develop people skills to motivate others
• Motivate innovative thinking in their employees
• Managing change in a productive way
• Harness employees' abilities to implement continuous improvement  

Course Outline

• Adopting the new organizational culture through understanding people
  • Importance of perception
  • Perception in the workplace
  • Maximizing our perceptual ability
  • Type & trait theories of human personality
  • Understanding Personality styles
  • Optimizing our personality strengths
  • Removing emotional blind spots
  • Appropriate self-disclosures
•     Motivating employees
  •  Understanding motivation
  •  Motivating ourselves and others
  • Applying theories of motivation in the workplace
  • How leaders can motivate employees
  • Removing blocks to motivation
  • Motivation for excellent performance
  • Motivating a high performance team
  • The Art of Giving and Receiving Criticism

•    Motivating innovative & creative thinking in the workplace
  • Psychological principles of creativity in the workplace
  • Encouraging creativity for continuous improvement
  • Convergent & divergent thinking
  • Understanding and managing creative people
  • Stages of the creative process: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination and Verification
  •  Transforming blocks to creativity
  •  Creativity for business breakthroughs
  • Divergent Thinking Skills for Innovative Leadership
•    The new leader
  •  Psychological principles of leadership
  • Theories of leadership
  •  Leadership for managing performance
  •  Transactional leadership & transformational leadership
  • Visionary & competent leadership
  • Developing leadership integrity
  •  Innovative leadership for excellent performance
  •  Being Prepared to Lead
• Managing for excellence
  • Development of Vision, Mission , Key Goals and Key Processes
  • Optimizing the leader's natural strengths
  • Integrity & Compassion for Accountable Leadership
  • Leadership for Performance Management
  • Managing Change and getting others involved
  • Leading by example
  •  Inspirational Leadership   

Who Can Benefit?

• All leaders managers and professionals who feel the need to adopt a personal change in order to be better prepared to lead their teams or workforce