Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Leadership Excellence

Why Should You Take This Leadership Excellence Workshop?

The Leadership Excellence workshop is an eye-opening day of insightful discussion and interactive learning that will give you a rich new perspective on your leadership role. The authors of Triple Crown Leadership will be participating in this training so you can be assured the level of learning will be sky-high. You'll learn what it means to be a leader and how you can develop your skills to establish credibility and get results. You'll learn how to maintain your team effectively as well as sustain your own leadership success in this one-day workshop.

Topics To Be Covered Include:

• How top leaders lead themselves — and why that's so important
• Why purpose, values, and mission drive everything
• The strengths and weaknesses of your current leadership style
• Staffing principles that ensure you hire people who fit
• How your personal values anchor your behavior as a leader

Practical Applications:

One of the extraordinary benefits of attending Leadership Excellence is that you get to participate in lively practical application discussions and exercises that will bring the concepts to life in real and meaningful ways. This ensures you can immediately apply the lessons learned when you're back on the job.

The applications and exercises cover a wide range of issues, including:

• What to do when your values and your organization's values are not in alignment
• Interviewing and hiring techniques that help you find the right character fit
• How to identify and articulate your core personal values – and why that matters
• Establishing credibility … and credibility busters you want to avoid
• When and how to flex between the soft and hard edges of leadership
• And more!

Many of these exercises will be debriefed by Triple Crown Leadership authors Bob and Gregg Vanourek through engaging video presentations. The Vanoureks researched 61 organizations in 11 countries to unpack the practices of building excellent, ethical, and enduring organizations. This is truly a rare chance to learn from these highly acclaimed leadership experts.

Syllabus

Section One - The Leader:

• Why leadership is not really about the power and position
• Defining your personal leadership mission and values
• Identify whether your personal values align with the organizational values and purpose/vision
• Understanding your natural leadership style – and when you must break out of it
• Establishing credibility: You lead by example, whether you intend to or not
• Self-mastery: defining your personal purpose and values
• Why character plays an important role in effective leadership
• What are your organization"s values (explicit or implicit)?

Section Two - Building the Team and Setting the Structure for Success:

• Building an effective team – hiring people with the right attitude and cultural fit
• Establishing trust and respect
• Purpose statements: creating a common purpose for you and your team
• Winning hearts and minds … and why both matter!
• Special types of employees and situations that need TLC
• The keys to forming a team that exhibits tolerance, draws on team member strengths, and minimizes individual weaknesses

Section Three - Creating Exceptional Results:

• Leaders must achieve excellent results: How to take a good hard look at what must be done … and step up to do it
• When it"s time to challenge the status quo and break some rules
• How conflict avoidance sabotages results
• The need for "radical focus" in times of trouble, crisis, and change
• "No man is an island": how to unleash potential and creativity hidden within others
• Collaboratively working with a set of shared values and goals

Section Four - Principles for Sustaining Lasting Leadership Success:

• Who"s in your tribe? The value of a small group of trusted advisers
• You can"t do it alone: If you"re not developing employees and colleagues into leaders, you"re not really a leader
• The leader as servant – and why it"s the most important role you play
• Career-maker or -breaker: what"s your skillimprovement and leadership development plan going forward?
• How to maintain your leadership edge