Details about the weekly modules
The content of these weekly modules will be determined by the group and in consultation with you, however they often include modules in the following mindsets:
Six Mindsets
Mindset 1: Managing Self
- Understanding your six basic human needs and how well they are met
- Understanding your Thinking Preferences
- Understanding your "genius factor"
- Personal growth strategies
- Reprogramming your subconscious
- Clarifying personal goals and purpose
- Understanding your Management Style (normally and under pressure)
- Building your self confidence
- The six most common barriers to success and how they are holding you back
- Managing your manager so you both win
- Strategic thinking skills
- How to become more creative and innovative at work
- How to network and build relationships
- How to increase your own personal power
- Building facilitation your skills
- Building your leadership behaviours
- How to sell yourself
- Advanced selling skills - the SPIN process.
Mindset 2: Managing Others
- Research that identifies the one important distinction between good managers and others
- Why people different are and why they don't do what you want
- Getting the Best Out of Other People
- How to influence, sell and persuade
- Managing interpersonal relationships
- Improve decision-making
- How to improve motivation
- How to release untapped brain power
- How to facilitate groups
- Negotiation skills
- Delegation skills
- How to brainstorm and generate ideas within groups
- How to get people to want to follow you
- What good managers do and what they don't do
- How to build stronger teams
- How to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the team
- How to improve the skills within your Unit
- How to reenergise middle managers.
Mindset 3: Managing Organisations
- Understanding the Value Proposition
- How to establish Values and Culture
- Understanding Structural options and the issues with each
- How to establish alignment of Culture, Leadership Style, Brand and Service Delivery with the #Value Proposition
- The 9 core dimensions of all organisations and best practice in each
- Strengthening differentiation and becoming a "Purple Cow"
- How to determine the Unit's strategies
- How to increase the profit of your business
- Quality and continuous improvement
- Understanding the 20 hidden sources of organisational value
- How to establish internal success measures
- How to establish the Unit's output performance measures
- How to improve communication within organisations
- Multiplying organisational momentum
- How to improve non monetary incentives for individuals
- How to eliminate unnecessary activities
- How to improve a process
- Improving the senior management team
- How to provide advancement opportunities in a flat organisation
- Improving the Corporate Services function
- Improving the Product Development function
- Working with organisational politics
- Reducing strategic risk
- Trends in measurement
- Building successful K.P.I.s (David Parmenter)
- Decision reporting (David Parmenter)
- Quarterly rolling forecasts (David Parmenter)
- Health and saftey update (Greg Tetzlaff)
- Running successful meetings (Mike Osborne)
Mindset 4: Managing Context
- Understanding major changes in the environment
- Understanding why context matters
- Mega trends
- Building scenarios of the future
- Systems thinking as applied to organisations
- Analysing market forces and competitive your position
- The growing importance of intangible assets
- Changes in the economics of information and how this is blowing industries apart
- How to design a process to recognise context
- How to open up the organisation to external ideas and influences.
Mindset 5: Managing Relationships
- How to build relationships and networks in an increasingly connected world
- Creating Customer Intimate activities for major customers
- Improving customer service
- Understanding the 5 Laws of Networks
- Building networking skills
- How to improve relationships with P.A.L.s of the Unit
- Strategic partnerships
- How to understand other stakeholders better
- How to build more cooperation and collaboration between units
- Scenario building for future success.
Mindset 6: Managing Change
- Appreciative Inquiry and its place in organisational change
- How to establish a set of common values within your Unit
- How to make successful change in your Unit
- How to improve information within your Unit
- How to run successful project teams
- How to write a strategic plan
- How to write a business plan
- Open Space Technology
- Action Learning as a tool for change
- How to assess the organisation's readiness for change
- The Change Manager's "Tool Kit"
- Improving the implementation of change
- The most important barriers to change
- How to make change quickly and with acceptance
- Understanding chaos and complexity and their impact on change processes
- Strategy evaluation
- Accounting for beginners and understanding financial reports
- Understanding those things that never change.
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Key words: Leadership, leadership development, leadership management, leadership training, leadership program, leadership skills