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High Impact Leadership: Expanding Your Influence to Achieve Results

 
Course: 909   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Lead, manage and engage teams for positive strategic outcomes
  • Successfully navigate organizational politics to achieve business results
  • Implement strategy to strengthen your team's competitive advantage
  • Enable effective decision making and judgment in challenging situations
  • Extend business alliances and proactively facilitate change across your organization
  • Focus on individual and team strengths to enhance talent capability and performance

Course Benefits

In today's world of continuous externally and internally driven change, organizations rely on leaders to execute strong visioning, influencing and employee-engagement skills to keep their teams productive and results-focused. In this course, you gain practical knowledge, skills and political savvy to become more effective at implementing strategy, making effective decisions, building networks and alliances, and leading teams through various types of change.

Who Should Attend

Experienced or middle managers and team leaders who wish to enhance their leadership abilities to drive team results while enhancing team performance and productivity.

RealityPlus™

In an immersive environment, you participate in a thought-provoking case study, as well as individual and group activities, to apply leadership tools, techniques and strategies. Activities include:
  • Influencing others by leveraging your leadership strengths
  • Assessing your ability to thrive in a political environment
  • Turning your department's strengths into a competitive advantage
  • Measuring and monitoring performance results in a fast, efficient way
  • Profiling your decision-making style and recognizing how others make decisions
  • Building alliances and social networks through effective influencing tactics
  • Applying a strategic change model
  • Promoting individual and team strengths
  • Overcoming resistance to change on a personal and team level
  • Storytelling to appreciate generational differences
  • Customizing your own leadership personal action plan for individual growth and development

Related Courses

 
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Training Dates

US Dates

Mar 7 - 9Reston, VA
Mar 28 - 30New York 
Apr 18 - 20Rockville, MD
Jul 11 - 13Reston, VA
Jul 25 - 27New York 
Aug 8 - 10Rockville, MD
Oct 31 - Nov 2New York 
Nov 7 - 9Reston, VA
Dec 5 - 7Rockville, MD

For complete schedule, please visit www.learningtree.ca
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High Impact Leadership: Expanding Your Influence to Achieve Results

 
Course: 909   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 
Course 909 Content
 

The Role at the Middle

  • The voice of experience
  • Gaining leadership wisdom
  • Assessing your ability to influence others and achieve results

Politics with Integrity

Organizational culture

  • Demystifying your organization's culture
  • Appreciating political dynamics to increase organizational awareness
  • Politics and emotional intelligence
  • Recognizing the politics in internal processes and relationships
  • Valuing different perspectives

Politics: thriving in a political landscape

  • Politics, ethics and integrity
  • Power and relationships: developing your power base
  • Inspiring others in your network to take action
  • Promoting a culture of trust and credibility

Linking Strategy to Action

Implementing a strategic direction

  • Balancing strategic planning with implementation
  • Middle leaders as strategy ambassadors and activists
  • Identifying your department's competitive advantage through its strengths and weaknesses
  • Collecting data for your strategy

Translating strategy into measurable outcomes

  • Ensuring your team stays focused and engaged on the appropriate strategic results
  • Building and sustaining momentum using metrics
  • Communicating results up and down the hierarchy

Making Tough Decisions

What makes a decision challenging

  • Decision making as an emotional process
  • Dealing with cognitive and personal biases
  • Exercising good judgment when making ethical decisions
  • Leading your team to exercise judgment when making decisions

Decision-making styles

  • Identifying your own style
  • Flexing your style to gain buy-in and support

Applying a decision-making model

  • Employing a step-by-step process
  • Generating and prioritizing options
  • Minimizing the potential for conflict
  • Making appropriate trade-offs

Expanding Your Influence across Your Organization

Eliminating "silo" thinking

  • Defining your circle of influence
  • Gaining commitment, not compliance

The power of networking

  • Broadening your network through personal and professional connections
  • Identifying pivotal links and key stakeholders
  • Creating alliances to effect positive action
  • Applying influencing strategies to specific personal examples

Fostering Change from the Middle

The challenge of change

  • Why change is difficult
  • Inspiring action from your team
  • Involving your team to create buy-in

Making change happen

  • Implementing a strategic change model
  • Identifying types of change resisters
  • Determining the impact of resisters and taking action
  • Transforming resistance into cooperative productivity

Engaging and Mobilizing Others

Leveraging team performance for strategic results

  • Supporting improved individual and team performance
  • Eliminating performance barriers
  • Fostering ownership, accountability and teamwork
  • Effectively integrating new team members

Harnessing individual strengths

  • Motivating others through a shared vision
  • Aligning individual values and purposes with organizational goals
  • Promoting individual talents and skills

Orchestrating cross-generational understanding

  • Respecting different values and approaches
  • Deciphering and interpreting style differences
  • Storytelling as a critical leadership communication tool
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High Impact Leadership: Expanding Your Influence to Achieve Results Tuition

 
Course: 909   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 
Course Tuition
$ 2,695Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 2,2952-Course Passport
$ 1,8353-Course Passport
$ 1,7604-Course Passport
$ 2,950Voucher 5-Pack
$ 2,370Government Discount

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

2-Course Passport
  • 2 Courses in 12 months for $4,590
  • As little as $2,295 per course
  • Savings up to 35% per course
3-Course Passport
  • 3 Courses in 24 months for $5,500
  • As little as $1,835 per course
  • Savings up to 50% per course
4-Course Passport
  • 4 Courses in 24 months for $7,035
  • As little as $1,760 per course
  • Savings up to 50% per course
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $1,080 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,895 per course
Exact savings may vary depending on courses selected.

Your Guarantee of Satisfaction

Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course—and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the tuition.

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Enrol by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrolment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
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