High-Impact Leadership: Train Managers to Effectively Use Leadership Styles
Build a leadership toolkit to encompass many styles and create high-impact results.
Onsite Workshop
When leaders are not aware of their leadership style’s effect on the organization and team, the following occurs:
- Damaged organizational culture
- Lack of cooperation
- Use of the wrong leadership style at the wrong time
- Wasted time, money, and resources
- Lack of high business impact
When managers have the skills to diagnose a situation and implement the right leadership style, both the organization and teams benefit:
- Relationships and teams are strengthened
- Collaborative problem solving improves innovation and strategic decision making
- Organizational objectives are delivered in a timely and seamless manner
- A positive organizational culture is created
Module 1: The importance of mastering leadership styles
The Purpose
- Learn the basics of leadership styles.
- Understand the value of mastering many leadership styles.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understand how the use of effective leadership styles impacts the bottom line.
- Appreciate how self-awareness aids in leadership development.
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1.1 | Group exercise: brainstorm leadership styles you have preferred in the past |
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1.2 | Self-reflection: review of 360 degree feedback and conduct leadership self-assessment |
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Module 2: How to use effective leadership styles
The Purpose
- Learn the six leadership styles.
- Review the McLean & Company process model for diagnosing the situation in order to select an appropriate style.
- Find out which two styles should be used only when needed due to their negative effective on the climate.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understanding of the leadership styles.
- Grasp of what the styles look like in action, including when to use each style and when not to.
- A decision tree to use when unsure what leadership style to proceed with.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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2.1 | Review leadership self-assessment |
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2.2 | Exercise: examples of leadership styles in a work environment |
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Module 3: Practical application of leadership styles in the work world
The Purpose
- Gain practice assessing effectiveness or ineffectiveness of leadership styles in various situations.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Skills for successfully diagnosing and selecting styles depending on the situation.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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3.1 | Exercise: group activity – two case studies |
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Module 4: Next steps and training wrap-up
The Purpose
- Review of training material and how self-awareness is key for leadership development.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Managers are able to ask further questions about content training.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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4.1 | Document behavioral changes and future goals for handling conflict constructively |
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