Leadership Excellence

Increasing Your Effectiveness

Course Description

Understanding the values that drive teamwork behavior and using effective strategies to lead individuals to work with others are critical skills for leaders today. Knowing how others see your skills at leading can be critical information to help leaders adjust to be more effective.

This Leadership Excellence workshop is a follow on to the Coaching Excellence workshop. (It can also be delivered as a two-day workshop incorporating both one-day workshops.) This workshop also uses the SYMLOG instrument that measures value for teamwork. Participants will receive SYMLOG data on their leadership and teamwork effectiveness based on input from the people they lead. Analysis of their individual data will provide participants clarity on their leadership style. Experiential activities, journaling, sharing of data, and coaching all contribute to an overall growth experience which leads to effective action planning.

Learning Objectives

As a result of successful completion of this one-day workshop participants are expected to:

• Understand their motivation for leadership and teamwork.
• Recognize how others see their teamwork values and leadership approach.
• Use teamwork values to lead individuals and teams more effectively.
• Use a value-based strategy for well-balanced leadership.
• Implement an action plan to improve their effectiveness as a leader.

Course Details

• Length: 1 day
• Audience: Supervisors, Leaders, Managers
• Optimum Class Size: 12 - 24
• Prerequisites: Coaching Excellence workshop. Participants direct reports will assess them using the SYMLOG online tool prior to the workshop

Facilitator

Susan Gerke has been in business since 1998 following 21 years working for IBM where she was a manager as well as a technical support representative and a management development professional. Susan's focus since 1989 has been in designing, customizing and implementing leadership and teamwork programs meeting the needs of executives, managers, and employees in a wide number of companies and industries. A recognized expert on remote leadership and teaming, Susan is the co-author of The I in Team …Accelerating Performance of Remote and Co-Located Teams and Quick Guide to Interaction Styles and Working Remotely. She is also the co-author of Quick Guide to Interaction Styles and Time Dynamics.

Susan has a B.S. degree in Statistics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is a graduate of University Associates Human Resources and Organizational Development Intern program. Susan is a certified SYMLOG consultant.

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