Advanced Management & Leadership Skills

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, Participant will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental aspects of managing and leading organizations
• Examine the behaviors and traits of both effective managers and leaders
•  Examine relevant issues in applied management and leadership; including ethics, globalization, and strategic management.
• Know how to be a goal oriented Successful leaders.
• Acknowledge the sense of goals that are important to their subordinates
• Show subordinates effective means of reaching common goals.
• Become the personifications of common purpose. with the vision

Course Outline

THE NATURE OF MANAGEMENT

• Recognize the types of activities, roles, and responsibilities that are typical of those in management positions.
• Understand the challenges faced in your day-to-day job.
•  Learn techniques to help you cope with the pressures you face i.e. time management and problem-solving.
•  Compare the similarities and differences in the roles of managers and leaders.

MANAGERIAL TRAITS AND SKILLS

•  Understand what traits and skills lead to effective leadership
•  Increase understanding of managerial and leadership behaviors
•  Describe how traits and skills are affected by context e.g., organizational type, location, size, etc.
•  Understand how traits and skills effect management performance 

THE QUALITIES OF EFFECTIVE LEADERS

• The driving forces behind leadership
• The need to achieve
• The search for enough power
• The drive to become wealthy
• The desire to be recognized
• The urge to attain inner satisfaction
• Corporate studies on leadership

HANDLING AND MOTIVATING PEOPLE

• The initial aspects of human relationships
• Dealing with human individuality
• Cooperation or resistance
• Influencing the behavior system
• Encouraging employee self-motivation
• The hierarchy of needs
• The five categories of "Needs"
• Using the hierarchy of needs
• How people react when needs go unfulfilled
• A case study: How other companies cope what to do
• Preferred ranking for case study
• How did you do?
• How to exert leadership within an organization
• How do you lead in your company?
• Executive leadership in small departments
• Dealing with group norms
• Developing supportive norms
• Initiating change in working relationships

MASTERING FUNDAMENTAL LEADERSHIPS

• Autocratic leadership
• Participative leadership
• Democratic leadership
• Task-oriented leadership
• Follower-oriented leadership
• Consideration-oriented leadership
• Inductive leadership
• Management by objectives (MBO): A Note
• Diagnosing different leadership situations
• Favorable and unfavorable situations
• Intermediate situations

SHARPENING YOUR LEADERSHIP IMAGE          

• Active/demonstrative vs. passive/reserved    
• Distant/remote vs. close/warm styles  
• Status, ceremony and prerogatives      
• Dependence vs. overdependence        
• Perfectionism vs. excellence    
• Test yourself: are you too perfect?
• Finding the perfect style for you
• Building goodwill
• Too much or too little confidence

INTRODUCING THE SEVEN MOST IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Section one-the art of delegation 
• Section two-conducting more effective meetings          
• Section three-dealing with the "stress" of change         
• Section four-leading others through conflict     
• Section five-leadership, initiative and creativity         
• Section six-finding-and solving-problems
• Section seven-decision-making techniques.