Developing Your Leadership Skills

Especially for future and emerging leaders in Gen Y, come discover the key concepts of being a leader and the best strategies for developing your leadership skills and influence. Learn the unspoken secrets that leaders know and the strategies they employ/exhibit in for influencing others. Leadership skills are acquired and learned. The action takes place in attending meetings, running meetings, interacting with others 1:1, and employing successful techniques to convince and influence others. You can become a leader if you know the do’s and don’ts; what to say, what not to say; what to do, what not to do.

Agenda

Unit 1
Making Leadership Happen
-What leaders do, and don’t do
-What Leaders Believe
-Attributes of leaders: what characteristics leaders have that others don’t
-Making it happen: becoming a leader
-Leadership procedures and processes, how leaders work

Unit 2
Attending Meetings: Where the Action Is
-How to attend a meeting when you are not the leader
-The dynamics of meetings
-Recognizing the players in a meeting
-How to study. The unspoken cues of body language, silence, objections,
-Studying/Reading the leader in a meeting

Unit 3
The Secrets of Leading Successful Meetings
-Creating your meeting agenda and objective
-The 5 Secrets of leading an outcome oriented meeting
-Getting something passed
-Understanding meeting procedures: Bob’s Process Model

Unit 4
Change: How to Influence Others
-Creating the argument
-Delivering the case
-Gaining support, before, during, and after meetings
-Taking leadership