Optimé High Performance Leadership Development System™

Projected Outcomes

Participants will:

Demonstrate clear understanding of and the practical implications, related to key beliefs required for leaders.
Integrate into practice the fundamental principles of leadership.
Demonstrate skills of leadership at a high level of competence and full understanding.
Use a coaching relationship to support and encourage career development in direct reports.
Implement the skills of leadership outside of the classroom setting.

Program Objectives

The Business:

To provide a Leadership framework that will enable your organization to move to the next level of leadership.
To use leadership skills to drive business growth.

The Organization:

To understand and apply leadership techniques.
To create and foster a culture where everyone is considered a leader, everyone believes they can lead and everyone contributes through leadership.

Individually:

To challenge individual company leaders to learn and GROW as a result.
To facilitate a leadership style that recognizes ‘how we get things done’ is an important component of success.

Level I ~ Foundation Program - The Fundamentals of Leading

Three Dimensions of Leadership

Leadership in a dynamic, complex world requires clear understanding of the leadership process. The three dimensions of leadership provide a simple model of key characteristics that make up exemplary leadership. Participants will review and apply leadership requirements covering people, projects and the future.

Individual Outcomes

Review multiple facets of leadership.
Apply process of application of finite resources divided between people, projects and future.
Plan for implementation into daily work.

Benefits for the Organization

More effective business leaders.
Direct reports engaged and aware of performance and project requirements and blazing the trail to desired futures.

Leadership Transitions

Adjustments to new projects, new teams, new contexts, and new leaders are an on-going part of participation in today's business world. There is a pattern to transitions that can be managed. Participants will review and apply concepts related to the early stages of change: the initial transition.

Individual Outcomes

Consider the change process and its affect on human behavior.
Review a template of significant changes and what impact changes will have on people, projects and future plans.
Create plans for building relationships with those in the hierarchy of new projects/new contexts.
Identify potential partners for coalitions/joint projects that surface due to change.

Benefits for the Organization

Smooth operations mean straight pathways toward results.

Contemporary Leadership (6 styles)

Leadership is a common word referring to a very complex phenomenon. Leaders can no longer operate from a single, well-developed leadership style. They need instead to have repertoire, a list of styles to apply where appropriate. The six styles of leadership prepare participants to identify individual strengths and weaknesses of every important contemporary leadership style. Theory behind each style, and application principles, prepare leaders to do what is right, at the right time.

Individual Outcomes

Understand the various styles of effective leadership.
Acquire high-level knowledge of when and where each style can be most effective, and to be flexible in one's approach.

Benefits for the Organization

Effective leadership brings those that follow to high levels of performance. This translates into high levels of business activity and better business results.

Transactional to Transformational Leadership

Leaders are engaged in many 'exchanges' throughout any day, on any project with many people. Transactional and transformational leadership refer to the end results of exchanges. In some cases, the exchange is just that, information or directions need to be exchanged. In other exchanges, some adjustment of change must occur afterwards. Leaders aware of this difference are far better able to get the job done, and effect required adjustment as necessary. This is a course that takes average leaders to great leadership efforts.

Individual Outcomes

Understand the intricacies of two leadership styles.
Acquire appreciation for when to use one style over another, and to move from transactional toward transformational for improved performance.
Practice behaviors of effective leaders using these styles.

Benefits for the Organization

Getting the right things done right is what good business leadership is all about.

Level II ~ Enhanced Program - Leading the Charge

Future: Change Leadership

A change leader acts as vision-holder, a keeper of the dream, and a trailblazer. Change leadership illuminates and manages the adjustment and change process present in all aspects of work. This module reviews concepts and strategies to implement change leadership into daily work.

Individual Outcomes

Comprehend the value of agents of change in organizations.
Identify methods for helping others to adapt to change.
Demonstrate ways to provide constant definition of current realities.
Demonstrate ways to interpret and share knowledge of external environment.
Create plans for continuous adjustment of organizational strategies and structures.
Understand the difference between leading through change or leading change.

Benefits for the Organization

Organizations adapt to change effectively.
Less turnover due to stresses of change.

People: Interpersonal Skills for Leaders

Advanced interpersonal skills provide the 'medium' for appropriate exchanges between people - especially leaders and reports. This course reviews the theory and skill related to advanced human interaction.

Individual Outcomes

Presenting self and ideas with clarity.
Manage difficult conversations.
Demonstrate effective negotiating.
Identify and demonstrate "pitching and catching".
Employ active listening skills.
Deal with conflict.
Effectively build teams.

Benefits for the Organization

Improved communications within the organization.
More effective teams and team work.

Projects: Dealing with Details

Project leadership requires keeping your eye on the ball while managing all the ball players. This course reviews the multiple responsibilities of project managers and provides strategy overview for choosing the best course of action.

Individual Outcomes

Understand the importance of effectively leading projects.
Demonstrate the strategies of effective project leadership by understanding the critical elements of good projects and good project management.

Benefits for the Organization

Increased effectiveness and efficiency of 'soft' projects.
Proper involvement level of leaders in critical projects.

Situational Leadership

Situational Leadership is a proven, effective model to help leaders make conscious decisions about leadership actions and options in interpersonal situations.

Individual Outcomes

Comprehend a model of reading the situation and using the appropriate leadership skills at the appropriate time.

Benefits for the Organization

More effective leaders resulting in improved results.

Level III ~ Advanced Program - Creating a Culture of Leadership

Creating Flow: Bringing Groups to Optimum Performance

Flow is the context in which optimum performance unfolds. Learn to create and find Flow in all situations.

Individual Outcomes

Understand how and where Flow occurs at work.
Learn and practice techniques to create Flow in others.

Benefits for the Organization

Higher level of productivity through employees who motivate themselves.
Reduced turnover and greater job satisfaction.

Strategic Leadership

Strategic leadership requires the integration of many components, many actions into the leadership process. Learn how multiple leadership styles are applied to work on the People, the Projects and the Future of organizations.

Individual Outcomes

Identify the components of leadership in complex organizations.
Review leadership actions opportunities and the decision-making process for employing them.
Apply strategic leadership actions in simulated and real events.

Benefits for the Organization

Leadership actions become more focused, more deliberate.
Organizational output increases through improved efficiency and effectiveness.

Creating Leadership in Others: Share the Lead

Complex projects require granting responsibility and authority to those in charge. Learn to identify and manage others in ways that create collaboration and shared outcomes.

Individual Outcomes

Learn and practice techniques to develop direct reports into effective leaders.
Create action plans for developing leadership in others.

Benefits for the Organization

Improved accountability of employees, at all levels, for corporate performance.
Professional development and mentoring to create future leaders to sustain corporate growth and momentum.

Team / Organizational Leadership

Keep your eye on the whole! Leadership requires a comprehensive view of the people, the organization and the business that form the system that needs to be led. Learn the focal points for watching over the system and providing advice and direction to those making it happen.

Individual Outcomes

Review the multiple aspects of leading large groups and cross-organizational function.
Integrate multiple concepts of leadership into multiple aspects of teams.
Create a plan for using influence in strategic organizational areas.

Benefits for the Organization

Improve the unidirectional aspect of leadership function.