Management and Leadership

Defining the Leader in You

• Traditional Classroom: 1-day
• Virtual Instructor-led: Two 3-3.5 hour sessions; Three 2-hour sessions

Target Audience

Participants who will benefit from this course include recently promoted managers and other high potentials ready to foster the leader within and build a foundation for professional excellence.

Learning Objectives

• Build a strong foundation of skills that will bring out, define, and enhance your inner leader.
• Get results through your direct reports and peers.
• Continue to evolve yourself and others as the business changes.

Key Takeaways

• Plan and organize with efficiency.
• Drive results from yourself, your direct reports, and your peers.
• Remaining flexible and adaptable.
• Assume accountability for your actions.
• Communicate with impact.
• Influence rather than command.

Course Outline

Module 1: Let’s Get Started

• Welcome, Introduction, and Objectives
• Exercise: Receiving and Providing Guidance

Module 2: What Is Leadership?

• Roles of the Leader
• Expectations
• Key Skills and Knowledge
• Exercise: Leadership vs. Management: What’s the Difference?
• Exercise: You Expect What?

Module 3: Understanding and Using Your Leadership Style

• DiSC Styles
• Flexing Your Style
• Potential Pitfalls
• Exercise: Understanding the DiSC Dimensions

Module 4: Leader as Communicator

• Communication Model
• Key Skills
• Communication Challenges
• Exercise: Listening: Top Three
• Exercise: Virtual Communication

Module 5: Getting Work Done Through Others

• Situational Leadership
• Delegation
• Exercise: The Challenge of Matching
• Exercise: Delegating a Task

Module 6: Accountability and Trust

• Holding Yourself and Others Accountable
• Building and Sustaining Trust
• Exercise: Trust and Accountability

Action Planning and Additional Material

• Create Your Personal Action Plan
• Light Bulb Sheet
• About DiSC
• Tips for Communicating Using DiSC as a Reference Point
• Listening Self-Assessment

MDI925 Course Code