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