Executive Leadership Training Course Outline
Day One: Creating a Mission-Driven Culture Important for Your Company
Module One: Writing an Effective Mission Statement
Module Two: Educating Your Workforce on Their Role in Support of the Mission
Module Three: Creating the Sales and Operations Plan (S&OP)
Module Four: Writing Subordinate Mission Statements for Divisions and Departments
Module Five: Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Divisions and Departments
Module Six: Creating Job Descriptions
Module Seven: Creating KPIs for Each Job Description
Module Eight: Bottom-Up Evaluations
Module Nine: Evaluations and Re-education
Days Two and Three: Executive and Senior Manager Leadership Essentials
Module One: The Evolution of Leadership
- Defining Leadership
- Characteristics of a Leader
- Leadership Principles
- A Brief History of Leadership
- Historical Leaders
- Modern Leaders
- The Great Man Theory
- The Trait Theory
- Transformational Leadership
Module Two: Situational Leadership
- Situational Leadership: Telling
- Situational Leadership: Selling
- Situational Leadership: Participating
- Situational Leadership: Delegating
Module Three: A Personal Inventory
- An Introduction to Kouzes and Posner
- A Personal Inventory
- Creating an Action Plan
Module Four: Modeling the Way
- Determining Your Way
- Being an Inspirational Role Model
- Influencing Others’ Perspectives
Module Five: Inspiring a Shared Vision
- Choosing Your Vision
- Communicating Your Vision
- Identifying the Benefit for Others
Module Six: Challenging the Process
- Developing Your Inner Innovator
- Seeing Room for Improvement
- Lobbying for Change
Module Seven: Enabling Others to Act
- Encouraging Growth in Others
- Creating Mutual Respect
- The Importance of Trust
Module Eight: Encouraging the Heart
- Sharing Rewards
- Celebrating Accomplishments
- Making Celebration Part of Your Culture
Module Nine: Basic Influencing Skills
- The Art of Persuasion
- The Principles of Influence
- Creating an Impact
Module Ten: Setting Goals
- Setting SMART Goals
- Creating a Long-Term Plan
- Creating a Support System
Module Eleven: Conflict Resolution
- An Introduction to Conflict Resolution
- The Thomas-Kilmann Instrument
- Creating an Effective Atmosphere
- Creating Mutual Understanding
- Focusing on Individual Needs
- Getting to the Root Cause
- Generating Options
- Building a Solution
- The Short Version of the Process
- Additional Tools