In today’s result-driven and highly competitive business environment, leadership is often what makes the difference. Leadership motivates and enables people to achieve ambitious goals, binds people closer to the corporation they work for and drives internal change processes towards success. Leadership links people, organization and external environment together through inspiration, initiative and target-setting and by creating a better future.

Leadership is about skills, attitude and motivation. While some people have a strong tendency towards taking charge, leadership is not an innate personality trait. More often than not, leadership simply means that people rise up to the challenge.

Leadership starts with understanding expectations – participants will be introduced to a comprehensive leadership competency model developed by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) – and setting oneself on a journey of continuous development . Attendees take the DiSC Management Style Profile online and receive a 23-page report which will give their self-development process guidance and direction.

Leadership development needs practice – that is why a key feature of this training is a challenging leadership simulation (role play) which is based upon a ten-item behavioral model.

Methodology: Tools and Instruments
The training course is highly interactive and built around practical activities as
- a comprehensive leadership competency model
- one leadership simulation (role play) and
- case studies.

To raise self-awareness as the basis of a continuous process of self-improvement we have included in the training program
- DiSC Management Profile (online profile with full report)
- Leadership Style Self-Assessment (paper and pencil version).

Special Feature: The DiSC Management Style Assessment
Participants with the management program will receive a 26-page report showing them ways how to adapt their preferred management style to manage, motivate and delegate more effectively. The main contents of the report are:
- Your Individual Management Preferences
- Directing & Delegating
- Motivation
- Developing Others
- How Your Manager Sees You
- Working with Other Managers.

Course Benefits

Participants with this training will
o    Learn about key characteristics of effective leaders
o    Identify their own leadership potential
o    Increase self-awareness through self-assessments and the DiSC Management Style Profile
o    Identify strengths and development areas
o    Practice leadership skills during one leadership simulation (role play)
o    Receive advice on how to improve leadership practice (included in the individualized 23-page report as part of the DISC Management Style Profile).

For online payments please indicate SHA2014-12-03

Agenda

9.00–9.15 Introduction
-Expectations of Participants
-Course Overview

9.15–10.30 Understanding Leadership
- Defining Leadership
- The Campbell Leadership Descriptor

10.30–10.45 Coffee Break

10.45 12.15 The DiSC Management Style Profile
- The DiSC Management Priorities
- Directing and Delegating Style
- Motivating Others
- Developing Others
- Creating an Individual Development Plan

12.15–13.15 Lunch Break

13.15–14.30 Leadership in Action
- Video Presentation: Four Different Leadership Styles
- Self-Assessment of Leadership Style
- Discussion: When to Use Which Style
- Case Study: A Department in Trouble
- Case Study: Assembling the Best

14.30–14.45 Coffee Break

14.45-16.45 Leadership Simulation
- The Situation
- Ten Performance Standards
- Role Play
- Debriefing
- Group Discussion

16.45–17.00 Summary of Key Learning Points, Q&A, Feedback


About the trainer
Dr. Laurenz Awater, an organizational development expert with more 15 years of China experience, works as management consultant and trainer. Since 2003 he heads the Shanghai INNOVA Management Institute, a consulting firm of German origin which has serviced more than 200 multinational clients in China during the past 10 years.
The Shanghai INNOVA Management Institute offers a full range of organizational development solutions, from leadership and team development to intercultural learning and change management.  Laurenz is known for creative and innovative training design and for applying experiential learning activities during its in-house trainings.

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