ESSENTIALS SKILLS OF LEADERSHIP

Building a Foundation for Harmony, Productivity and Achievement

“While great benefit plans and good salaries may attract and retain employees, effective first-line managers and team leaders are what it takes to retain the best employees.”

Essential Skills of Leadership is the first of two foundation courses in the Vital Learning Corporation Supervision Series, which help to develop skills that are basic to all the other courses in the series.

This program enables your team leaders to direct their team toward a shared goal and to achieve the organization’s strategic objectives. Team leaders will learn how to maintain and enhance the self-esteem of their team members while including them in decisions and basing discussions on behavior and not on attitude.

Program Description

Essential Skills of Leadership builds a foundation that enables managers to manage their team toward a shared goal – achieving the organization’s strategic objectives. Managers will leave the session with implementation tools, troubleshooting guides, and additional resources to help them immediately apply their new skills on the job.

This program establishes a methodology for productive interactions by focusing on the basics–the skills required to manage individuals while also leading the team. It will include the following areas of focus:

Maintain or Enhance Team Member Self- Esteem: Develops the critical skills necessary to effectively delegate, evaluate performance, correct work habits, deal with complaints, and resolve conflicts while supporting a team member’s sense of self-respect and dignity.
Focus on Behavior: Problems on the job are solved more effectively and less stressfully when a manager deals with what people do rather than with their attitudes or personal characteristics.
Encourage Team Member Participation: Involving team members in decision-making, problem solving and other activities is one of the most powerful motivational tools.

Objectives

Participants completing Essential Skills of Leadership will be able to:

Interact with team members on a day-to-day basis in ways that maintains and enhances their self-esteem.
Base discussions about performance and work habits on team members’ behavior rather than their personalities or attitudes.
Involve team members in goal setting, solving problems, and making decisions.

Participant Workbook

Participant Handbook This workbook serves as a companion to the online program. Though not required, the workbook provides the learner with more information, exercises, forms, skill practice aids together with tools and resources for applying the skills learned in the course.

One book is required for each participant. The workbook was designed for use with the classroom version of this course and does not correspond directly to the online course – it is, however, a valuable resource for practicing the skills and for reinforcement. It is highly recommended.

Training Support

Support for Facilitators, Trainers and students is also available by email, teleseminars, or webinars. If you have questions, or would like more information, please contact us

All courses are offered on a 12 month subscription basis.

To Purchase

Essential Skills of Leadership is a 1.5 – 2 hour Online Course

US $44