Leadership Online Program {Available 2009}

 

Ignite Leadership Capabilities

If you change how your organization defines leadership, you will change how your people steer the ship.Even in tough times, leaders need to raise the bar on performance. They need to gear ideas toward solutions that are built from models of business excellence. In these sessions, we create customized action plans that are focused on capturing critical items of your strategic agenda. Our experts help your leaders learn how to best address short and long-term opportunities, problems, and issues. Coaching will ensure that your long-term leadership objectives are met. How? We use the science of human behavior and behavior modification to help individuals become better leaders. We show them how to operate at their optimum level of performance.

  • Progressive leaders ensure that leadership capabilities are developed in the high potentials throughout their organization. They often need to use external resources to bring objectivity and insight to organizational movement and opportunities.
  • To develop leadership in high potential individuals, commitment of action is required.
    Our instructors are expert coaches. They help individuals overcome professional relationship and organizational barriers.
 
Indaba LogoExecutives and managers are coached to:
  • Strengthen leadership skills.
  • Instill confidence by clearly defining roles, responsibility and accountability.
  • Execute strategic initiatives with concentrated focus.
  • Understand the importance that perception has on performance and motivation.
  • Improve and polish communication skills, including the impact of influence.
  • Create superior and appropriate executive image.
  • Build extraordinary interpersonal skills.
  • Become a catalyst for focused change.
  • Increase calmness and neutrality, especially during conflict or crisis.
  • Control time through effective planning and delegation.
  • Deal effectively with change and transitions.
  • Demonstrate confidence and commitment to excellence.
  • Set criteria for peak performance for themselves and others.
  • Encourage individuals to develop long-term positive behavior and skills.
  • Establish metrics to chart accountability.
  • Generate pride of accomplishment by acquiring new skills and behavior.
 
Indaba LogoThe Executive Coaching Process Includes:
  • Behavioral and organizational theories and concepts
  • Team models, guidelines, skills and knowledge to focus on achieving results
  • How to communicate vision and purpose for action according to strategic goals
  • Learning processes that inspire employees and motivate them to action according to corporate and departmental goals and purpose
  • Strategic planning, organizational development, and alignment of organizational messages
  • How to provide critical objectives-based feedback
  • Identification of effective roles, including how to build support and compliance for responsibility, accountability and authority in others
  • Benchmarking metrics and measurements-includes financial and non-financial performance indicators
  • How to assess individual and organizational opportunities and potential pitfalls
  • Leadership development
  • Management skills development
  • Interpersonal skills and rapport-building techniques
  • Communication skills development based on influencing techniques
  • Dealing with chaos and the fallout from tempo shock
  • Recognition and avoidance of the most common mistakes made by managers and executives
  • Leadership networking and contact management
  • Alignment of the management team to leap to the next level of team excellence
  • Observation and review process for appropriate changes and quick results
 
Indaba LogoTestimonials
"I really liked the layering effect; where you taught me a skill, I used it, you provided feedback and then you added the next aspect at our next session. This is an unbelievable process! I highly recommended this to anyone at the executive level and I'm putting our high potentials through the program, too."
 
"If you want to reach the top, you have to acquire certain skills. You can do it through years of mentoring (if you're lucky enough to find the right mentors!) or you can do it through this coaching program. If you're smart, you'll pick this."
 
"Tactfully, yet firmly my coach was assertive enough to tell me what I needed to do…at the same time, they were committed to transferring knowledge and skills that I could use immediately. My behavior has changed and through my changes, my team has changed, too. This was an added benefit I didn't expect."
 
"We all need a little help now and then; especially if we get "too comfortable" with what we do every day. My coach counseled me to get out of my comfort zone for the good of the organization."
 
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