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Leaders must be home grown since leadership cannot be learned from courses offered in universities.

Consequently, without leadership development training, many cannot build teams or lead the charge for change.

The Focus On leadership development

There is a common misperception that leadership is all about making speeches that inspire the masses. This misses the most common aspects of business leadership: what to say and how to act during face-to-face conversation or when in a meeting. The focus is on Moments of Truth—how to positively influence a person or a group.

LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Many companies miss an important part to of their competitive advantage, having a skilled cadre of leaders at all levels of the organization.

Combat The Hidden Cancer

Truth is, people don’t work for companies as much as they work for individuals. For most of us, the most important individual (next to your spouse) is one’s boss. When that person is bad, employees either physically pack their bags for greener pastures or mentally vacation in better climates rather than focus on the work. One can lower turnover costs by improving supervisor skills

Harness Discretionary Effort

Fred Smith, the CEO of Federal Express once coined remarked that harnessing discretionary effort was the great challenge for all organizations. By that he meant, the there is a floor of performance that is close to the minimum once needs to do to prevent disciplinary actions and potential termination. On the other hand, there is a ceiling level of performance that one is capable of when an employee is properly motivated. The difference between these two states is the value added provide by good manager and supervisors

Improve Operations

Unskilled supervisors rely too much on their authority and too much on the power of fear to get things done. This is not a problem when people is shoving dirt, but it the kiss of death in operational environments.

The Managment Leadership Training Curriculum

Some of the modules are listed below:

The ABCs of Performance Managment

Becoming a Great Transformational Leader

Choosing The Right Leadership Style

Each module can also be customized by training outcomes or by topics (see the sample below) Download The Complete Training List

Results From Leadership Training.

Training by itself is relatively ineffective in developing skills. We push the corporate leadership training paradigm to encourage participants to Take Action on the theory to turn theory into skill.

We also use a number of other techniques to improve leadership training results.Techniques that produce better corporate leadership training include:

1. Testing of Knowledge and Understanding

The best way to get people to remember ideas is still a test. For a twelve-week course there would be two, a mid-term and final. For a six-week class, there will be a test at the end.

2. Learning Applied Through Results Oriented Assignments

Unlike university classes, individuals are tasked to report on how they applied what they are learning to some aspect of their work.

3. Quality Leadership Content

We do not believe in wasting using valuable class time by having students take notes. All participants receive course handbooks at the beginning of the class.

4. Feedback and Metrics

Feedback is available on what individuals are doing (or not doing). This includes: attendance, percent correct on tests and quality of the assignments.

We survey classes to determine instructional results so adjustments can be made.

5. Recognition and Reward

For those completing a given training cycle, we recommend a short celebration at the end. Students like to know that management cares.

6. Experienced, Knowledgeable Instructors

Our instructors have both depth of expertise combined with real world experience. We do not use Ph D's. that cannot put in practice what they say they can do. We rely on experts who are: experienced at using adult learning techniques, have excellent communication skills, and have a great deal of real world work experience.

Our approach stresses the application of practical, relevant knowledge into real live situations.

7. Top Drawer Content

The content has been honed and refined through years of experience in delivery in both service and manufacturing companies. Unlike many a curriculum that are jammed packed full of black and white text consisting of cryptic word bullets, our content consists of sound theory wrapped in an envelope of color and pictures to hold the audience’s attention. We also add quotes, stories and humor to add an element of delight to the delivery equation.

8. Large Content Base From Which to Choose

Legacee’s content base consists of over 1900 pages of handouts. Each expertise area is modularized to more easily customize delivery. For example, there are eight modules on leadership, three on performance management, and seven on group problem solving, and so on. The organization also maintains a database of high quality articles, and web sites to further increase individual knowledge.

9. Curriculum Customized To Company Needs

We have never believed that like training, like shoes, has one size the fits all. All of our programs are customized to make sure the content hits key development areas. We survey and interview the participants to assess their needs and also address their concerns.

10. Practical Assignments Tested in the Real World

We believe that learning should take place outside of the classroom and have designed numerous assignments to designed to apply content in work situations.

This section presents some good articles, interesting press releases, or summaries of recent research on leadership from the wire services or the business press.

Obsession with leadership slants training priorities

leadership development Issues, 03 Nov 2006. Six out of 10 executives believe that leadership training would be of most use to them according to recent survey. Unfortunately, many may not know what the term "leadership development really means.

Business school scourge slams MBA ‘leadership’ trend

Financial Times, October 22, 2006

Mintzberg, a professor at McGill University, argues that the way business schools are teaching it has unintended effects. By focusing on the single person, he writes, “leadership becomes part of the syndrome of individuality” that is “undermining organisations”.

Jim Collins and Level 5 Leadership

leadership development Issues, 03 Jan 2006. Jim Collins, in the book Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don't, came up with his leadership theory called Level 5. He talks more about this leadership approach in this article.

Study: Why New Hires Fail

PR Web, September, 2005. Contrary to popular belief, technical skills are not the primary reason why new hires fail; instead, poor interpersonal skills dominate the list, flaws which many of their managers admit were overlooked during the interview process.

These missing skills are typically addressed during leadership training, which is not offered to these types of employees. Download ,pdf

Leadership Training Guide

EMedia Wire, September 2005.This report is designed to help you assess your leadership training needs and inform you of 187 formal leadership training programs that are available to help build great leaders at all levels in your organization. Download .pdf

The Benefits of Leadership Training

Independent, London. Among the organisations offering training in leadership and general leadership development development to apparently enthusiastic small and medium-sized business clients.

SME Training

Inc., New York. SME use more informal processes of training. Eighty perceont of the HR professionals surveyed used cross-functional training, while 71% used leadership training and 70% used developmental planning programs.