The Leadership Foundation: Part 2

Highly successful leaders understand how and when to exercise various leadership styles.

A supervisor must be a leader who can direct and guide employees in accomplishing the missions of companies, bureaus, offices, and agencies. This course provides the knowledge and skills for supervisors and managers to effectively manage the workforce.

Is it right for me?

This course is designed for all managers, supervisors, and team leaders both in the private sector and federal government. It is also appropriate for employees whose developmental goals include supervisory positions.

What will I learn?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Develop your own leadership preferences and styles.
• Understand how to build employee engagement.
• Constructively manage conflict.
• Understand the challenges of managing teams and some tools to meet those challenges.
• Develop tips and techniques for conducting difficult conversations.
• Understand the current intergenerational workforce.
• Differentiate between mentoring, networking, and coaching and the techniques and situations appropriate for each.
• Obtain buy-in and engage stakeholders.
• Manage change in our rapidly changing environment.

What will it cover?

• Your Changing Role
• The Roles of an Effective, Radiant Leader
• Identify your Preferred Leadership Style and Select the appropriate style for each situation
• Deal with Organizational and Individual Conflict
• Conducting Difficult Conversations
• Effective Delegation
• Manage Multiple Generations

Manage Teams

• Types of teams and their characteristics
• Identify and facilitate team growth stages
• Team roles
• Virtual and geographically dispersed teams

Build Employee Engagement

• Understand employee engagement
• Set clear expectations
• Address the Federal human capital survey
• Choose the right rewards and recognition

Obtain Buy-in and Exercise Influence

• Influence styles and preferences
• Influencing up and out
• Stakeholder assessments

Coaching, Mentoring, and Networking

• Choose the right coaching style
• Use the GROW model

Manage Change

• Move through the change curve
• Your change resilience

Further courses to consider...

• The Leadership Foundation: Part 1
• Effective Interviewing Techniques
• Effective Interviewing Techniques
• Hiring Highlights Workshop for Federal Managers