Inspirational Leadership Training Course - 2 Days

Effective leadership is the result of the continuous application of a series of definite skills.

On this course we will identify the essential leadership skills, then practice these skills so when delegates go back to the workplace they can apply them.

Our ultimate aim is to use our inspirational leadership skills to get the best performance from ourselves and the whole team, and therefore achieve our goals in the most efficient manner possible.

Getting the best performance is achieved by improving your abilities in six major areas of leadership:

1. Setting and communicating an inspirational “vision”
2. Communication skills: Clear, persuasive and inspirational leadership language
3. Planning: Strategic long range planning AND tactical short-range planning
4. Resolving internal conflicts within the team, to form cohesion
5. Self-Mastery - self-control, self-confidence, self-motivation
6. Inspire positive emotions in the minds of others

Self-scoring analysis of your strengths and relative weaknesses.

Goals are the starting point of all achievement

You are not the most important thing – it is your VISION that is the most important thing.

A leader’s primary purpose is to set up a vision of a compelling future. This vision will act as a motivator and an Inspiration that will be the basis of every subsequent action.

The vision must be believable and realistic, yet optimistic and motivational.

We will show you how to formulate your vision, and to distinguish a vision from a fantasy.

We will discuss the differences between the concept of leadership and management.

What are the key attributes of leadership? How does leadership differ from management?

Ideally, a leader should have management skills and a manager should have leadership skills.

Logic is the method of rational thought. If a leader is not logical (or irrational), then that can spell disaster for the organisation.

Leaders need to understand the nature of logical thinking.

Logical thought is:

• Methodical
• Detailed
• Focused upon facts (not guesses)
• Coherent (self-consistent)

The moment the leadership violates the rational rules, then the whole team is at risk.

If the leadership thinking becomes too vague, based on guesses, incoherent, irrational, then the team’s results will suffer.

A leader must be able to explain the reasons for the vision.

A leader must be able to explain a rational plan that will enable the team to achieve the vision.

Every situation contains two elements: Things that you CAN influence and things that you cannot.

• Leaders concern themselves with the CAN-DO portion of the job
• Non-leaders tend to concern themselves with the NO-CAN-DO portion of the job

You need to identify the team members who are too negative, who concentrate their conversation onto the no-can-do portion of the job.

We will show you how you can redirect their thoughts away from what they cannot, or won’t, do and replace it with can-do ideas.

Leadership language makes use of the fact that people think in pictures.

Your task as a leader, is to communicate in ways that trigger mental images that are consistent with what you DO want.

A common error is to give negative commands. A negative command is a form of suggestion that causes the other person to think of what it is you don’t want. Since action follows thought, they are more likely to do what you don’t want.

An example of a negative command is “Don’t panic”.

We will help you to reformulate negative commands into positive commands.

The team is composed of a variety of individuals, so personality clashes will occur.

In addition, not everyone will agree with all your leadership decisions, so occasional conflict is inevitable.

Your task as a leader is to identify and resolve the conflicts within the team as quickly as possible.

We will teach you unique methods to help you to resolve conflicts, according to the principles of reason and keep them from degenerating into an emotional clash.

Here are the rules to remember:

• Never attack their personality or motives. If you attack a person’s personality, you will lose their loyalty, which you need for your vision to be successful.
• Only comment on behaviours, what they did or said. Not any derogatory opinions of their character.

Once you have pinpointed the problem behaviour, then state the corrective action you require.

We will show you how to be very objective and specific as well as reasonable.

Negotiate a reasonable solution with your colleague and gain their commitment to an improved performance. Do not ask the person to admit they were wrong.

Any movement towards your preferred position should be positively reinforced immediately.

Use appreciation and praise as your way of encouraging adaptive changes.

We will demonstrate how to apply the principle of positive reinforcement.

We summarise the contents of the first day and you make plans as you how you will implement what you have learned.

All great leaders have the capacity to plan, prepare and make ready for the future.

Your task as a leader is to develop your team’s ability to make ready for the future by proper planning, prioritisation, preparation and delegation.

Busy work is lower value short range activity.

Productive work is higher value, long range activity.

Your leadership task is to spend the lion's-share of your time in the higher value, long-range activity. Your leadership task is to delegate the lower-value activity.

Busy-work keeps you occupied, but occupied with lower value, relatively trivial items.

Poor leaders get bogged down with trivia and, as a result, they take their eye off the ball.

We will help you to keep your eye on the ball.

Emails can be a distraction. How to minimise the problem. We will look at how you can manage your messages.

How to make your team more productive, not just busier

Your organisation is more effective to the degree that every member uses the P-List skills.

The P list skills are: Planning, prioritising, preparation, prediction, problem solving, prevention of avoidable error and proper protocols.

We will help you apply the P list skills.

Leaders apply two principle that allow them to work smarter

1. The pareto principle: 80/20 rule.
2. The law of diminishing returns.

We will help you apply the 80/20 rule, so you get the most value from every situation.

The ultimate skill of leadership is the ability to make the right decision.

Leaders make the right decision.

1. Yes or No decision
2. Which one, what kind decision
3. One Problem, three causes, six solutions analyses
4. What is the right order of tasks

We will help you to become more decisive and to get to the right decision.

The essence of leadership is the ability to inspire a positive emotional response in the minds of others.

The essence of leadership is the ability to inspire a positive emotional response in the minds of others

A person will always be influenced by their mental attitude and feelings, (emotions). So, inspirational leaders should spend time figuring out how to positively influence the emotions of others.

The leadership must create and sustain a positive mental attitude in their own minds: Then use their own attitude to influence others.

Conversation control is about taking conscious control of the content of your conversation, and ensuring that the lion's-share is optimistic, and goal orientated.

One way to keep people motivated is to embrace and apply the principle of continuous improvement.

Improvement by evolution, rather than revolution.

Evolutionary progressive change intended to improve the current situation.

In order to improve; change is necessary. Sadly, many people hate change.

Leaders need to instil an acceptance, of the need to change:

Or even better; inspire an avid desire to adapt, change and to improve upon the current levels of performance.

How are you going to apply the important leadership lessons contained in this course?