Context Setting

Operational leaders are Essential for the Health of any Organization.

They lead the day-to-day operations of the business, making the most of the business’s core activities and work at the big-picture level, ensuring all the business pieces work together as effectively as possible. Thus, playing a very crucial role when it comes to operational stability, growth, and efficiency of their organization.

Objective

• Learn the essentials of strategic planning and prepare their organization for future success
• In still in your team the importance of individual, team, and development goals, and create a culture of high performance.
• Learn tips to build employee engagement that drives positive outcomes, and best practices for holding individuals and teams accountable to the agreed upon goals.
• Focus on how to better present on topics you know well but your audience considers complex or full of new information.
• Walk away with other best practices for support materials, visuals, and presentation delivery that will help you plan for your next presentation.
• Help you in leading your team to pinpoint opportunities for improvement, brainstorm creatively, logically evaluate options, and make informed decisions that will lead to success.
• The tools discussed will help you become proactive instead of reactive in the face of problems and move from possibilities to solutions.

 

CONTENTS:

• Strategic Planning Essentials: Prepare for Future Success
• Developing Others through Mentoring and Coaching
• Goal Setting and Accountability
• Present Complex Information
• Critical Thinking: Tools for Effective Collaboration

Key Takeaways

• Identify ways that strategic planning differs from tactical planning.
• Develop a strategic intent as the foundation of your organization’s plan.
• Isolate the core competencies of your organization.
• Assess the current situation using SWOT analysis.
• Develop trust and relationships among employees
• Coach colleagues for continuous improvement
• Recognize the qualities of successful employees and leaders
• Utilize time-tested principles to lead your employees to success and help others advance in their careers
• Devise additional strategies to develop others
• Communicate the importance of individual, team, and development goals to achieve strategic objectives.
• Create a culture of performance to deliver excellence.
• Build employee engagement to ensure positive outcomes.
• Hold individuals and teams accountable to realize results.
• Use a proven structure to effectively present complex information.
• Identify ways to simplify material to reach all listeners.
• Leverage the power of analogies to explain complex information.
• Use 20+ best practices to plan your next presentation.
• Use the Critical Thinking Process to gather and interpret relevant information and come to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions.
• Differentiate between the Green-light and Red-light thinking mechanism.
• Employ visualization and fact finding to verify that you have identified the real cause of the problem.
• Critically evaluate alternatives using deductive and inductive reasoning strategies, the ladder of inference, and logic trees.
• Apply decision-making techniques to choose effective solutions.

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Who Should Attend / Target Audience

Venue

Online on Cisco WebEx

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