Overview
How are your leadership skills? Are you the leader you most want to be? Are you looking for ideas that will step up your effectiveness — ideas that can lead to exceptional performance? Then look no further. This seminar was created for you!
Using an assessment instrument and exercise templates, assess your proficiency in key behaviors, recognize your inhibitions that are holding you back from becoming your best, identify your top three behaviors with which to improve and learn how to create your personalized performance improvement plans. Bonus: Assess your work-life balance.
Success does not just happen—it is made to happen. Success is born of behaviors and choices that lead to exceptional performance. In this course, Neal Whitten reveals 27 important leading-edge, best-practice, results-oriented leadership behaviors that can promote your professional and personal success. As you strive to achieve your dreams, these behaviors can lay the foundation for your journey.
Note: This seminar (2-day version) is offered by PMI® 2017 and 2018 SeminarsWorld®.
Topics Include
Thinking for yourself • boldness • breaking the rules occasionally • destiny • managing priorities • confrontation • defining who you choose to be • courage • worry/guilt • Golden Rule • thinking like a leader • making your boss look good • being a good actor • work/life balance • empowerment • taking responsibility for your performance and career • failure • not making or taking it personally • persistence • accountability • keeping your cool • having fun • confidence • mentoring • integrity • and so much more.
Course Length
One-day and two-day versions. The two-day version includes more time on individual and group exercises as well as lecture and quizzes.
PMI Talent Triangle
One-day: 7 PDUs (Power Skills-5, Ways of Working-1, Business Acumen-1).
Two-day: 14 PDUs (Power Skills-10, Ways of Working-2, Business Acumen-2).
Who Should Attend
The course is for project managers/leaders, program managers, project sponsors, resource managers, functional managers, senior managers, and anyone and everyone who aspires to be a more effective leader. This course will also benefit all members of a project or organization in helping them become more productive, accountable and valuable contributors to their companies.
Prerequisite
Only an open mind and a desire to become a more productive and effective leader and team member.
Your Seminar Experience Will Cover
- Identifying behaviors and actions that lead to exceptional performance
- Assessing your proficiency in key behaviors using an in-class assessment instrument
- Recognizing your inhibitions that are holding you back from becoming your best and identifying your top three behaviors with which to improve
- Learning how to create personalized performance improvement plans that can be used to routinely improve and fine tune your performance
- Assessing your work-life balance satisfaction using an in-class assessment instrument
- Identifying a starter list of actions that you can pursue in improving your work-life balance
- Deciding your top three takeaways from the course as an individual/group exercise
- Being coached/mentored by a leading PM industry authority
- Receiving important takeaways for your continued post-seminar use:
- Assessment instrument that identifies (1) how proficient you perceive your performance to be in the important behaviors introduced in the seminar, and (2) how satisfied you are with your current proficiency in each of these behaviors. The assessment rating can be viewed as a maturity rating for your performance
- Exercise template to help you determine the top three behaviors that you need to focus on to help you achieve your best performance
- Exercise template to help you examine your behaviors for improvement and learn to substitute new behaviors going forward
- Popular Power Snippets sheet that lists the primary behaviors that lead to exceptional performance that you can use as a handy motivational reminder that can be posted in work places or at appropriate locations at home
- Assessment instrument that scores your work-life balance satisfaction
- Popular Power Snippets sheet that lists the actions you can take to improve your work-life balance
Class Size
Although a group size of 20-30 attendees is optimal for more in-depth discussions, there is no upper limit to the number of attendees. The seminar is designed to accommodate large audiences.
PMI and SeminarsWorld are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.