Easy leadership skills training tips for busy managers…
Leadership skills training for busy managers, professionals and supervisors can be done on-the-fly and on-the-cheap when you know where to go and what to look for. Sure, a formal, more structured approach is usually the preferred method for choosing and getting world-class leadership development programs but sometimes your schedule, wallet or needs are too limited or modest for those elevated offerings.
If you only knew how to put together a dependable blueprint for your leadership training programs, you could use many of the free and very low cost resources available on the Internet. You could enroll in a ‘refresher’ course but I would suggest you look through the caravans of articles, blogs, radio broadcasts and podcasts and executive and professional management leadership skills training videos scattered across the Web.
Sometimes, you just need to sprinkle on a little personal leadership training or self-directed help, personal growth and self improvement tips to help get you over-the-hump! Whatever your requirements here is a fast, easy to use blueprint to follow and meet your needs!
Most leadership skills training courses, programs and workshops feature information and guidance on four general areas. You need to review your own situation, evaluate the gaps in your knowledge or skills, measure the shortfalls in your performance and set priorities for those results your organization demands from your group.
As a leader, you should develop a deep understanding of the nature of being a leader, conducting yourself as a leader and applying the knowledge of leaders in your company, as well as with your key stakeholders and associates. What is the dominant or preferred ‘philosophy of leadership’ that will enable you to succeed as a leader in your unique set of circumstances?
There are a number of leadership strategies which can be discussed in your development course. A leadership strategy simply empowers you to organize, arrange and plan your actions, behaviors, resources or assets as well as your work patterns to optimize the impacts of your team. Strategic leaders overcome barriers to employee commitment and achieve higher rates of performance because they ‘see’ where, when and how to effectively apply their power or influence key people.
The final two elements of your blueprint involve your leadership activity and the channels of leadership energy. Your leadership training program must explain, examine and expound upon all the tasks, activities and duties of leadership. What needs to be done, in what order should these tasks be performed and for what purpose are you doing them?
Leaders also channel, direct, filter and focus or amplify the energies available to them. Because leaders need to rely on the efforts of others to attain their goals and realize their vision, leaders need to teach, train, develop, coach, mentor, counsel and consult with people. Inside, outside and within every organization, there are energy fields which produce or absorb the life-giving and life-sustaining forces needed to generate successes and failures. Your leadership skills coaching or self-paced training programs can help you identify, handle and even magnify these energy fields.
