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Why Doesn't Leadership Training Produce Leaders?

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Great leadership is one of the keys to long-term organisational success; so how come there seems to be such a shortage? In the corridors of political power, and in the boardrooms of large and small organisations, we regularly hear the questions: “Where is the inspired leadership we crave?”, “Where is our next generation of leaders coming from?”, “Where is the flair and inspiration we need to take us to the next level?”

If asked, you could probably say what ‘leadership’ is. Like everyone else, you’ve read the books and seen the leadership competency frameworks. You could clearly describe how it feels to be well and poorly led – you ‘know it when you see it’. But how many current great world leaders can you name off the top of your head? How many great leaders are there in your organisation now?

Why do so many people, knowing what good leadership is, fail to demonstrate it themselves? The first place to look is in the learning environment where leaders are usually developed.

What They Didn’t Teach You about Leadership

1. There is an imbalance in leadership training. There is not enough emphasis on the skills, central to great leadership, of inspiring others with beliefs, vision, values and attitude; and too much emphasis on the importance of systems, planning, measurement, budgets, controls and procedures – in short, on management! Does any great leader ever manage people into following him? No, he inspires them, motivates them, keeps them in touch with the bigger vision – he leads them.

2. As a business leader, you have probably been well trained in logic and analysis. But a key leadership skill is the application of ‘emotional intelligence’ – the ability to know when things are ‘true’ or when they are ‘off’, when people are truly inspired, or just paying lip service. As a leader you need emotional intelligence to manage your own and others’ emotions, and you need skills appropriate to this task. Trying to do it by analysis and logic is about as effective as trying to drive a car by studying from a manual how the engine works.

3. People, especially in the business world, tend to avoid emotion – expressing it, dealing with it, looking at where it came from and its role in a situation. The rationale for not dealing with emotion, the very essence of leadership, is that all ‘this emotion stuff’ is ‘not professional’! Not so: it’s only ‘unprofessional’ to suppress emotion or express it inappropriately. When all ‘this emotion stuff’ is not explored and resolved in leadership groups, it always produces long-term tensions and political battles. These cause acute stress in individuals and cripple organisational effectiveness and efficiency. At the same time, they also destroy satisfaction, joy, fun, friendship, health, trust and a good night’s sleep!

4. Leadership skills like vision, inspiration and emotional intelligence can be trained on training courses – but it takes a different kind of course. In most leadership training programmes you will see models of leadership discussed, followed by practical exercises that analyse logically what went right and wrong in a ‘leadership game’. It’s all familiar and fun, but what’s being taught are the elements that underpin leadership, not the essence of leadership.

How Can You Learn to ‘Do’ Great Leadership?

You need to be coached in leadership skills, over time, in real situations – ones that matter to you and where there is a chance of meaningful success or failure – by coaches who themselves demonstrate the skills. A life skill like leadership can’t be learned by numbers; you can’t read a book about it, learn a model or play a game that simulates a real life situation, and say you know anything about leadership. The greater the ‘distance’ your learning experience is from your real world experience, the less likely it is that the learning will be transferred to your everyday performance. You didn’t learn to drive by sitting in a classroom!

So you can only effectively demonstrate the skills of leadership when the situation calling for them is real. Get a coach who has the experience to produce leadership competence, and put yourself in a programme where you are guided through real-time experience to learn leadership skills over time. Only this kind of approach will finally get you to the point where your leadership competence is as natural and instinctive as your driving ability!

At Shine Consulting, we work with leaders who are consciously engaged in designing their organisations to be places where people:

- are consistently passionate, inspired and committed

- produce results well beyond the predictable norm

In short, organisations that really shine!
http://www.shineconsulting.co.uk

Latest Developments-Equality and Diversity Training and Employment Issues

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Baby Oliver secures more! -Government confirms that Associated Discrimination will be extended to all diversity strands

The Leader of the House of Commons has just confirmed that the government will extend the prohibition against associative and perceptive discrimination to “all other diversity strands and areas” where it does not apply at the moment. This important announcement reflects the government’s considered response to the landmark case of Mrs Coleman, published in our July 2008 edition. In that case, Mrs Coleman a personal secretary working for a firm of solicitors endured a barrage of daily abuse about her increased requests for flexible working. Mrs Coleman had given birth to a very severely disabled child, Oliver and in consequence had to balance carefully her work and family responsibilities. The barrage of abuse was directed at her son.  By association with her disabled son, the European Court of Justice ruled, Mrs Coleman had been discriminated against contrary to the Disability Discrimination Act.

The Minister’s announcement means that the concept of associated or perceptive discrimination will now apply in respect of race, sex, gender reassignment, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age. The Minister says the Single Equality Bill going before Parliament just now will be amended to include this provision both in relation to employment and the provision of goods, facilities and services. QED Training has produced a free briefing on the Coleman case and the concepts of associated and perceptive discrimination. Get in touch for a free copy. Our courses are completely updated with the latest case law developments in this area from both an employment and service delivery perspective. And our training includes techniques showing how to challenge inappropriate behaviour from both staff and customers.

New Laws on Flexible working now in place

In a related development, new laws were introduced on April 5th extending the right to request flexible working hours to parents of children aged 16 and under. Previously, the right was only open to parents of children under six or parents of disabled parents under 18 and carers of adults. It is estimated that approximately ten million people will now be able to exercise this right. This represents an increase of four million on the six million already eligible. Employers will still be able to reject flexible working applications if they have “legitimate business concerns” but last year more than 95% of requests were met. Campaigners say this highlights the hard economic argument for equality based upon staff retention and not wasting trained talent. In the current economic climate, flexible working, which can include a wide range of measures, has brought about increased productivity and recruitment savings.

 

·      Women need not name male comparators in equal pay claims-Court of Appeal Ruling

The Court of Appeal has recently ruled that women no longer have to name a specific male employee as a comparator when lodging an equal pay grievance. The ruling was in response to a group of women working as healthcare and administrative staff for a number of local authorities and primary care trusts. The women had argued that like many others they had found it difficult to get information about possible male comparators because of a widespread “culture of secrecy” about pay and benefits such as bonuses. The law had required claimants to have all this information before being able to go in front of a Tribunal. The Appeal Court ruling removes this technical requirement.

It is estimated that about 7,000 equal pay claims which had been deadlocked or stalled because of this technical requirement will now go forward with much greater speed. And in the future, it will remove what had been a technical argument used to slow down and even impede equal pay claims. Westminster sources appear to be in agreement that compulsory pay audits in the private sector will not be introduced within the Single Equality Bill. But there are provisions already within existing laws and duties on the public sector to eradicate the pay gap and seek contract compliance evidence from all stakeholders, public and private, about their arrangements. The Single Equality Bill has also a little noticed amendment which will require all employers to review all their pay rates given an adverse tribunal ruling on equal pay or equal pay for work of equal value.

·      Golden “Hello” of up to £2500 now available- more on the way

Any business can now apply for up to £2,500 in recruitment and “on the job” training subsidies as an incentive to employ people who have been looking for work for six months or more. The new employment and training subsidy or “golden hello” is part of a continued package of welfare benefit and job seeker’s allowance payments which will continue apace throughout the year. The other measures include more support for people who want to set up their own business, access to over 75,000 new work based training opportunities and a brand new concept of “work focused volunteering”. The Chancellor has earmarked £2 billion for these and other initiatives to be announced in his budget in a few days time.

·      London Council fined for failures to help profoundly deaf housing applicant

A London local authority failed to interview a deaf housing applicant with a British Sign Language interpreter on two occasions, despite knowing he could not communicate effectively without one. Redbridge Council also failed to supply a telephone without a text phone so that he could use their housing advisory call centre and delayed his application by almost a year. Damages were paid to the applicant and the authority has now taken steps to train all staff in disability awareness issues as well as making remedial improvements including a new texting service.

The case is additionally interesting because the damages were not paid as a result of formal County Court action but through a complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman who stated:-

“The faults I have identified in this matter demonstrate a failure by the Council to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act in making reasonable adjustments to enable disabled people to access services”

The case helps to illustrate how other non legal channels can also sometimes be activated to secure redress of grievances and discrimination claims.

·      15 year old newspaper delivery boy takes “employer” to court!

And in a very creative way, a resourceful 15 year old paper boy has just taken his local newsagent to court! Myles Bebington had been working as a paper boy for the same local newsagent since he was 13. One day, his employer told him to start at 06.30a.m instead of the usual 7.00 start. When his mother complained that this was unlawful, the boy was sacked.

The Tribunal found in favour of the newsagent saying that was no employment contract in place between the boy and the shop. But lawyers supporting Myles were glad of his statutory right to go before a tribunal and to highlight the grievance. This would not have been possible without the 2006 Age Discrimination Regulations which are designed to extend unfair dismissal protection not just to older people but to young people and children. Prior to 2006, a boy like Myles would never have got through the front door of the courts!  And it is certain that similar cases will continue to be lodged. Even before the age new regulations came into force, cases of this kind were being raised. In December 2002, a former paperboy settled a case for more than £1,000 after he was threatened with the sack by a newsagent when he couldn’t find anyone to cover for his holiday.

·      Your holiday entitlement
– new incre
ases

The raft of April 2009 employment law changes included an increase in the minimum statutory entitlement to paid holidays. The increase for full timers goes from 24 to 28 days paid holiday a year. Part timers have a pro-rata entitlement based on the number of days they actually work. Whatever the status, a holiday should replace a worker’s normal day and they should be paid the same amount as if they were working normally.  

·      New legal framework for disputes

The legal framework to resolve employment disputes was amended on 6th April 2009 under the Employment Act of 2008 which came into operation on that date. There is a new ACAS Code of Practice which sets out the principles of what an employer and employee should do to achieve a reasonable standard of behaviour to resolve both grievance and disciplinary cases. ACAS say that the new arrangements provide for a system of dispute resolution which it is intended to be easy to use and will enable problems to be resolved earlier, with less lost time, expense and stress for all parties.QED Training provide a one day and a more intensive two day training course on disciplinary and grievance policies and procedures. Do get in touch if you would like more details.

 

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Leadership Development – Leadership Styles and Training

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What makes a good leader?

Leadership development

Ever since we started Impact Factory, lo these many years ago, we have struggled with the whole notion of leadership development or leadership training. Indeed, we have resisted writing about it in much detail because the subject is so subjective.

Are leaders born or made? Can you use management leadership training to give leadership skills to someone who isn’t leadership material? How is it done?

Given that we’re being asked to create a lot more leadership programmes of late, we decided we’d take a hard look at just what makes a good leader.

Even of you don’t think of yourself as a leader, you will have areas in your life where other people look to you for leadership. So here are some essentials qualities and skills you need to be a good leader in whatever leadership arena you’re in.

Leadership training

Training is a misnomer when applied to leadership. Any leadership development programme has to include at least a passing reference to the following

Introduction to the concept of leadership behaviours
Discussion and debate about leadership
A widening of the definition beyond traditional leadership stereotypes
Personal understanding of individual leadership qualities and strengths
The difference between leadership and management
A look at how people perceive, their perception is their reality
Assumptions and their effect on how people see the world
What are your terms of reference and seeing the bigger picture
Personal patterns and beliefs
A look at the elements that have influenced and shaped the participants
Establishing ownership of individual’s leadership behaviours

A programme needs to be designed around the development of the individuals involved rather than towards competencies identified as required by the organisation.

Leadership style

What does a leader look like?

No cookie cutter models here. Everyone can develop their capacity to lead, from church committees to local pressure groups to business teams to political parties. When someone is committed to, and practises using their leadership capabilities at all levels in their life, then they can and will develop their own potential as a leader.

There is a tendency, in our Western culture, to see Leadership as synonymous with white, middle class, male, in charge. There’s a kind of unspoken template of what leadership is supposed to look like. Now we know that isn’t true. Leadership can and does come in many different shapes and forms.

Good leaders don’t conform to a template. Indeed, leaders are people who don’t usually follow the party line. They have an edge to them, they get up people’s noses sometimes, they make decisions – lots of them – that often others don’t like. They say the things that need saying in a way that others understand.

Don’t let the picture get in the way

However, it is important to acknowledge that people developing their leadership skills are often hampered by their picture (or other people’s picture) of what a leader is supposed to ‘look’ like.

This is when it’s important to understand that the role of leader is not only completely individual (remember, they don’t fit a mould!) but also has to be worked at with belief and will and determination by the person occupying it.

It’s different for everyone

Not only that, leaders will be experienced differently by the individual people they lead. One getting encouragement, another understanding. That, of course, will be due to the leader’s ability to see what each person needs (more on this later).

In addition, not every leader is going to be a great leader in the sense that the world around them acknowledges their leader status. Many leaders get no ‘public’ recognition, only their personal satisfaction of a job well done.

Leadership theory

Seeing the Big Picture Vision

When the ‘vision’ word is used it usually means that someone has an idea of what the future could look like and a plan to get there. No point painting rosy, pie in the sky pictures (‘we’ll double our turnover in a year; we’ll create international markets; we’ll be number one in the UK’, etc.) if pie in the sky is all they are.

More like, ‘we could double our turnover in a year, this is how we could get there, this is what I expect from everyone in the organisation to help us get there and any new ideas are welcome’.

The ability to see

There is one essential quality for anyone in any position of leadership: the ability to see what is going on. Seeing is clarity. Seeing in the ‘wood for the trees’ kind of way.

We’ve heard the following phrase from a number of people throughout the years and it’s a good one – get your attention off yourself and on to whatever is going on.

What you’ll see

Here’s what you’ll be able to see if you do that: you’ll be able to see things from other people’s points of view; you’ll be able to understand what’s going on for them. You’ll be able to see what other people are capable of and how to help them achieve it. Most importantly, you’ll be able to see the whole picture not just your little bit of it.

Leadership skills

What makes you tick?

Know thyself. To be able to see you need a clear understanding of what has made you the way you are and what has shaped and influenced your life. The clearer you are about what motivates and affects your behaviour, the clearer you will be able to see what is going on with other people.

You didn’t spring fully formed from Zeus’s head – many things have affected you over the years. A good leader is proud to acknowledge role models, people, places, things, etc, which have inspired them.

You can’t do it alone

Any good leader worth their salt should be able to name 100 people, places, things, right off the bat. Why? Because they know themselves well enough to acknowledge who has supported and inspired them along the way, and what support they still need to get things done.

Leadership quality

Qualities

Think about what qualities your role models have that are attractive to you, that make them inspiring. Now, putting aside modesty, false or otherwise, think about what qualities they have that you also have. You have to know who you are and accept that you have outstanding qualities – leaders are able to do that.

Beliefs, rules and patterns

How well do you understand the rules, beliefs and patterns you have created in your life so far? Everyone’s got ‘em.

They can be the simple kind of rule – you should brush your teeth twice a day. They can be the more complex kind – you should treat everyone the way you expect to be treated. Beliefs can be things like – I believe everyone should be fair. And patterns can be as simple as going to and from work the same way every day.

When identifying your rules, patterns and beliefs see if you can avoid putting a value judgement on whether they are good or bad; this is far more about seeing just how well you understand your own behaviour.

Leadership management

Moving things forward Innovative thinking

Leadership requires innovative thinking; it requires people making positive and inspiring impacts; and it requires them to be able to motivate others. What is needed is an ability to think and act ‘out of the box’; out of the accepted or ‘right’ ways of doing things.

The culture of tomorrow will be one where change and innovation are the order of the day. Out of the box thinking and identifying future needs go hand in hand.

There’s no such thing as ‘can’t do’

‘Can’t do’ is an alien concept to a real leader. Leaders get things done. They have commitment, persistence, determination and resilience. Couple all of that with creative problem-solving and you have a person things happen around.

What we mean, is that no matter what their personality, there will be a kind of buzz around them; things change when they’re around; indeed, things might even get shaken up when they’re around. It isn’t always comfortable being around leaders.

You can’t stay stuck

Along with a ‘can do’ attitude, is an ability to move things forward. When others get bogged down, good leaders know how to motivate and inspire the people around them. They are willing to take risks and stand up for what they believe. They want to get things done and bring people along with them.

Development training

Can training develop leadership skills?

In our view, you cannot ‘send’ someone on a leadership programme who doesn’t want to be there and expect them to become a leader. It’s not like the reluctant presenter who gets sent along to a course and finds out that it’s not so bad after all. If your prospective leader isn’t fully engaged in the process, sending them along to be ‘taught’ leadership skills will be a waste of time and money.

If you fall into that category, then no amount of leadership training is going to develop your skills.

However, if you have to step into a new leadership role, or there are greater expectations of how you manage people, or you’ve become a project leader, and you have a willingness to develop and take on new skills, then it’s really possible to give yourself a leadership boost. Everyone can develop their capacity to lead, from church committees to local pressure groups to business teams to political parties. When you are committed to, and practise using your leadership capabilities at all levels in your life, then you can and will develop your own potential as a leader.

Management training

We believe there is a real difference between management and leadership. You don’t need to be a leader to be able to manage other people. However, to be an outstanding manager, you do have to have some of those essential skills and qualities that are necessary in developing as a leader.

Even if you are a manager with no major aspirations of leadership, there will be people who will turn to you for leadership, whether you like it or not. Therefore, when looking for training to develop your skills, it might be a very good idea to look at leadership courses as well as management courses.

Leadership courses

There are scores of courses available calling themselves Leadership Training, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, etc. We cannot judge just how good they are, but if you think about everything you’ve read so far and feel in synch with our sentiments, then that’s what you need to look for: courses that incorporate a clear approach to developing leadership skills.

Earlier in this document we outlined some of the things to look for in a Leadership Training Programme. Add to that list a few more essentials:

How to initiate leadership behaviours
Understanding how commitment works
Leading by example
Influencing skills
Empowering and motivating others
Thinking on your feet
Handling yours and others’ stress

In our view, really good leadership courses need to incorporate all of these elements to be truly effective. Equally important, a programme needs to be relevant to your specific leadership needs and not something off the peg.

This is why Impact Factory only delivers tailored leadership training; so that each and every course fits the organisation to a ‘T’.

In conclusion:

Expect the unusual, the quirky, the non-conformist, the doer, the inspirer and you’ve got yourself a leader. To become one or to develop your leadership skills you have to be fully engaged in the process of development and just like everyone else, you have to practise, practise, practise.

Key Learning Points:

The power of aligning personal motivation and business objectives
The capacity of strong well expressed beliefs to motivate others
Communication is far more than just words
Leadership is not just about getting people to do what you ask
It is far more about seeing what is needed and carrying people forward with your vision
Being able to create the impact you want
Expanding your spheres of influence
Being able to talk to people in terms they understand
Using appropriate language
The relevance, development and use of personal style
Putting across concepts and ideas with ease and flair
The value of creative risk-taking and “out of the box” thinking
Making sure projects move forward without having to do all the work yourself.

Jo Ellen and Robin run Impact Factory who provide Leadership Training and Development, Public Speaking Presentation Skills, Communications Training and Executive Coaching for Individuals.

Leadership Training Tips – Effective Leadership Trainings

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So, you are planning to hold a leadership training program for your office. If you are, it is important that you learn more about how to implement such a program. One way to start your learning process is to know more about leadership training tips. In this way, you can better determine the different tasks and activities needed to accomplish your goals of helping the members of your team or organization to become good leaders themselves.

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If you try to make a search for leadership training tips online, you might catch yourself surprised with the impressive results you might be able to come across with. To keep you from getting confused as to which tips to heed, you must first try to review what your requirements are. Try to ask yourself, what is it about your leadership skills that you want to improve? Or better yet, try to ask yourself “are you fit to become a good leader?”

Once you have answered these kinds of questions, you can already start searching for tips on how to develop a leadership training program for your organization or for your own self. You simply need to keep in mind that your goal in undergoing or holding such a program is for you to improve the performance of the whole team, starting with its leader.

A leadership training program is not an excuse to get away from the humdrum of daily work. Nor is it an opportunity to go on a paid vacation. A leadership training program can take place within a training room in the office or if it is for your personal development, in the comfort of your own home office.

Learn more about leadership training tips today and start taking steps to improve your leadership and the overall performance of the team. You can find these tips in a variety of sources, and the only limit is your willingness to learn.

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Professional Leadership Training – Leadership Trainings

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Professional leadership training is all about harnessing to full productivity the raw skills that people have. These training seminars are often tailored to helping professionals excel at leadership. A good leader is indispensable when it comes to the attainment of success.

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What is leadership? Leadership is defined as the ability to organize, motivate, and hold accountable both oneself and others in the pursuit of making ideas happen. It is also the capacity to balance a sacred long-term vision with the imperative needs of everyday execution.

Although there a lot of things that we pick up at school, but often than not we are not taught the qualities that are suppose to improve us. However, there are a few who excel and display leadership skills even when they have not undergone any training to support them.

The training that is done over a lengthy period of time is usually more productive compared to training done only in a short span of time. These trainings are meant to maximize leadership skills of an individual. The main goal of the leadership trainings is to bring them to the surface and put them into good work so that progress can be made. The mere fact that you are attending such training shows that the strength, skill and quality of a leader. These training are intended to teach you how to harness these skills and use them in your business and to your personal life as well.

As the word connotes professional, this training is not only meant for company heads or high ranking officers, anybody can take part, even an entrepreneur. These training are available in an old fashioned way or even virtually. But face-to-face meetings are still very popular since you are able to interact with other leaders and this can bring about the natural characteristics of an individual. The most important thing there is for such training is to ensure that you put the training into action.

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How Leadership Training Programs Can Help Organizations

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When it comes to corporate section, leadership is not entrusted to those who are born leaders but to those who are capable and efficient to achieve the goals of the organization, hence developing the quality of leadership among such personnel would lead to the growth of the organization. To develop leadership qualities among efficient and deserving employees it is essential that they be provided with the right leadership training programs so as to develop the qualities of a leader in them which in turn would drive the whole organization on to the path of success.

There may be people who are really capable of achieving huge goals but still lack the ability to lead a team since they have no leadership quality in them. If such people or employees are provided with the right leadership development training programs they would be capable of leading a team to achieve similar targets and motivate the whole team in working more efficiently. Leadership training programs can help employees discover their true potential and latent abilities and utilize them for their growth as well as towards the growth of the organization.

The quality of leadership even determines the development of the organization hence developing a good leader among the capable personnel would be of advantage to the company. Leaders are required at all levels hence training them to manage and control a team and their followers is essential to bring about increased sales for the organization. Usually the employees who are in the managerial posts need to be provided leadership training so that they can handle and lead their subordinates to work more efficiently and attain corporate goals.

Developing leadership quality would benefit the organization in a number of ways as those qualities would help in finding out mistakes and providing solutions to rectify and prevent the mistakes from recurring. There would be better communication among the work group and the work would move fast. Leadership development helps a person to build up the right attitude. Facing tough challenges and attaining higher goals can be attained only if you develop the right attitude which is what leadership training programs can impart. Developing a strategic plan and achieving goals are another quality that a trained leader can easily develop in his career.

With the proper training workers would become more informative and up to date with the latest techniques and strategies. They would be more challenging, competitive and creative in executing their duties with better results. If employees are provided the right training then they would be more focused in their work and try to convince their co workers to follow their foot steps. What would happen to an organizations future if it is not properly guided by a leader? Definitely the future would be at stake and the organization would be unorganized and the employees would be inefficient.

Leadership skills can lead to attaining more than average goals hence leading the organization to growth and success. Leaders are people in the organization who are looked upon hence even a small mistake from the part of the leaders would create a negative impact in the organization, hence leaders are required to undergo quality training programs that can help them to be more professional and experts in the job they are performing, as well as lead the organization to development. The leadership program needs to be planned and up to date only then the organization and the employees will benefit from the program and imbibe the essential quality of a powerful and efficient leader. Outdated strategies and techniques would not benefit the trainer and hence would not bring any positive results. A good leadership training program would be informative, motivating and provide the latest strategies and skills.

The program should be more lively and demonstrative so that the trainers get the essence of the course and be trained to be a good leader. Leaders are the backbones of the organization, they are the rulers and the kingdom can be expanded only if the leaders are trained and efficient. Spending on leadership training is not an extra expense but an investment that can bring huge revenue to the organization. The right leadership training program is what all organizations should look for to bring out efficient leaders.

Leadership Training Programs To Discover Potential Leaders

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The one who benefits the most from leadership training programs are the organizations as such programs are designed to transform the employees of the organization to a more efficient and goal oriented leader. Leadership skills among the employees can make them more loyal and dedicated that they are motivated to try to do their best to work towards achieving high targets to prove their efficiency and would also focus on guiding and leading their subordinates to work more efficiently so as to achieve various goals. Leadership development programs cultivate responsible leaders who can manage and control a team of workers to perform their best.

When considering the fact that employees are the main factor leading to the success and growth of the organization, leadership training programs can help the organization to discover the most capable leaders that can help the organization to achieve greater objectives and goals achieved through the efforts of efficient work force lead by a capable leader.

By enhancing the leadership ability in an employee the work quality would improve and thus make them more responsible and dedicated in their work. Developing leadership qualities would help the employees to be more proficient in executing their tasks and with the right leadership training they would be able to keep a better communication channel thus be capable of making their juniors perform better and eventually increase the productivity and the sales of the organization thus bring in more revenue and income.

Leadership development programs would help leaders to think more creatively and execute fresh ideas thus helping the organization to keep phase with the tough competition around them. Leadership training programs provide employees with updated knowledge and skills that can be practically applied to help the organization grow and prosper. Leadership programs train employees to develop natural instincts for leading their subordinates and make them perform efficiently. Trained leaders are more dedicated and goal oriented that they try their best and make their subordinates to achieve the goals at any cost.

Leadership training programs helps in finding the most capable leaders amongst existing employees and discovering these proficient leaders and entrusting the responsibilities of a leader would bring about positive results in the organizational activities. Those performing well can share their qualities and induce other to follow them through their trained leadership qualities. Good leaders would make their subordinates work smarter and would be able to pass on their capabilities and ideas. Leadership qualities help in building up strong and aspiring team that can achieve higher goals and objectives. New skills and strategies are imparted among the team members and leadership quality would eventually improve the work quality of the entire organization.

Leaders usually keep track of their team members and closely watch their performances and motivation hence worker’s performance would increase and the chances for them to sit idle would be very low. Leadership is the core to every successful organization and a quality leadership training program is what would help discover potential leader aiming for larger goals and executing the same through their attitude and high aspirations. Trained leaders are not just leaders but proficient leaders. Leadership training can provide a better understanding of the responsibilities of a leader and what strategies they should follow so as to lead a group to perform well.

With the proper training they would have a clear insight what actions are to be taken and whether there is any problem. They would also be skilled in solving problems and guide their subordinates in rectifying the mistakes. Trained leaders develop the ability of motivating their subordinates thus making them work more and be more productive. Training also helps them overcome their weaknesses and increase their knowledge and skills thus providing the organization a high quality and motivated workforce lead by capable leaders. Quality and skilled work force is the most valuable asset that an organization can have and in order to attain this valuable asset it is necessary that the organization spend on quality leadership training programs to discover potential leaders who can dominate the organization with their skills and strategies and attain new heights of success. Without a leader the organization is not going to flourish as it would lack various essential elements like planning, organizing, controlling, managing and most importantly success and growth.

4 Ways to Empower Your Staff Through Leadership Training

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4 Ways to Empower Your Staff Through Leadership Training

By: Tim Millett
Posted: Sep 03, 2010
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“Empowerment” is a key word whenever you go to any human resources conference these days. However, it takes more than bandying about the word to empower your staff. The essence of empowering your staff is to provide a facilitative style of leadership that enables you build up and encourage individual staff members to reach their full potential. This leads to many benefits for the company including higher staff morale, increased productivity, reduction in leave, and reduction in staff turnover.

Your role, as a leader in this process, is to ensure your team has:

A clear understanding of their boundaries
Access to the information required to make confident decisions
The ability and skills needed to work in smaller, self managed teams

As part of this strategy leadership training can be the key to empower individuals and team members to tap into their full potential.

Personal Empowerment

When you send an individual to a good leadership training course, you provide that person with the opportunity to learn personal development skills. Since good leaders must understand the intricacies of interpersonal communication and learn how to motivate team members, the leadership training course will enable individuals to learn a range of skills that will allow them to better communicate on a number of different levels.

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An individual attending a leadership training course will learn what their own personal motivation for working is and will learn how to self-motivate to achieve their goals. These communication skills and increased motivation are useful to individuals in whatever role they have within the organization. Individuals who undertake leadership training become more self-aware, empowering the individual to put those new communication skills into practice on the return to the workplace.

Building Team Skills

One of the ‘hidden’ benefits of sending an individual staff member to a leadership training course is the difference it can make to team communication practices. Leaders learn how to appreciate other people’s contributions to team projects and how to encourage individuals to give their best performance to each task.

Even if an individual does not take on a leadership role within the team, the training will open his or her eyes to the contributions of others within the team. This understanding can encourage greater team harmony and the willingness to work together to achieve the goals of the organization.

Team Empowerment

When you send several team members to a leadership training course, you will find that the entire team becomes empowered. Increased skills in working together are derived through such things as:

The leadership skills of appreciating another’s contributions
Enhanced interpersonal communication skills
The ability to motivate others to achieve

The entire team or department can benefit from the increased understanding and reduction in miscommunication that arises when people learn interpersonal communication skills through leadership training. If you want to empower your team to move past a “storming” phase and get into productive work faster, you need several people on the team with a range of skills that will build up and encourage the team to succeed as a unit.

Leadership Empowerment

Finally, sending your team members to leadership training can have many benefits for you as a manager. If you have people who have some leadership skills working with you, it is easier to delegate tasks and share the burdens. You may not need to facilitate as many team sessions, or could find that the team is able to work productively without your continual input, as the team members become empowered to take on a range of leadership tasks themselves.

As a manager, you have many roles within the organization and delegating some of the tasks involved in leading a department can ensure you have time to attend to other important tasks too.

Leadership training empowers individuals, benefits the team, and provides easier delegation for leaders and managers. Everyone in the department wins when individuals become empowered through leadership training.

 

Tim Millett – About the Author:

Timothy Millett, head trainer at i perform, has extensive expertise in performance training, sales training and customer service training. Tim has helped participants from organisations such as SWIFT and UBS achieve peak levels of personal performance. For more information please visit Leadership Training

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Weight Training for Women – Important Facts You Should Know

By: Lyndsay Earle
Posted: Apr 07, 2011

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Since time immemorial, any form of lifting is considered a man’s domain. However, with the enlightenment given by women’s liberation and women’s rights groups, it is now accepted in Western societies that women are co-equal with men in almost all aspects– some extreme women’s groups supporters would even say that with childbirth and childrearing, the female gender is even more superior.

But if there is any area in the fitness world where a lot of women still give to the men hands down, it’s in the aspect of weight training. Most Eves find this domain too “manly” and would rather stick to the much more female-oriented cardiovascular routines. You can’t blame them. After all, women still need to hold on to their “female side” and lifting weights, no matter how small the poundage, is just too much of “man’s thing.” Add in the misconception that weight training for women makes them bulk up like their boyfriends is enough to scare them away from dumbbells for life. This is a misconception because women only have one-tenth of the testosterone– the hormone that builds muscle– of their male counterparts. Unless they purposely train long hours and lift very heavy weights, there is no way for their bodies to naturally look like the muscle men in gym posters. Physically and metabolically, women do not bulk up with weight training.

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However, by not lifting weights, women miss out on a lot of benefits. From weight loss to bone health to heart health to enhanced strength to increased feelings of wellness, weight training for women offers a lot of health advantages.

Let’s start with muscle strengthening. When women do resistance training with weights, they are increasing their muscle capacity with heavier workload. With continued training, women who train with weights will notice that not only can they lift heavier objects or sacks of groceries, they are also more able to maintain their balance as they do these things. Thus, they lessen their risk for slips and falls.

Where weight loss is concerned, weight training for women is extremely beneficial. This is because in lifting weights, muscle mass is increased. Since muscle burns more calories than fat, the metabolic rate is increased. When women train with weights, they convert more fat to muscle and as a result, they continue to lose weight even when they are in between workouts.

Weight training for women is also crucial to bone health. As females (and males too) age, bone mass progressively deteriorates. By doing weight-bearing exercises, stress is placed on the joints and as part of their adaptation, they increase in density and become stronger. Women should train with weights to halt this natural phenomenon or manage it at its earlier stages before any irreversible damage results.

Resistance training is also important to the heart health of many females. It reduces their risk of high blood pressure and other diseases that can cause heart attacks. When the ladies are healthier, they are able to do their daily routines with ease. Mothers who have to juggle between taking care of their kids, doing the laundry, cooking and shopping for groceries can benefit immensely from the strength and endurance that resistance training offers.

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Lyndsay Earle – About the Author:

Energetic fitness fanatic who has lost more than 40 pounds in the past year.

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How Executive Leadership Training Programs Enrich Strategic Leadership Visions

By: Bill Thomas
Posted: Apr 23, 2008
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Executive leadership training programs can sharpen and focus your strategic vision.

By acquiring the skills, expertise and processes of visionary leadership you will magnify and telescope the effectiveness of your leadership behaviors.

In today’s globally competitive economy, all professionals, supervisors, managers and entrepreneurs should participate in executive level leadership training.

Because executive leadership training programs should prepare you to create strategic leadership visions that will meet the challenging demands of leading your projects, operations, employees and the activities of other stakeholders.

The principles and concepts of strategic leadership enables executives to formulate, communicate and execute on their powerfully compelling visions.

What ingredients give your visions energy and inspire people to take positive actions?

Engage Them!

Your strategic visionary leadership challenge is to discover ways of blending together three essential ingredients for added spice and flavor in the aroma of your vision:

1) Map It – show them the avenue leading to bountiful opportunities and hidden treasures

2) Model It – reveal how all the moving parts will work together when you flip the switch

3) Diagram It – draw out the specs, structures, synergies and signposts behind the vision

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Empower Them!

Most executive leadership training, coaching and development programs need to invest more effort and devote additional time to teaching the fundamentals and strategies of human capital enrichment.

Executive leaders should train themselves to focus their attention and concentrate their energies on:

=> Constantly tweaking and using a dependable, potent system for empowering their employees, associates, partners and key stakeholders;

=> Discovering and deploying some type of failure-resistant system for producing successful individuals and outcomes;

=> Turning their management-dominated strategic planning exercises into a “total employee involvement program”

In this Age where imaginative applications of Knowledge are the primary source of competitive advantage, it is foolish to rely on anything less than executives who expertly inspire and leverage their people’s potential through strategic, visionary leadership practices.

Encourage Them!

The acid test for executive leadership training programs reveals itself through these criteria:

1) Do leaders exhibit the kinds of desirable personal, organizational and societal traits, values and work patterns within their strategic leadership behaviors?

2) Are visionary leadership attributes – such as, continuous learning and growth, an eagerness or greediness for new things and a unshakable commitment to embrace broader perspectives – embedded in this executive leader’s DNA?

3) Which components, if any, of your leadership agenda are driven by the human capital developmental priorities of your strategic visions?

Without a vision, the people perish but without the hope supported by:

- Behavioral models which honestly reflect a set of high ideals,

- An open exchange of, interactions with and search for new ideas,

- A daily agenda that actively promotes excursions into self-discovery, professional education and community enrichment,

Without all the seeds containing those forms of hope, your organization will find itself bleeding the emotional, spiritual and psychological strengths it needs to survive, flourish and thrive.

So the question remains: how will design your executive leadership training program to help you develop your strategic leadership skills, visionary leadership competencies and proficiency in enabling, educating and enriching your human capital assets?

Copyright © 2008, Mustard Seed Investments Inc., All rights reserved.

Bill Thomas – About the Author:

Bill Thomas conducts executive level leadership training programs which develop Awesome Leaders and Innovative Leaders – he helps professionals, managers, supervisors, executives, entrepreneurs and directors by providing focused leadership subjects, coaching and consulting support, practical exercises, tons of powerful tools and energetic interactions with clients.

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