Leadership Development
Courses 2010

Leadership and Management in the midst of change
Driving force for the future
Moving beyond competitors
Sustaining a competitive edge

Right people are the most valuable asset of the organization and the key driving force for the future. By helping high-potential leaders develop a broad, integrated perspective on general management, our leadership courses support organizations in their pursuit of sustained competitive advantage. Going far beyond basic skills and theories, our leadership courses provide a comprehensive understanding of how organizations function. Participants return to their work with actionable lessons that can be implemented effectively within their organizations.

Essential Leadership and Management
Management skills for Supervisors or new Managers

Investing in the next-generation leaders not only helps ensure sustainability, but also positions your organization to emerge from an economic downturn well equipped to thrive over the long term.

Participants will learn to understand their leadership influence on people. By understanding their own actions, behavior, feelings, emotions and drives, participants will better understand these processes in others. Thus, they will develop a leadership style that improves the performance of their organization and, most importantly, leads to a better balanced life.

Participants will leave this intensive learning experience with the requisite skills to assume managerial responsibilities and leadership roles and to sustain corporate advantages for the businesses.

Who Should Attend
Supervisors or new managers who need managerial and leadership skills necessary to succeed in their roles. This course is also designed for experienced managers who would like to catch up with new business management skills.

Course Objectives
This course provides an integrated view of management fundamentals and helps participants to:

1. assess the impact of leadership styles on subordinates.
2. construct a holistic approach to identifying problems and adapting to change.
3. gain greater knowledge, capabilities, and confidence to develop a personal leadership philosophy.

Special Features
All participants are requested to take part in the Career Anchors; an assessment to discover real values in participants.  The survey is designed to stimulate responder’s thinking about his/her capabilities, motives, and values.

Key Learning and Insights 

Building Foundational Skills

1. Understanding and living the corporate culture
2. Guideline for leadership
3. Roles and responsibilities for a manager/leader
4. Comparing leadership and management
5. Understanding different leadership styles
6. Developing their own leadership style to improve corporate effectiveness
7. Tactics and strategies in leading under different styles

Planer Role: Building and Keeping the Team

1. Guiding
2. Motivating
3. Rewarding

Organizer Role: Building Collaboration, Teamwork and Trust

1. Building Trust
2. Communicating
3. Sharing Information

Leader Role: Coaching for Better Performance

1. Coaching
2. Delegating
3. Empowering

Controller Role: Managing Conflicts

1. Listening
2. Giving and Receiving Feedback
3. Making Decision

Leadership Development in Action

1. Reflection and Feedback. Participants work with a trainer and their study partner(s) to help guide the learning process and to allow reflection and feedback.
2. Leadership Development Guide through Career Anchor. By reviewing survey result of Career Anchor participants evaluate leadership strengths and areas needing improvement.
3. Action Plan. Participants develop a personal action plan for strengthening leadership effectiveness.

Strategic Leadership Development
Leading skills for Mid- to Senior-level Managers

Intelligence Strategies offers the Strategic Leadership Development to transform functional managers into exceptional leaders. The Program is designed to help participants put effective, collaborative methods of leadership to work in their organizations and leverage the leadership potential of all members of their teams.

Participants focus on developing their own leadership skills and personal influence, as well as exploring strategies for building a team of strong individuals who will support each other, deal with tough problems in an efficient manner, and take accountability for results.

The course provides broad exposure to real-world business lessons and an integrated view of the fundamentals of management. By leveraging advanced strategies and techniques, managers learn to excel at decision making and execution as they create a broader vision of success for their companies.

Who Should Attend
Functional supervisors, managers and senior managers who have over two years of work experience.

Course Objectives
By actively participated in our activities for every session, participants will learn how to:

1. lead cross-functional initiatives and corporate projects.
2. enhance synergies across critical organizational functions.
3. balance core businesses with innovative, new-growth opportunities.
   

Special Features
All participants are requested to take part in the Campbell Leadership Descriptor; a self assessment designed to help individuals identify characteristics for successful leadership recognizes their strengths and identify areas for improvement.

In our increasingly complex world, the need for good leadership has never been greater. In fact, effective leadership is crucial to the success of any organization. But what is an “effective leader’, and how can we improve the chances of success in leadership roles?

Campbell Leadership Descriptor
The benefits of using the Campbell Leadership Descriptor:

1. applicable for leaders at every level in every type of organization.
2. allows participants to compare themselves with effective and ineffective leaders.
3. participants develop an action plan based on leadership attributes that make a difference.
4. personalized assessment that allows for reflection and taking action to improve development needs.
5. sets the stage to further leverage strengths.

Major leadership attributes

Key Learning and Insights
This intensive course takes a problem-solving approach, providing practical insights and proven management tools to help tackle the challenges of organizational change. The main focus is on concept sharing, group discussions, case studies and class activities. Participants explore the latest concepts and proven leading skills for working successfully.

Change Management
Learning international expansion and competitiveness and how the local managers should respond to transnational environment. Opportunity identification; balance between core businesses and new-growth opportunities.

Cross-Functional Business
Understanding of the organization’s varied functions and how they interrelate to impact its bottom line; marketing, finance and accounting, operations and the organization’s overall strategy.

Cost Awareness
Learning important concepts that help drive an organization’s budgeting, pricing, and forecasting decisions: cost accounting and the time value of money. This will help participants plan for the most valuable outcome for the organization.

Leadership Influence
Understanding of how human behaviour (their own and that of others) affects the functioning of their organisation. By focusing on conscious and unconscious behaviour, as well as rational and irrational action, it helps managers manage both irrational and dysfunctional processes in their companies. Understanding leadership behaviour accompanies managers in an exploration of their personal leadership style and addresses ways of dealing with people.

Leadership Development in Action

1. Reflection and Feedback. Participants work with a trainer and their study partner(s) to help guide the learning process and to allow reflection and feedback.
2. Leadership Development Guide through Campbell Leadership Descriptor. By reviewing survey result of Campbell Leadership Descriptor participants evaluate leadership strengths and areas needing improvement by comparing personal leadership attributes to those of a "good leader" and a "poor leader."
3. Action Plan. Participants develop a personal action plan for strengthening leadership effectiveness.
   

Leadership Development Courses 2010
Benefits to Participants and Organizations

During our unique in-house training participants will enhance their working skills as well as enjoy a very good time interacting with colleagues and other team members.  Thus, this workshop is often seen as an excellent opportunity for team building.

In addition to the above benefits your organization will also gain invaluable advice from our certified trainers. Specifically, we have:

• Leadership Assessment Tools to help participants indentify characteristics for successful leadership, recognize their strengths and identify areas for managerial improvement.
• Experience in training and consultancy for over 10 years especially at the management level. We understand what new managers and experienced managers are concerned and how to motivate them for peak performance.
• Expertise in behaviour change from the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This psychological tool will help participants learn the new skills and apply them more willingly at work afterward. The NLP technique is regarded by most trainers in the world as the most powerful tool to change behaviour of the participants during training and at work.
• Long and continuous teaching experience at leading universities especially in the business management subjects. This helps us keep up with the latest management practices in the business world. We can then enrich the learning of your participants and help them understand their work more clearly.
• Experience in human resource management and development. We understand your people as they progress in their career. With the knowledge in HR we can also design the courses specifically for your required competencies and changes.