The Strategic Leader

Upon successful completion of the Strategic Leader training course, you will learn how to: • Create ownership and responsibility to lead by considering individual performance needs. • Improve sensitivity to a wider range of effective leadership actions. • Learn individual tendencies in a variety of management situations. • Learn to make the strategic decision preceding virtually every supervisory action to influence performance by emphasizing the “task” or the “people”. • Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of your dominant style. • Learn to flex your style appropriately to the needs of the direct report. • Effectively use the Instruct, Relate, Coach, and Delegate styles. • View performance situations in terms of how capable the employee is and how strongly they desire to perform well. • Master 3 simple steps that can be applied in all performance management situations. • Plan your use of strategic leadership back on the job. • Integrate an employee development strategy into the use of strategic leadership styles.