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Essential Skills of Leadership

Great Leadership Delivers Superior Results

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While a savvy manager can inspire and motivate team members, a poor manager has the opposite effect, and the entire department — and the company — will suffer as a consequence. Productivity declines, employee morale diminishes and eventually the top performers will start looking for jobs elsewhere — even with competitors.

Essential Skills of Leadership teaches supervisors, team leaders and managers the following skill points crucial to effectively managing a team:

Maintain and enhance team member self-esteem: Managers and team leaders will develop the critical skills necessary to effectively delegate, evaluate performance, correct work habits, deal with complaints and resolve conflicts while supporting each team member’s sense of self-respect and dignity.
Focus on behavior: Leaders will learn how to solve problems more effectively and with less stress by dealing with what team members do rather than with their attitudes or personal character.
Encourage team member participation: Leaders will learn to involve team members in decision-making, problem-solving, goal-setting and other activities to motivate, empower and inspire them.

Purpose

The Vital Learning Essential Skills of Leadership™ program is the first step in developing successful supervisors, team leaders and managers. By focusing on three critical management skills, the program establishes a methodology for productive interactions between team members and team leaders. Essential Skills of Leadership™ helps experienced managers, new managers and aspiring managers refocus on the basics: the skills necessary to manage individuals while also leading the team.

To encourage, inspire and motivate team members, managers must have good relationships with employees. Part of this comes knowing how to deal with employees in a positive way that maintains and enhances their self-esteem. Managers must also create a team atmosphere by empowering team members, allowing them to participate in setting goals, solving problems and making decisions when possible. Managers who achieve this retain their team members, and their teams are more productive.

Essential Skills of Leadership teaches managers contemporary techniques for effective leadership, thereby improving their performance and increasing the productivity of both the team and the organization. Throughout the seminar, managers review video presentations and case studies, participate in group discussions, practice new skills, and receive immediate feedback. They leave with valuable implementation tools, a troubleshooting guide and additional resources to help them apply the skills they have learned on the job.