Leadership Excellence for Senior Managers

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Course Overview

Senior Managers Course

Senior managers have unique demands placed upon them. They need to be able to lead the leaders – offering guidance, critiquing performance, and mentoring their team – while also identifying and developing new initiatives and vision for the future of your organization. To maximize performance and foster a healthy environment, senior managers must also motivate others, nurturing and utilizing the distinctive skills of each team member.

This course will earn you 14 PDUs | 14 CDUs

Leadership Excellence for Senior Managers Course Overview

Learning Objectives

Learn the different styles of leadership that shape employees
Navigate organizational politics and become business savvy
Use wisdom and experience to develop others
Deliver constructive critiques to your staff
More effectively coach and mentor your current and future leaders
Develop new managers based on their talents/skillsets

COURSE AGENDA

Senior Managers Course Outline

In this course, you will learn to understand organizational structure and hierarchies, build motivation and inspiration techniques for your teams, train and develop new leaders, and navigate the world of organizational politics.

Strategic Leadership

Organizational Leadership

Comparing vertical and lateral hierarchies
Leading in different structures of command and control
Leveraging your organization's structure
Applying situational leadership strategies

Understanding the landscape of business politics
Building political intelligence
Being politically savvy, ethical, and effective
Reserving emotional control in the face of tough dialogue

Team roles and creating a balanced team
Lighting a fire - motivating, guiding, and inspiring
Resolving conflict - forcing, accommodating, avoiding, compromising, and collaborating
Building a better tomorrow for your team - trusting, empowering delegation, celebrating success, and reinforcing

Preparing, developing, and supporting new managers
Defining and building competencies
Documenting best practices while rewarding and emulating effective managers
Encouraging a peer network
Providing clear and timely feedback
Managing across generations
Building a mentorship plan - mentoring for success

Training Options

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We've got your learning needs covered with a variety of options, from virtual classes led by our expert instructors to self-paced courses you can take anytime, or group workshops for your whole team to learn together. It's all about giving you choices that work best for you.

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The facilitator is a true pro. His instruction was phenomenal. He knows the content, uses it in his own life, and is extremely positive and motivating.

5.0

This has been the best course yet! It has helped me with a personal discovery about how I do things and communicate with others, and how I can evolve.

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What Our Students Are Saying

5.0

The facilitator is a true pro. His instruction was phenomenal. He knows the content, uses it in his own life, and is extremely positive and motivating.

5.0

This has been the best course yet! It has helped me with a personal discovery about how I do things and communicate with others, and how I can evolve.

5.0

The course was AWESOME! The instructor worked very hard to engage everyone...it was wildly different than other experiences I've had, in a positive way!

5.0

Watermark is fantastic! I've never been disappointed with the class or instructors! Very informative and well worth the time! Can't wait until the next class!!

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What Our Students Are Saying

5.0

The facilitator is a true pro. His instruction was phenomenal. He knows the content, uses it in his own life, and is extremely positive and motivating.

5.0

This has been the best course yet! It has helped me with a personal discovery about how I do things and communicate with others, and how I can evolve.

5.0

The course was AWESOME! The instructor worked very hard to engage everyone...it was wildly different than other experiences I've had, in a positive way!

5.0

Watermark is fantastic! I've never been disappointed with the class or instructors! Very informative and well worth the time! Can't wait until the next class!!

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