Introduction
This advanced-level leadership program is aimed at giving you the skills you need to manage and lead people to an advanced level - focusing on six key areas of leadership - Communication, Innovation, Vision, Inspiration, Enabling, and Encouragement.
You will have the opportunity to test your current skills and be challenged and coached to become the best leader you can be. Using case studies and examples from great historical leaders, and the elite of the modern business world, we will investigate leadership and human behavioral patterns, look at changes in business trends, study human motivation and work on modern practical leadership tools and methodologies.
At every point in this advanced-level program, you will be encouraged to participate in the discussion, group work, practical exercises, meetings, and experiments. Because this is an advanced level program, you receive feedback and coaching so that you can improve your performance as a leader.
This exciting and inspiring advance level leadership program will give you the challenge and the boost you need to move you onto the next level of leadership.
In a world were staying the same, means falling behind, this could be the challenge you have been waiting for.
Course Structure of Advanced High-Performance Leadership
Module 1 - The Leadership Journey
Module 2 - The Leadership Challenge
Course Objectives of Advanced High-Performance Leadership
- Understand the real meaning of leadership
- Become a master of communication and influence
- Create and harness the power of vision and visualization
- Motivate and inspire people
- Learn how to have a magnetic personality
- Create momentum and urgency within yourself and others
- Learn how to engage, inspire and enable your people
Course Process of Advanced High-Performance Leadership
The course is delivered in a fun and inspiring style, by a speaker passionate about the leadership, various methods will be used to keep participants engaged, the use of video, and case studies from historical leaders, business case studies, group work, and experiments and one to one practice. The course is aims to challenge you, so that you can advance your skills. This course will be an exciting journey of discovery you will enjoy.
Course Benefits of Advanced High-Performance Leadership
- You will be a must stronger leader
- You will be a master of communication
- You will clarify your business and personal vision
- You will increase your level of influence on others
- You will learn the secrets of the past masters
- You will gain the tools to build a inspiring personality
Course Outlines of Advanced High-Performance Leadership
Module 1:
The Leadership Journey
Day 1: Leadership
- What is true leadership, lessons from the past masters
- Modern leadership and its impact on business
- Human behavior, predictable outcomes
- The new business reality and its impact on us all
- Force field analysis and the comfort zone
- Employee mentality versus entrepreneurial spirit
- The equalizer effect
- Leaders versus managers
Day 2: Vision
- The strangest secret
- How to create a vision
- How to harness the power of vision through visualization
- Psycho cybernetics and its connection with vision
- Goal setting the key to making vision a reality
- The mastermind group
- Positive mental attitude, gaining power from a strong vision
- Linking vision to mission and values
- Vision timeline, mathematical coaching model
Day 3: Communication
- Discover your communication style
- Identify other peoples communication style
- Learn how to motivate and influence each of the style
- Body language
- The 5 levels of listening
- Advanced questioning techniques
- Selling your ideas and vision
- How to get buy-in from others
- Selling your ideas through excellence in communication
Day 4: Innovation
- How to create a culture of innovation
- How to engage your people to generate new ideas
- Left brain, right brain and innovation
- Creative thinking and problem solving
- Suggestion boxes, and reward criteria
- Quantity versus quality on innovation projects
- Sticky note innovation
- Absolute versus desirable criteria
- Using multi-disciplined employees to gain width and depth
- Using innovation to reduce costs
Day 5: Influencing skills
- The relationship bank account
- The 10 guaranteed deposits
- Confidence is king
- The give to get a ratio
- The fire within, Enthusiasm
- Time to get passionate
- The BE. DO.GET model
- The pipeline principle
Module 2:
The Leadership Challenge
Day 6: The challenge
- The leadership challenge
- Rule number 1, Everything matters
- The importance of stretching ourselves
- Association and its impact on our ability to inspire
- Receiving feedback on our abilities, from other leaders
- Why standing still is no longer an option
- Even eagles need a push, and so do we
- The cycle of personal growth
Day 7: Inspirational Leadership
- Why some people are inspirational
- Why Human Beings desire to be inspired
- Human behavioral patterns and cultural differences
- Differing forms and styles of inspiration
- A decision? A skill? or something we are born with
- Why some people win and some people fail
- Dreamers versus planners
- Lighting a fire under your people
- The leadership challenge
Day 8: Enabling
- What is an enabler
- Why managers and enablers are so different
- The skills required to become an enabler
- How the giving away power, will gain you more
- Enabling in different cultures
- Resistance to an enabling business culture
- Why enabling, gains loyalty and increases trust
- Why enablers are far stronger than managers
- The leadership challenge
Day 9: Engaging and encouraging your people
- Why most employees are not engaged by their work
- The 45-year plan, and its effect on motivation
- The true cost of business meetings
- Engage your team to gain better results
- Engagement in business meetings
- Everyday engagement principles
- Engaging an audience through presentations
- Engaging, where to draw the line
- Recognition and rewards
- The leadership challenge
Day 10: Personal leadership challenge
- The dream
- The goals
- The style
- The accountability
- The payback
- The enabler
- The shield
- The sword
About Amsterdam
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, is a popular destination amongst travelers from all around the world. Once just a little fishing village, Amsterdam is now a major international city after having become an important port during the 1600s. Throughout its history, the city has had many famous residents, including artists, philosophers and other historical figures. There is much to discover along Amsterdam's quaint streets and picturesque canals. So much so that a flight to Amsterdam comes with a guarantee of cultural and historical attractions that will provide memories to last a lifetime. Amsterdam is a hotbed of culture for travelers of all ages and tastes.
Things to do and places to visit in Amsterdam
From the moment passengers step off their flight to Amsterdam, they will find it a friendly city with a lively atmosphere. Its flat geography means that it is perfect for exploring by bicycle. If you're feeling less active, it the city is also well-served by public transport. The so-called Venice of the North has something for every visitor. Culture vultures have museums, galleries and theaters to see, Families can visit the zoo or the Science Center NEMO.
When visiting Amsterdam, be sure to:
- See the picture-perfect and colorful houses of the Grachtengordel district.
- See the iconic works of one of Holland's most famous artists at the Van Gogh Museum.
- Visit the house where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis.
- Browse through the extensive collection of fantastic art in the Rijksmusem.
- Wander through the blaze of colors that is the Singel Flower Market.
- See the city at a leisurely pace on a canal cruise.
- Marvel at one of the city's many historic churches.
- Learn about life aboard a ship at the National Maritime Museum.
- Discover the Begijnhof's well-preserved medieval architecture.
- See animals of all kinds, as well as the butterfly pavilion and aquarium, at the Artis Zoo.