This document outlines workshops on foundational leadership topics: - The first workshop identifies the stages of team development and the appropriate leadership role at each stage, helping leaders understand their team's needs. - The second focuses on communication, demonstrating how leaders can control communication and use different approaches effectively. - The third addresses delegation, with activities to help leaders assess their skills and develop trust, long-term thinking, and control without micromanaging. - The last covers project management, identifying its key elements and how leaders can better manage team efforts, information, motivation, and accountability for results. The goals are to improve individual and team project management skills.

1. Foundations of Leadership
The Leader’s Role in Stages of Team Development
Workshop Goals
- Identify the stages of team development.
- Understand the appropriate leadership role for each of those stages.
- Identify the type of leadership role the team requires.
- Develop a plan to master the desired leadership role based on existing team strengths and weaknesses.
Whether we’re leading a meeting, a task, a project, or a department, the needs of those you lead are ever-changing and
complex. A good leader can anticipate and provide for those needs depending on team dynamics. The stage of team
development in which a team operates depends on a lot of factors: for example, length of time that team members
have worked together, levels of trust and confidence among team members and whether or not there is a history of
successful decisions and processes for feedback.
During this workshop you will model four common leadership roles (Director, Coach, Collaborator and Visionary),
practice the appropriate role during each of the stages of team development (Forming, Storming, Norming and Per-
forming), and examine tools and processes that will speed a team’s evolution (as well as your own) through hands-on,
interactive challenges.
Communication & Leadership
Workshop Goals
- Demonstrate the communication process and how we can control it.
- Develop an awareness of paralinguistics and begin to leverage their benefits.
- Show how communication patterns relate to leader effectiveness.
- Learn the different approaches for communication and when to use each.
- Practice using questions to improve communications.
- Understand the Levels of Resistance and how to craft a persuasive message.
In many workplace polls, the primary complaint that workers have about their leaders is the amount and caliber of
communication. We’ve all run into individuals who had great ideas but couldn’t convey them to other people, or an
inability to discuss potentially volatile topics, or an unwillingness to share information unless absolutely necessary.
But when we see these behaviors in a leader, we’re far more chagrinned…after all, if our leaders can’t communicate,
how can we expected to?
It is our contention that communication is the primary skill that all leaders and managers need to master. All others
“flow” from this one. In this workshop, you’ll address the more advanced communication issues and tools that indi-
viduals can use to improve their personal effectiveness, working relationships and workplace environment.
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2. Foundations of Leadership...continued
Delegation
Workshop Goals
- Review the steps to effective delegation.
- Review the levels of delegation and how each impacts the team.
- Assess individual skills and abilities around delegation.
- Develop a plan to improve delegation.
Most of us have had work delegated to us…often poorly. Have you ever invested significant time and resources only
to have the project “repo’d?” Or had a project delegated “drive-by” style leaving you stunned and later seeking guid-
ance, support and resources? Or learned that the same project or task you’ve been dealing with for the last day or so
was also delegated to at least one other person…just to make sure it got done!
When the time comes for us to delegate to others, few of us have had positive role models from whom we can learn.
The signs of our delegation deficiencies are easy to see: slow decision making with projects stalled awaiting approval,
managers spending time on low-priority work, missed deadlines, low productivity, low morale, and a staff that’s ill
prepared for new challenges.
During this workshop, you’ll tackle the three greatest barriers to delegation: lack of trust, a short-term view of work
flow, and a fear of losing control. You will examine your trust levels and how to increase them, and work to develop
an environment that is safe for risk-taking with a long-term view of your work and employee development. During
activities and debriefs, you’ll uncover best practices for delegating and following up on projects.
Project Management
Workshop Goals
- Identify the elements of project management.
- Identify some of the key areas in which managers can better control energy and resources.
- Develop a plan to improve individual and team project management skills and strategies.
- Practice Knowledge Mapping and establish a plan for managing key information you need to excel at your job.
Project management used to be a pretty straight-forward process when work was completed by individuals. As more
and more companies move to a team-based work approach, managing projects becomes trickier. Managing the efforts,
energy and contributions of a group requires a solid process, superior knowledge management practices and an ability
to inspire, motivate and hold others accountable to a plan.
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