Course Information
Leading for Productivity
Parking for SAO, Professional Development courses is in Garage B (1511 San Jacinto Blvd.). The Garage signage may read 1511 San Jacinto or Garage B. The elevator in Garage B is not reliable. If you are unable to walk the stairs, please contact the professionaldevelopment@sao.texas.gov for alternate parking arrangements. Handicapped parking is free at the meters around the downtown area.
A course coordinator will Email you a parking permit prior to the course start date. A permit must be displayed or you will be ticketed.
Course Description
Many leaders are better at a certain skill within an industry than they are at directing other people and generating productivity. If you’re better at accounting than managing others, this course will help you greatly. You’ll learn three essential principles for effectively leading people, creating a team atmosphere, and fostering productivity.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Build a foundation of mutual trust within their team
This course covers three crucial ingredients for effectively leading and generating productivity. First, we’ll look at Building Trust. Though this is often talked about, it happens much less often. We’ll explore the likely consequences of a lack of trust and what trust really looks like in the workplace. You’ll learn the three “actions” that build or destroy trust, how you can work to earn it, and how to help your team members trust each other.
Next we’ll focus on how you can better engage your team members to give their best effort and produce better results by creating an “All In” mentality. To do this, you’ll have to incorporate the three pronged approach, addressing peoples’ internal drivers…core values, motivators, and aspirations. By understanding how to do this (which you’ll learn from this module), you will more quickly be able to maximize the contribution of each individual.
Finally, all of the trust and good intentions you can muster won’t prove to be enough if accountability is absent. From what that means, to what it looks like, to how to create it, you’ll discover how you can create an atmosphere of accountability, and how to help your team members embrace it rather than be fearful of it. As much as we’d like to think people will exercise self-initiative work hard without oversight, most people need something to answer for and someone to answer to in order to make consistent progress. This section of the presentation will show you real-world ways to make accountability a reality on your team, without making you “the bad guy”.
Instructors
Randy Anderson is co-founder of E3 Professional Trainers…a Lubbock-based training firm that provides workplace and life training for individuals, teams, and companies. The training he provides is designed to help individuals improve their personal productivity and live more fulfilling lives, while at the same time, helping the companies and organizations they work for improve profitability.
Before starting E3 in 2005, Randy spent 20 years in sales and sales management. Most of that time was spent in media sales, which gave him the opportunity to work with virtually every type of business and in every industry. It is from that experience that he draws the ideas and strategies to help his clients improve their performance in the workplace and to achieve their maximum potential in life.
Randy was awarded the designation of Certified Speaking Professional in 2012. This is the highest earned-designation given by the National Speakers Association, recognizing proven expertise in speaking eloquence, business enterprise, and professional ethics.
Randy received his Bachelors of Science in Agricultural Communications from Texas Tech University in 1990. Since that time, he has participated in and completed numerous training courses including; Your Leadership Legacy (Ken Blanchard Co.),Changing the Picture (Ziglar Corp.), Ethics 101 (Cox Enterprises, Inc.), LifeNet Time Management Training (Life Net Inc.), Basic Selling Skills (AVI International), Top Selling (Ziglar Corp.), Professional Selling Skills (Learning International), System 21 Selling (Executive Decision Systems), and Fast Track Media Sales (Cox Media, Inc.). His most valuable experience has come through more than 25 years of on-the-job, real world experience: 12 of which were spent managing others, and seven and one half years running his own company.
Additional Information
If you are making travel plans to come to Austin, we recommend making "refundable" air and hotel reservations or waiting until 14 days before the class to actually book your reservations. Courses are occasionally canceled or rescheduled due to low enrollment. We determine whether a course has enough participants 16 days prior to the course date. If we cancel or reschedule, we will email the participant and his or her billing contact no later than 14 days before the original class date.
The course coordinator will contact you with parking information. Handicapped parking is free at the meters around the downtown area.
Vending machines with Coca-Cola products and various snack items are available. There is also a refrigerator and microwave in our coffee bar area. Feel free to bring in your own drinks and food if you prefer.
You might want to bring a light sweater or jacket, as room temperatures vary.
To see answers to our Frequently Asked Questions, visit http://www.sao.texas.gov/training/faq.html.