Course Information
Three Essential Elements of Effectively Leading Your Team Forward
Course Description
Managing to maintain the status quo is somewhat easy. But, creating long-range strategies, getting team members to buy into those plans, and effectively leading them through inevitable changes is much more difficult. This presentation will equip you to be prepared for and to execute all three of these facets of leadership effective. We’ll discuss creating a long-range strategic plan (for you personally, your team, or an entire organization), how to spread your vision and create buy in, and how to effectively cope with change while leading others through it with you.
Course Objectives
· Discover how you can generate greater employee engagement by challenging team members with goals that create an immediate visible impact and other goals that yield significant long-term impact.
· Realize the importance of teaching your leaders to incorporate both pursuit goals that must be achieved today to stay in business tomorrow, AND maintenance goals that will allow you to continue to be relevant years from now.
· Shift yours and your team members’ focus from daily “busy work”, to key objectives (which may be at a personal, team, or organization-wide level); which will then will dictate strategies and daily tactics.
· Move beyond the “What’s and How’s” and embrace the importance of communicating the “Why’s”…the secret sauce of spreading the vision and engaging every team member.
· Initiate a strategy to make the vision and goals a part of the culture within the team…not just a page in a binder, a plaque on the lobby wall, or a section on the organization's website.
· Establish an accountability mechanism to measure individual contribution and team progress toward key objectives.
· Diagnose your own perception of change, realize how it may be limiting your success, and reconfigure your ability to adapt to it.
· Many of your team members will resist change, but this will teach you to prepare for that, and how to “sell” them on the necessity and benefits of it, making them more likely to move forward.
· Reduce the fear of change many people experience, by creating a culture that embraces progress through evolution rather than waiting so long that change requires a major (and traumatic) event.
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
TAC Rule 523.142(g) requires the CPE Sponsor to monitor individual attendance and assign the correct number of CPE credits. Participants will be asked to document their time of arrival and departure in compliance with this Rule. Additionally, attendance will be monitored throughout the day and CPE certificates will reflect actual attendance of each participant.
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.
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