What Are Leadership Essentials?
Too often people get promoted into leadership without any training. Then they struggle or fail. It’s not really fair. They were good or even superstar employees previously. Why not train them on the essentials of being a great leader so they can thrive?
What are leadership essentials?
The list can be long or short. Let me give you a Goldilocks-length list of essential skills that we train in our Leadership Essentials 6-month training program:
Leadership - We teach a simple yet powerful 3strands Leadership approach.
Time management - How to improve focus, deliver on time, and teach your team to do the same.
Goals - How to define, pursue, and consistently achieve targets / objectives / rocks… individually and as a team.
Expectations - How to set and manage expectations with others so assumptions and misunderstandings don’t kill your productivity.
Employee Strategic Plans - How to develop a success plan for yourself and every member of your team and manage it to fruition.
Hiring - How to hire the best and avoid the rest.
Communication - Leaders must be master communicators in-writing (text, email, other messaging) and verbally to have your people fully immersed in your culture, feeling safe to fully interact with everyone on your team, and more.
Meetings - We teach you how to become a meeting master who only organizes, manages, and participates in highly effective meetings.
Workplace Drama - Leaders have to be role models all the time, but one area that’s particularly important is when your workplace becomes “adult daycare” because one or more people choose to behave unprofessionally or there is anger. We teach how to avoid these situations and rapidly diffuse them when confrontation occurs.
Excellence - Speaking of being a role model… we teach leaders to set an example of always striving for excellence and improving their team’s ability to work together to be their best.
Engagement - Leaders must know how to fully engage each member of their team, including how to adjust to what is meaningful to each person (it’s different per person).
PIP - Most leaders do not know how to address poor performance on their team. We teach a simple three-step approach that rapidly restores a good employee, or terminates one who cannot meet your standards.
There are other issues such as compensation, building company culture, team bonding activities, etc. However, if you or one of your managers are weak in any of the areas above it is really hurting your organization and causing that individual unnecessary stress.
Leaders must be trained.
A person can be born with leadership attributes, but leadership skills require training, mentoring, and development.
Why train leaders?
It’s important to train your leaders because they are responsible for the 4 Management Disciplines that drive your organization’s success. These disciplines are the soft skills, relational habits and hard skill process and systems that determine who joins your company and how they perform.
The 4 Management Disciplines are how your leaders:
Hire people
Manage employees
Develop talent
Retain every great person who works in your organization
Learn Leadership Essentials
Manage 2 Win has a solution for you to consider: Our Leadership Essentials program.
Every leader must know the essentials. The good news is our Leadership Essentials program helps all leaders at any maturity level. It especially closes the gap for Experienced and Strong Start leaders. However, it also helps Mature leaders overcome bad habits that trip them up.
Join our 6-month program starting June 1st to be part of a powerful peer group for training, and separately one-on-one tactical coaching sessions with me (David Russell) to fully develop your leadership potential.
Six months in, and then you’re done! Your leaders will have a firm foundation for growth, high engagement with their people, and maximum productivity to achieve results.
Every participant will:
Increase your emotional intelligence (understand YOU better);
Learn how to build on your strengths and what you love to do;
Gain new habits and processes to overcome areas of weakness;
Receive coaching on how to pilot new strategies, processes, schedules, habits, and behaviors; and
Be respectfully, yet firmly, held accountable to improve yourself.
Learn more at https://www.manage2win.com/leadership-essentials.
We have learned a lot over the past 15 years teaching our Leadership Essentials best practices. As a result, NEW CONTENT is incorporated into this Leadership Essentials course starting June 1, 2021.
The group is limited to five leaders who work with David Russell for six months. Sign up and you will be interviewed to confirm you are a fit for the program.
Upgrading a leader’s skills often increases the outcomes of their team by 10-20% or more.
5 Seats available. Starts June 1. Click Here to Learn More.
Questions? Schedule a 25-minute call to talk with Dave. Or you can email us to learn more.
