Role of the Middle Manager
Summary:
- Understand why self knowledge is the key to your leadership potential
- Receive feedback on your unique strengths and learn how to utilize your strengths to constructively impact results and job satisfaction for your managers
- Receive feedback from your boss, peers and direct reports on your leadership effectiveness
- Enhance your leadership impact to benefit yourself and others
- Create your own leadership vision and understand your role in setting a business vision and communicating purpose to your team
Benefit:
- Leaders who understand and consciously utilize their strengths are more engaged, more satisfied and more able to harness the strengths of their managers
- Learn creative approaches for motivating, recognizing and rewarding individuals and teams
- Feedback from boss, peers and direct reports is a powerful source of information to improve your own performance and the performance of others
- Successful leaders have a clearly articulated business vision and use it to drive results and team alignment
- Increase job satisfaction for yourself and your direct reports
Class Objectives:
- Understand the role of leading other managers
- Understand your unique strengths and how to utilize them to drive business results
- Understand how to lead from a distance in a “virtual world”
- Learn the dimensions of trust and how to build trust across the organization
- Create an action plan for improving your effectiveness in the vital area
Assessment Instruments
- StrengthsFinder and Human Synergistics Leadership/Impact Inventory
- In Praise of Middle Managers by Quy Nguyen Huy;Harvard Business Review
Course Length:
- 2 Consecutive Days
