LEADERSHIP FOR MANAGERS

Being a manager is an especially sociable profession, in which you guide your team forward by helping them succeed. In addition to expertise, it requires good self-knowledge, awareness, and perception skills. To be able to lead others, you must be able to lead yourself.

According to a global 2019 study by Gallup, only 15 % of employees experience commitment to their organization’s goals. Up to 70 % of the employee experience regarding their role and significance in the organization is affected by the actions of managers.

This experience of importance and commitment can be achieved only by showing genuine interest and consideration to diversity. A manager who thinks like a boss, generalizes, but a manager who thinks like a coach, individualizes.

The role of managers almost always includes daily leadership, but as coaches we often see how no one takes care that these skills are taught and learnt. No one is a natural manager any more than a natural doctor. Each profession – and that’s what being a manager is – requires specific skills, internalizing the role and processes, and practical self-reflection about your actions.

Our Realized^® Leadership for Managers training provides you with all the necessary knowledge and methods of daily leadership of different people. You will perceive the importance of appreciating diversity and learn how to enable subordinates to boost their efficiency by best utilizing their strengths.

In Realized^® Leadership training, you will learn strong interaction skills and methods to give feedback. You will learn a leadership style that relies on coaching techniques, in which you spar with your subordinates, clear obstacles, and enable their success.

Stepping into the role of a manager is challenging. You must establish your role, earn the trust of your subordinates, take charge of all the responsibilities of the position, and lead your subordinates forward. All of which usually must happen quickly and simultaneously.

This management training helps you internalize the cornerstones of your newly acquired management role. We’ll build upon management routines to create a positive leadership method for you. The training provides skills in everyday management, leadership communication, giving feedback, performance management, and knowledge management.

A tailored, well-planned management training or coaching will provide you with the means to quickly take charge of your new position as manager, saving you time and effort and enabling you to concentrate on what is most important.

Completo DISC

The training includes a personal Completo DISC Manager’s Profile, which clarifies your natural behavioral style and competences in leadership and management tasks. Completo DISC also provides new ways to strengthen your team and leverage diversity.

Leadership Training Contents

• The extensive role of a manager
• How to take charge of the role and responsibilities of a manager?
• The importance of self-management in leadership positions
• Completo DISC Manager’s Profile
• Personal coaching vs. helping
• Daily leadership, delegating and prioritizing
• Communication skills
• Guiding and organizing performance
• Giving feedback and following up
• Working with a coaching leadership style
• How to develop and monitor your skills as a manager?

This is a training on the leadership of a diverse workforce. We focus on people leadership to reach your subordinates on an individual level. The training will help you improve teamwork, team cohesion, cooperation, motivation, job satisfaction, and commitment.

In this leadership training, we coach you to utilize communication as a conscious leadership tool. We provide you with the skills to best leverage diversity in your team by guiding subordinates to use their strengths. You cannot lead everyone with the same formula as individuals differ in their logic, communication, ways of working, mechanisms of motivation, and commitment.

Completo DISC

In this leadership training, we make use of the highly practical DISC-model to better understand and lead different people. With DISC, we figure out how everyone can succeed in the most natural way for them. DISC does not measure or rate people according to skill or worth.

During the leadership training, you will receive your personal Completo DISC Profile. Exploring it will increase your self-knowledge and build your awareness in a constructive way. The Profile describes your natural competences in leadership and communication situations, and functions as a personal map to truly understand and lead different styles of people.

Leadership Training Contents

• The effects of your own behavior in leadership situations
• Recognizing your leadership style and the styles of your employees (Completo DISC)
• The conscious leadership of different DISC-styles in practice
• Building trust in leader-employee relationships
• The strengths of different styles and guiding them towards their goals
• Understanding the working styles of your team members – how they prioritize, what motivates them, how they make decisions
• Developing your team members based on their strengths

This leadership training brings results to everyday leadership. The training gives you the tools to ensure that the people in your team can efficiently concentrate on their tasks. We coach you to coach your subordinates so that schedules are met and internal communication works.

The leadership training focuses on constructive interaction and communication skills because, after all, all leadership is interaction. We coach you to use feedback as an everyday leadership tool. This requires patience and discretion.

We also address skillful delegation for efficiency and knowledge management. Almost everyone perceives their workload as very large, which makes prioritizing a key skill. We will learn to differentiate between tasks that require high precision and those that can be accomplished with fewer resources.

Are you aware of your own factors of motivation? They guide your actions, affect your attitudes, and are probably visible in your behavioral patterns. A motivated staff enjoys a healthy, positive attitude and is, according to many studies, more likely to achieve goals and succeed. (Losada & Heaphy, 2004; Meneghel, Saranova & Martínez, 2014; Pentland, 2012; West, Patera & Carsten, 2009.)

In this leadership training, we draw on psychology and research, and develop concrete, tailored solution models for you. The training will provide you with the tools to continue your personal leadership development along with your daily work.

Completo DISC

The Completo DISC Manager’s Profile lets you discover your natural behavioral style and competences in leadership situations. Completo DISC gives practical insights into what sort of leadership different subordinates require.

Leadership Training Contents

• Everyday leadership
• Leadership is interaction, email can be used for management duties
• Everyday leadership of different DISC-styles
• My personal Completo DISC Manager’s Profile, strengths and development areas
• How to communicate concretely, clearly, and unambiguously
• Understanding diversity and leverage it for leadership
• Challenging leadership communication situations
• Practical tools for communicating clearly through different channels
• Delegation and its role in motivation
• Prioritizing of own and subordinates’ tasks
• Concrete measures to trickle organizational goals into practice
• A practical method for providing constructive feedback
• Inspiring and maintaining motivation
• Building a motivation toolkit for your team
• How are different DISC-styles motivated and how to maintain motivation?

When training leadership, we are often asked for a separate section on solving challenging leadership situations. We know how critical this skill is. Today’s goal-directed and stressful work environment sets requirements for managers that can only be met with robust support and by providing the skills necessary to deal with challenging situations in the workplace.

This Leadership Training is focused on solving difficult situations that arise from the innate differences of people. People’s chemistries do not always match, and everyone’s self-reflection and self-regulation skills are naturally different. This can result in difficult human relations problems in the workplace. It is extremely important to address these issues efficiently and quickly so they do not escalate or poison the working environment more widely.

This Leadership Training provides support and solution models for addressing challenging situations as well as insights on the personal chemistry of people. We discover methods to create and strengthen a constructive working atmosphere. The training provides concrete help on how to reach to people in a stressful situation, how to communicate and listen, and how to reach firm decisions and solutions.

Leadership Training Contents

• Solution models and methods for solving challenging situations
• Important communication and interaction skills
• A model for leadership communication and the pitfalls of challenging situations
• A constructive process for defusing and solving challenging situations
• Vital decision-making skills for managers in challenging situations
• The psychology of difficult situations – how do we react when things get tough?
• Models of defensive behavior in difficult situations – how to recognize and defuse them?
• Tackling a difficult situation to prevent spreading and escalation
• Solving your current challenging situations
• Your personal toolkit for future challenges

The human aspect in change situations is both the greatest strength and the greatest decelerator. When changes are implemented, the facts are usually provided, but they are not made concrete on the level of tasks and everyday functions. This does not increase awareness of the need to personally learn new abilities or skills, which is a critical factor if changes are to succeed.

The leadership training will provide you with the means to drive, manage, and implement change. We will especially focus on the role of communication in change management: increasing employee involvement, simplifying participation, increasing commitment, and helping employees let go of old working habits and take responsibility of implementing change in their own role and tasks.

We will train you to recognize and defuse negative phenomena in the change process, change traps. These are phenomena that seldom are recognized in the hubbub of change, but which, at their worst, may cause the entire organization to grind to a halt. Often changes are implemented by pushing them through the organization without listening for a response. However, by investing in understanding and defusing these change traps, the change stays on schedule easier and even large changes can be implemented with less adverse effects.

The change management training will also provide you with skills to best use change agents to manage and implement change. Change agents are key persons, motivated to implement the changes on all levels of the organization. Their role in clarifying the facts and details of the change as well as positively affecting the attitudes of people is vital.

Change Management Training Contents

• Successful leadership in change situations
• Constructive change management
• Levels of change
• Forces of change and the capacity for change
• Creating a culture of change
• The change agent – an envoy of positivity
• A change communication model
• Guiding towards permanent change
• Handling and overcoming change resistance and building commitment
• Defusing drama and hidden communication
• DISC-styles in change, reactions, and how to lead different people in change
• The challenge and necessity of keeping up with permanent change
• Five constructive measures to implement change

This Performance Management Training has been created to answer the demand for practical measures of guiding performance in the everyday work of employees and how to tackle underachievement. According to our experience, organizations usually have set out principles of performance management, but the understanding of how to implement them in practice is lacking.

Performance management means directing employees to work in a goal-directed way, and to prioritize, organize, and schedule their work correctly. Performance management needs to be frequent and the manager needs to be determined.

This Performance Management Training gives you the skills to enable your subordinates to reach their best by knowing exactly what is expected of them. We will learn the best practices for goal-setting and methods of follow-up. By utilizing DISC, we will find out the best ways to motivate different subordinates to work in a goal-directed manner. A transparent ruleset and clear personal goals also increase job satisfaction.

A failure in performance management usually leads into underachievement. It usually happens unnoticed, until intervention becomes very difficult. This training gives you practical ways to address underachievement in a constructive and motivating manner. You will be able to fix underachievement and restore the employee’s performance, goal-driven attitude, motivation, and trust in the organization and the manager.

Performance Management Training Contents

• Everyday performance management
• Establish and maintain a strong and goal-driven approach
• Objectives, organizing, management
• Directing time use
• Monitoring and following-up in performance management
• Providing constructive feedback
• Completo DISC Manager’s Profile
• Vital leadership skills for successful performance management
• Addressing underachievement
• Ways to turn underachievement back into productive work

Mastering your schedule equals mastering your workload. It starts with the individual, but it brings considerable results to the entire organization. In this time management training, you will learn the most important time management skills: organizing, planning, structuring tasks, prioritizing, delegating, and clear communication.

Daily planning and mastering your workload is imperative for achieving productivity, efficiency, and results, but also for job satisfaction, endurance, and managing stress.

In this time management training, you will learn to recognize and overcome your personal time thieves. You will identify your priorities and the cornerstones of your time use so you can clarify your goals for improved efficiency and control, and increased results.

The time management training provides you with useful tools and methods for planning your work and controlling time use. When you are in control, it is easier to manage your daily work and take on challenges.

Time Management Training Contents

• Conscious skills for time and workload management
• Self-management in situations of haste and stress
• Recognizing your challenges, time thieves, and pitfalls
• 10 tools for mastering time and work
• Best practices for planning and organizing
• Personal development plan utilizing the most appropriate tools
• 5 efficient tool-based methods for improving your success rate
• Organizing and optimizing time use as individuals and as a team
• Collective decisions on actions and procedures: delegating, distribution of workload, flow of information, rules of internal communication, planning, and prioritizing