Managing for High Performance and Retention
Description: Advanced Influencing Skills for leaders of teams and organizations. Participants learn how to create highly effective teams, balance accountability and respect when dealing with performance issues, prepare for formal and informal performance conversations. Practical, immediately usable tools and skills. Use them with your team tomorrow! (Note: 4 day course contains the entire Influencing Skills curriculum customized to a leadership audience.)
Typical Duration/Time: 4 days/32 hours (can be split into consecutive models or sections)
Outcomes/Results:
- Utilize Influencing Skills model to influence and lead teams
- Utilize Influencing Skills to manage performance, including ongoing coaching and formal reviews
- Discuss Six Keys for managing high performing teams
- Practice writing clear performance expectations that are easy to integrate into performance conversations
- Learn how to identify and eliminate de-motivators to performance
- Practice giving frequent, small-dose feedback
- Create team agreements
- Streamline decision-making processes
- Transform your team to create a strong organizational infrastructure
Ideal Audience:
Perfect for organizations that are working toward a comprehensive performance system model where employee roles & responsibilities are aligned with organizational goals and mission.
Ideal for those in leadership positions, especially those who:
- are leading teams and groups
- are formally responsible for assessing and managing the performance of others
- want to create strong, highly functioning teams
- want to take their teams to the next level of success (i.e. they're already good teams, but they want to be better!)
- need to improve team productivity, trust and morale
- are working to create and/or change organizational culture due to change itself, such as merger/acquisition, change in leadership, and other significant factors