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Maximizing Executive Leadership & Management Performance
How to Take Your Team to the Next Level

A Two-Day Classroom Seminar (CPE Approved)

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This program, which is offered in partnership with LeadAdvantage, is designed for mid to senior level managers and high-performing individuals who desire to galvanize their teams and take their leadership abilities to the next level.

Participants will learn specific techniques on how to maximize their leadership and management strength in their company's operating environment, leading to more productive work teams, enhanced organizational value and improved bottom line results.

LeadAdvantage uses validated assessments, business simulations and case studies to initiate self-development efforts by participants. Join us in this engaging, high-energy, business-relevant program and watch your team's performance soar!

What You Will Learn
  • Promote a healthy competitive environment while minimizing team conflict and misunderstood objectives
  • Delegate and coach to utilize the strengths of the team for a higher level of achievement
  • Balance energy between tasks and people appropriately to increase plan execution, commitment and results
  • Overcome issues such as resistance to change, leading difficult conversations and self-imposed barriers
  • Execute appropriate decision-making to reach optimal outcomes
  • Create more efficient and effective planning and implementation strategies
  • Gain insight into leadership behavior and tips on how to contribute daily to team success
Seminar Agenda

DAY 1:

    CONSENSUS BUILDING FOR EFFECTIVE DECISION-MAKING

    • Understanding how collaboration improves the quality of decisions, encourages diverse thinking and leads to optimal results
    • Encouraging participants, through a challenging activity, to take appropriate risk for potential rewards
    • LEVERAGING YOUR TEAM
    • Establishing the foundation for building trust and honoring commitments
    • Leveraging your team - your greatest resource - to improve results by recognizing their strengths and implementing their skills relative to the task

    LUNCH

      PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR; IMPACT AND INFLUENCE

      • Participants will be provided an in-depth study and profile of the seven management and leadership patterns of behavior. Participants will understand how to:
      • Identify each pattern, including strengths and weaknesses, motivations and traits
      • Develop a more productive and effective working relationship with others
      • Strengthen communication
      • Resolve conflict and achieve win-win resolutions.
      • Match individual styles with compatible roles and responsibilities to improve performance
      • BALANCING AND MANAGING CONFLICTING PRIORITIES
      • Balancing individual, team and company priorities can be challenging and difficult participants work as a team to confront a task that requires the completion of both an individual and team goal.
      • Participants will address:
      • The benefits of trade-offs associated with individual achievement versus company success
      • Working under project deadlines and other work-related pressures

      DAY 2:

        BALANCING TASK PERFORMANCE WITH EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

        • Identifying factors that influence a task or management focus versus a people or leadership concentration
        • Exhibiting leadership patterns to facilitate more effective, productive and successful relationships
        • THE TEAM THAT WASN'T (case study in leadership & management)
        • Participants will recognize how different management patterns of behavior can benefit or disrupt an organization. Teams follow a structured format to identify and address managerial issues. During the discussion and facilitation, participants reflect on how to recognize and respond to these types of issues and challenges, and also how their style of management may impact and affect others.

        LUNCH

          REDUCTING BLINDSPOTS AND FACADES: ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP

          • Participants will engage in a highly participative and challenging task that requires both competition and cooperation. They will experience how sometimes in our effort to individually compete and succeed, we can lose sight of our real competition. Honoring commitments and building trust with one another promotes a competitively healthy and successful environment.
          • Participants will gain insight into how:
          • To maintain a healthy competitive spirit, while realizing cooperation remains basic to accomplishment
          • Misinterpretation of an action can result in the same outcome as a deliberate action
          • To minimize misunderstandings in our dealings with others
          • LEADERSHIP PATTERN ASSESSMENT (LPA) RESULTS
          • Providing insight from perceptions of participant specific patterns of thinking and behavior - from surveys completed anonymously prior to the retreat weekend
          • Identifying each participant's primary behavior style and the strength of the back-up styles used during times of frustration with initiatives or responses from others
          • IMPROVING THE PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS
          • Establishing a winning formula for self-development based on the LPA results
          • Implementing realistic action plans and goals that impact achievement
          • MOTIVATED TOWARD RESULTS
          • Scheduling individual consultations based on specific objectives and individual LPA outcomes - telephone call following session
          • Avoiding mediocrity through accountability toward goals
          Hotel and Seminar Information
          This two-day seminar will be held at the hotel below. The seminar will start promptly at 8:00 AM and will finish at 5:30 PM on the first day. On the second day, the seminar will resume at 8:00 AM and will finish at 3:00 PM. The program includes continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks on the first day. On the second day a continental breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks are included. Attendees also receive a professionally produced seminar manual that can serve as a valuable office reference. Dress is casual for all seminars.
          COVID 19 Information: Please click here for the PGS Covid-19 policy. You can confirm each hotel's specific COVID 19 policy using the link(s) provided below.
          Registration Fee and Discounts
          The price for this comprehensive two-day seminar is $1,495 (USD).
          Register online or Call (440) 853-1038.
          • Additional attendees and government employees receive a 10% discount.
          • Register 4 or more attendees and receive 20% Off. Special pricing is available for groups of 5 or more.
            If you want attendees to pay with separate credit cards or have other questions, please call (440) 853-1038 for assistance.
          Payments and Cancellations
          Payment is due prior to the start of the seminar by Visa, Master Card, American Express, or corporate check. Seminar fees will be charged to your credit card at the time of registration unless other arrangements have been made. Please make checks payable to "PGS Energy Training" 26 Teal Lane • Hilton Head Island, SC 29926. Cancellations will result in a credit that is good for 2 years which can be transferred to a colleague. Substitutions may be made at any time. For more information on PGS policies regarding administrative matters and complaint resolution, please contact our offices at (440) 853-1038.
          CPE Credits in Specialized Knowledge

          This live group seminar is eligible for 14.5 CPE credits. Be aware that state boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. As of January 1, 2002, sponsored learning activities are measured by program length, with one 50-minute period equal to one CPE credit. One-half CPE credit increments (equal to 25 minutes) are permitted after the first credit has been earned in a given learning activity. You may want to verify that the state board from which your participants will be receiving credit accept one-half credits.

          PGS Energy Training is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org. CPAs interested in attending any seminars should contact our offices for details on CPE credits granted and any prerequisite requirements.
          PGS Energy Training is registered with GARP as an Approved Provider of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits. If you are a Certified FRM or ERP, please record this activity in your Credit Tracker at http://www.garp.org/cpd. Please inform PGS Energy Training that you are a GARP CPE participant upon seminar registration.

          The Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) is a not-for-profit membership association dedicated to preparing professionals and organizations for making better-informed risk decisions. GARP's membership represents more than 150,000 risk management practitioners and researchers at academic institutions, banks, corporations, government agencies, and investment management firms in 195 countries and territories. GARP administers the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and Energy Risk Professional (ERP) Exams – certifications recognized by risk professionals worldwide. Visit www.garp.org/cpd.
          Who Should Attend

          This program is designed to benefit executives and high-performing individuals in a wide variety of functional areas in the electric power, energy and manufacturing industries. Among those who will benefit from this seminar include energy and electric power executives; mid-level managers; attorneys; marketing, sales, purchasing & risk management personnel; accountants & auditors; plant operators; engineers; and corporate planners. Types of companies that typically attend this program include energy producers and marketers; utilities; banks & financial houses; industrial companies; manufacturing; accounting, consulting & law firms; municipal utilities; government and electric generators.

          Prerequisites and Advance Preparation

          This fundamental level group live seminar has no prerequisites. No advance preparation is required before the seminar.

          Why Choose PGS?

          PGS seminars are known for their clear explanations and in-depth content. Register for a PGS class today, and join the over 10,000 energy professionals who have already attended one of PGS's proven programs.

          Program Level & Delivery Method
          Basic level. This fundamental course begins with basic material and then proceeds to the intermediate level. Delivery method is "Group-Live.”