Maximizing Executive Leadership & Management Performance

• 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

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

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The price for this comprehensive two-day seminar is $1,495 (USD).

Register online or call (843) 212-4038.

• 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. Call (843) 212-4038 for assistance.

Payment is due prior to the start of the seminar by Visa, Master Card, American Express, or corporate check. Seminar fees are charged at the time of registration unless other arrangements have been made. Checks payable to “PGS Energy Training,” 26 Teal Lane, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926. Cancellations result in a credit good for 2 years, transferable to a colleague. Substitutions may be made at any time. For more on PGS policies, contact our offices at (843) 212-4038.

This live group seminar is eligible for 14.5 CPE credits in Specialized Knowledge. 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 accepts one-half credits.

PGS is a NASBA-registered CPE sponsor and a GARP-approved CPD provider — see accreditation details.