In this course, you'll learn how to enable your employees by providing more choices and fostering competence. You'll understand why offering visible support to your people makes them able to "make the call" when necessary. This course will also assist you in discovering common aspirations, improving your interpersonal skills, communicating your passion, and making your vision tangible. You will understand the importance of developing shared goals and integrative solutions while building relationships based on trust. Finally, you'll discover how you, as a leader, can foster critical-thinking skills in your employees. You'll discover how to get people to challenge their assumptions, and you'll learn methods you and your employees can use to imagine and explore alternatives.
Target Audience
Supervisors, managers, and coaches
Lesson Objectives
Course Overview
Lesson Overview
- recognize the importance of giving power away, practice the principles of empowerment, and offer visible support for employees.
Give Power Away
- identify why it's important to give power away.
Three Principles of Empowerment
- identify the elements of the three principles of empowerment.
Provide Powerful, Visible Support
- choose appropriate methods of making your support more visible to employees in a given scenario.
Lesson Overview
- recognize the benefit of making leadership a two-way communication process that enlists the help needed.
Discover Common Aspirations
- identify how to discover employees' common aspirations.
Improve Your Interpersonal Skills
- use interpersonal skills necessary to enlist the help you need in a given scenario.
Generating Passion about Your Vision
- in a given scenario, use appropriate strategies to generate passion about your vision.
Lesson Overview
- recognize the value of fostering collaboration, as opposed to competition, through the development of shared goals, integrative solutions, and trust.
Competition vs. Collaboration
- identify elements of competition and collaboration.
Collaborative Goals
- identify ways to develop collaborative goals.
Creating Collaborative Environments
- choose appropriate actions for creating a collaborative environment, in a given scenario.
Integrative Solutions
- choose the actions to develop integrative solutions for a given scenario.
Lesson Overview
- recognize the value of developing critical thinkers.
Elements of Critical Thinking
- identify elements of critical thinking.
Facilitating Critical Thinking
- use guidelines for facilitating critical thinking in a given situation.
Challenging Assumptions
- determine whether techniques to assist employees in challenging their assumptions were used appropriately in a given scenario.
Thinking Creatively
- choose ways of thinking that create imaginative alternatives.