Leadership, Team-Building and Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors
Gain winning strategies for mentoring in the workplace and leading your team to excellence
As a manager, what kind of relationship would you like to have with your employees … Leader? Friend? Teacher? Mentor?
… the person who motivates them, guides them, encourages them, and makes them want to win? Forward-thinking managers have discovered that the same skills that coaches use to create winners in athletics work in a business setting as well. This innovative one-day team-building workshop is designed to teach you powerful employee coaching methods to turn even problem employees into super productive, motivated winners! Make your team members want to give 110% — for themselves, and for their team! You'll instill the kind of energy and enthusiasm that makes productivity soar. How? Supplement your own managerial abilities with compelling employee coaching and counseling skills, and watch the incredible results. This team-building program will teach you step by step, how to produce a manager's "game plan" that ensures you'll reach your goals and objectives. Plus, find out how to maximize every employee's abilities … and uncover strengths and talents you never knew existed! Transform your work group into a cohesive, coordinated team! Imagine how much your team could accomplish if it functioned as one well-organized unit. This team-building training class discusses mentoring in the workplace and shows you how to pull everyone together with a shared drive and purpose. Invest just one day of your time, and the benefits of employee coaching will change your life as a manager; you'll witness an exciting synergy among your employees, mutual support within your group, a sense of interdependence and exchange, and most of all, incredible productivity from your team as a unit. Seminar Overview
· The "want-to-win" attitude: how to build it
A look at your own coaching ability, measured against 20 traits shared by the best athletic coaches
How to harness natural competitiveness as a positive, powerful force
4 insightful tips for follow-up employee coaching that keeps your "players" on track
Why you must be demanding … and how to do it the right way
8 techniques to boost enthusiasm — for an individual or the entire team
Self-management and empowerment: how to get others to direct and motivate themselves
· Strategy and planning essentials for managers and coaches
Your "game plan" — 5 simple steps for no-fail, successful plans
How to ensure you've got the right people playing the right game: proven strategy tips that work in theory — and in practice
As you build your "roster" — how to spot superstars and problem players, and identify strengths and weaknesses
A key formula that ensures you'll make consistently good decisions
7 easy strategies that coaches/managers use to deal with pressure — before it escalates to stress and anxiety!
The "Ex-Dem-Pra" employee coaching model that has motivated millions
· How to coach your team
5 compelling reasons why your employees want to be part of a team
15 ways to transform even the most divided work group into an enthusiastic, winning team
8 "symptoms" that signal weak or ineffective teams
Team-building training that shows you how to recognize individual strengths and organize players into position
The secret of winning acceptance as a coach/manager: promoting upward communication on your team
Peer conflicts — how to defuse them before they affect the entire work group
When to reward or praise individuals in front of the team
· Coaching and counseling the problem player
Is counseling the right approach? The risks and benefits of counseling, from the experts
"Non-directive" counseling: a proven approach that helps employees discover their own solutions
How to recognize a developing crisis: 20 signs that point to an escalating problem
10 warning signals that an employee has personal problems affecting work performance
High-impact coaching skills that deter goof-offs, time-wasters, and procrastinators
What to do if nothing works — 4 final options
· How to handle a coaching/counseling session
When to attempt employee counseling, and when to leave it to professionals
4 subtle actions that encourage people to "open up"
Inquiry "land mines" — 3 types of questions you should never ask
How to deal with anger, crying, and other emotional responses
Denial: what to do when someone won't admit to a problem
When you close a counseling session: how to reach an agreement and get a firm commitment
· Coaching superstars: how to be a manager and a mentor
Tips to ensure you recognize employees with great potential
Essential techniques for mentoring employees that keep high achievers enthused, challenged, and interested
How to help the high achiever without alienating the team or "playing favorites"
Strategies for successfully mentoring employees: incentives to offer when you can't give raises or promotions
What you should expect to bring to — and take from — a mentor relationship
What our Customers are Saying...
"It helped me to see how I supervise my team and how to do things differently to get better results. Very interesting training, I've been encouraged to do better. Not a boring training!!" ~ Brenda R., Supervisor | Rockford Rescue Mission "It helped motivate me in my job as a manager/mentor." ~ Bobby C., General Manager | Massage Envy Lynnwood
