Understanding leadership is necessary throughout an organization, from the newest supervisor to the executive board members. Emerald Coast Strategies has developed a 10-part leadership series that can be delivered on-site at your organization, or off-site with other companies participating. This series is interactive and hands-on, and created to develop the critical leadership and management skills needed in any size organization. 

The outline of this leadership series includes:

Part 1: Stepping Up to Leadership

• Understand your own personality and learning style to transition into management.
• Understand individual strengths and weakness to establish effective leadership styles.
• Understand learning styles and learning strategies to lead employees.
• Describe how good time management techniques help you to lead effectively.

Part 2: Critical Thinking and Decision-Making

• Understand the importance of diversity, norms, values, and motivation in the work place. 
• Explain the importance of defining the problem. 
• Identify the process of developing alternatives. 
• Outline the implementation stage process.

Part 3: Effective Interpersonal Communication

• Understand the Communication Process and understand how it affects communication.
• Identify effective forms of verbal and nonverbal communication.
• Understand basic written communication (email etiquette, report writing)
• Learn how to talk to your employees with respect and not yell at them to get your message across.

Part 4: Introduction to the Four Functions of Management

• Describe and apply the four functions of the role of a manager.
• Apply decision-making techniques.
• Describe how the four functions reduce the risk of uncertainty.
• Understand how to perform a gap analysis.

Part 5: Planning in Management

• Describe decision-making techniques.
• Outline the development of SMART goals
• Determine operating plans that are consistent with the intermediate plans. 
• Be able to make objectives clear and specific.

Part 6: Organizing in Management

• Identify workers interests, aptitudes, and skills.
• Be able to divide the work among the employees. 
• Determine the best organization tools needed for the work.
• Be able to delegate authority.

Part 7: Leading and Leadership Styles

• Describe three leadership styles and know the value, pitfalls and application of each style.
• Know your leadership style preference and not show favoritism or bully employees.
• Describe the connection between attitude, behavior, and motivation.
• Be able to set and communicate employee objectives.

Part 8: Controlling and Performance Management

• Be able to measure achievement against objectives and goals.
• Be able to provide corrective courses of action and correction plans
• Learn how to check the progress of the work, rather than monitor the individual
• Describe how to use preventive controls to prevent undesired performance and use corrective controls to adjust situations in which actual performance has deviated from planned performance.

Part 9: Team Development

• Understand the importance of teams and teamwork, and the supervisor’s role in creating and supporting team performance.
• Be able to describe the four stages of team development and the characteristics of each stage.
• Be able to apply two team development skills.
• Identify ways that you can improve your work team.

Part 10: Systems, Safety, and the Organization

• Understand the concept of systems thinking and how to apply it.
• Be able to consider your own organization from a system viewpoint.
• Explain your role in upholding and reporting sexual harassment and hostile work environment issues.
• Be able to create a culture of safety within your work group.