08-03-2015 - Preparing for the Next Level of Leadership - Washington, DC

1. Common Issues Leaders Are Facing Today:

• Managing with limited resources: Use your leadership strengths to get the most out of your team
• Address ingrained mind-sets and entrenched habits to effect change in your organization
• iCommunicate: Are you meeting your employees, clients, and coworkers where they live?
• Decision-making case studies: Learn from others how to evaluate your options, make the right choice, and admit when you"ve made a mistake
• Everyone"s looking for meaning in their work: Show your team the impact and value of their actions

2. Building Trust in Today"s Leaders:

• Everything you do is public: What behaviors and attitudes do you want to model for your team?
• The transparent leader: when, how, and why to share knowledge
• How to influence behavior in an ethical way
• Leading through uncertainty: how your candor and credibility will instill confidence in others
• Do the right thing the first time, and how to teach others the difference between right and wrong

3. Future Thinking:

• Put on the executive hat and learn how to think like a CEO
• 5 steps to becoming a strategic thinker
• Doing more with less: how to prioritize your time, effort, and resources
• Managing risk for greater rewards
• Are you prepared for all eventualities? Contingency planning today for tomorrows" crises

4. Developing and Managing Your Team:

• 4 proven tips for maximizing your talent
• When your people need a boost: mentoring and coaching strategies that work
• A manager"s best tool both to save time and to develop employees: delegation
• Fresh ways to motivate and engage your workers
• Secrets to making your team smarter, stronger, and more successful

5. Problem People, Processes, and Policies:

• Avoid management pitfalls that put you in a pickle
• Dealing with difficult people
• Discover how your employees" silence could be the #1 project killer
• Managing work vs. managing people: Is it the process or the people who are affecting performance?
• Keys to evaluating, understanding, and communicating policies
• Do you lead by values or rules? How to know the difference

6. Moving to the Next Level: How to Set Your Career Path for Advancement:

• Navigate the ins and outs of office politics
• Interdepartmental cooperation is no longer a nicety; it"s a necessity. Build bridges to build success
• Cast your influence far and wide: how to build strong networks inside and outside the organization
• Time vs. Energy: Make the most of every minute you have by adding more energy to your day
• 7 ways to make yourself indispensable
• Create an action plan to map out your success