Leadership: Making an Impact and Inspiring Your Organization
Put aside the overhyped new frameworks. The critical leadership practices – the one that will allow a leader to make the biggest impact over time – are well established. They’re about how you create a vision and inspire others to follow it. How you make difficult strategic choices. How you lead innovation. How you get results. These fundamental skills are even more important today as organizations and teams become increasingly networked, virtual, agile, fast-moving, and socially conscious.
Leadership: Making an Impact and Inspiring Your Organization
Course Overview
This course distills proven ideas and frameworks about leadership from Harvard Business Review, while making the learning very applicable, interactive, and hands-on.
Course Topics:
- Building a Vision
- Developing a Strategy
- Getting Great People on Boards
- Focusing on Results
- Innovating for the Future
- Leading Yourself
Course Outline
- Lesson 1: Building a Unifying Vision
- What is Leadership?
- How to develop as a Leader: The Six Practices
- What is a Vision?
- Elements of a Vision
- Crafting Your Vision
- Evaluate Current Vision
- Develop a Starting Point Vision
- Engage Stakeholders
- Align People’s Work to the Vision
- Lesson 2: Developing a Strategy
- What is a Strategy?
- The Process of Strategy
- Developing a Process to Make Strategic Choices
- Set the Stage
- Set Strategic Goals
- Understand Your Current Situation
- Develop Options for Where and How to Compete
- Assess Options, Engage Stakeholders, and Move Towards Decisions
- Allocated Resources and Manage Implementation
- Lesson 3: Getting Great People on Board
- Assembling Your Leadership Team
- Recruit the Right Leaders
- Make Tough Decisions
- Build Your Team and Coordinate an Organization of Teams
- Harness Performance Feedback
- Get Through with Tough Feedback
- Team Feedback
- Feedback Throughout the Organization
- Fostering Learning and Development
- Put Your Time into Top Talent
- Stretch Your High Potentials
- Sharing Your Incentives Philosophy
- Make Your Incentive Philosophy Explicit
- Shaping a Culture for Executing Your Strategy
- Define Your Cultural Goals
- Shift the Culture
- Harness Performance Feedback
- Foster Career Development
- Lesson 4: Focusing on Results
- Setting High Performance Goals and Holding People Accountable
- Rachet Up Expectations
- Reducing Organizational Complexity
- Building Capabilities While Growing Results
- Maintaining Organizational Discipline
- Get the Right Metrics
- Set an Effective Organizational Review Cadence
- Lead Candid Dialog
- The Leadership Difference
- Lesson 5: Innovating for the Future
- Balancing the Present and the Future
- Creating the Bandwidth to Focus on the Future
- Taking a Portfolio Approach
- Getting Ready for the Future
- Build a Surplus for Fund the Future
- Incremental Innovation
- Set the Horizons for Breakthrough Innovation
- Shaping the Future
- Disruptive Innovation
- Corporate Venturing and Partnering
- Lean Innovation
- Encourage Controlled Failure
- Build a Future-Focused Culture
- Developing a Learning Capability
- Incentivizing Innovation
- Modeling Innovative Thinking
- Sustainability
- Lesson 6: Leading Yourself
- Knowing Yourself
- Your Character, Purpose, Values, Style and Habits
- Your Knowledge and Skills
- Getting the Outside Perspective
- Growing Yourself
- Choosing and Approach for Learning: Formal, Informal, On-The-Job
- Learn from Others
- Sharing Yourself
- Growing Others
- Broadening Horizons
- Taking Care of Yourself
- Personal Strategies
- Achieving Broader Balance
Intended Audience
Business leaders looking for help making strategic choices.
Prerequisites
Leadership experience and business fundamentals.
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Subject: Request for Leadership & Professional Development training from Applied Technology Academy
[Decision Maker Name],
I'm writing to request time and budget approval to complete Applied Technology Academy's course, Leadership: Making an Impact and Inspiring Your Organization. The information below outlines how this training benefits our organization, the tasks I'll be able to perform after completing it, and relevant cost and funding details.
Course Description
Put aside the overhyped new frameworks. The critical leadership practices – the one that will allow a leader to make the biggest impact over time – are well established. They’re about how you create a vision and inspire others to follow it. How you make difficult strategic choices. How you lead innovation. How you get results. These fundamental skills are even more important today as organizations and teams become increasingly networked, virtual, agile, fast-moving, and socially conscious. Applied Technology Academy is an award-winning, SBA-certified woman-owned training provider (est. 2008) whose instructors are active practitioners; the course is hands-on with virtual labs and a learn-by-doing methodology.
Course Objectives
Once I've completed the course, I'll have hands-on, job-ready skills in leadership & professional development that I can apply immediately to our work.
Expected Organizational Benefits
After completing this course, I will be better equipped to apply these skills directly to our projects, reduce our reliance on outside expertise, strengthen our team's capabilities, and share what I learn with colleagues.
Expected Cost & Funding
Course fee: [request an itemized quote at the link below]. Applied Technology Academy supports multiple funding paths that may reduce or cover this cost: GSA MAS purchasing and government purchase orders, military credentialing funding (Army CA, AF COOL, CG COOL), VA GI Bill and VR&E, ATA Flexible Spending, and student financing. Private team cohorts are available if colleagues should attend with me.
Conclusion
This training provides practical, hands-on experience I can apply immediately to strengthen our work in leadership & professional development. Additional course information is available at https://appliedtechnologyacademy.com/leadership-development-training/leadership-making-an-impact-and-inspiring-your-organization/.
Thank you for your consideration,
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