Leadership

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office” – Dwight D Eisenhower

The role of a team leader is critical to ensuring the team succeed in their objectives. This niche course provides you with the vital skills necessary to lead a team. Too many organisations have weak teams with disjointed objectives and values and poor communication.

Team Leader Training In-House Program Details

For maximum effectiveness, this course is best conducted as an in-house program.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this course at your workplace. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: Each course can be tailored to suit your timeframes.

Target Audience: Document control teams

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact us at 1300 323 752 or Email: [email protected]

The 8 Pillars: Strategy, Planning, Overseeing, Cost, Control, Requirements, Input/Output, Resourcing

Managing operations is complex. You need to be able to juggle multiple tasks with many different functions and output expectations. It’s no wonder that many operations mangers look tired, as it’s a very difficult role. Yet some people manage to breeze through. So if you too would like to improve your skills, this course is perfect.

Operations Management In-House Program Details

For maximum effectiveness, this course is best conducted as an in-house program.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this course at your workplace. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: Each course can be tailored to suit your timeframes.

Target Audience: Document control teams

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact us at 1300 323 752 or Email: [email protected]

Who said “it’s lonely at the top.” It is certainly a truism. This course is usually conducted one on one with the CEO. Sometimes the EA attends too.

Previous CEO’s have remarked that this niche course helps to clear the mind and focus on what’s really important.

NUTS AND BOLTS

Would you like to attend this program?

For maximum effectiveness, this course is best conducted as an in-house program.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this course at your workplace. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: Each course can be tailored to suit your timeframes.

Target Audience: Chief Executive Officers and EA’s

Preferred Training Networks provided a fantastic Speed Reading workshop for me. It has made a tremendous difference as I can get through my reading so much faster with the same retention rates. It is a great skill to have and I strongly recommend the course.

-Naomi Nichols, Executive Assistant, Coles 

Improving your reading skills

Not only will you read faster, your retention levels will also increase. You won’t have a need to reread information. Improving your reading speed will stop your mind from wandering and help you remain focused. These speed reading techniques are learnt through mind mapping and restructuring your comprehension for easy recall. The main outcomes of our speed reading training program are increased confidence and ability to read information faster. Reading faster will help you to keep up to date with market information.

Speed Reading Training Course Outcomes

• Learn the five proven speed reading techniques
• Learn how to retain information for longer periods
• Improve reading speed with confidence

Apply these faster reading tactics to your work documents. You will notice yourself improving reading speed by 2–4 times. Reading faster is simply a skill. Download the speed reading course outline and submit your training request online.

Questions you might ask yourself

How can I read emails faster? How can I read reports faster? How can I keep up with my required workplace reading?

Action Plan for your Tailored Speed Reading Workshop

1. Create greater productivity related to reading, learning and analysis
2. Keep abreast with critical reading relevant to core work activities.
3. Keep up to date with correspondence (including email) from multiple stakeholders.
4. Stop the mind from wandering and remain focused when reading.
5. Structure your understanding and be able to recall anytime.

Speed Reading In-House Program Details

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

• Ideal group size: 4–9 participants
• Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.
• Duration: Your Speed Reading course can be modified to fit inside your timeframe.
• Cost: Price on request.
• Target Audience: Employees, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Senior Managers or CEO’s

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact: Deborah Dear on 1300 323 752 or email: [email protected] or contact us online today.

It becomes almost habitual to not notice the elephant in the room. In the “Walking on Eggshells with an Elephant in the Room” course, the facilitators coax the major issue back into the foreground. Participants use different tools to gain different perspectives of the issue. The root cause of the issue is then identified. Participants are often amazed how an independent facilitated session can be such a positive experience after the issue was previously too prickly to touch. Participants discover new solutions, and work collaboratively towards a solution, as your facilitator helps participants begin cracking eggshells at a comfortable pace.

Walking on Eggshells with an Elephant in the Room In-House Program Details

This program can be conducted as in-house training at your offices anywhere in Australia.

• Group Size: An ideal group size is 5–9 participants.
• Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your offices. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.
• Duration: This program is conducted as a full-day program with a suggested half day follow-up workshop.
• Cost: Upon request.
• Target Audience: Staff, supervisors, team leaders and managers.

Workplace Tolerance Workshop Plan of Action

This program focuses on developing strategies to promote workplace patience and tolerance and understand the hidden costs associated when this does not occur.

• To understand the importance of diversity in the workplace.
• To develop strategies that promote a self awareness of individuals and others.
• To develop and/or revisit organisational codes of ethics and what these actually mean.
• To develop key leadership/managerial behaviours that overcome intolerance and inpatient behaviour.

“Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance” – George Bernard Shaw

Workplace Tolerance In-House Program Details

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Ideal group size: 4–12 participants.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: This program can be adapted to meet your requirements.

Cost: Price on request.

Target Audience: Supervisors, Team Leaders and Management.

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact: Deborah Dear on 1300 323 752 or email: [email protected] or contact us online today.

A major challenge for Australian organisations will be to keep critical personnel. A major opportunity will be to lure key employees from your competitors. The last 2 recessions lasted 8 months each. Don’t let your organisation make the mistake of losing your key people and then find yourself in an abyss next year without them.

Are you keeping your people in the picture?

1. Our people are aware of how our organisation intends to deal with current uncertainties.
2. Our people feel they have an open platform to ask questions.
3. Our managers spend time reassuring our employees.
4. Our critical people have been identified and fenced off to thwart off any external luring attempts.
5. Our management team uses active listening and questioning skills.
6. Our people are aware of what is expected of them.
7. Our people are aware that change in an inevitable part of business.
8. Our people are motivated to cut costs and save money.
9. Our people will give discretionary effort when needed.
10. Our people know the importance of process improvement during economic uncertainty.
11. Our people know the organisation values.
12. Our management team knows what motivates each employee.
13. Everybody has been primed to look for opportunities.
14. Our culture embraces creative solutions to existing problems.
15. Our people remain focused.
16. Our people are empowered and have a ‘can do’ attitude.
17. Our management team ‘walks the talks’.
18. Our people are aware of their role boundaries, thus removing role ambiguity.

Keeping Your People In The Picture In-House Program Details

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

• Ideal group size: 4–12 participants.
• Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program
• Duration: This program can be adapted to meet your requirements.
• Cost: Price on request.
• Target Audience: Team Leaders, Middle Managers, Senior Managers or CEOs.

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact: Deborah Dear –  1300 323 752 Email:[email protected] or visit our website today.

Workshop Action Plan to Direct Employees

Managers and leaders balance the need to be directive and supportive. It is also important to be caring and compassionate; however, there are situations which do require a directive style.

• How to be more directive in the workplace.
• How to use different situational communicative styles.
• How to identify your unique directive style.
• How to maintain open communication in the workplace.
• How to create rapport.
• How to anticipate opposition thinking styles.
• How to reduce information leaks and rumours.
• How to set expectations and keep people informed.
• How to manage people who don’t want to be directed.

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalyn Carter 

‘Directing Employees’ In-House Program Details

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Ideal group size: 4–12 participants.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: This program can be adapted to meet your requirements.

Cost: Price on request.

Target Audience: Supervisors, Team Leaders and Management.

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact: Deborah Dear on 1300 323 752 or email: [email protected] or contact us online today.

Too many leadership development projects get too complicated. It’s easy to get caught up in the diagnostic and theoretical components of leadership without actually doing anything. A major criticism of leadership programs is that they often substitute “doing” with “deliberating”. RealTime Leadership® enables you to move from thinking about leadership development to actually delivering leadership development programs in an effective and efficient manner.

Are you an authentic leader?

We’re teaching the wrong things in the wrong ways. There is a massive difference between what we know about leadership and what we do as leaders. What makes leadership hard isn’t the theoretical, it’s the practical. It’s not about knowing what to say or do. It’s about whether you’re willing to experience the discomfort, risk, and uncertainty of saying or doing it.
—P Bregman 2013

LEADERSHIP CLUSTERS

To get an idea of what clusters are available to you, the examples below are categorised by number of employees. The clusters can alternatively be sorted by

1. industry
2. profession
3. leadership level

Contact your consultant to discuss the ideal cluster categories for your organisation.

Tailored Leadership in Real Time Program Overview

STEP 1 — LEADERSHIP NEEDS IDENTIFIED
(Plus beginning the leadership training)

A facilitated session with your leadership group to prioritise leadership gaps and identify your leadership capabilities.
This session is conducted by a highly qualified facilitator, and will quickly focus your leadership group on identifying and prioritising your leadership gaps.
The facilitated session is immediately followed by leadership training of the group’s identified highest priority. This means that you’ve actually started the leadership skills delivery piece.

TENSILE STRENGTH OF THE COURSE

The capability and content can be tightened or loosened depending on the combined strengths of the leadership group. There will be some areas of leadership where you just need a refresher and then there will be other areas that will need to be explored in depth. The leadership development is very similar to an acrobat’s performance. It looks easy. But as every great acrobat will tell you, it takes years and years of refinement to achieve a perfect 10.

STEP 1 (A) — LEADERSHIP GAPS REPORTED BACK
(Cluster of targeted leadership programs recommended)

The identified leadership gaps are reported back to the group together with a suggested cluster of targeted leadership programs. Your leadership programs can be delivered in module, half day and full day formats. This flexibility means that the RealTime Leadership® program can be delivered with minimal operational disruption and maximum impact. The report will outline the recommended program content that will address your leadership gaps. Preferred Training Networks will tailor the content to ensure that it has the right mixture of theory and practical. The practical components will be aligned to your organisation, industry and context.

Your leadership programs can be delivered in module, half day and full day formats.

STEP 2 — CLUSTER DELIVERY

RealTime Leadership® is delivered as a cluster to the leadership group. On the previous pages, you’ll see some examples of training clusters.

REALTIME LEADERSHIP® CORE CAPABILITIES

1. Leadership capabilities: Preferred Training Networks has significant experience in the identification and development of leadership capabilities and these capabilities form the basis of our course curriculum
2. Practical experience: The Preferred Training Networks team have a range of practical leadership experience from holding senior roles in a wide range of industries
3. Industry experience: Your accredited facilitators and trainer will all have a proven track record in your industry

WHERE TO FROM HERE: 

If you would like to move your leadership development from “deliberating” to “doing” then this course is perfect. If you’d like to initiate (obligation free) RealTime Leadership® discussions then contact us to arrange a consultation and assessment of your RealTime Leadership ® readiness.

Ph: 1300 323 752 Email: [email protected]