The 2023 Leadership Masterclass

 SKILLFULLY INFLUENCING OTHERS, EFFECTIVELY MANAGING SELF

Event Details

Leadership is an action, not a position. Research indicates that leaders are “mostly made.” This means that while there are aspects of leadership that come more naturally to some people than to others, the majority of leadership qualities can be developed. This course is designed for senior managers and executives who want to develop powerful influence and persuasive skills, thereby becoming more skilled and respected leaders. 

You will expand and refine your critical thinking and decision-making skills and will explore the foundations of executive presence. You will also develop your memory skills to a remarkable degree, increasing your ability to speak publicly without notes.

The 2023 Leadership Masterclass is structured in a way that combines contemporary theoretical insights with real-world proven techniques. 

This carefully tailored pragmatic course will deliver the tools and knowledge you need to be more effective in both your professional and personal life. You will improve your communication skills at all levels and will form winning strategies for dealing with different and sometimes difficult people. You will adopt effective strategies for influencing others and thereby improve workplace relationships with colleagues, your staff and other stakeholders. 

One of the greatest benefits of attending a truly limited enrollment residential program comes from networking and camaraderie outside the formal educational sessions. This is why, unlike other senior-level courses, where participants must find their own accommodations, arrange their own meals etc., at The Leadership Masterclass, everyone is under the same roof. We have also found that this facilitates the forming of friendships and networking with participants often exploring the 'Big Apple' together.

Your course fee includes your tuition, accommodation (room & taxes), breakfast each day, luncheon on day two, hosted reception and refreshments. The courseware package is comprehensive and in addition to the course workbook and iMind Evaluation Instrument, includes Managing Self, Memory for Management and Critical Thinking an Influential Leadership as well as the video  entitled Impromptu Speaking.

We have chosen one of New York's finest hotels to host this year's event - The New York Hilton is ideally located in Midtown in the heart of Manhattan.  And New York City is the perfect place to expand your leadership skills and renew your spirit and organizational commitment.

Specifically, in this comprehensive course, you will develop two essential sets of skills:

Leading Others

The most frustrating limitations placed upon you as a leader have little to do with your technical abilities; rather, the most trying aspects of your work often involve dealing with people.

To be really effective in dealing with others, you must perfect your ability to:

• Find out what people need and expect from a leader
• The five critical traits of a good leader
• Recognize your preferred leadership style and appreciate how to adapt and modify your behavior in order to lead effectively
• Build your brand through effective relationships with people at all levels.
• Prepare more efficiently for conducting crucial influencing conversations to expect the unexpected with confidence
• Identifying the key motivational needs that drive behavior and influence performance
  
• Cope and influence negative people, excuse-makers and blamers
• Cope and positively influence Super-Agreeables who tell you what they think you want to hear
• Deal with snipers and those who use innuendo and under-the-breath remarks to hurt
• Diffuse volatile situations while influencing others
• Get greater results from hard-to-handle staff
• Acquire new tips for stopping the "Tough Guy" cold
• Achieve greater team synergy and effectiveness
• Win cooperation and trust, energizing your staff to excel
• Recognize the underlying causes of conflict
• Cope with different and sometimes difficult staff and team members
• Deal effectively with negativity in the workplace
• Implement strategies for effectively responding to conflict
• Improve difficult interviews with the nine-step coaching model
• Gain recognition by learning how to look and talk like a leader
• Conduct crisp, successful interviews
• Deal with interpersonal problems that threaten team cohesiveness
• Develop a leadership style that adapts to the person and situation
• Managing in an environment of change

Managing Yourself

Success in your present and future management responsibilities is dependent on a number of self-management skills. By improving your skills at strategic execution - managing projects, priorities and deadlines more effectively while deflecting job-related stress and developing your memory and concentration, you will gain a deeper sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

Specifically, in the 2023 Leadership Masterclass, you will learn how to:

• Communicate professionally across the corporate landscape, from impromptu comments to formal speeches – and learning to do so without written notes
• Identify your “Primary Time Style” and how to make it work for you.
• Learn to handle the three types of events that erode your effectiveness unimportant task, the unexpected task and other people’s priorities
  
• Create lasting first impressions: project confidence in any business situation.
• Enhance behaviours to expand presence as an impactful leader
• Develop critical thinking skills, sharpening your intuition in the face of risk and uncertainty
  
• Learn ways to discover, manage, mitigate and avoid decision-making traps
  
• Solve problems based on credible evidence
  
• Become a more strategic leader and decision-maker by understanding the long-term impact your decisions can have on your organization
  
• Learning how to recognize and defeat a host of logical fallacies, including The 'Tu Quoque,' 'Straw Man,’ 'False Dilemma,’ 'Poisoning the Well,’ 'Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc,' ‘Confirmation bias,’ 'Equivocation fallacy,' 'Appeal to Authority,' 'Appeal to False Authority,' 'Argumentum ad ignorantiam,' 'Red Herring,' and ' Begging the Question.'
• Strengthen your ability to make sound decisions in the most difficult moments
• Effectively prioritize your time and activities
• Improve concentration and efficiency
• Develop behaviours that will help you stay energized and engaged
• Improve remarkably your ability to remember names and faces
• Learn how to deliver speeches and presentations without the need for notes
• Double your productivity without doubling your stress
• Lose your fear of “Kineahora” and improve your self-esteem
• Effectively prioritize your time and activities