Leading by Enabling


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
In this course, you'll learn how to enable your employees by providing more choices and fostering competence. You'll understand why offering visible support to your people makes them able to "make the call" when necessary. This course will also assist you in discovering common aspirations, improving your interpersonal skills, communicating your passion, and making your vision tangible. You will understand the importance of developing shared goals and integrative solutions while building relationships based on trust. Finally, you'll discover how you, as a leader, can foster critical-thinking skills in your employees. You'll discover how to get people to challenge their assumptions, and you'll learn methods you and your employees can use to imagine and explore alternatives.

Target Audience
Supervisors, managers, and coaches

Expected Duration (hours)
4.0

Lesson Objectives

Leading by Enabling

  • recognize the importance of giving power away, practice the principles of empowerment, and offer visible support for employees.
  • identify why it's important to give power away.
  • identify the elements of the three principles of empowerment.
  • choose appropriate methods of making your support more visible to employees in a given scenario.
  • recognize the benefit of making leadership a two-way communication process that enlists the help needed.
  • identify how to discover employees' common aspirations.
  • use interpersonal skills necessary to enlist the help you need in a given scenario.
  • in a given scenario, use appropriate strategies to generate passion about your vision.
  • recognize the value of fostering collaboration, as opposed to competition, through the development of shared goals, integrative solutions, and trust.
  • identify elements of competition and collaboration.
  • identify ways to develop collaborative goals.
  • choose appropriate actions for creating a collaborative environment, in a given scenario.
  • choose the actions to develop integrative solutions for a given scenario.
  • recognize the value of developing critical thinkers.
  • identify elements of critical thinking.
  • use guidelines for facilitating critical thinking in a given situation.
  • determine whether techniques to assist employees in challenging their assumptions were used appropriately in a given scenario.
  • choose ways of thinking that create imaginative alternatives.

    • Course Number:
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