How Managers become Effective Leaders - 3 Key Practices You can Learn!

Three Key Elements for Managers to Become more Effective and Values-Driven Leaders that inspire change and create healthy organizations vs. EGO-driven Leaders that create fear and chaos. Speaker: Jim Adkins, CEO, Focus. You will learn and be able to put into practice increased skills around:

What makes a Leader? (30 minutes)

• This seminar/workshop is designed to help a person to understand and create a path to understand and develop critical interpersonal skills and leadership style employed by some of the greatest business leaders of our time.
• The study covers leaders at nearly 200 global companies.
• These findings will help you recognize how to assess your emotional intelligence and also your employees plus how it may assist you to also assess people’s leadership potential.

 
How Managers Become Leaders (30 minutes)

• Few career transitions are more difficult than leading an enterprise for the first time.
• The range of activities you undertake as a leader/manager are substantial with the result that the variety of skills needed to succeed is broad.
• In this workshop we’ll talk about one of the thorniest challenges leaders face: stepping into their first role running a whole enterprise.
• We will discuss information gleaned from  executives, leadership mentors, and HR professionals and then explain the key changes new leaders need to make.
• It’s a much bigger job than leading a function—and a lot more complex.
• Understandably, executives tend to feel overwhelmed and uncertain when they make this big move.
• To succeed, they have to shift their focus and develop new skills and ways of thinking.
• A thorough understanding of how to navigate this transition can prepare managers for success. 

 Hidden traps in Effective Decision making as a Leader. (30 minutes)

• Where do bad decisions come from?
• With business decisions, there aren’t any no-brainers.
• Our minds are always at work, sometimes in ways that trip us up.
• When things go wrong—the strategy fails, the new hire doesn’t live up to expectations, the new product doesn’t sell—it’s tempting to blame the decision-making process.
• But often we make bad decisions because mental distortions and biases sabotage our reasoning.
• Learn about the 8 pitfalls that anyone can find themselves in and how to find effective ways to deal with them.

About the Speaker, Jim Adkins, CEO Focus, is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy and a Chamber Board Member who inspires effective leadership in others and models "best leadership practices" in his professional and volunteer leadership positions.