Leadership & Professional Development Training Athens

Managing Remote and Virtual Teams

The business model is constantly evolving. Managing remote teams – a rarity just a few years ago – is now a common occurrence. Working virtually offers unique advantages and challenges. But how do you best leverage these benefits while overcoming impediments? This course will teach you to adjust your management style to successfully improve communication, foster connections, increase productivity, and develop remote and virtual teams. Focused on practical skills, this course includes activities to apply these techniques and drive results.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Effectively manage team dynamics in remote and virtual teams
• Leverage communications technologies to the benefit of your remote and virtual teams
• Identify the specific skills required for managing remote and virtual teams
• Evaluate the impact of culture and language on your team’s performance

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals managing remote teams or existing traditional teams that are evolving into more virtual roles.

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Leadership Excellence for Senior Management

Senior managers have unique demands placed upon them. They need to be able to lead the leaders – offering guidance, critiquing performance, and mentoring their team – while also identifying and developing new managers. To maximize performance and foster a healthy environment, senior managers must also motivate others, nurturing and utilizing the distinctive skills of each team member.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development Leader of Teams/Projects Leader of Managers/Departments Leader of Organizational Strategy

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Use wisdom and understanding to lead others
• Deliver constructive critiques to your staff
• More effectively coach and mentor your staff
• Develop new managers
• Better motivate your staff
• Navigate organizational politics

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Mid- and upper-level managers looking to hone their senior management skills.

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Building Successful Work Relationships

Individuals bring their unique talents, strengths, experiences, and outlooks to the workplace. Operating collaboratively, these diverse perspectives and styles deliver highly successful outcomes and create high-performing teams. In this course, you will learn how to build cooperative trust-based relationships that enable you to work productively with other professionals, clearly communicating and respectfully harnessing your distinctive contributions.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Describe the importance of effective work relationships
• Demonstrate professionalism through your behavior
• Identify the interdependencies between you and your colleagues
• Communicate effectively to create rapport and connect with others
• Build and maintain your network of professional relationships
• Use quality dialogue to focus discussion toward mutual outcomes
• Develop collaborative working relationships that achieve results

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals desiring to improve working relationships and maximize cooperation and productivity.

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Making the Right Decisions Under Pressure

As a leader, others look to you for direction and guidance. The confident decisions you make are imperative to drive productivity, resolve conflicts, and guide your team’s focus and efforts. In this course, you will learn to evaluate options, generate possible solutions, and decide on logical strategies.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Make intelligent decisions with limited time and information
• Reframe issues to ensure greater problem solving accuracy
• Convert conflicting opinions into useful insights

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Executives, directors, managers, and others tasked with making important decisions for their organizations.

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Thinking with Critical Insight

To make the best decision and determine the most efficient and effective course of action, an understanding of the current situation and innovative outlook are important. In this course, you will learn to inquisitively explore challenges, defy incorrect assumptions, and look at things with new and differing perspectives, incorporating these insights into your thought processes, and enabling you to find creative solutions to even the most difficult tasks and issues.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Enable you to evaluate, identify, and distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information
• Engage critical thinking through curiosity and your ability to ask good questions
• Apply the eight best practices of critical thinking in practice
• Leverage open mindedness to become more receptive and highly tuned for new ideas

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals who want to make the best decisions and develop creative and elegant solutions to challenging problems.

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Expanding Your Emotional Intelligence

At the core of the success of every organization, Emotional Intelligence (EI) is central to a well-functioning team. A strong grasp of this crucial skillset is essential to effective collaboration, productivity, and accomplishment. This course does much more than cover the theory of EI. Incorporating powerful tools and classroom activities, you will practice and hone your skills, mastering the strategies learned to effectively communicate, connect with, and support others through healthy and productive interactions.

Incorporating powerful tools and classroom activities, students will practice and hone their skills, mastering the strategies learned to effectively communicate, connect with, and support others through healthy and productive interactions.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments, Leader of Organizational Strategy

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will know how to:

• Identify the key competencies of emotional intelligence
• Develop a learning path to enrich your EI
• Gain better control over your behavior under duress
• Enhance your communication skills and competencies
• Learn to thrive under stress
• Develop gratitude and strength of character
• Build a meaningful life balance and your authentic self

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Those desiring to achieve and apply emotional self-awareness and management to enhance their professional careers as well as realize their personal goals.

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Extending Your Sphere of Influence

In this course, you will learn to become proficient in the art of persuasion, selecting and utilizing appropriate styles and strategies to have the most influential effect, as well as understanding how to protect yourself from being manipulated by others.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will know how to:

• Build workplace relationships based on mutual trust and respect
• Collaborate effectively through influence and persuasion
• Recognize and enhance your sources of personal power
• Choose and apply appropriate influence strategies
• Work with resistance to gain commitment and buy-in

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Prioritizing Your Time Effectively

Time is limited, so getting the most out of every minute is critical. In this course, you will learn to improve your focus, prioritize tasks, identify and avoid obstacles to staying on track, and develop strategies to get the most out of your time. You will acquire time management tools and decision-making techniques to help you focus on purpose and achieve your goals, balancing the needs of both your business and personal life.

In this course, students will learn to improve their focus, prioritize tasks, identify and avoid obstacles to staying on track, and develop strategies to get the most out of their time.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments, Leader of Organizational Strategy

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Time management to get the most out of your day
• Prioritization to help you focus on what matters most
• Organization to lead your team and projects efficiently
• Workflows to give you structure to execute and succeed
• Productivity techniques to keep you performing at an elite level

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals wishing to maximize their productivity and efficiency by investing their time more effectively.

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Becoming a Transformational Leader

Transformational Leaders have a tremendous impact. They can empower teams to grow and work together, envision the future, embrace change, and maximize performance. This course will help you develop authentic leadership qualities that motivate and drive others to reach their full potential, and become the transformational leaders of the future.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments, Leader of Organizational Strategy

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Bring about valuable and positive change in those you lead
• Increase engagement, motivation and morale in your team
• Enhance performance of individuals and the team
• Provide an authentic role model that inspires followership
• Develop others into leaders

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Managers, directors, executives, and others responsible for leading teams, overseeing projects, and developing new leaders.

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Business Acumen For Leaders

A business is more than a building and assets, and business leaders must be masters of many skills. In this course, you will learn to understand the mechanics of the organization – reading and interpreting financials, making sound business decisions, and setting a course – while also developing the skills to guide and direct your workforce in an ethical and professional manner.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments, Leader of Organizational Strategy

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Recognize the importance of the big picture in business planning
• Leverage financial information to make sound business decisions
• Identify the importance of other financial levers to your business
• Understand the importance of ethics on long term business success
• Appreciate how business etiquette affects your organizational success

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals desiring to improve their business planning, financial management, and decision-making skills and practice them in an ethical and professional manner.

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Discovering Your Leadership Voice

By their very definition, leaders inspire followership in others. Whether speaking conversationally or presenting before a group, a powerful leadership message delivered with impact and focused on the needs of the audience, can motivate and energize others, further strengthening your leadership effectiveness and galvanizing support for your vision. In this course, you will learn proven techniques to find and develop your own voice as a leader – one that builds trust, fosters enthusiasm for change, engages colleagues, strengthens relationships, and achieves results.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Enhance your leadership effectiveness through your message
• Communicate with greater openness and authenticity
• Craft compelling messages that connect people to purpose
• Engage, motivate, and inspire others to embrace change
• Apply your leadership voice to increase your impact and influence

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals who want to develop or strengthen their leadership position.

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Evolving into the Manager Role

The manager’s role is very different from the non-manager’s. Managers must be able to develop and unify team members, plan strategically, set goals, delegate responsibilities, provide meaningful feedback, and effectively communicate. In this course, you will learn how to confidently acquire and build these skills through relevant discussions, team and individual activities.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Describe the roles that a manager has in an organization
• Identify and nurture talent in your team
• Build a management vision for success
• Create strategies to motivate and empower your team
• Combine leadership qualities and influence skills to motivate your team
• Plan and manage effective meetings

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

New managers wanting to become skilled in their management roles.

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Effective Leadership through Coaching

The most successful leaders recognize that their success depends upon the success of those they lead. Enabling others to grow and fulfil their potential by coaching them to discover and apply their talents and strengths is a core competency of effective leadership. Whether supporting employees to optimize their contribution, or enabling them to further their career aspirations, your coaching will have a positive impact and will foster an environment of growth and success.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Develop a positive partnership that supports employee growth
• Provide effective coaching and feedback within a relationship of mutual trust
• Agree upon appropriate performance goals using the SMART technique
• Clarify the current state or reality of your employees’ situation
• Create options for your employee and develop them into a plan
• Motivate and support your employee to achieve his/her goals
• Recognize and remove any obstacles to employee success

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Anyone managing the performance of others, including executives, managers, supervisors and team leaders.

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Transitioning into Leadership for an IT Manager

IT managers require a specific skillset to properly create, oversee, enable, and motivate their teams. From developing an inspiring vision and empowering members to reach it to meeting deadlines and evaluating results, in this course you will learn the skills needed to successfully transition into an IT manager role.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Make a smooth transition into management
• Develop your authentic leadership style
• Engage and empower staff to achieve excellence
• Build high performing, collaborative teams
• Apply delegation best practices
• Attract and retain great staff

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

IT Professionals who expect to or who have recently transitioned into a management role.

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Accomplishing the Results You Want

Success is measured by results. Detailed plans and a captivating vision are important, but true accomplishment is in carrying your goals through to a winning outcome. In this course, you will learn how to strengthen your leadership voice and foster employee buy-in to exceed expectations and achieve the most positive outcome.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Develop a leadership style that gets results
• Employ suitable motivation techniques for your team
• Adapt your communication style to use influence to drive direction
• Empower your team to get the results you want

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Executives, managers, and other professionals responsible for teams with results-driven goals.

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Mastering Positive Assertiveness

Ensuring that you are heard and understood is an essential skill, but it can easily come across as antagonistic and confrontational. Whether addressing behavioral issues or directing a meeting, it is important that you be properly self-confident and emphatic, while maintaining positive work relationships. In this course, you will discover the best techniques to be properly assertive, and what are the ideal approaches in differing situations.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Department

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Develop the necessary skills to communicate with confidence
• Apply communication styles that maximize benefits
• Augment your listening and hearing skills to increase engagement
• Utilize the art of asking questions to elicit more from others
• Leverage your body language for full communication
• Make the best first impressions by looking, sounding and being confident

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Team leaders, managers, executives and other business professionals, as well as those who would benefit by being able to assert themselves more effectively in a professional environment.

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Strategic Negotiation Skills

Negotiating is an art form. To get what you want, you need to be aware of the other side’s objectives, seeking a mutually beneficial result. You must be able to decide on a goal, plan carefully, and apply key skills and tools to reach a successful outcome. In this course, you will learn the essential strategies and techniques needed to guide negotiations from opening discussions through to a positive result. With discussion and hands-on training, you will leave with practical solutions to negotiating effectively.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Develop the necessary skills to negotiate like a pro
• Prepare for a negotiation applying best practices
• Utilize industry standard tools and techniques
• Create your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)
• Build common ground and consensus in your negotiation strategies
• Negotiate with experts to develop your skills for success

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals involved in internal and/or external negotiations.

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Constructive Conflict Management

People approach situations with their own set of experiences, priorities, and viewpoints. Conflict is inevitable. The ability to govern disputes and even avoid them altogether is vital. In this course, you will learn to recognize the warning signs that precede quarrels and how to mitigate their impact, as well as constructive ways to harness the differences between team members and shift them toward productive, positive outcomes.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Identify and manage sources of conflict
• Define an effective strategy to deal with conflict
• Implement a process to manage conflict situations
• Build civility in the workplace

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals who manage teams and desire to understand what leads to conflict, help peacefully navigate team members through potentially antagonistic situations, encourage and empower others to disagree respectfully and productively, and effectively manage disputes between team members.

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Navigating The Modern Workforce - Diversity, Culture, Generations

The modern business climate is more diverse than ever. Team members are bringing new experiences, expertise, and viewpoints to the workforce; and constant change is the new normal. An astute leader can take advantage of these skills and perspectives while maximizing productivity and fostering employee buy-in. In this course, you will learn how to capitalize on the strengths of your diverse team while directing and guiding them to even greater achievements.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Learn to lead in a world of diversity
• Engage and empower our multi-generational workforce
• Leverage culture as the new strategic differentiator
• Develop your path to leadership success

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Leaders in organizations faced with diversity who need to overcome team dynamics to succeed.

Leading Change in a Complex World

Change is both inevitable and necessary, yet potentially disruptive. Leading change efforts requires building credibility, communicating effectively, developing trust, making decisions, and demonstrating confidence. This course will help you to cultivate the leadership skills that you need to influence others and guide them through times of change.

Learning Objectives

Learn to thrive in a volatile and changing world

• Build employee engagement in a precarious work environment
• Leverage fundamental values to build a better workplace
• Develop a culture of change
• Plan a path to the future

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Critical Facilitation Skills for Leaders

An effective leader harnesses the diverse strengths of the team to maximize performance. Successfully mastering critical facilitation skills and applying them deftly can help drive these results. In this course, you will learn how to develop and apply facilitation techniques to support your team at every stage of the team life cycle. You will enhance your interpersonal competencies and observational abilities to deal effectively with disruptions and dysfunctions, and guide groups to reach consensus and achieve results.

JOB ROLES

Personal Development, Leader of Teams/Projects, Leader of Managers/Departments, Leader of Organizational Strategy

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Apply techniques to encourage participation and reach consensus
• Utilize facilitative questioning techniques
• Recognize indicators to facilitate each stage of the team process
• Deal constructively with disruptions and typical problem behavior
• Implement interventions appropriately
• Plan and run a focused discussion, meeting or event

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Leaders and professionals who manage teams or groups and are responsible for their outcomes.