Project Management Institute (PMI^®) has approved these programs for 3.5 PDU’s each session.

The Story of the One Minute Manager^®

Experience this popular, internationally proven approach to effective management that’s more relevant today than ever before. You'll master a fast, simple strategy that helps you find the strengths in your people and bring out their full potential – to achieve much more with far less time and resources.

How You Will Benefit

• Discover a faster way to improve morale, productivity and job satisfaction—for you and your team
• Be able to focus on your direct reports’ behavior, not their personality
• Use effective reward strategies to better motivate employees and others to sustain winning behaviors
• Create a thriving, people–oriented environment where superior results are the norm
• Provide quick, effective redirection for both new and seasoned employees
• Effectively measure performance to help people stay on track and maximize their potential
• Make your business grow while better managing people, time, and resources

What You Will Cover

• One–minute goal–setting: set, review, clarify, and agree on goals
• One–minute praising and recognition: how and when it’s most effective, plus setting expectations
• One–minute redirection and reprimand: why it may be necessary and how to deliver it
• The four vital elements that create management success in today’s business climate
• SMART goals and why they are so crucial to a manager’s success
• Identifying your management challenge and reviewing your commitment to your two top goals
• Putting it all together: The One Minute Manager Game
• Case studies and role play exercises that you’ll relate to your own company

Who Should Attend

Managers with three years or less of management experience who want to better manage people, time and resources. Also more experienced managers interested in refreshing their managerial skills.

Date: Nov. 11 and again Nov. 24, 2008
Location: Carroll Knicely Conference Center, 2355 Nashville Road, Bowling Green, KY 42101
Room: 175 (Nov. 11) and 112 (Nov. 24)
Class Time: 8 am -11:30 am
Cost: $595 for one OR take them both and pay ONLY $995

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The Introduction to Situational Leadership^® II

Situational Leadership^® II (SLII^®) is the world’s most comprehensive and up-to-date, yet practical method for effectively leading and developing people into peak performers. The Introduction to Situational Leadership^® II is designed to help organizations provide a primer of the SLII^® Model prior to introducing more advanced skill building concepts and exercises. The training program focuses on the first two skills of a Situational Leader: Diagnosis and Flexibility.

As a result of participating in this introductory class, participants will:

• Be able to diagnose development levels and choose the appropriate leadership style
• Know that there is no one best leadership style
• Learn a common language for coaching and developing others
• Understand the negative impact of oversupervision and undersupervision on performance and morale.

SLII^® is recognized as both a business language and a framework for developing people because it works across cultural, linguistic, and geographical barriers. The foundation lies in teaching leaders to diagnose the needs of an individual or a team and then use the appropriate leadership style to respond to the needs of the person and the situation.

Results

• Develop leaders who excel at goal setting, coaching, performance evaluation, active listening, and proactive problem solving
• Clarify individual goals and ensure alignment with the organization’s goals
• Create systems to track performance and partnering
• Reduce employee turnover and absenteeism
• Increase retention of "star" employees
• Improve individual and organizational productivity
• Improve job satisfaction and morale at all levels
• Create a shared language of leadership within an organization

Learn how to adopt a situational leadership style that generates heightened performance and improved productivity.

Does your organization lack passion, energy, self-reliance and drive? If so, the technique of situational leadership has the answers that will take your managers and your company to the head of the pack. Specially developed by The Ken Blanchard Companies the Situational Leadership II^® Workshop will help you apply the most effective leadership style in any given situation.

How You Will Benefit

• Improve communication and become a more trusted and credible leader
• Learn how to use situational leadership to achieve greater productivity by infusing energy, self-reliance and drive within your employees
• Create a collaborative work environment to achieve faster sustainable results
• Increase your effectiveness in setting goals, providing clear direction, listening, observing, monitoring and giving feedback
• Retain your most talented employees by being more responsive to their development needs

Leadership for the Future

• Exploring the importance of flexibility, adaptability, and how to manage diversity and change
• Beliefs and building blocks to help you understand the concept of "no best style"
• Why leadership is situational

Diagnosis: The First Skill of Situational Leadership

• Assessing an individual’s competence and commitment levels to determine how to build motivation, confidence, and productivity
• Understanding the need for a specific leadership style based on the individual’s needs in any given situation

Flexibility: The Second Skill of Situational Leadership

• Becoming comfortable with a variety of leadership styles
• Matching your leadership style to your people’s and situation’s need