
A warm introduction from Andy, who explains what the course is all about. He highlights the challenges facing leaders when it comes to maximising people performance.
Andy discusses the fundamental role of leaders in creating 'committed, motivated, effective people' at every level and why it's not easy. He highlights how '3D Leaders' make it work and introduces 'The 8 Characteristics' model. There's also a chance to see how you measure up against the 8 Characteristics. Download the '3D Leadership Assessment Tool' and the '3D Leadership E-book' supporting documents.
In this lecture, Andy provides a definition for 'employee engagement' and introduces the key elements of making it work for you. By using examples of real businesses that have high levels of employee engagement, Andy explains the key ingredients that maximise people performance, as well as the 'proven' benefits of maintaining high employee-engagement levels: productivity, retention, customer satisfaction and profitability. He also introduces the 'Gallup Q12 Questions' to help you measure engagement levels in your team. Download the 'Maximising People Performance - 12 Questions' supporting document.
Andy introduces the key steps to improving employee engagement: share your vision, 'get buy-in' and 'keep it alive'. He shares proven techniques for getting 'buy-in' to the vision and for setting goals and targets. He will introduce a template to help you look forward and identify the steps you need to take to succeed.
Andy discusses the importance of understanding the fundamental principles of people motivation, including Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs', and of identifying individual motivators. Download the '6 Questions To Ask Yourself Tool' and '6 Questions To Ask Your Team Members Tool' supporting documents.
Andy introduces 10 common reasons that stop people from maximising their performance.
Andy introduces the 'Human Assets Framework', which can help you to develop an objective view of productivity and the level of unused potential. He discusses how to identify the steps necessary to maximise your team's performance and potential, and shares a step-by-step guide for applying it to your people - and yourself!
Andy discusses how '3D Leaders' stretch, challenge and motivate their people. He explains how best to maximise the performance and potential of your people by getting out of the way and empowering them instead.
Andy demonstrates how '3D Leaders' proactively develop long-term relationships with the people and organisations that count - both inside and outside their business. He explains that in today’s interconnected world, relationship-building and proactive collaboration happens anywhere (and everywhere) - both online and offline.
Andy poses the question, "Who should/could you collaborate with?" and explains that it is about 'Choice, Connectivity, Confidence and Collaboration'. He demonstrates how '3D Leaders' identify the people they need and want to 'Collaborate' with in order to help them achieve their goals - both personally and in business. Andy will help you identify what this means for you, offering a structured approach for developing your own 'Collaboration Plan'. Download the 'Collaborate For Results Toolkit' supporting document.
Andy discusses how 3D Leaders are able to identify what is important to be measured and how to manage performance by maximising information and making it meaningful. He goes on to share how best to establish, embed and maximise KPIs and use them to drive performance in the areas that really count. This lecture will help you to develop a proactive approach and identify the best ways to utilise, communicate and share information in one-to-one conversations, briefings and meetings. Download the 'Use Your Intelligence Toolkit' supporting document.
Andy addresses the key stages that people go through when they are learning - unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and unconscious competence - and explains what this means for you as a '3D Leader'.
This lecture introduces some simple practical tools and techniques that you can use to help you identify your steps for improvement in the areas that count for you as a '3D Leader'. Download the '3D Toolkit - Stop Start Continue' supporting document.
Introducing the 'Leadership Plan' template and a step-by-step process for how to make it work for you. Download the 'Your 3D Leadership Plan' supporting document.
Andy's concluding thoughts and suggested next steps, plus details of his additional courses.
What is a ‘3-D leader’, and what makes them so good at what they do? How do they know exactly how to improve employee engagement? The chances are that you want to emulate the world’s best business leaders, but aren’t exactly sure where to start. What skills need bolstering? How do you go about taking the first steps? How do you get your workforce to like you?
One of the key tenets of good leadership involves motivation. The ability to inspire, and create a motivated team unlocks the potential of your colleagues and your business. Many have the ability to work - it’s just a case of whether you give them the drive to do so.
In this course, you will learn all the key principles of motivational business leadership so you can get the best out of your team, and ensure they are working to the best of their abilities.
You will also get to understand the contextualisation of leadership, and that it often involves changing your attitude and behaviour, depending on the situation you are in. Whether you are in a crisis, or you just need to give your workforce that extra boost before a deadline, you will soon be confident in your own ability to push your team to where they need to be. After all, a happy workforce often lends itself to happy customers. The happier the customer, the greater your business exposure. So, everything begins with employee satisfaction.
Knowing how to increase employee engagement may seem quite obvious, but in practice, it can be quite a challenge, especially when it comes to monitoring their performance. This course will also give you actionable advice on building ‘feedback loops’. This will ensure you know exactly how to monitor both your and your team’s progress, allowing you to see how much of a positive impact your motivational leadership is having. Positive progress is also a good marker for motivation, as it drives people to maintain their personalised trajectory of success.
Put all this together, and you have a clinical plan for motivating your workforce to take your business to new heights.