We are pleased to submit the following seminar-training proposal for your review. This training seminar will provide the Epicenter consultants with the methods and baselines required to assess the culture, leadership, structure, and practices of the organizations they serve. Within this training proposal you will find the following areas covered:
• Roles of Leadership and Management
• Empowerment, Delegation, and Participation
• Power and Influence
• Paradigms, Change, and Charisma
• Communication
• Ethics, Diversity, and Organizational Culture
Other exercises to aid in their assessment of the leadership team will be provided during the seminar and will be available for review upon your request. Thank you for taking the time to review this proposal. Please contact any of the following design team members if you have any questions concerning the training material
Roles of Leadership and Management
“Leaders are those who SERVE the people who SERVE the customer.”
To be able to assess a company’s management style and to suggest improvements, you must first understand the different roles and tasks that a manager has to undertake, and how they should be done. After this is understood, you can then design a plan to correct problems in the current management style and give a plan for implementing change in the organization. This portion of our seminar will give consultants a baseline for the roles that management and leadership must fulfill in an organization.
In a perfect workplace environment, a leader/manager performs many roles. One of the first is to manage energy. In Level Three Leadership (Clawson, 2006) managing energy is one of the first topics brought up. A manager must be able to manage energy in themselves first, then in their employees as well. You should be able to recognize the level of energy in an organization as soon as you walk in the door. When a manager is enthusiastic and applies their energy to the right
Bibliography: Anderson, Melvin (2002) Business Policy and Decision Making. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Blanchard, K., Carew, D., Parisi-Carew, E Blanchard, K., Zigarami, P (1985) Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership. William Morrow Co. New York, NY 10019 Caterpillar 6 Sigma Black Belt DMAIC Clawson, J.G. (2006). Level Three Leadership: Getting Below the Surface (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. George, M. (2002) Lean Six Sigma: Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Production Speed. McGraw-Hill Publishing. New York, NY 10128 Katzenbach, John / Smith, Douglas (1993) The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization Maxwell, J.C. (2002). The Maxwell Leadership Bible. Nashville:Thomas Nelson Publishers. Moral Dimensions of the Military Profession (1989) (Readings in Morality, War, and Leadership) 2nd Edition. American Heritage Custom Publishings New York, New York 10011 Snair, Scott Warren Rick (2002) A Purpose Driven Life. Publisher Zondervan. Grand Rapid, Michigan 49530