At the conclusion of this leadership skills for managers course participants will be able to:

"He was not afraid of the competition of other ideas …Free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job." Dean Acheson describing Harry S. Truman

Today's tempo is such that the role of a manager is to lead at all levels with the ideas, ethics, energy and courage to arouse, engage and empower people to make the decisions and take action. The true test is whether people will work towards the goals and objectives when the leader is not present. This course doesn't address conventional managerial skills, such as work assignment or disciplinary procedures, rather those leader skills and behaviors that managers must use intuitively or have learned to be effective in the price driven global economy. In addition, these leader of people skills are critical because of the environment of change, disappearance of the loyalty factor, conflict and team members assuming a survivor attitude. The skills and behaviors addressed in this course acknowledges the manager's role of leadership as well as skills needed to run the business. Some feel that the idea of working with subordinates on a peer level smacks of permissiveness and violates the image of the strong manager as a leader. But managers who are great leaders know how to share power. The core issue of power is involvement: listening for passion and commitment is the "silent conductor" - the true leader. Some features of leaders are innate: inquisitiveness, initiative and involvement. However many behaviors can be learned: trust, submission, restraint, humility, compassion and courage. This workshop will reinforce the innate behaviors while allowing managers to act as leaders by demonstrating and practicing the learned behaviors.