LEAD: Leadership Exploration and Development

What is the premise of Bodhih’s workshop on leadership program objectives?

In the new economy, where value comes increasingly from the knowledge of people, and where workers are no longer undifferentiated cogs in an industrial machine, management and leadership are not easily separated. People look to their managers, not just to assign them tasks, but to define for them a purpose. And managers must organize workers, not just to maximize efficiency, but to nurture skills, develop talent and inspire results.

With the rise of the knowledge worker, “one does not ‘manage’ people,” Mr. Drucker wrote. “The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths and knowledge of every individual.”

For professionals that are keen to explore leadership and develop themselves to stand true against its rigorous standards, with special emphasis on advanced communication techniques, effective delegation, conflict management techniques, Influence skills, and handling crucial conversations will be rewarded with Bodhih’s program: ‘LEAD – Leadership Exploration and Development’

Bodhih’s program on Leadership development program training begins with a facilitator led presentation, videos and class exercise that raises attention on ‘who am I?’ with participants reflecting on their communication cycles and processes. The pertinent point of the session is to learn that an effective leader takes complete responsibility by ensuring their communication is understood by listeners and clarity is established before any actions are. As an extension the audience does role plays to familiarise themselves with the three V’s of communication – Visual, Verbal and Vocal – both learning and practicing the nuances associated with each.

At Bodhih, leadership development skills training participants train their energies next to master the basics of listening and rapport building, paraphrasing and Summarizing, Reflecting and Empathizing – through facilitator led discussion, video playbacks and simulations. The last portion of effective leadership communication is discussed in the form of powerful writing techniques with its embedded principles and proven guidelines.

Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles.

This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the next session on leadership development skills program – Managing conflicts and effective delegation.

Worksheets, self-analysis and videos are used for participants to learn about the underlying reasons for workplace conflicts and how different styles of conflict management can re-start the collaborative process. Thereafter Bodhih’s facilitator guides discussions around effective delegation practices – by applying skill / will matrix on the delegation worksheet. Participants are encouraged to understand the attitudinal barriers that prevent delegation and ultimately impede the team performance in the longer run.

At Bodhih, Leadership development program training is a popular offering that is part of a larger Leadership skills training suite.

The session draws richly from the leadership development studies done in esteemed universities and organizational labs dedicated to research on leadership excellence.

The heart of Bodhih’s ‘LEAD – Leadership Exploration and Development’ workshop lies in the powerful session that dissects the topic of Influence and Persuasion techniques.

Led through case studies, video presentation, role plays and analysis, learners understand the criticality of using influence for motivation, getting work done and securing buy-in for high value ideas. Participants deepen their understanding around leadership strategies, the alternative close, the yes-yes framework, and the contrast principle.
Using group discussions to reflect on the vital process of seeking and accepting feedback as an instrument of continuous change.

Finally, through work-simulations participants appreciate how to assess the various crucial conversational scenarios and how to apply the assertive behaviour techniques via the ABC model to politely say no or disagreeing persuasively.

How would you gain from India’s best ‘Leadership development program training’ session at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its Leadership development programs for executives along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.

In addition to the ADDIE model, the Leadership Development Program training workshop takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

Where does the edge in Bodhih’s Leadership development program training come from?

It comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise Leadership Exploration and Development principles by embedding advanced communication skills and building the listening – rapport – empathy – paraphrasing – summarizing – reflecting patterns for building leadership trust.

What is Bodhih’s promise on ‘Leadership development program training?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on Leadership development plan and skills talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, using influencing techniques to work through buy-in situations, and handling critical conversations with larger strategic control, and longer term meaning.