Workshop Overview Day One

SESSION 1: Leadership

The objective of the first day is to build a model of leadership that will help bring accountability into your organisation.

Topics

• Leadership challenges in the manufacturing environment.
• Traditional model of leadership.
• Current map of leadership in your lives. Connections and consequences of leadership.
• Brief look at real leaders. Emergent styles of leadership. Characteristics of different styles.
• Emergent model of leader as social architect. Characteristics of an effective leader.
• Tension between patriarchy and partnership.

SESSION 2: Culture

The focus of this session is on showing participants how to develop a blueprint for creating a high performance culture.

Topics

• What does a high performance workplace mean? Understand elements that make a high performing workplace.
• Why bother? What is vs. potential payoff?
• Develop a framework to create true partnerships in the workplace.
• Definition and consequences of buy-in.
• Explore the impact of freedom, choice and control. Define a culture of accountability. Generate company examples of accountability.

Workshop Overview Day Two

SESSION 3: Communication

The focus of this session in on reviewing characteristics of effective communication in organisations. We examine the costs and consequences of poor communication.

Topics

• Look at what communication means.
• Role of feedback and learning and conversations. Examples show successful and unsuccessful communication.
• Develop a communication strategy for your organisation to achieve company goals.
• Understand the impact of personal freedom on communication.
• Reframe difficult communication.

SESSION 4: Rewards

This module looks at how companies can develop an effective reward strategy (including incentives and recognition). It reviews the link between rewards and performance.

Topics

• Discuss what the most admired companies in the world do to reward and recognise their people.
• Examine comparative systems of innovative rewards.
• Constraints and advantages of reward systems
• Review criteria for a reward strategy

Action session

The final session allows participants to collect and present the specific steps needed to change their organisations