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