Good leadership skills training should stress that the leader is only as good as his or her team. The Step Learning holds the leadership development programs as per session and as it also acquired by the individual. Hoarding the glory helps no one. A good program should first ensure that leaders clearly understand and can apply the overall corporate rewards and recognition plan. Knowing how and when they can provide positive reinforcement using the plan gives them what they need to succeed at this skill.
Another important part of the training process is for leaders to understand how employees want to be recognized or rewarded. While some employees may be shy and not want a loud call out, others may love it and wait for the announcement of their success. In addition, good leadership development training involves leaders on how to live and breathe this principle to ensure continuous employee engagement. Losing good talent to poor recognition is a huge waste of money and a shame given all the work it may have taken to recruit, hire, on-board and train them.
- Communicates Clear Vision
Leaders clearly need to focus on this importance of this skill set and need the right training and development to help them do that. Putting leaders or future leaders through communications training can significantly help to achieve this skill. The ability to communicate clearly, concisely and in a way that will make an employee receptive to the message is leadership.
- Sets Clear Performance Expectations
Good leaders produce great team results. One of the main reasons is because an effective manager can set performance goals and expectations from each team member and continue to coach them to excel at their roles. Consider formal training courses to take leaders through work performance appraisals one, to ensure that they know how to do them and communicate with the employee along the way and two, to align the process across leaders. Also providing a clear process for managers to follow when it comes to explaining role responsibilities and expectations on deliverable s for each resource that they manage is important.
- Provides Consistent Feedback and Coaching
Further, remote work and the increase in a global workforce means that managing continuously is important to ensure employees are on track and that managers aren’t waiting until formal monthly or quarterly meetings to tell employees how they’re performing and where they could improve.
Spending the time to develop the right leadership development training programs, especially as you start to encourage new leaders is a no brainier. In addition to training leaders on the importance and styles of communication, leadership courses can also show them how to accept input from employees, filter the feedback and then action where applicable. A leader that is unwilling to listen to employee input shuts the door on growth, improvements and also may lose the employee faster due to making them feel unheard, disconnected or invaluable to the organization.
