Five Principles of Business Leadership

Nothing promotes success within an organisation quite like effective leadership and this package will help you deliver just that.

Through its 24 tasks, you will learn the skills and techniques you need to:

• Energise and motivate your team.
• Define your core values and apply them effectively.
• Improve productivity though co-operation.
• Create performance benchmarks and improve upon them.
• Build on your strengths and eliminate weakness.
• Identify goals and achieve them.
• Create a vision of your organisation's future and a roadmap to get you there.

This package contains a PC CD-ROM and supporting book. The software is a complete interactive learning environment with 24 tasks, an action and activity planner, an interactive brainstorming area, a section of interactive learning games and a library of supporting documents.

Motivation and Teamwork -Motivating people at work is probably the single most important thing that any manager can do. The way you deal with your people affects the daily output of your organisation and the overall effectiveness of your company. This is the tool you use to motivate your people to work to their potential and to get all of them working together effectively. Teamwork is the art of getting all your people to work together effectively. Only when all of your people are pulling in the same direction can you try to unlock their potential. In this course you will:

• Learn about what motivates people to strive for excellence and just as importantly, what stops them.
• Identify what style of team best suits your organisation.
• Discover how to turn your people into a high performing team.
• Use "real world" tools to increase the motivation and teamwork in your business.

Performance Management -Managing performance is critical to long-term business success. This is the tool that you use to measure and increase the performance of your organisation. In this course you will:

• Learn how to measure business success.
• Understand what to measure and how to measure it.
• Learn how to create specific, performance management criteria for your business.
• Discover how to set realistic, stretching goals and learn how to motivate your team to achieve them.
• Use "real world" tools to manage and improve the performance of your company.

Planning and Organising -is about getting the right things done, in the right way, at the right time, by people who have the skills to do the right job. The way that you plan and organise your team has a significant impact on your effectiveness, the effectiveness of your team and on the overall profitability of your business. In this course you will:

• Learn how to plan and organise for maximum effectiveness and maximum motivation.
• Discover tools to unlock productivity and quality improvements.
• Learn how to create work flowcharts and how to analyse processes.
• Use "real world" tools to get you and your team working together to improve the overall effectiveness and profitability of your business.

Business strategy -Your strategy will shape your future. Take your business to the next level by learning to think strategically. Strategy is the tool you use to create a sense of purpose and direction in your business. Determine where you want to go and how you want to get there. In this course you will:

• Learn how to effectively use strategy.
• Decide the direction you want for your business.
• Discover the power of Mission, Vision and Values in the workplace.
• Create and refine your own strategy for your business.
• Use "real world" tools to turn your ideas into a plan for action.