Our Leadership & Managing People training series aims at developing leaders who

We organize this consulting-style 2-day executive workshop for the sixth year now.

Hundreds of foreign managers have benefited from the insight of our course faculty and

the exchange of experiences among peers.

The workshop is held as an event for open-enrolment ten times a year.

For more information visit our website www.innova-institute.com.cn or send an email to

info@innova-institute.com.cn.

 

Managing Employee Performance (Role Play-based Training)

This 1-day training centers on three important skills any supervisor and manager should

master: Giving critical but constructive and developmental feedback, monitoring

performance and setting motivational performance objectives.

Based upon a set of guidelines for improving the effectiveness of feedback sessions

participants learn how to turn them into real opportunities for development and growth and

practice the learning throughout a series of role plays.

 

Coaching Skills for Managers (Role Play-based Training)

Managers in China spend up to 60% of their time on coaching responding to the

development needs of their staff, closing skill gaps and enhancing management performance.

It is therefore justified to understand coaching skills as the single most important skill set of a

successful leader in China.

This training centers on the GROW model and effective methods for questioning and goal

setting. It includes a coaching style inventory, a competency model for coaching effectiveness

and numerous role plays to exercise basic coaching techniques.

 

Effective Team Leadership

A team can be an oasis of excitement, focused energy, and peak performance, or it can feel

like an endless desert. What makes the difference?

Effective Team Leadership offers a state-of-the-art training module for department heads,

team leaders and task force managers. It includes numerous case studies, exercises and

diagnostic instruments for assessing team effectiveness and one's own leadership strengths

and development areas.

 

Essentials of Leadership (Simulation-based Training)

Centred on two leadership simulations this two-day training is highly interactive, practical

and delivered in an individualized coaching format.

Participants are given opportunities to experience themselves in simulated leadership

situations and challenged to take decisions. They receive feedback through the storyline,

the trainer and coach, their peers and a comprehensive feedback report at the end of the

simulation.

Participants learn to understand the impact that leadership style has on business and

employee performance, are introduced to seven different styles and recognize which

leadership styles will be most effective with each team member.

The second simulation helps learners to define a strategy to accomplish the corporate vision.

These two simulations are further completed by leadership assessments and numerous case

studies which require from participants to further reflect on their leadership style and when to

use which style.

 

Leading with Emotional Intelligence (Assessment-based Training)

Emotional Intelligence is a significant indicator of leadership effectiveness, it is what

makes us create synergy from teamwork, help us build sophisticated people networks, and

ignites the best and most inspired performance from our people.

Participants gain in-depth knowledge about the five areas of emotional intelligence, learn

the core insights and competencies that lead to increased leadership performance and

practice key competencies of EQ during in-class coaching sessions. Based upon a

self-assessment of their emotional competence they are guided through a 7 Step Coaching

Roadmap and numerous activities for increasing EQ at the workplace.

These include an interactive simulation for leading teams with Emotional Intelligence.

 

Conflict Management

Managers spend about a quarter of their time managing conflicts, they negotiate over

resources, are handling disagreements over policies, deal with complaints, enforce rules,

and manage the inevitable frictions and resentments that occur between people. This makes

conflict management skills an integral part of the competency set of an effective

leader, essential for achieving open team communication and improved team performance

in problem solving and decision making. Through numerous case studies, practical

exercises and role plays participants learn when and how to use which conflict mode and

about the benefits and limitations of each style.

The conflict management training is also a very useful tool for team development. Every

performing team has to go through the storming stage in team development, when

conflicts typically occur. Conflict management training can help a team to pass through the

storming stage more quickly, establish ground rules and team norms for handing conflicts,

and strengthen problem-solving skills.

Our 2-Day training is based upon the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) and

includes numerous exercises and case studies designed to help learners to read conflict

situations and behaviours and to decide which style or conflict mode is most appropriate

according to situational needs. This way participants gain confidence in dealing with difficult

situations and can make significant progress towards being a more mindful manager and

leader.

 

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making 

This 3-day training combines the basics of critical thinking, problem solving and decision

making. Critical thinking is the discipline of rigorously and skilfully using information,

experience, observation and reasoning to guide your decisions, actions and beliefs. Using

exercises and a business case participants learn how to apply the 'Ladder of Inference' as

a tool to explore and examine one's thinking process, to test one's assumptions, avoid

jumping to conclusions and arrive at better decisions. In addition, participants are

introduced to questions helping to identify fallacies in reasoning, omittance of critical

information, other possible conclusions or root causes, deceptive statistics, or bad

evidence.

Participants learn the benefits of a structured approach to problem solving and are

introduced to practical tools as Problem Restatement, Causal-Flow Diagram, the Matrix,

Weighted Ranking and Utility Analysis which are practiced using numerous exercises.

Participants will learn how to make good decisions in spite of imperfect circumstances and

to avoid typical decision making mistakes. They will come to understand why no decision is

ever perfect and learn how to improve decision quality by following a five-step decision

making process. Through exercises they practice the application of various tools and

methods, including the Nominal Group Technique, Paired Comparison and Grid and Impact

Analysis, and the Weighted Decision Matrix.